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DEL.ICIO.USMaverick, yes, but still choice for recovery
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
John McCain can be maddening sometimes. Independents and undecideds who may be concerned that he parrots the conservative line need not worry.
He is unquestionably the maverick, subject to bolting from the conservative reservation at the most unexpected times.
Take, for example, Tuesday night’s debate in Nashville. Investors are in full panic. The week’s sell-off on Wall Street was brutal. Cash on the sidelines is at record levels. Anxiety is feeding anxiety, as President Bush reminded the nation Friday. The market will recover.
The real question, however, is the impact of November’s election. Business leaders are not among the undecided. Chief Executive magazine polled 751 of them and found that 80 percent support McCain. “More to the point,” the magazine reports, “a thundering 74 percent majority say they fear the consequences of an Obama presidency, compared to only 19 percent who fear a McCain presidency.”
The angry mob wishes to lynch them all, starting with those whose compensation is obscene.
But the fact is that when the panic abates, these are the people whose decisions will determine when and where jobs are added and the pace of the recovery.
McCain, rather than using the debate to hammer home the message that the spending and tax policies advocated by Barack Obama will be disastrous to the economy, opted instead to unveil a mortgage buy-up program straight from left field and to jump on the Democrats’ Wall Street Greed bandwagon.
Furthermore, he failed to offer a narrative explaining that the housing bubble that precipitated the troubles in financial markets started in Congress with Democrats determined to use Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as instruments of their social policy. He offered bullet points, and later in the week tried to flesh them out, but a prime opportunity was missed.
The mortgage bailout is contrary to all conservative principles. Granted, in times of financial crisis, the first obligation is to stanch the panic and to stabilize the market. In the short term, conservative principles may be sacrificed. But as quickly as possible, government has to retreat and let the free market work. It’s not taxpayers’ obligation to save companies or to spare executives and stockholders from financial ruin. Nor, incidentally, is it useful to turn well-compensated CEOs over to mob justice. There’s time to get the crooks, though the tragedy of the scapegoating is that politicians who had even larger roles in this financial disaster — Barney Frank, for example — escape accountability. Always.
The decision by Congress to force Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to buy home loans made to uncreditworthy borrowers is the root cause of this disaster. The symbiotic relationship between politicians and the two mortgage-bundlers is and was a cancer on government. Never again should Congress imply that any private-sector company, as the two of them are, has debt backed by taxpayers.
Under-the-gun conservatives are not purists in time of crisis, but they do avoid abandoning those principles altogether. McCain’s mortgage proposal effectively says to those who have managed their financial affairs prudently, who played by the rules, who sacrificed pleasures in the interest of their family’s long-term good, that you were a dunce. Had you bought more than you could afford, had you speculated in mortgages, had you gambled irresponsibly, there’s a reward to come. The government will bail you out and, as a prize, give you a better rate.
Suddenly, we’re not putting principles aside temporarily to arrest panic. We’re setting up a massive new social program that rewards the precise behavior that is destructive to families and to their well-being.
What McCain proposes is a version of the social policies that essentially eliminate the difference between responsibility and irresponsibility espoused and implemented for decades by Democrats.
Despite McCain’s occasional venture into strange territory, saddling this economy with higher taxes and $850 billion in new spending, as Obama proposes, would be disastrous.
Given a Democratic majority in both the House and the Senate with the will to implement his tax and spending policies, an Obama presidency could ruin recovery and further move this nation toward socialism. That’s the case McCain should be making, defining the consequences of their differences, not offering me-too rhetoric and social programs.
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By Warren Buck
October 11, 2008 8:09 AM | Link to this
I just hope that when(not if)Obama is President, you and other Conservatives will give him a chance to heal this broken country.
We will try to forgive the abuses of the last 8 years as we try to brighten our collective future. Please join us.
By tomhere
October 11, 2008 8:22 AM | Link to this
Get ready because Obama is coming like a Tsunami. AND after the garbage you kooks pulled on Clinton, I can warn you, in the strongest terms, that we will not allow that again. You have been lulled into thinking of liberals as “flower power” “peaceful people”….. WRONG. January 21, 2009 we will be on guard. You will not do to Obama what you did to Clinton. So get ready. We will take out the trash.
By Churchill's Mom
October 11, 2008 8:29 AM | Link to this
Jimbo, here’s our Palin for the day…WAR EAGLE
Report stings Palin over Troopergate flap By MATT APUZZO
Associated Press Writer
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The politically charged investigation into Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is over, and its conclusions are stinging. But the fallout, if any, might not come until Election Day.
A legislative investigator found that Palin violated state ethics laws and abused her power by trying to have her former brother-in-law fired as a state trooper.
The next move may be at the ballot box. The legislative committee that released the report Friday recommends no criminal investigation and has no authority to sanction the governor, the Republican vice presidential nominee.
“It is out of the Legislative Council’s hands. It goes to anyone’s hands who got a copy or clicks the link on the Web,” said Democratic state Sen. Kim Elton, the chairman of the committee that released the report. “I can’t tell you how the process ends.”
If voters believe the report’s finding and it tarnishes Palin’s reputation as a reformer and a champion for good government, that could hurt Republican presidential nominee John McCain in the final weeks of the race.
The McCain campaign quickly rejected that notion.
“I think the American people can tell the difference between the results of a politically motivated investigation and a legitimate finding of fact,” campaign spokesman Taylor Griffin said.
The inquiry looked into Palin’s dismissal of Public Safety Commissioner Walter Monegan, who said he lost his job because he resisted pressure to fire a state trooper involved in a bitter divorce and custody battle with the governor’s sister. Palin says Monegan was fired as part of a legitimate budget dispute.
Stephen Branchflower, a retired prosecutor hired to conduct the investigation, said Monegan’s firing was lawful. But the pressure Palin and her husband put on him, he said, was not.
Under Alaska law, it is up to the state’s Personnel Board, not the Legislature, to decide whether Palin violated the ethics laws. If so, it must refer the matter to the Senate president for disciplinary action. Violations also carry a possible fine of up to $5,000.
By the time that investigation is over, however, the election will be over. If Palin is the vice president-elect, the results will hardly matter. If she loses, she’ll have to address the board’s findings at home. The national media will be long gone.
Barack Obama’s presidential campaign did not comment on the report amid persistent accusations by Republicans that rival operatives were manipulating the investigation to help the Democratic presidential nominee.
Democratic Sen. Hollis French, who oversaw the investigation, contributed to that perception when he said the report could provide an “October surprise” for the McCain campaign.
