The Pelosi led Congress grabs the wheel, jumps the divider and heads us down the river:
Pelosi should not be behind the wheel!
I recently took a 2,000 mile cross country trip in a 12 seat van with 8 Japanese citizens. I drove the whole way. Not because my Japanese relatives are bad drivers, or bad people, or even less intelligent then me. No, I drove because they are not experienced in driving on the right side of the road; in Japan they drive on the left side of the road. Not only that, they are not capable of reading the road signs that are written in English. If one of them had driven the miles that I did an accident would have been likely. Pelosi’s leadership crashed the oil drilling plan, swerved around a federal budget, and now ran the car into the muck. The Democrats led by Pelosi are driving the American economy off the road and into the river because they do not understand American enterprise, free enterprise, American ingenuity, and American excellence.
Pelosi Played the game and won!
She wants the economy to go south so that Obama will get elected. If Obama, Pelosi, and Reid take over the wheel of this country be prepared for a drive down the cliff into the swamp. Many of my conservative friends wanted this bill to die. This is where I have to disagree with all of those who say this is a bailout for Wall Street Rich Guys. This was going to be an investment. An investment in America, the American people, our future, our retirement. The property the US was going to receive as collateral would have been a great investment that would have returned a high percentage on the investment. That option is slipping away.
Capitalism works, killing capitalism kills America,
Without a working capitalist market place our country does not work. If there is no financial institutions who can lend money to businesses then businesses, especially small ones, will dry up and die. Without new small businesses expanding employment goes down; it is the small guy workers who will be hurt, not the big guys. Try running a small business without a line of credit.
Without flowing capital house can’t sell, large ticket items became less desirable. If credit drys up the Gross Domestic Product goes down, our corporations stop investing and stop hiring. This lack of Pelosi leadership is not good for Americans.
Please rethink this issue. Bush and McCain where in the right on this issue. Pelosi has steered us off the cliff of financial dispair. Check your retirement accounts, check your parents retirement accounts, this is not going to be good for America. Pelosi played a show, she through the dice and won. Pelosi wants our country in an economic mess so that Obama will get elected.
Now they say they are coming back on Wednesday,
Will they get it right?
Will Obama use this time to work the Congressional Black Caucus into a yes vote,
thereby making himself look like “The Man”
Flash: Senate bailout vote on Wednesday
It was just announced that the Senate bailout vote will take place on Wednesday, not later today.
That’s time.
Time is money. Your money.
Call your Senator: 202-224-3121.
WWMD?
What will McCain do?
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Obama will return to Washington for the vote.
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Barry slides the Car into reverse!
Must-listen: Karl Rove on how Obama and Pelosi blew the bailout
posted at 8:10 pm on September 29, 2008 by Allahpundit
Apparently neither one of them lifted a finger to pressure their toadiest toadies, which means either they’re not taking this seriously or they’re too stupid and/or gutless to lean on their colleagues effectively. You’d think The One at least could flip 12 Democrats by promising to swing by their districts while he’s on the road and turn some water into wine or whatever to help get them reelected. After all, if the polls hold, this is going to be his mess to clean up come January. Waiting only makes it worse. Grab a mop, Messiah. Click the image to listen.
Update: Most members of the Congressional Black Caucus, many of whom come from safe districts and aren’t at risk politically, voted no. Good work, Barry.
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Pelosi steps on the gas…again!
Will Pelosi’s second attempt at a bailout include ACORN? Update: Dow loses 777 points, more than on 9/11; Update: $1.1 trillion in market value lost
posted at 4:18 pm on September 29, 2008 by Allahpundit
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Why not? She tried a bipartisan bill and got nothing for it. What’s stopping her from turning it into a Christmas tree for the left and passing it on a strict party-line vote? Bush will sign it regardless and Senate Republicans will be under tremendous pressure to decline a filibuster with the Dow down 600 points today and god knows where tomorrow. This is the flaw in the “if the majority thinks it’s so important, let them pass it” approach: They will pass it, on their terms, and they’ll point to Republicans like Gingrich and Paul Ryan and the Journal — and Paulson and Bernanke, of course — who’ve acknowledged this is an emergency to take credit for rescuing the economy. All they have to do is wait a few days until the public’s good and terrified and the polls on the bailout start to reverse. They’re reversing already. (More)
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Some believe that Pelosi’s anti-Republican speech broke the deal. But, there are more Democrats than Republicans in the Houseand they could have passed it without any Republicans. No, Pelosi want this thing to dry up and die any way she could. It just proves you can’t trust the Democrats to drive the American Economy. (riggword)
Video: House GOP blames Pelosi’s “partisan” speech for bailout failure
posted at 3:21 pm on September 29, 2008 by Allahpundit
Ace and Slublog already beat me to the punch. There are, conceivably, good reasons to vote against a bailout in a national emergency — if you think it’ll do more economic harm than good, if you think it accrues too much unchecked power to the executive — but being honked off at Nancy is not one of them.
