Dems to GOP: I’ll show you how to play a game.
*Well, it looks like the Dems are making the right noises about stopping this. Stephanopoulis is reporting that Dem leadership is telling the White House and Paulson that unless McCain votes "yes", the bailout won't happen. Maybe these guys are learning after all.
And
**McCain was going to wait until the bill had enough (Democratic) votes to pass, then he was going to swoop in and vote NO. Why? Politics. He was going to say to the American people: See, I stood up to Bush. I'm a maverick. I won't raise your taxes. I'll be the candidate who will stand up for you! Obama is the tax-and-spend Democrat." You get it? McCain gets the package to bail out his friends, but he gets to vote against it, too! He gets a free ride PLUS he gets to pin the blame on the largest bailout in history on Obama!
I was very excited this morning tuning into Sen. Dodd’s committee to hear the case being made for a seven hundred billion dollar bailout for our financial institutions. I was twitching as Sen. Dodd delivered his opening statements and gasping at the various opening statements of the senate panel working up my appetite for a nice dose of “Show me!”
I blinked learning Mr. Cox, a witness, had turned in a copy of his written statement to the committee twenty minutes before. “That’s OK” I said to myself. “They were so busy getting their act together to ask for seven hundred billion dollars. I’ll give them that slack.”
Ok, Mr. Paulson. All will be forgiven when I see your power-point presentation. No power-point presentation? What’s that again? You made your initial request in a three page letter? Nuh-huh! You lying!! And there will be no page bringing in stacks of reports with charts and shit to present to the committee members? Surely for a dramatic effect you will have armed guards bringing in seven hundred billion dollars bundled up to let us see? Not even a video tape? Pu-leez! And you say, (gasp), there are not even signed affidavits showing letters and legal actions you have already taken trying to remedy the problem? One moment, please.
Ok, Mr. Paulson. This nice gentleman I just called wants to talk to you. It’s OK. He just wants to talk to you and maybe, uh, maybe he may invite you to come visit with him at his, uh, facility? uh, out in beautiful Montgomery County, Maryland. You’ll like that now, won’t you? Now you just go with the nice man. We don’t want to cause a scene now, do we? Grab him, boys!!
As always,
BB
*Dems: No Bailout Unless McCain Votes For It
by menloparkcardinal
Tue Sep 23, 2008 at 03:08:55 PM PDT
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/23/18449/4700/215/607953
**There's a bailout game afoot and it ain't pretty
by msirt
Tue Sep 23, 2008 at 11:52:49 PM PDT
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/24/22228/4716/847/608354
And
**McCain was going to wait until the bill had enough (Democratic) votes to pass, then he was going to swoop in and vote NO. Why? Politics. He was going to say to the American people: See, I stood up to Bush. I'm a maverick. I won't raise your taxes. I'll be the candidate who will stand up for you! Obama is the tax-and-spend Democrat." You get it? McCain gets the package to bail out his friends, but he gets to vote against it, too! He gets a free ride PLUS he gets to pin the blame on the largest bailout in history on Obama!
I was very excited this morning tuning into Sen. Dodd’s committee to hear the case being made for a seven hundred billion dollar bailout for our financial institutions. I was twitching as Sen. Dodd delivered his opening statements and gasping at the various opening statements of the senate panel working up my appetite for a nice dose of “Show me!”
I blinked learning Mr. Cox, a witness, had turned in a copy of his written statement to the committee twenty minutes before. “That’s OK” I said to myself. “They were so busy getting their act together to ask for seven hundred billion dollars. I’ll give them that slack.”
Ok, Mr. Paulson. All will be forgiven when I see your power-point presentation. No power-point presentation? What’s that again? You made your initial request in a three page letter? Nuh-huh! You lying!! And there will be no page bringing in stacks of reports with charts and shit to present to the committee members? Surely for a dramatic effect you will have armed guards bringing in seven hundred billion dollars bundled up to let us see? Not even a video tape? Pu-leez! And you say, (gasp), there are not even signed affidavits showing letters and legal actions you have already taken trying to remedy the problem? One moment, please.
Ok, Mr. Paulson. This nice gentleman I just called wants to talk to you. It’s OK. He just wants to talk to you and maybe, uh, maybe he may invite you to come visit with him at his, uh, facility? uh, out in beautiful Montgomery County, Maryland. You’ll like that now, won’t you? Now you just go with the nice man. We don’t want to cause a scene now, do we? Grab him, boys!!
As always,
BB
*Dems: No Bailout Unless McCain Votes For It
by menloparkcardinal
Tue Sep 23, 2008 at 03:08:55 PM PDT
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/23/18449/4700/215/607953
**There's a bailout game afoot and it ain't pretty
by msirt
Tue Sep 23, 2008 at 11:52:49 PM PDT
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/24/22228/4716/847/608354
posted by BB at 5:20 AM
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