Obamacain: They agree on something?

Obama said 'That is why today, I am proposing that we also raise the FDIC limit to $250,000 as part of the economic rescue package — a step that would boost small businesses, make our banking system more secure, and help restore public confidence in our financial system.'

... Obama's Republican rival for the White House, John McCain, appears to be in agreement. On CNN's American Morning, Senator McCain (R-Arizona) also called for the increase, saying 'the fdic insurance should be increased to $250,000 from $100,000.' "

Leadership Values

Not only was McCain unable to act as a leader in bringing the Republicans together, he voted one way and 2/3 of his own party voted another way. I.e. McCain doesn't represent his party, and failed to lead and unite. Oh yea, and then he went on to blame the democrats.

The Wall Street bailout bill garnered 140 Democratic votes and just 65 Republican votes en route to defeat, but that didn’t stop GOP presidential nominee John McCain from blaming rival Barack Obama and his fellow Democrats for its failure.

“This bill failed because Barack Obama and the Democrats put politics ahead of country,” said a statement from Douglas Holtz-Eakin, McCain’s top economic adviser, who had represented McCain on Capitol Hill over the several days.

This man doesn't seem to be able to lead flies to a bucket of crap, and he wants to be President?

Drinking Rules During VP Debate

I would say drink whenever Palin's answer makes no sense and/or doesn't answer the question asked, but everyone would die of alcoholic poisoning in the first 30 minutes...

Drink every time Joe Biden says something factually wrong, but there needs to be some fact-checkers nearby to be able to issue 'drink' commands.

My Friends' Mess

Why should the taxpayer bail out Wall Street?

$20 million ?

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Sounds to me like "BULLSHIT!" Let us allow two(2) high explosive cruise missles to this particular excercise. But, of course, wait until asked.

My bad!

The link is good here...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122256539004883001.html

Dam fingers!

Did you hear this crap?

World news get's worse every day.....take a notice of this, Gang.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122256539004883001.html

And we here in the US thought the "Bail-out" was bad enough.....

Jury Duty....Civics 101

I have the honor and duty of every American, of serving in what small capacity I can, for the next week, of being in the Juror Pool, for Wayne County, NC, USA. Let it not be said That RussD did not do his duty. I'll do what I must, judge as may be required. But I think, the wrong people are on trial. Yeah, those that commit murder, rape and all sorts of crime should be killed ASAP, tho that is debatable. There are many who would take my opinion to task. My response? Fuck em'! Serve and judge as THEY see fit. It is your/they're duty.

Take a good, hard look around. Pay attention! Ask yourself how you may feel on the WRONG end of a criminal, felony case. It will one of two ways for me, come 9am tomorrow. I'm IN or I am going home. I'll update on a regular basis, as far as I can.

You can't even get a good night's sleep........

A post from one of my favorite blogger(s), Kevin K of www.rumproast.com, which says it all for this evening.....

Another John McCain lie: “I came back because I wasn’t going to phone it in.”

John McCain today on This Week with with George Stephanopoulos being asked about how helpful he was in the bailout negotiations after he “suspended” his campaign and returned to Washington:

STEPHANOPOULOS: So what role did you play? How were you helpful, do you believe, in the process?

MCCAIN: I will let you and others be the judge of that. I did the best that I could. I came back because I wasn’t going to phone it in.

Yep, he wasn’t going to phone it in, except for yesterday when he ... phoned it in:

After interrupting his presidential campaign to come back to Washington on Thursday morning to try to push forward a $700 billion bailout deal, Mr. McCain remained in his condominium in Arlington, Va., until 12:30 p.m. Saturday, when he emerged and made a one-minute trip in his motorcade to his campaign headquarters around the corner. [...]

By mid-afternoon, Mr. McCain’s closest adviser, Mark Salter, told reporters that Mr. McCain would not go to Capitol Hill on Saturday but would make phone calls to try to push the deal along. “He’s calling members on both sides, talking to people in the administration, helping out as he can,’’ Mr. Salter said.

[link via Think Progress]

UPDATE—ANOTHER LIE: CNN has more, including a pic of McCain phoning it in and a list of all of the people he phoned it in to. According to Mark Salter he was calling members of “both sides,” but the list the McCain camp provided is all Republicans:

According to the McCain campaign, the Republican nominee called President Bush, Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, Sen. Mitch McConnell , Sen. Judd Gregg, Sen. Jon Kyl, Leader Boehner, Rep. Blunt, Rep. Putnam, Rep. Cantor, Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, Rep. Tom Davis, Rep. Chip Pickering, Rep. Heather Wilson, Rep. John Shadegg, Rep. Flake, and Rep. Marsha Blackburn on Saturday.

