Sep 26 2008
McCain - Damned if he do, Damned if he don’t.
Okay, let’s see if I understand this correctly - earlier in the week that crook Reid calls on McCain to take a stance on the bail out bill. McCain suspends his campaign, goes to Washington, sits in on a meeting last night, and after listening to all the debates, he makes one statement at the very end (that both Reid and Barney Frank say was inconsequential, non-constructive, and did not contribute in a substantial manner), and then somehow today, it’s McCain’s fault that the Dems couldn’t get a deal put together?
Let’s see if I understand this part also - The Democrats have a clear majority in both houses. In the past two years they pushed through quite a few bills with absolutely no input or votes from Republicans - but - this time it’s the Republican’s fault there is no bill passed?
Tell me if I got this right as well - Reid, McCaskill, Schumer, and Frank are all stumping today saying that McCain is doing nothing more than presidential politicking and he’s obstructing the bail out bill. Yet, Obama - a junior Senator with only 144 days of real experience in the Senate was made the Democrat spokesperson to the Whitehouse on the bill? The guy is a lawyer. He has no economic background at all. Why would you make a junior senator with no economic knowledge or background be the lead on the most important economic bill in the United State’s history unless it was about politicking? Isn’t something like this usually reserved only for the Most Senior Senators? When was the last time you EVER heard of a junior senator being given this much responsibility - especially on matters he has no knowledge of? Then, when that junior senator goes out and completely blows it (which they should have expected) somehow it’s McCain’s fault? It seems to me that not only were they propping Obama up and playing politics with our economy, they were the ones doing the partisan presidential politicking today in their press meetings today.
Oh - and - one last thing - if this Democratic crafted bill is so good - why hasn’t Obama actually signed off and endorsed it? After all, the bill provides $1.4 Billion to be paid to ACORN which just happens to be Obama’s former employer. That doesn’t sound like special interest or political presidential politicking to me.
Also - just have to say - why are both Pelosi and Reid trying to position this as saying if a bill isn’t passed - it’s the fault of the Republicans? Sure sounds like Presidential politics to me. Is there any wonder why Congress only has a 9% approval rating? Sure gotta hand it to those Democrats - they sure know how to play the blame game don’t they? Well, I’m not falling for it. I know the truth. The truth is that the Democrats caused this problem and the general public is beginning to learn the truth as well. If the Democrats don’t pass this bill - guess who will lose out? Oh..no..it’s not going to be McCain and the Republicans - it will be Obama and the Democrats. We all know they have a majority and could pass it if they wanted to. Did I happen to mention that Obama looked like a real idiot last night? I’m sorry - but - a junior senator with only 144 days of government experience is not even capable of being the President of the local Cub Scouts.
It appears to me that the blame falls on both sides. Frankly, I’m glad there’s no deal (at least in the terms they had laid out before) because until they design this to help the American people instead of just helping themselves, there’s no point in it passing.
If they have 700 billion feasibly available to help Wall Street, then why can’t they help us?
-skw - Based on this statement “If they have 700 billion feasibly available to help Wall Street, then why can’t they help us?” I will have to assume you are a liberal and a democrat. See, that was not the purpose of our U.S. government. It is not up to the government to take care of the people. It is up to our U.S. government to stay out of the way and just to make sure the rules remain fair for everyone.
The reason we are in this mess is because government got in the middle of private industry and forced private businesses to take high risk loans “to take care of us” by making them essentially give away homes to minorities that could not afford them. They forced banks to make loans without income verification, employment verification, proof of identity, and with no down payments. These were the Dems who forced these laws on private business.
The bailout is for the financial sector that they screwed up. By helping the financial sector it does help the people because we won’t go in to a recession or depression.
The Republicans finally, finally, returned to their conservative principles. The Dems put together a socialist bill that would allow those minorities who can’t afford their homes keep them. That’s just not right. They want you to pay for someone else who didn’t deserve to buy a home to keep that home. I already have a home..I don’t want to be responsible for paying for someone else’s either.
Private business is what drives this economy. People keeping their homes do not.
Tracy - I can see your point. However, what other candidates are out there that are worth my vote - or yours for that matter?
Also - just for clarification - while I admit there were a few mistakes regarding the execution of the Iraq war - I was in full support of it when we went in and I have been in full support of it ever since. I’m third generation military. I get it, I know why we’re there, and I know why we haven’t left yet.