First you make outrageous promises. Second you get elected. Then you renege on your promises.

I’ve lost track. Is this a “flip” or a “flop”.

Pete, it’s a “flip,” b/c he’s always stated he could balance the budget by the end of his 1st term. Oh, wait a minute, didn’t also say he’d balance the budget by the end of his 2nd term? In that case, this “flip” would be a “flop,” in essence. But, at one time didn’t he say he wouldn’t run for a 2nd term, so that would make this a “flip,” and not a “flop.” But since he said he wouldn’t run for a 2nd term, does that negate the “flop,” and make it a “flip”? Oh, God, this is so confusing.

McIIIrd/Pailin’ – send them home with the concilation prize!

Obama/Biden2008

It’s like the family who puts a five-year economic plan into place, swears they will live according to the budget they set, and then get hit with some unexpected huge medical bills. They would also have to make some changes to their economic plan in order to get their bills paid.

What I don’t understand is how McCain was still promising to balance the budget by the end of his first term AFTER the $700 billion became a factor. After all, Bill Clinton didn’t have that kind of hit to his budget, he had the benefit of the dot-com boom, and it STILL took him both of his terms to finally get the debt clock running backward (a feat, I’d like to point out, that no recent Republican president has managed).

Get real, John.

Just as insane Republican (conservative) feed-the-wealthy, starve-the-poor policies in the 1920s, coupled with get-rich-quick-schemes, led to the Great Depression, similarly insane Republican (conservative) feed-the-wealthy, starve-the-poor policies over the past decade (actually longer), also coupled with get-rich-quick-schemes, has led to the financial crisis of today.

I’d say that we’re less than 10 percent into the severe economic downturn our nation faces…so the idea that we will have a balanced budget anytime soon is someone’s pipedream.

And whatever malady has afflicted the Republicans in the White House has bled over to the Democratic Party leadership in Congress.

Remember how anxious the White House Republicans, and Treasury Secretary Paulson, were to have Congress pass a Wall Street bail-out bill totaling $750 Billion? Even as these same Republicans delayed doing anything about this looming economic crisis for a long, long time, until finally they demanded this $750 Billion Bail-out Band-aid, rush, rush?

Well, the Democratic Leadership (Reid, Pelosi, Hoyer) decided to not push for an economic stimulus package meant to address the economic crisis from the bottom-up instead of the top-down at the same time that the Wall Street bail-out bill was passed, opting instead to delay consideration of any economic stimulus package until after the November election (similar to the delay by Republicans in the White House prior to the “emergency” Wall Street bail-out bill), thus letting the financial crisis get worse and worse instead of taking remedial action immediately.

The Democratic leadership in Congress needs to call an emergency session of Congress RIGHT NOW, because if they wait until after November 4th, odds are that lame-duck Bush will veto any stimulus package that doesn’t include massive Republican tax cuts for the top 10 percent of wealthiest U.S. citizens.

However, if the Democratic “Blue Dog” leadership in Congress (once again) caves to Bush and the Republicans, and compromises, allowing these tax cuts into the bill, then middle-class taxpayers and our nation’s poor will discover what sinking into another Great Depression feels like, for I’m certain “trickle down economics” is not going to slow our country’s economic collapse at this point.

Hours are critical at this time. Not days. Not weeks. Not months. Waiting until late January, early February of next year will be far too late. Congressional action is required RIGHT NOW, even if a Bush veto must be overridden to get an economic stimulus package passed RIGHT NOW, minus the Grover Norquist/Republican tax cut. But I’m not holding my breath.

Sort of like MISSION ACCOMPLISHED …
… left UNACCOMPLISHED.

… NO?

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The campaign’s tranny must be shot.

No, not Ghouliani – the other one.

it has been said that “the writing is on the wall” for some time now.

I agree. Were in the final stages of a “self coup d’etat” where the government overthrows the will of “We the People“.

The Neo-Nitwits, with their “World Domination” plan, have, with the help of Cheney and Dumbsfeld slowly and steadily turned our country over to the Multinational corporations and New World Order types.

Jeez, I starting to sound like one of those conspiracy theory nuts.

Well, maybe, just maybe, come 1/20/2009 we can take back our country!

What was it Cheney say? Oh, yeah. He said “Reagan proved that deficits don’t matter”

Sure, tell my kids and grandkids why taxes are so high and services from the government are so poor and why Grandpa and Grandma are sleeping on the sofa bed in the basement.

i became of this story in mid-september, however no msm media channels (and very few “alt” media) have covered it. naomi wolf asserts that we are in the final stages of a coup. she argues that in fact the apparatus is fully, 100% in place and is only awaiting activation.

Can anyone recall a general election where the VP’s qualifications (or lack thereof) have overshadowed the Presidential candidate?

Anyone? Ever?