Elton said partisanship played no role in the report.
“When we began investigating this, we had no idea that Sarah Palin would be a part of the national ticket,” said Elton, an Obama supporter.
Branchflower said Palin violated a statute of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act. Lawmakers don’t have the authority to sanction her for such a violation and they gave no indication they would take any action against her.
Palin has recently said that the Personnel Board inquiry is the only one that matters. And McCain’s campaign echoed those comments Friday.
“This is the opinion of this Legislative Council investigation,” Griffin said. “It’s just an opinion.”
The report notes a few instances in which Palin pressed the case against trooper Mike Wooten, but it was her husband, Todd, who led the charge. Todd Palin had extraordinary access to the governor’s office and her closest advisers and he used that access to try to get Wooten fired.
Gov. Palin knowingly “permitted Todd to use the Governor’s office and the resources of the Governor’s office, including access to state employees, to continue to contact subordinate state employees in an effort to find some way to get Trooper Wooten fired,” Branchflower’s report reads.
Wooten had been in hot water before Palin became governor over allegations that he illegally shot a moose, drank beer in a patrol car and used a Taser on his stepson. The Palins said they feared for their family’s safety after Wooten made threats against them.
Associated Press Writer Adam Goldman contributed to this report.
By Peter
October 11, 2008 8:43 AM | Link to this
Palin is …………..Dick Cheney in a skirt !
By Ga Values
October 11, 2008 8:46 AM | Link to this
Economic forcast from Kipplingers, for you nonsubscribers
What we are seeing is classic market panic. And the government can’t quell that.Interest rate cuts won’t bring investors back. They fear lenders still won’t lend, erasing profits as businesses cut back or go under. Buying up debt won’t stem alarm about a spreading global slide. Falling 401(k) balances only worsen the dread.
Uncle Sam’s steps will help the economy… pumping liquidity into credit markets, keeping businesses’ doors open and allowing them to meet payrolls, and setting a floor under housing. But not soon enough for scared investors.
Here’s how we expect the situation to unfold. In a few weeks, Treasury’s plan will start up.Uncle Sam will begin buying up banks’ toxic debt, getting it off their books…sequestered for resale later. By Thanksgiving, it’ll be clear how it’s going. If the reverse auctions planned aren’t clearing away enough of the rubble to get banks lending again, Treasury can and will step in even more directly… taking the route the U.K. plans, buying banks’ shares to provide the liquidity needed to keep wheels turning.
By year-end, credit markets should be functioning better. Commercial paperwill be moving again. Long-term lending…corporate bonds, etc…will start picking up.
It will take more months to return to normal, however. Wide interest rate spreads will linger well into 2009. Typically 50 basis points, the gap between T-bill rates and those for three-month Eurodollar loans, for example, is now about 10 times that much and getting wider. That won’t reverse, and corporate bond issuances and bank lending won’t return to more normal levels until confidence in the credit markets is restored.
Finally, the economy won’t grow for about a year. While measures taken here by the Federal Reserve and Treasury Dept. and by central bankers abroad will avoid another Great Depression, all the king’s horses and all the king’s men can’t reverse the business cycle. Recessions run their courses. GDP will shrink through at least the first half of 2009. In the second half… weak recovery, at best. For the year, growth isn’t likely to be much better than flat. Figure unemployment will climb to 7.5% or so next year and slightly higher in 2010.
As for the stock market, the slide will end when everyone prone to panickinghas done so. And when the trend does turn around, you don’t want to miss it.
By Peter
October 11, 2008 9:02 AM | Link to this
Well here is something very funny coming from the “Republican Attack DOG” in the skirt…….
“Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on Friday said Sen. Barack Obama put “ambition above country” after a newspaper reported that Obama may have tried to influence Iraqi politicians negotiating with the United States”
Here is a person who clearly broke rules and maybe the LAW…… for putting “Personal ISSUES” before her responsibility to the Alaskan Tax Payers………
So I guess to minimize HER TROUBLES…….. she says lies about others !
PURE “Republican Politics”……. LIES and Deceit !
She is not Worthy of being a Governor…….. never mind representing ALL Americans in the White House !
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By Bama Dawg
October 11, 2008 9:17 AM | Link to this
Right On, Warran Buck!
The saddest part is that if Obama is elected, the far right will spend the next four years trying to destroy him and in the process will do irreprable damage to the entire country. It is a shame that end the end thses “country first” neo-cons are more determined to lookout for themselves rather than for all Americans.
What ever happend to a common focus of working together to ensure the physical and economic well being of our once great country.
What a shame.
By Alecia
October 11, 2008 9:25 AM | Link to this
We need job creation. I would have been in favor of a bail out twice the size of this one if its main objective was job creation(i.e infraestructure). We do not need more welfare, section 8 housing, food stamps, or high taxes to cover them. People need to work. Corporations need breathing room to create jobs. This means reducing their taxes and offering every opportunity for growth available. Obama mentioned in the debate that more taxes were good because there are write offs. News flash-In business spending a dollar to save 50 cents does not create jobs. Businesses need cash to grow and create jobs. I am all for taxing the daylights out of imports and would like to see a 100% ban on processed foods from 2nd and 3rd world countries. If we over tax the corporations in this global economy, they will move all of their operations overseas to a more tax friendly country. Also, most of the people that make over $250,000 a yr are usually very bright and creative and are a large source of job creation. Most people in this income category are also business owners. We need to encourage these people to find more ways to create jobs. If they are taxed to death after $249k, expect then to take the rest of the year off and not contribute back to society. This is American, we should reward those that work hard and create jobs. Not only are we competing for manufacturing jobs, our high tech, white collar, and service jobs are at risk. We have been in employment contraction mode since the Clinton years. Remember NAFTA? It is their baby. We don’t need more financial engineering. We need jobs. It is unfortunate that McCain is such a poor communicator. His ads are vague at best, he is not a spin doctor, and does not have as much money as Obama. Obama scares me with his far left views. This situation reminds me of Venezuela right before Hugo Chavez took over. Obama has a lot of charisma, alot of people are uninformed, and the economy is in the tank. We can look into our world history books and see a lot or leaders that are charismatic, intelligent, great communicators, and prey on desperate situations. In other words…the perfect storm for a leftist/extreme regime.
