Comments on: Bailout Deal Appears To Fall Apart After McCain And House GOP Push Surprise Alternate Proposal

By: BaxterJ

BaxterJ — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:01:05 +0000

Barney Frank is kicking ass and taking names.

By: MrSquirrel

MrSquirrel — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:30:45 +0000

If, despite all the weaseling McCain is doing to avoid the debate, he shows up.. it will be up to Obama to call him on his lies directly.

Otherwise, there is no telling how this will all play in the sound-bite mind of the average voter. Most of them never hear the gory details.

By: chiefeditor

chiefeditor — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:42:47 +0000

Preach it, Dodd! I love how his befuddlement makes McCain’s involvement seem all the more unhelpful.

By: KaneJeeves

KaneJeeves — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:41:10 +0000

This smells like a BIG TRAP set by Bush and McCain. So we now have Dems agreeing with the worst president in history, supporting him in a bailout a majority of people don’t want. Along come the conservative Repubs saying the bailout only helps banks, and not ordinary citizens. Tell me that’s not a trap! Using Bush’s unpopularity against the Dems…brilliant.

By: markusmarkus

markusmarkus — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:12:24 +0000

“Update – CBS News reports that the alternative plan McCain floated would ‘include fewer regulations and more corporate tax breaks for businesses.’”

Surprise, surprise, surprise! John McIIIrd – Mr. Deregulationevenifitcausestheeconomy2crash.

By: ninique

ninique — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:23:48 +0000

the,oops

By: ninique

ninique — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:22:33 +0000

I just want to say that this imbecile, McNoBrains is making a mockery of the campaign, the debate, the economy, everything. After the this, no one should complain about the elections and corruptions of any other country!

By: the Lone Voice of Reason

the Lone Voice of Reason — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:39:15 +0000

Grandstanding at its best.

I’m with davidual–call your congressmen and women and tell them enough is enough and not to let the GOP let their crazy grandpa try to run the show. Because if McDepends gets his way it will be like a plane wreck where they tell you to put your head between your knees-so you can kiss your a** goodbye.

By: davidual

davidual — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:01:21 +0000

I new article posted to cnn.com entitled, "Bailout talks implode, economy’s fate in peril", is suggestive of the talks imploding. However, it is conceivable to me that it is not the talks that are imploding, but rather the Republican Party that is imploding before our very eyes. They can see that everything they have run on since President Reagan, less government; de-regulation; supply-side economics; and last but not least the trickle down theory, is the root cause of our current economic mess. The question for them is not how they save our economy, but how do they save their Party? Popular opinion is solidly behind the Democratic Congress with demanding that the bail-out of our financial market meet the conditions of regulation and oversight; mortgage assistance for people whose mortgages are in trouble; scrutiny over the amount of the bail-out; and language to stop any "golden parachute" payments going to the CEO’s of the organizations involved within the bail-out. Now what has made the news is that the ranking Republican member of the House Banking Committee, Rep. Spencer Bachus (R-AL), has conceded that he does not have authorization to speak for his colleagues. This is a very troubling assertion, but it also shines a bright light into the vast darkness that is the current Republican Party. It appears that committee appointments mean nothing to the House Republican Leadership, and that every issue must be approved by leadership, albeit minority leadership, in order to be recognized by all Republicans in the House. This is the House Republican modus operandi that equals their Senate counterpart’s use of the filibuster. What happens now? It is really quite obvious. We’ve seen it before. After the media gets hold of this and projects a picture of a static Democratic Congress, then, the House Republicans will reach consensus. We then will be told, lead by Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), how they stood together for the American people and solved this economic crisis. This cheap political grandstanding by the Republican Party is hope only of stopping the implosion of their political affiliation. Call your Congress person, call the media, tell them that this political nonsense must end. It is time to put all Americans first, and end politics as usual. My Blog

By: Zooey

Zooey — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 04:53:43 +0000

McCain made a f ucking fool out of himself.

Heh.