The Dow’s back down to -630 and creeping ever lower as I write this. You know who the big loser is here? Hint: It ain’t Barack Obama.
Update: No revote today, says Boehner. -662 and counting.
Update: -730 as of 3:30 p.m. Looks like people are rushing to dump shares before the end of the trading day.
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And The Biggest Pile of Chutzpah Award goes to…
Barney Frank! Mr. Frank received the award for this statement about the failout.
…Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., chairman of the House Financial Services Committee [said]: “Because somebody hurt their feelings, they decided to punish the country.”
As they say on the Interwebs, “I see what you did there.”
Frank, one of the prime architects–and by “architects,” I mean “strongarm artists”–of this debacle, has turned around and blamed others for not riding to his rescue. It’s like an alcoholic who’s pickled his liver after 30 years of swigging, then blames his friends for not forcibly locking him in rehab. Or the abusive spouse (insert your own joke about Frank here) who blames the abused spouse (insert another joke about Frank here) for “making him treat you this way.” (Southern Appeal)
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Michell Malkin disagrees with me!
(I wonder if she has any loved ones who have retirement accounts?)
Breaking: It’s official. House rejects Trillion-Dollar-Plus Crap Sandwich; roll call vote added
Scroll for updates…roll call vote added…
You can blame the failure of the bail out bill on a huge number of defections from both parties.
I can’t stand Nancy Pelosi either. And I agree that we need a bail out plan (much as I hate to admit it).
But to pin its failure on one person is a bit off the chart.
By: trickyguy on September 30, 2008
at 10:15 am
trickyguy,
You are so right, I can’t just blame this one on Pelosi,
we must not forget Obama washing his hands and leaving town. Oh yeah and Read and Frank. If the Dems really wanted this bill to pass they didn’t need any help from the Republicans, they are in the majority.
See the Hot Air article above, “Must-listen: Karl Rove on how Obama and Pelosi blew the bailout”
posted at 8:10 pm on September 29, 2008 by Allahpundit
These guys want failure, they want to see America go south so that they can rebuild America in their own image.
By: riggword on September 30, 2008
at 12:12 pm
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at 12:07 am
Yah know, I was going to just let this lie and I should have. But, oh well…
I take it from your writings that you are on the Republican side of the aisle. Or at least that is to be assumed from the fact that you blame Pelosi and her party for everything here.
Blaming her comments for scuttling the bill is a bit far-fetched as I noted. But whatever, I can live with that.
But blaming the democrats for the situation that creates a need for a $700B bailout is totally over the edge.
It’s like you went to sleep for eight years while this whole disaster was brewing, and then get pissed that the other team doesn’t just jump on the bandwagon to help you fix it.
Can’t even buy that for a moment. Washington, run by Republicans for eight of the past ten years, put us into this. And, honestly, the Democrats came into office two years ago and haven’t done a damn thing to fix it.
Now we are in disaster mode and all you can do is whine that Nancy Pelosi gave an ill-timed speech needling the Republicans. Oh waaaa.
By: trickyguy on October 5, 2008
at 2:49 pm
Thanks for your comments trikyguy,
I am out of town traveling right now and it may be a longer conversation than I have time for.
I never said that Pelosi’s comments changed the vote. In fact I was against that thought. What I did say is that at first she wanted the bill to fail to help set up Obama to win the election.
By prolonging the decission the “Big” MSM news this week was all about the econmy and blaming Bush. This attitude helps Obama. McCain was gaining steam, keeping the media and the electorite tied up with the bill was good for Obama.
The Dems could have passed the bill without the Rebublicans, that is a fact. They wante to prolong things, which by the way has a negative effect on our economy.
As for who is to blame, that is a bigger subject. But for starters you can trace back to the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac leaders adn supporters, you will find that that debacle is all Democrat supported and mismanaged. In my book we should have never started those two bad plans in the first place.
You can not raise up a economic class by giving them credit based on kindness, They have to learn to earn their credit statis just like the rest of us. If you keep giving a kid his allonance without making him do his chores he will never learn responsiblity.
People need to be accountable for their choices and their lifestyles. Letting people get Home loans without making them adhear to a standard only ruins the people and our economy.
Check out the video on my post, “Obama We Must Learn To Love Him”
That video shows Republican Senators confronting Democratic Senators about the Freddie Mac Fannie Mae problems several years ago.
The Dems like those two plans because they could buy off their constituency for votes and line their own pockets at the same time.
Thank you agian for your comments.
There will be more to say about how Democrats view and run our country.
Hand outs and giveaways to not make productive people.
By: riggword on October 6, 2008
at 12:34 am