By Jim Jr
October 11, 2008 9:35 AM | Link to this
Things to look forward to
1 - Democratic President
2 - Democratic Senate
3 - Democratic House
4 - Republican EX President tried by World Court for War Crimes
5 - Republican EX President convicted ty World Court of War Crimes
6h- Ummmmmmmmmmm
By apt42
October 11, 2008 9:38 AM | Link to this
Conservatives used the same lines in the 1930s to scare people away from FDR’s New Deal, which saved our country during the Depression. The current situation won’t get as bad as that, but it’s silly to think that Obama, who’s receiving advice from financial giants like Buffet, and economists like Larry Summers, who presided over the economic boom during the Nineties, is going to be irresponsible with our economy. The execs are just selfishly scared of a tax hike on their multi-million dollar estates. What about the fact that real wages for the middle class have effectively gone down over the past thirty years, in the era of Reaganism, or that the Republicans are effectively gutting the middle class?
By norman ravitch
October 11, 2008 9:43 AM | Link to this
The GOP always uses the tactics of Goebbels and the Nazis to scare the public.
By Davo
October 11, 2008 10:01 AM | Link to this
Another column that confirms, yet again, that JW has no integrity.
Socialism is OK as long as it’s done by the GOP? Thinking Right? Pathetic.
By Rufus
October 11, 2008 10:34 AM | Link to this
Oh this is so shocking. If this is the best the liberals can do for a Pumpkin Surprise, there is still hope. Let’s review the findings from the partisan hatchet job on Palin, shall we?
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - The politically charged investigation into Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is over, and its conclusions are stinging. But the fallout, if any, might not come until Election Day.
A legislative investigator found that Palin violated state ethics laws and abused her power by trying to have her former brother-in-law fired as a state trooper.
The next move may be at the ballot box. The legislative committee that released the report Friday recommends no criminal investigation and has no authority to sanction the governor, the Republican vice presidential nominee.
But, watch these little wormy liberals ignore Barney Frank telling Bushie & Co. to stick it on increasing Fannie and Freddie regulation. Watch these little wormy liberals ignore ACORN voter registration fraud and fraud all over this nation, while using such brilliant terms such as “anger”, “hate”, and “racist” in their rhetoric in countering our talking points. You want to read about some Democrat voter fraud that CNN or the AJC won’t report? Otay…
The New York Post:
CLEVELAND - A man at the center of a voter-registration scandal told The Post yesterday he was given cash and cigarettes by aggressive ACORN activists in exchange for registering an astonishing 72 times, in apparent violation of Ohio laws.
The Houston Chronicle:
The push to register voters for this year’s presidential election is breaking records.
More than 1.9 million people are registered to vote in Harris County alone.
But how many of the people listed on the voter roll are actually eligible to cast a ballot?
Investigative reporter Amy Davis shows you how hundreds of voters could sway this year’s election — voters who are not even alive.
Texas Watchdog compared Harris County’s voter registration roll with the Social Security death index and found more than 4,000 matches — registered voters that, it appears, are already dead.
The New York Post (again):
CLEVELAND - Two Ohio voters, including Domino’s pizza worker Christopher Barkley , claimed yesterday that they were hounded by the community-activist group ACORN to register to vote several times, even though they made it clear they’d already signed up.
Barkley estimated he’d registered to vote “10 to 15” times after canvassers for ACORN, whose political wing has endorsed Barack Obama, relentlessly pursued him and others.
Yahoo! News (AP):
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Officials in Missouri, a hard-fought jewel in the presidential race, are sifting through possibly hundreds of questionable or duplicate voter-registration forms submitted by an advocacy group that has been accused of election fraud in other states.
Charlene Davis, co-director of the election board in Jackson County, where Kansas City is, said the fraudulent registration forms came from the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN. She said they were bogging down work Wednesday, the final day Missourians could register to vote.
“I don’t even know the entire scope of it because registrations are coming in so heavy,” Davis said. “We have identified about 100 duplicates, and probably 280 addresses that don’t exist, people who have driver’s license numbers that won’t verify or Social Security numbers that won’t verify. Some have no address at all.”
And you liberals want to bellyache over Palin throwing out a man who drank while on duty and tasered a child, irrespective of how many times Hillary Clinton threw out people when she wasn’t even a president in the White House. So not surprising really, in the larger realm of things.
PS: I little birdie told me that somewhere in this blog a few days ago I was mentioned as one who some wingnut liberal wanted to meet. Apparently, liberal infatuation with Conservatives is growing. To that pumpkin if you are reading this: I don’t care about you. I don’t like what you people stand for. I don’t infatuate with you people on (and DEFINITELY when off) this blog. In short, I have no interest in any of you people beyond exposing your left wing liberal socialist ideology on this blog. Now kindly return the favor, freak.
By Dusty
October 11, 2008 10:35 AM | Link to this
Well, Jim Wooten, the plans of John McCain do not always jive with our thoughts. But I believe McCain saw that this country needed another idea for economic recovery. So he gave us one. At least, he did not look to the heavens in mystical charisma and claim we need…CHANGE!!!!
That’s John McCain…saying what he thinks is needed, not what the crowd wants to hear.
If McCain had come up with some foolishness and said “Obama’s non-ideas are great!!”, Democrats would immediately claim that McCain is undermining Obama, attacking their great man and indicting all the ‘outstanding’ friends their leader had acquired. That Ayers, Wright and Rezko were pillows of virtue. Ah, the reasoning of Democrats would make a carnival con man happy.
So, hang in there. As you have said quite accurately about McCain, Maverick, yes, but still choice for recovery! The McCain choice is the only one to keep us from being another Cuba or Venezuela, places I have no wish to emulate with an Obama regime.
By Algonquin J. Calhoun
October 11, 2008 10:55 AM | Link to this
How ‘bout that Sarah Palin Jim? A bi-partisan panel has found she abused and misused her power. She also, obviously, lied about it, tried to cover it up and minimized her involvement. She wanted to go a different direction, so she fired Monegan when he wouldn’t fire Trooper Wooten, despite being leaned on heavily by Gov. Bulldog’s minions. Sounds like George W. Hitler type stuff and we don’t need or want anymore of that. She’s disqualified Jim! It’s over for the Republinazis. Obama is as good as being inaugurated right now! Time to find a real job Jim, that Republinazi mouthpiece money is going away shortly!
By Davo
October 11, 2008 10:58 AM | Link to this
“The McCain choice is the only one to keep us from being another Cuba or Venezuela, places I have no wish to emulate with an Obama regime.”
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/world/story/53611.html
How about our current regime?