By: DallasNE

DallasNE — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 04:19:00 +0000

John McCain continues to act strangely for someone who professes to want a deal. After a stumbling start McCain at least gave lip service to wanting a clean bill and a couple of other things. Now we find out that McCain is gutting regulation and adding a poison pill amendment. So much for a clean bill.

Strangely, McCain was still talking today about being against the Paulson plan in its present form. The Paulson plan has not been on the table for the last 5 days so why is McCain using this strawman argument. He is simply being dishonest; disturbingly so. Obviously McCain wants the issue more than he wants a deal. So much for country first.

By: dasm

dasm — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 03:58:03 +0000

This is`absurd- how can McCain oppose something he admits he hadn’t even read? More lies from the Mccain campaign. He couldn’t oppose or agree to it- he had no idea what it was.

By: tbone

tbone — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 02:25:26 +0000

I am worried about this. I haven’t looked at the reports about the alternative yet, but I just get the feeling that it will address all the whining that people have been doing about bailing out the corporations with tax dollars. If it removes the taxpayer portion, it might get momentum from the populace and McCain will look like a rose.

By: nofltwlt

nofltwlt — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 02:15:34 +0000

McCain as the uniter?

Could be if he didn’t suck so bad at it.

By: impeachcheneythenbush

impeachcheneythenbush — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 02:15:33 +0000

Washington Mutual just crashed. It was taken over by the FDIC, and then sold to JP Morgan. All deposits are safe, but stockholders have lost everything.

By: Who Lied Today?

Who Lied Today? — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 02:01:24 +0000

Old and in the Way

* Jerry Garcia – Banjo and vocals
* David Grisman – Mandolin and vocals
* Peter Rowan – Guitar and vocals
* Richard Greene – Fiddle (3-2-1973 to 5-25-1973)
* Vassar Clements – Fiddle (6-5-1973 to 4-28-1974)
* John Kahn – Acoustic bass

Love that band. Terrific blue grass and loaded with old Bill Munroe tunes. Garcia, Clements and Kahn are now gone.

By: machost

machost — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 01:57:57 +0000

Reading the Rebublican ‘alternative’ plan confirms the fear we should all be feeling about this:

http://www.politico.com/blogs/thecrypt/0908/As_deal_drifts_House_GOP_releases_alternative.html

This IS going to spin VERY nicely for McCain and the republicans. It removes the UPFRONT taxpayer money, replacing that cost with a suspension of MORE regulations and a reduction or cessation of capital gains taxes to ’stimulate’ private capital back into the market.

We MUST make sure that we call out the back door tax cuts for the wealthy and the fact that decreased regulation got us into this mess.

Either that, or we MUST be prepared to hand over the little money and dignity we have left.

By: Marie

Marie — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 01:36:59 +0000

SS/DD

Everything that comes in contact with Bush turns to sh!t.

By: machost

machost — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 01:34:16 +0000

I don’t know, this sounds VERY, VERY suspicious. McCain/Bush/Paulson put their heads together and come up with an October surprise that totally screws the Dems yet again. McCain has the support of the House Republicans on his ‘alternative’ plan. I’ll bet you they spin it so it sounds 80 times better than the ‘$700B taxpayer bailout, and even though we don’t really need to do anything, all the idiots that didn’t want the ‘bailout’ but are convinced that somethingneeds to be done will believe that this really will solve our (nonexistent) emergency. McCain then WILL look like he saved the day and Barack will be left with egg on his face, betrayed by the spineless democrats once again duped by the evil geniuses of the Rovian Empire.

We are so screwed!

By: Oval12345678 aka James K. Sayre

Oval12345678 aka James K. Sayre — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 01:32:52 +0000

McCain parachutes in after a general agreement on the bailout had been reached… and then he joins some House Republicans with a completely different plan… and then the original agreement falls apart… Heck of a parachute John: why didn’t you just stay in bed for another day and continue your fake unsuspended “suspended” campaign…

“Old and in the way” – that was the name of a band that spun off in the 70s, from the Grateful Dead, I believe. Anyway, that phrase fits Old Johnnie like a glove…