John McCain's Campaign Suspension Pays Big Dividends With This Morning's Bailout Bill
Around 12:30 this morning, bleary-eyed lawmakers kicked aside the empty liters of Mountain Dew and stumbled out of their offices with a final version of the bailout plan, which will be put to a vote in the House later today.
There's still a great deal of doubt surrounding the bill's potential impact on the economy, but one fact remains certain: if John McCain hadn't heroically suspended his campaign last week, there would be no plan at all. Ladies and gentlemen, John McCain, the man who sacrificed a full day of campaigning to fly to Washington and personally hand-write the details of the bailout!
Republicans acknowledge that no McCain imprint appears to be on the final bailout package moving through Congress, and some of them were trying Sunday to put the best face on his role by casting him as a man of action.
"By halting his campaign, he magnified just how important this bailout was to the nation, and showed that he would approach a crisis by locking everyone in a room and keeping them there until they had a solution," said Anthony V. Carbonetti, a Republican political adviser to former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani of New York.
Exactly. If John McCain hadn't halted his campaign, Americans never would have realized how important it is to prevent total collapse of our economic system. Certainly, no news outlet would have picked up a story like that.
As for McCain's crisis-management style, I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but John McCain was once locked in a room for five and a half years. And he didn't emerge from the Hanoi Hilton with anything fancy like a "solution," either.
A response for every question he doesn't want to answer, yes, but no "solutions."
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Just Say NO to Bailout.
If we need loans, how about you just give us our fair share, of tht 700 Billions, and attack each problem individually. Don't just throw money at Wall Street, and trust these crooks to do the right thing? Please. What a lie. They'll still get their Golden Parachutes, they just have to pay 20 percent tax. CEOs? Doubt it. Helping Main Street? Could be. Could also be a royal trick, put forth, by the Greedy Oof Party, just one more mastermind, to play the strings of these bleeding heart liberals, God Bless her, Maxine Waters, is walking right into their trap. I find myself agreeing with the diehard libertarian Republicans, over the Neo Cons, and the Bleeding Heart Liberals. Please People. Come to your senses. This stinks, it's trying to be rammed through, in the 11th hour, as Washington is about to go on break, and we are about to figure out who can run this country the closest, to how the People, want it to run. People. Flood Washington. NO TO THE BAILOUT. This is the WRONG BILL. Do not fall for the BS coming out of Bush and Paulson. Just another scare tactic, meant to fleece the people. How much of a tab, do you want to give our alky dry drunk President, who we are ENABLING? Look at this, make sure that people, can get back the homes, that were foreclosed on them, ripped them off, and took their property, only so speculators, can now have an orgy of real estate gobbling up. Doesn't a middle eastern own Citi? Great. Now American can get bought up by multinationals, who have no soul, and could give a damn about the Average American. Please. Wake up. Send the $700 to JOBS, in America, build Detroit back to the glory it once was, with new plug in hybrids, SUVs, and light duty trucks. Switch tonight, to Natural Gas, and put our fleet to work, making money for America, and our vast Natural Gas Reserves. You really gonna buy the "drill baby drill" when it takes 20 years, they could dig a dry hole, as T. Boone says, and, we gotta give them MORE welfare? 4 billion, just in McCain's promise alone? Nuh uh. I don't think so, this time, Bush, McCain, and all those, who can't seem to say no to him. Someone came up with a brilliant line. If Barney Frank, is the bumbling uncle, about to lose the farm, on this trickery and manipulation, to get the Dems to sign on to a crippling of our economy, and our next president. If they can get us all to sign on, they'll break us, skip off to Georgia, and on to the "investment" in Iraq, and the Caspian Sea, roll in oil royalties, and then stick America with the bill. Imagine. Paulson can pick and choose, who he deems "more equal" to get the money. It stinks. SAY NO. They are still voting on it, right now, you can see it, live on CSPAN. Don't buy it. Ask Dennis Kucinich.
Republicans, pretend to be for principles, smaller govt., fiscally responsible, while defending Neo Con Con Artists. Please. Dennis Kucinich, along with some very cool people from Ohio, said that in the 80's, Wall st. dealt with its own problems, Reagan didn't bail them out. Get real. You've become a nanny state, socialistic tribe, feeding off the govt. trough, while redbaiting Democrats, for being bleeding hearts, and caring about Main Street. Too bad, they don't realize, that SPECULATORS are manipulating the market, there is no oversight, and there is fraud. Bring these "debts" and "bad paper" down, on paper, first, cut it down, in half, to 300 billion, then look at each individual case, along with the FBI, to determine whether we want to bet the farm, on Paulson and Bush's BS.
LOL, got so carried away, that I forgot to mention the funny part, about this story. If Barney Frank is the bumbling Uncle, is Obama George Bailey, and Crazy Eyed McWorse is ol' man Potter? LOL. Yep. Please. Wake up. Set Barney straight. He cannot lose our money. Please. Don't fall for Bush's manipulation, just this last one more time. Not again. They've already got $700 Billion with the Iraq War, while Bin Laden goes free? I don't think so. Where'd they get that figure anyway, the $700 billion, just pull it out of their hat? Gee, that's what Iraq costs, let's go for it. See if the Dems will fall for it..it's worth a shot. It's like this guy I know, whose approach to getting chicks is, "just keep throwing enough eggs up on the wall" and sooner or later, something's gonna stick. Folks. Do not let this stick. Write your Representative, and tell them. No Way. No How. No Bailout!
Did we mention McCain was a POW? That clearly was the defining moment that let McCain get the bailout process going after it was stalled by the Democrats reaching a pre-emptive agreement on it.
Only a Maverick can suspend his campaign to work on a bill, not actually suspend his campaign, not work on the bill, declare that he will not debate, actually debate, and never formally declaring his campaign back on. I challenge anyone else to do that trickery and not look like a doddering old fool.
Carbon dating–to estimate the age of (an object of plant or animal origin) by radiocarbon dating.
Carbonetti dating–to estimate the action of (a political objective) by confetti throwing (how much confetti sticks to said object). Kind of like tar and feathering, but funnier.