By melvinowens
October 11, 2008 11:01 AM | Link to this
it is quite amusing to me, that when conservatives, like sarah palin, break the law or abuse thier positions of authority, the so call “moral” republicans always have an excuse. it is time to return true morality and intelligence to the white house. barack obama 08.
By Algonquin J. Calhoun
October 11, 2008 11:06 AM | Link to this
The McCain choice is the only one to keep us from being another Cuba or Venezuela, places I have no wish to emulate with an Obama regime.
You prefer the emulation of Nazi Germany we’ve had for eight years now which McDunce would continue? I don’t think so!
By Dusty
October 11, 2008 11:06 AM | Link to this
Davo@10:58
You mean our current “regime” that has kept us from terroristic attacks since 9/11 and freed two countries from dictators and a chance for them to have freedom?
Is that the “regime” to which you refer??
By getalife
October 11, 2008 11:13 AM | Link to this
Jim is on a roll. He should try last comic standing next year. Hilarious.
“The latest InsiderAdvantage poll in Georgia finds challenger Jim Martin (D) has pulled into a tie with Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA), 45% to 45%. The presidential race has also tightened with Sen. John McCain just edging Sen. Barack Obama, 49% to 46%.”
We should use the opportunity of the failed gop ideology and economic crisis to fix our broken government.
Start with firing the gop.
By Jim Jr.
October 11, 2008 11:15 AM | Link to this
Polls are there. Read um and weep.
By Scaredforthefuture
October 11, 2008 11:22 AM | Link to this
Obama is like the Pied Piper…merrily leading the people off. Of the people that have bothered to take a good, hard, objective look at the man and his background, most of them are bolting the other way.
You people out there that complained about Bush’s inexperience…and see what that got us…now you’re more than happy to vote for someone even MORE inexperienced than Bush. I don’t get it. Obama certainly looks the part, certainly looks Presidential, is miles ahead of W. as far as representing us. But you Obamabots are afraid to look at the things he’s really proposing, and where those policies are going to lead. Just b/c I’m not voting for Obama doesn’t mean I’m happy with Bush…not at all…but if we elect Obama we will be sorry…of that I’m absolutely certain.
By Bullzeye
October 11, 2008 11:24 AM | Link to this
Don’t take it out on Obama just because McCain is a dud. It’s time to swing back to the other direction after 8 years of horror. I know that the right is parinoid that the new regime will try to extract retribution for eight years of criminally abusing the office of the Presidency because that is what they would do; however, we just want to heal the country and get back to the great nation we are.
By Scaredforthefuture
October 11, 2008 11:24 AM | Link to this
Obama is like the Pied Piper…merrily leading the people off. Of the people that have bothered to take a good, hard, objective look at the man and his background, most of them are bolting the other way.
You people out there that complained about Bush’s inexperience…and see what that got us…now you’re more than happy to vote for someone even MORE inexperienced than Bush. I don’t get it. Obama certainly looks the part, certainly looks Presidential, is miles ahead of W. as far as representing us. But you Obamabots are afraid to look at the things he’s really proposing, and where those policies are going to lead. Just b/c I’m not voting for Obama doesn’t mean I’m happy with Bush…not at all…but if we elect Obama we will be sorry…of that I’m absolutely certain.
By ScaredForTheFuture
October 11, 2008 11:35 AM | Link to this
McCain and Palin are inciting violence at their rallies. Their lies are incendiary (neo-cons, you will have to look that word up). We will hold them responsible for the results of their words.
The whole world is watching
By Bullzeye
October 11, 2008 11:46 AM | Link to this
Repukes can do nothing but lie. It is thier nature.
I don’t think so. I think what we need to do is convince people who live in the lands they live in to build the nations. Maybe I’m missing something here. I mean, we’re going to have kind of a nation building core from America? Absolutely not. Our military is meant to fight and win war. That’s what it’s meant to do. And when it gets overextended, morale drops.
That would be who?
By get out much?
October 11, 2008 11:46 AM | Link to this
No Dusty, he means the current regime that was asleep at the switch on 9/11 and is currently militarily occupying two countries.
By Tuffy, the Airborne Soldier
October 11, 2008 11:59 AM | Link to this
LMAO!!! Watching the final breaths of the Republican Party is hecka funny!!! Unfortunately its at our expense. A economy that is tanking, two wars, education, jobs, gas… I think the GOP (yes, Jim, they are one in the same…) has done a tremondous job in screwing us..the true John and Jane Q. Public, Joe and Jenny Six Pack, not to mention LeRoy and Taquisha Washington, Jesus and Maria Rodriguez, Nguyen and Soo-Lon Li. But all of those they screwed will finally have representation in Washington when PRESIDENT OBAMA gets there.
Goodbye GOP, Repubs, McLame, Failin’, Bush-ski, and Tricky Dick. There is a special place call jail for you.
By Algonquin J. Calhoun
October 11, 2008 12:02 PM | Link to this
I’m referring to the regime that has brutally attacked and occupied Iraq based upon evidence manufactured by the criminal administration in office. I’m talking about the administration that has spied upon Americans, that has engaged in wholesale torture and murder in Iraq and Afghanistan. I’m talking about the administration that has bankrupted this nation. Safe? Hardly! This regime has stolen ALL the money. They’ve usurped power, eviscerated the Constitution, lied to our allies and to the citizenry of this nation, operated torture chambers in gulags outside the United States, pardoned themselves for war crimes they’ve not admitted to, given corporations a license to steal and ground the middle class down to serf level. That’s not safety. That’s criminal! We’re not going to have more of this. McSlob is defeated! Learn to live with it Musty!
By Voice of Reason
October 11, 2008 12:04 PM | Link to this
Warren Buck thank you for that post [8:09AM]; and thank God it started this thread.
By Wall St
October 11, 2008 12:08 PM | Link to this
Dusty,
Americans who think like you are scary. You really have no clue. Please explain to us the benefits of a “free Iraq”, and how that helps you eat everyday?
IDIOT!!!
By Chocolate MLK
October 11, 2008 12:13 PM | Link to this
More Things to Which to Look Forward Under President Obama:
Gangster Rappers Routinely Coming By the White House for ‘Photo Ops’ with “THE PREZ”
Felonious Pro Athletes with an Overabundance of “Body Art” Coming by the White House to “Keep It Real” with the President.
Self-Professed Ho’s and B!tc#es Accompanying Said Rappers & Pro Athletes to Shake Booty in the Halls of the White House.
