Jude 2

I did not want to hijack Paully's thread on "Economic Bailout"

Do yall believe McCain has helped or hurt the bailout?

From articles I am reading this morning it seems he is hurting the process.

Which brings me to my next question, do you think he should debate tonight?

My thoughts he needs to debate.

They need get their act together on the hill and be done with it

KB

KBevangelist wrote:Do yall believe McCain has helped or hurt the bailout?

If he is, then I've got 2 reasons to vote for him now:

1. Sarah Palin
2. Deep-sixing this stupid bailout.

Just heard that he will debate tonight

Democrats are playing politics now. Blaming McCain for all the problems yesterday. They keep throwing Obama's name out there.

Newt said that he knew for a fact that not one major Republican congressperson agreed with the plan.

Well at least we are having a debate

KB

Obama will wish he had stayed in Washington after this debate is over. The old soldier is gonna tear him a new one....

Like Obama knows more about foreign policy than Mac? NO WAY!

It will be a blood letting...........

Been listening to the news quite a bit today.

I switch back an forth between CNN, FOX, MSNBC.

Yes the Democrats blamed McCain for coming off the tracks.

But if you listen to the complete story.

No WAy He got it back on track.

Bush, Democratic Leadership and 1 Rep congressman (who had on power to negotiate) had aggreed to the Paulson plan at 1 pm. But as more and more republicans started reading the details

well it was well of track way before the 4pm meeting.

It was late nite phone calls, early am phone calls by McCain got it back on track.

Thus he went to MIss.

McCain SHOULD HAVE slammed the bailout and demanded REFORM like he always does and simply said, "Let's let the rich guys suffer." He would win Pennsylvania, Virginia, Michigan, etc and the White House.

Not that I trust polls, but its a landslide AGAINST the bailout in the polls.

Late on this Sat. night, I still fail to see how House Republicans are the barrier to the deal getting done when Democrats have an absolute majority in the House and no procedural rules can stop them. The fact that they want political cover by House Republicans joining in support tells me that not only are Democrats putting politics above country (if the situation is as dire as they and the press continue to say it is), but that the consequences of this failure-in-the-wings would not ruin the nation. Hurt? Yeah. For a long time? Yup. That's not something to be glib or flippant about, and I don't want to sound that way, but I'd rather let the chips fall by the failures than to see our government surrender the one thing that sets us apart from nations like Switzerland or even Russia or China --- and that's no socialist government style control of private property.

I'm not entirely sure, on a purely theoretical basis, that this takeover/bailout is not a huge exercise of eminent domain powers that may be unconstitutional. No one will probably ever do anything to stop it on that basis, though.