Greedmonger Barack Obama Sank John McCain's Perfectly Perfect Bailout Bill
More than 60% of House Republicans — and 40% of the House Democrats — voted against the bailout plan today, so Douglas Holtz-Eakin, John McCain's top economic adviser, is placing blame for the bill's failure right where it belongs: On the selfish Commie shoulders of Barack Obama…
"Barack Obama failed to lead, phoned it in, attacked John McCain, and refused to even say if he supported the final bill. Just before the vote, when the outcome was still in doubt, Speaker Pelosi gave a strongly worded partisan speech and poisoned the outcome. This bill failed because Barack Obama and the Democrats put politics ahead of country."
Meanwhile, John McCain puts country first, ahead of everything.
Even facts, numbers and reality.
Update: Speaking of facts and numbers, FiveThirtyEight has this fascinating breakdown of how Representatives in tight re-election contests voted.
Douglas Holtz-Eakin will want to close his eyes, so as to avoid reading the part about 17 vulnerable GOP Reps voting against the bailout, as opposed to only 13 vulnerable Democrats.
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From Juan Cole on Salon.com
I want to say something about Barack Hussein Obama's name. It is a name to be proud of. It is an American name. It is a blessed name. It is a heroic name, as heroic and American in its own way as the name of Gen. Omar Nelson Bradley or the name of Benjamin Franklin. And denigrating that name is a form of racial and religious bigotry of the most vile and debased sort. It is a prejudice against names deriving from Semitic languages!
Full Article, (Really good btw)
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/02/28/hussein/
@jonstewartsux
I'm curious what you are referring to when you ask if we know what started WWII? Hitler was elected because the German people were living in very difficult economic circumstances. Years of unchecked inflation forced most of Europe to look inward and take a very strong nationalistic approach to governing. Hitler promised that he would create jobs for Germans in Germany, and that message propelled the National Socialistic German Workers Party (NAZI) to power.
National defense is the easiest way to employ thousands and thousands of workers so no one took a second look at the military industrial complex that was growing up around Hitler. His inward view turned outward and the army followed. Aggressive land grabs to satisfy an imperialistic bent led to blowback from those being invaded as well as those who had their own eyes on empire building, Soviet Union, and then France happened and England got involved and thus you have war in Europe. WWII began when Japan bit off more than they could chew, the U.S. entered the fold and war was happening all over the world.
There's my brief history of WWII. I don't know if you are looking for more detail. The way I see it the correlation to WWII is more of an indictment of the Neo-cons and Republican War Hawks than it is of the Democrats and Obama. (His name is OBAMA by the way, not Osama) The (R)'s are the ones who's agenda relies on hatred of immigrants, an over funded military industrial complex for a strong economy, and continued imperialistic movements to spread free market to the world. I like the guy with the funny name in November.
@jonstewartsux: Isn't your screen name a pseudonym or did your Mammy name you that at birth?
The stupidity of the House is a reflection upon all of us. Except, more stupider.
jonstewartsux two degrees from Liberty taught him the fine English skills he shows in his post. He KNOWS history guys so back off.
I was going to have to read the whole diatribe of JonStewartsux, but thank heavens he mentioned Hitler in line 16, freeing me from having to explore more run-on sentence structure and poor grammer… not to mention an uncomfortably large number of ALL CAPS…
Reference for my other comment:
Reductio ad Hitlerum, also argumentum ad Hitlerum, or reductio (or argumentum) ad Nazium – dog Latin for "reduction (or argument) to Adolf Hitler (or the Nazis)". The tactic is often used to derail arguments, as such a comparison tends to distract and to result in angry and less reasoned responses
or Godwin's Law:
"As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one."
Godwin's Law is often cited in online discussions as a deterrent against the use of arguments in the reductio ad Hitlerum form.
I just wanted to air my views on this political atmosphere that has polluted our country. I believe that we Americans need to overhaul our political system. It is so malignant now that only drastic measures will save whats left of Democracy. Neither the Republicans or the Democrats have the answer to consumption and greed run rampant in this country. Both candidates could care less if you or I lose our homes to foreclosure and our jobs to foreign companies. We have become the nameless, faceless middle class that pay the price in taxes and no one really cares about once we step out of the polling booth. Both of the candidates have been grooming themselves for becoming Mr. President… whatever it takes , and Heaven help the USA that the only choices we have are an old man and a blindly ambitous 1st term senator.
I was extremely happy when Democratic Party took of Congress. That was short lived; can these bunch of doing nothing $@#$ get off their high horse and serve us for a change?
I guess they are in competition with Bush
Am I the only one who actually watched C-Span that morning where mostly Republican Representatives and a few Democrats gave wonderful speeches about why the bill shouldn't be passed. And look – now the bill is getting a few perks. They should be congratulated for not going along with the mob mentality that got us into Iraq in the first place. These lawmakers act on fear instead of principle and then use scapegoats to make them feel better about their hand in the demise of the dollar and the country.
This is what happens when education is taken for granted and diplomas and degrees are handed out like prizes in a cracker jack box. All hail the growing Idiocracy!
who??? came up with the number( 700 billion ) has anyone thought maybe 500 or 200 or 900???? wth i like this number 999,999.999.00