Chicken Bones and Watermelon Seeds Thrown All Over the South Lawn of the White House Cleaned Up Repeatedly by OUR Tax Dollars
Higher Taxes
A Diminished American Military and Decreased Ability to Defend Our Nation
Jimmy Carter’s Second Presidential Term by Proxy
Freaknik on a Nationwide Scale on Election Night and on Inauguraton Day
A Worsened Economy That Turns Into a Depression
A Presidential Oath of Office Using the Koran Instead of the Holy Bible.
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Yippee!!!
By Nordham L.
October 11, 2008 12:21 PM | Link to this
Warren Buck said “I just hope that when(not if)Obama is President, you and other Conservatives will give him a chance to heal this broken country.”
Not a chance in h311.
“We will try to forgive the abuses of the last 8 years as we try to brighten our collective future. Please join us.”
Kharma is going to be a b*** for you libs. Your second paragraph is proven bs.
By Voice of Reason
October 11, 2008 12:22 PM | Link to this
I really feel a major issue here is race. Many White people are just NOT ready to see a Black man as president of the U.S. It is too much for them to handle. Many of them are on the verge of hysteria!!
Relax, White people. It’ll be all right. Stop spewing venom and hatred; stop calling for people’s heads to come off; stop inciting violence. Take a moment and LISTEN to yourselves! Lay down your hate and learn to live with your fellow man.
Even look at McCain’s rallies and those of Obama’s. Which group best represents this country?
When the hate is spewed from the lipstick pitbull, and McCain doesn’t admonish his people for such, that demonstrates we do NOT need that type of divisive spirit to lead this country in these times.
Chill, White people. Take a deep breath now. It’s 2008; lay down your hate. Isn’t it time you did so?
Our country is in a mess; we MUST have a new direction and McCain “ain’t the one.” Going forward, we need decency and just basic human respect, one to another. McCain wouldn’t even show any human decency toward Obama in the first debate; and in the 2nd debate, calls him “that one.”
It’s time for you all to check yourselves. It’s time for a new day. We welcome you to enjoy this country as it should and could be.
By ron
October 11, 2008 12:24 PM | Link to this
Good afternoon,Right ,Jim,McCain is maddening.He did the right thing when he canceled his appearance at the debate,to,as he said,go to Washington and straighten things out.His movements from that day until now have been mysterious,to say the least.At that moment in time,the economy had replaced any campaign issue out there,and I thought that McCain recognized this.Not so.Even now he doesn’t seem to recognize that the economy is in trouble.He just continues to wander along,hoping for a miracle.All Obama has to do now is keep his mouth shut and he’s the next President.
Ga.Values—-I hope your scenario for the future is right,mine is not so optomistic. I see someone deciding that in the near future it would be a good time to tax the rich ,thereby sending us into a prolonged downturn.The rich have a funny way of reacting when the heat is turned on them to pay more taxes.Jobs seem to dry up in a hurry.
I won’t talk about Mrs.Palin today.
By Pascal
October 11, 2008 12:32 PM | Link to this
Voice of Reason = Voice of Racism
Only a complete dumbazz and egomaniacal jerk wit a very tiny penis would call HIMSELF a “Voice of Reason,” thereby attempting to elevated himself above all others.
Kill Yourself and Burn in Hell, Voice of [ahem] “Reason.”
By getalife
October 11, 2008 12:32 PM | Link to this
And the time to act is now. You may think that things can’t get any worse — but they can, and if nothing is done in the next few days, they will.
Paulson and his conflict of interest with Lehmamn made it worse.
When will he be forced to resign?
Still no accountability in this country.
By CwnBt
October 11, 2008 12:52 PM | Link to this
Davo is an idiot.
Let us compare Hugo to Obama, shall we?
From The BBC: Venezuela shuts down McDonald’s
“Since winning elections 10 years ago, Mr Chavez has increased taxes and often temporarily shuts firms accused of failing to pay.”
McCain will not increase taxes.
“But since then, Mr Chavez has suffered his first electoral setback. In December 2007, his plans for constitutional changes, including the removal of term limits on his presidency, were narrowly rejected by voters.”
Venezuelans were late catching onto Chavez’s intentions geared toward a dictatorship.
“The president is well aware of the danger, and has even gone so far as to describe the forthcoming round of voting as the most important regional elections in Venezuela’s history.”
Obama says “This is our time.” Socialist speak for this is HIS time.
“As a results, many observers expect Mr Chavez to ramp up public spending in the run-up to November, in order to secure his support among poorer members of Venezuelan society.”
Obama has promised trillions in government spending to help the poor.
“None of this appears to be doing ordinary Venezuelans any good. The lack of investment has left industry unable to keep up with growing consumer demand, while price controls imposed by Mr Chavez on about 400 basic goods have led to food shortages.”
The end results of an Obama presidency.
It’s too late for Venezuelans but not too late for Americans to see where Obama’s economic policies would take this great country.
By getalife
October 11, 2008 1:14 PM | Link to this
Funny how our friends on the right are still clinging to their failed ideology.
w killed capitalism, replaced it with socialism and spews “it is a good thing, he is in charge.”
The audacity of a dope. If he had any sense of patriotism, he would resign in disgrace.
By Republicans R Crooks
October 11, 2008 1:15 PM | Link to this
McCain’s IQ, while much higher than our little Jimmy the Idiot’s IQ, is still only slightly above 100…No wonder he has trouble thinking…Sarah on the other hand has an IQ slighly below 100, still better than jimmy….Why are Repukes so stupid…inbreeding is the only logical answer….we must stop repukes from mating….they produce idiots and worse, like the Chimp in chief…
By getalife
October 11, 2008 1:20 PM | Link to this
Instead of socializing for the poor, w socialized for the rich.
This is the new gop ideology so use it in your silly arguments to not look like a fool CwnBt .
If that is poosible for any of you right wingers.
Try to keep up with w’s change in ideology.
By Voice of Reason
October 11, 2008 1:20 PM | Link to this
Uh, Pascal, I have a c******…which, at passionate times, might be lovingly mistaken for a very small penis—maybe the size of yours. LOL.
You (pascal) and that “Chocolate MLK” poster are the very people of which I speak. GROW UP and stop with the racial hatred. Your hatred is destructive to society, and what you don’t see…it’s destructive to you. Grow up.
Have a nice day, all. Ciao and Aurevoir!