I guess it’s hard to reach across the aisle when you’re just phoning it in.

Posted by Kevin K. www.rumproast.com

Nuff said!

The Wall Street Bail-out....Are you fuckin' kiddin' me?!!!!

How stupid do they think we are? Look this over gang. Remember, this is The BIG Dog, yes?



Let's consider this. A "buy-in"? as I hear it, (and I am a deaf guy!) an "investment", financed by the US of A, that was not considered prior to this DISASTER, brought about by the current administration and it's policies? Yeah, I said it! THIS administration. Who, would purchase useless paper? The last batch of "paper" most of us consider buying is for our personal printers, yes? As I hear things, this "paper" may be worth more "in the future", than it is now but there appears to be "no set value" on this "paper", as I type these words out. I seem to remember that most "mind altering drugs" were against the law and these folks are "force-feeding" us this "compromise". Oh, and it get's better......

taken from: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/14047.html

Remember, these are the two(2) men we have to choose between, for "President of the United States".

Oh, yeah....it's right about here, that I am supposed to offer the latest "poll".......fine, so, here ya go...

http://www.gallup.com/poll/110740/Gallup-Daily-Obama-Moves-50-42-Lead.aspx

Satisfied? I thought not. Let's face it gang. It's all screwed-up. The remedy? Government, in all it's glory, needs to "get the hell out of our lives", to quote my partner, Eyebee. Listen carefully, check the posts here, and make up your own minds. Check back for more revelations, because we ARE watching and will "sound the alarm", when it needs to be sounded.

Secretaries of State Don't Agree with Bush/McCain

Interesting and sensible comments from various past US Secretaries of State

Whose Fault that Wall Street Crashed?

ABC News reports:

In 2007, Wall Street’s five biggest firms — Bear Stearns, Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, and Morgan Stanley — paid a record $39 billion in bonuses to themselves.

That’s $10 billion more than the $29 billion loan taxpayers are making to J.P. Morgan to save Bear Stearns.

Those 2007 bonuses were paid even though the shareholders in those firms last year collectively lost about $74 billion in stock declines — their worst year since 2002.

In short, the Bush administration wants zero punishment for these wreckless CEOs who lost shareholder money and are now costing each person in the United States $2,000. In return for $700 billion, the White House has yet to name any ways that it will hold these corporations accountable or institute safeguards to ensure that this irresponsible lending and borrowing won’t happen again.

The Bailouts

So President Bush says that the bailouts of Wall Street are better than doing nothing.

It seems to me, that by bailing out Wall Street, the bill is being passed to Main Street instead.

It's like Wall Street has spent recklessly, maxed out all its credit cards, and is now turning to Main Street to get another credit card to pay off these maxed out ones.

If you or I do that, it's considered irresponsible. We have to batten down the hatches, tighten our belts, reduce personal spending or declare bankruptcy or all of those. If you have rotten credit, you can't get any more.

Remember it's not the Government bailing out Wall Street. The Government doesn't have any money of its own. It only has what it forcibly takes from you and I (and calls taxes). So you and I are paying the golden handshakes for these Wall Street clowns that have basically screwed up their high paid jobs, and walk away with a bonus for doing so!

Ron Paul objects to the Wall Street Bailouts

And rightly so too!

Non Biased Political Reporting

I would like to see the media take much more of a neutral stance when reporting political events and news.

I like to be presented with the facts, without biased commentary, so that I can make up my own mind on what I am hearing, reading or seeing.

It seems that is too much to ask these days.

Partisan Politics

It is something I find difficult.

I cannot ever put myself behind one party and agree with everything they stand for. I find myself left-leaning on some issues, right-leaning on others, and straight down the middle on many of the rest.

For example, I'm pro-choice, pro-gun.

Why?

What business is it of the state what a woman does with her own body?
Why shouldn't a sane individual be allowed to possess a firearm for the purpose of defending themselves?

One supposedly left-wing stance, one right wing.

Also I feel that partisan politics ensures that many politicians spend far too much time and engery negatively slinging mud at the other guy instead of getting on with the business of running the country, or if in opposition, formulating alternative policies for those that are plainly not working for the current administration.