By Algonquin J. Calhoun
October 11, 2008 1:33 PM | Link to this
When the United States Supreme court ruled that the Geneva Convention, agreement on the treatment of prisoners, did apply to the detainees in the custody of the United States, legislation was prepared and rammed through the House and Senate and nervously signed by George W. Hitler. Hidden away in that legislation was a pardon for George W. Hitler, Cheney and the whole of his criminal administration. Pardoning himself? For what? War crimes! You may be certain he wouldn’t be pardoning himself for war crimes were he not guilty of war crimes! The pardon is retroactive to September 11, 2001. As the Sun sets on his failed dictatorship he becomes more restless and more concerned. It’s obvious McCain will lose and lose big. National polls indicate Obama leads by 11 points. Secret Republinazi polls indicate the margin is far greater and insurmountable. What does George W. Hitler do now? The economy is in shambles. So, pointing to the financial failures won’t increase McCain’s chances. Fact is there’s nothing positive to point to. The only hope now is to return to what worked before. TERRORIST ATTACK! A terrorist attack, followed by patriotic blatherings and suspension of the Constitution and the upcoming election is the only avenue left for him. If the Democrats win, which they will if the election takes place, George W. Hitler would be handed over for trial and he knows that. Remember, as Bob Dylan opined in ‘Sweetheart Like You,’ patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings!
By Algonquin J. Calhoun
October 11, 2008 1:33 PM | Link to this
When the United States Supreme court ruled that the Geneva Convention, agreement on the treatment of prisoners, did apply to the detainees in the custody of the United States, legislation was prepared and rammed through the House and Senate and nervously signed by George W. Hitler. Hidden away in that legislation was a pardon for George W. Hitler, Cheney and the whole of his criminal administration. Pardoning himself? For what? War crimes! You may be certain he wouldn’t be pardoning himself for war crimes were he not guilty of war crimes! The pardon is retroactive to September 11, 2001. As the Sun sets on his failed dictatorship he becomes more restless and more concerned. It’s obvious McCain will lose and lose big. National polls indicate Obama leads by 11 points. Secret Republinazi polls indicate the margin is far greater and insurmountable. What does George W. Hitler do now? The economy is in shambles. So, pointing to the financial failures won’t increase McCain’s chances. Fact is there’s nothing positive to point to. The only hope now is to return to what worked before. TERRORIST ATTACK! A terrorist attack, followed by patriotic blatherings and suspension of the Constitution and the upcoming election is the only avenue left for him. If the Democrats win, which they will if the election takes place, George W. Hitler would be handed over for trial and he knows that. Remember, as Bob Dylan opined in ‘Sweetheart Like You,’ patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings!
By Algonquin J. Calhoun
October 11, 2008 1:48 PM | Link to this
Relax, White people. It’ll be all right. Stop spewing venom and hatred;
Let me point out to you that Obama is the candidate of all the people. This campaign is about uniting and not dividing. People of all races are supporting him and people of all races are supporting Mc Cain as well. More people support Obama and I’m pleased to be one of those who do. Leave the Republinazis to make the racial references. They have no place in Obama’s campaign and only serve to inflame those of those of lower intelligence.
By CwnBt
October 11, 2008 1:54 PM | Link to this
getalife, GW socialized for the rich in an attempt to repair the damage done when dems socialized for the poor with FMae and FMac. Have you ever stopped to think that the F stands for Fook freddie and fannie, america’s middle class?
If a political party does not socially engineer economics for the poor they are called racists. If the dems socially engineer economics for the poor they are called heroes and damn the impact on america’s middle class.
Class warfare is a dream created by the dimwits for the dimwits. The republicrats should ignore the attacks of racism and do what needs to be done although I fear it is too late. The socialist dimwits win. Prepare for a dictatorial regime in america getalife.
The middle class will become the new poor. The liberal elites in washington will rule over the subjugated masses.
Business is nothing without consumers. Consumers are government subjects without business.
By Republicans R Crooks
October 11, 2008 1:54 PM | Link to this
Jimmy the Idiot’s new girl friend, Sarah the Puky Palin has just been “convicted” of abuse of power in Alaska…Gee, she would have fit right in with the Chimp in Chief and his Hump Backed Freak Second Chimp in charge, seeing as how they have abused power lo these last long seven and a half years…..Lets put them all in prison for the rest of their worthless lives….Sarah, the chimp, and hump back….Jim can always fall in luv with another woman from afar, ah hear Barbara Striesand is available….oh, wait, she has alrady rejected the idiot three times, and next try gits a restraining order…
By Dusty
October 11, 2008 1:54 PM | Link to this
Voice of Reason,
You are a racist who wants to imply racism over everything.
Have you not noticed that all Americans including “white” ones have great admiration for the ethical leaders who happen to be your race. I guess you dismiss people like General Colin Powell, Condi Rice and Justice Thomas. You forget the sports heroes and good citizens like Hank Aaron whom Americans honor. You forget the black doctors and health professionals that Americans appreciate.
You simply want to bring racism into this election. My concerns over Obama are not his race but his shadowy unusual past, his choice of companions and confidants, his wife of anti-American sentiments and his anti-war stance. THAT is why I will not vote for Obama.
Take it or leave it but you are on the wrong track.
By ncgreybr
October 11, 2008 1:59 PM | Link to this
We’ve had 7 years of a “maverick” already in the White House. We certainly don’t need 4 more.
By Ragnar Danneskjöld
October 11, 2008 2:03 PM | Link to this
Good afternoon all. Jim is correct in his essay, that even with his flaws - and they are numerous -he remains the superior potential-president between the two. The One is a Marxist - my affection for freedom is too great to give him a second thought. Given that every bad decision from the Supreme Court since 1968 was a leftist majority, that consideration alone would prevent me from voting for a leftist.
However the recent performance of the leftists in Congress - prohibiting reform of FNMA/FHLMC, using bank regulatory tools for social engineering at the heart of the recent housing bubble and mortgage crash, the corruption of energy distribution (using food instead of freer search for sources) - should be sufficient to persuade any thinking person to fire the incompetent leftists. As all conservatives, outside the city of Macon, are republicans, we thus have no choices in our voting.
By Ragnar Danneskjöld
October 11, 2008 2:09 PM | Link to this
Special note for our friends suffering from PDS - I hope to see Magna Sarah placed in charge of firing US Attorneys as necessary.
By Algonquin J. Calhoun
October 11, 2008 2:15 PM | Link to this
Raghead, you may have no choice but the majority of us do. It’s Obama in a landslide!
By Republicans R Crooks
October 11, 2008 2:21 PM | Link to this
James Garner has taken out a restraining order on McCain fer ruining his “Mavrick” role…..As see Ragnar is still on the rag…must be hard, being a viking wanna be….
By old91A10
October 11, 2008 2:37 PM | Link to this
Bama Dawg October 11, 2008 9:17 AM
Perhaps, “the far right will spend the next four years trying to destroy”, and perhaps they won’t.
But, it would be far more interesting, if progressives were to rail about the dozen or so issues that Obama and the Democratic Party have double-crossed us on, the handful where Democratic and Republican Parties positions converged or flipped (for good and bad), the many that both parties have ignored.
Obama, Biden, Pelosi, Hoyer, Reid, Frank, Schumer, Brazille, Dean, …, Ayers, Dohrn, Farrakhan, Wright, Pfleger, Caldwell, McClurken, Daley, Lippert, …, Rezko, Blagojevich, Auchi, Johnson, Raines, Pritzker, Groelich, Axelrod, Gibbs, Dunn, (Susan)Rice, …, and still counting.
By Ragnar Danneskjöld
October 11, 2008 2:47 PM | Link to this
Dear Algonquin @ 2:15, correction, a minority plus the ACORN nonexistent.
By Algonquin J. Calhoun
October 11, 2008 2:55 PM | Link to this
Raggie, you want to talk about election stealing? Let’s go back to 2000. Clearly, that election was stolen! i don’t support cheating of any kind and theft isn’t required here. Mc Cain is beaten, plain and simple. Obama has won and Mc Cain is done. If fraud has been perpetrated then I’m all for the arrest and conviction of those responsible. The Republinazis, like yourself, are groping for an issue, any issue, that will take the spotlight off the horrible performance of your party. Fascist rule is going to end in this country!
By catlady
October 11, 2008 2:56 PM | Link to this
I will agree to helping businesses if they agree on a 2% limit on profits. That was my raise this year. Share the pain!
Question for all: what about those of us (who used to be) within a year or so of retiring? Not yet anywhere near 62, but have 35 years in with the state gov’t. I keep reading that if you have an IRA but are more than 5 years from retirement, you should just hang on. What about the rest of us? Those born around 1950?
What about those who did not take out the risky loans (or participate in profiteering) but have seen our houses lose value while the foreclosure signs go up around us? What about those who planned for the house to sell to help fund the retirement? Looks like we work until we die (if we are lucky.)
Hard to imagine that so much could be done to so many in so few years. Hope Obama has a rabbit up his sleeve.
By Troll Coddling 4 fun and profit
October 11, 2008 3:14 PM | Link to this
George Wills uses a wonderful phrase, “Elegantly inaccurate”, to describe his opponent’s summation of issues in round table discussions. Wooten is very elegantly incorrect in his blog today about the nature of our democratic republic’s momentum toward more regulation. Somehow, his understanding of Socialism doesn’t quite rival Marx’s, but I still think his grasp of the economic cycle is better than Schnookman’s, who has no clue.
The problem will manifest itself in the coming market rallies, which could be 15 percent in one day. Mom and Pop daytraders will certainly sell into that for a sure profit. That’s the problem with megarallies. Who can now resist the banker’s offer instead of choosing one or two more cases holding the possible mill.
We could see very wild swings because the short selling was interrupted for three critical weeks, and if you throw in the delay factor intrinsic to any fed meddling, and the “playable” nature of these rallies will be short lived.
It seems we breached the lows of Oct. 2002 yesterday, or at least fell to well within one standard deviation, so a 5K dow is not impossible.
Neither is a 12 K dow. It depends on the latent effects of the bailout, the electio,n the war, the fed moves and the short selling ban, which will play out in a three week swing, which is as long as the ban lasted. Three weeks equals election day, and that monday could be the blackest monday in history and could effect the election itself. The monday before the tuesday.
The wild card is the housing market itself and the other shoes that will drop about this or that institution going belly up and which new bank is going broke.
Then, it’s not too far removed from possibility that everyone in the world will be begging for the bailout, and suddenly, the selection process will spark revolution. The countries that fall to the temptation to just print money will fall first.
Just print money. That served Germany well after WW1, now, didn’t it?
The real danger is that this man made crisis requires man to fix it. Man could make it worse trying to fix it. HOW? Nobody really gets what went wrong. We’re all bluffing about knowing exactly what happened, and the fix could ruin us.
But we also could get lucky and make a million dollars by buying StoveTop Stuffing futures too, so hoola boola.
By Republicans R Crooks
October 11, 2008 3:19 PM | Link to this
Remember, 9/11 was 9 MONTHS into the Chimps term as Chimp in Chief….He was Responsible….Another in a long line of Bush failures…
By getalife
October 11, 2008 3:19 PM | Link to this
CwnBt,
Keep clinging to that failed ideology but this RWinger thinks differently:
David Brooks: “Over the past few decades, the Republican Party has driven away people who live in cities, in highly educated regions and on the coasts. This expulsion has had many causes. But the big one is this: Republican political tacticians decided to mobilize their coalition with a form of social class warfare. ”
If you watched the hearings on the bailout, your theory about Fannie and Freddie have been debunked like trickle down economics.
Cling to the new gop ideology:
Socialism for the wealthy.
By @@
October 11, 2008 3:24 PM | Link to this
‘Ya know Jim, had Dick Cheney lived up to his GFY on the bailout package, I’d say suspend this presidential campaign indefinitely until the investigations of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have bared fruit. That, and the investigation of ACORN’S ties to OBlahMa AND the democratic party. All suspicious activity has ties with OBlahMa. Unfortunately that leaves Nancy Pelosi and :OMG……..!!!!
You’re right, McCain, during a presidential campaign has felt the need to level his principles to the lowest common denominator.
I have no doubt that should he win, he’d revert to “The Maverick”, a lone dissenter who would join the rest of us in saying “ENOUGH”, don’t let government interference and cost overruns fence us in. At the very least, leave us free to graze in the diminishing pastures. We mavericks can survive in the worst of droughts. To the rest we say…….GFY! And don’t blame us for the short stumps.
By jm
October 11, 2008 3:28 PM | Link to this
It’s interesting that people leap to point out President Clinton’s directive to Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac to ease credit requirements as the prime cause of the current economic snafu. What is more interesting, is the deafening silence that for seven plus years, President Bush did nothing about it. If it was such a bad idea, why did he not simply reverse it, it was within his power, especially when both houses of congress were in republican hands.
By algonquin J. Calhoun
October 11, 2008 3:32 PM | Link to this
maverick- an unbranded calf or yearling. Brand him DEFEATED!
By @@
October 11, 2008 3:32 PM | Link to this
Republicans R Crooks:
I’ve kinda been wonderin’ about this one:
Remember, 9/11 was 9 MONTHS into the Chimps term as Chimp in* Chief
Since I strongly believe that OBlahMa’s economic plan of taxing the rich will bring about a complete collapse in what’s left of our economic prosperity, will it be O.K. if we refer to OBlahMa as “The Chimp” — “The Chimperor in Chief” in the event he wins?
I’m thinking it would be fair. I thought it best to consult with a PC liberal first though.
By Common Sense
October 11, 2008 3:34 PM | Link to this
TO @@,
What is wrong with your logic? Both candidates voted for the bail-out which creates more socialism then any president has ever done!
This finacially crisis is really much worse then us common folks know about. We are entering in world socialism in the financial world!
Are you people so stupid to believe that any of these two candidates can pass anything!
They both will have to wait before they can pass and bills thru the House and Congress.
Politics is full of bad associations it is how you handles those associations.
We need to quit fighting and agree to get this country back on track!
By Troll Coddling 4 fun and profit
October 11, 2008 3:37 PM | Link to this
The problem lies in the market rallies, which could be 15 percent in one day. Mom and Pop daytraders will certainly sell into that for a sure thing. We could see very wild swings because the short selling was interrupted for three critical weeks, and if you throw in the delay factor of any fed move and we could be in for it. It seems we breached the lows of Oct. 2002, well within one standard deviation, so a 5K dow is not impossible.
Neither is a 12 K dow. It depends on the latent effects of the bailout, the election the war the fed moves and the short selling ban, which will play out in a three week swing, which is as long as the ban lasted.
The wild card is the housing market itself and the other shoes that will drop about this institution going belly up and that bank going broke. Then, everyone in the world will be begging for the bailout, and suddenly, the selection process will spark revolution. The countries that fall to the temptation to just print money will fall first.
Just print money. That served Germany well after WW1, now, didn’t it?
By Algonquin J. Calhoun
October 11, 2008 3:41 PM | Link to this
Simian humor is really such ‘old hat’. Frankly, i don’t think your miserable little brain is of monkey proportion. You strike me as more amoebic and parasitic.
By Tyrus Raymond
October 11, 2008 3:58 PM | Link to this
I found out today that there’s a lot of crying in baseball. I umpired some 10 to 12 year olds majors today and the pitching is wild, with many hit batters. Those kids cry. I also found out that no matter how old the catcher is from 7 year olds to high school, when they “throw down” to second base after the pitcher warms up, the ball nearly always ends up against the center field fence.
I love baseball. The coaches are usually reasonable adults but one in four are cliche’s: Poor sports, and sometimes rabid psychopaths. They protest games over rule interpretations, or even missed calls. Some write letters. During one game this coach told me that I was the worst umpire he’d every seen. “Of all the umpires, in all the games, in all the years I’ve been coaching”, he whined loudly, “You are the worst”. And it was only the first inning. I walked over to him and said, “Look, if you’re going to call me the worst umpire you ever saw, at least wait till the second inning..”
He didn’t laugh.
By getalife
October 11, 2008 4:21 PM | Link to this
“There is no floor. Republicans could lose 10-12 senate seats and 25 seats in the House.” — Ed Rollins, GOP expert, on CNN
Fire all of them and bring back accountability to this country
By @@
October 11, 2008 4:41 PM | Link to this
Common:
What is wrong with your logic?
Honestly? It’s been worn down by liberals on these AJC blogs and the sheer complexity of the problem.
Are you people so stupid to believe that any of these two candidates can pass anything!
Assuming that you’re including me in your definition of “you people”, I’ll say that I’ve been trying to make that point for some time now. I’m more likely to get support for that cause from conservatives or libertarians, leaving the stupid leftovers from more government for liberals.
We need to quit fighting and agree to get this country back on track!
Not in the mood anymore Common. Given the media’s obvious bias covering for democrats’ malfeasance, the liberals’ accusations of racism against any conservative (like myself) who believes the democratic party is the most racist among us for political convenience, and the fact that a third-party vote (a losing bet) is an open door to continue such racism, I’ve already gone with “The Maverick”.
I didn’t support his vote on the bailout. I told him as much in an e-mail understanding full-well that he was in a difficult place during this campaign season. I based my vote on his past record or reining in government spending.
The democrats and liberals have created the division in the interest of party politics. They’ve established a precedence for the same divisive politics in the event OBlahMa wins. They’ll get what they asked for from me.
My house is paid for in full. No fault of mine that theirs isn’t. I’ve got the time (when I’m not working) and the patience to deliver, with audacity, the political condemnation of the incoming Socialist Party member, Barack OBlahMa.
Call it retribution…….call it what you like! I call it well-deserved freedom of speech.
By GaLiberal
October 11, 2008 4:49 PM | Link to this
Furthermore, he failed to offer a narrative explaining that the housing bubble that precipitated the troubles in financial markets started in Congress with Democrats determined to use Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as instruments of their social policy.
What Moron Jim doesn’t tell you is this is one of the big Rethuglicon lies that has been repeatedly discredited. Freddie and Fannie were victims of a panic caused by Federal regulators. Investors panicked and they were no longer able to raise capital from investors. If the feds had just kept their mouths shut, there wouldn’t have been a problem. Of course, John McCain knows the truth and didn’t want to further dishonor himself by repeating more discredited Rethuglicon lies. He’s dishonored himself enough with his character attacks on Obama.
Why is it the Rethuglicons continue to use lies and con jobs to get votes? Because that’s all they ever had. They know they can’t win against Democrats on the issues. So they keep spreading discredited lies that Democrats will raise your taxes or take away your doctor, or whatever else they can make up. Face the facts. Between 2000 and 2006, the Rethuglicons increased federal spending at about 7% each year while inflation was 3%. They financed this increase and their tax cuts for the uberrich with debt leaving the next administration with a $500+ BILLION deficit. Not to mention the $2.5 TRILLION the reckless and unnecessary Iraq war will cost. The Rethuglicons are mortgaging your children’s future and jeopardizing our way of life with their reckless and irresponsible fiscal, foreign, and domestic policies. All they have is lies. I̵