Comments on: Obama, McCain both vote “Yes” on Senate bailout bill

By: Dems in 2010: New Year, Old Target | Axis of Right

Dems in 2010: New Year, Old Target | Axis of Right — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 21:05:29 +0000

[...] will complain about. In fact, Senator Barack Hussein Obama himself (before the mm mm m’s) voted FOR the TARP bailout! Actually, the last two years of the Bush Administration were dominated by a Democrat [...]

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By: John McCain Can’t Admit He Was Wrong : insignificant thoughts

John McCain Can’t Admit He Was Wrong : insignificant thoughts — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:38:40 +0000

[...] was at the forefront of supporting the bailout. Both he and his opponent, then-Sen. Barack Obama, voted for the TARP bailout. And just two weeks after McCain’s election defeat, his chief economic adviser, Douglas [...]

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By: Babs

Babs — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:28:45 +0000

“AND MCCAIN JUST SAID HE WANTS TO BE A DICTATOR!”

My mercy, CS, there you go again. Next thing you know that’ll be a quote on the Drudge Report.

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By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:11:43 +0000

The real issues about this are not if it works or not. It will just make it fail later if they pass it.

Section 8 of the bill is the real issue, NO GOVT OVERSIGHT!!!

Our money can recover, but if we give our rights away, we are stupider then i thought.

Wake up America!!!!!

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By: tehmazing

tehmazing — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 01:17:04 +0000

I think McCain made a big mistake supporting this. I loved what he had to see about pork barrel spending, and now he does this. Wasn’t there some republican alternative he could pushed/voted for? Or just done the very easy thing and pushed against the bailout that would have been even better!

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By: Christopher Schwinger

Christopher Schwinger — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:00:35 +0000

“Government and business aligned with each other” – FASCISM. And why is it bad? Because if the government controls business, powerful people in the government can make laws such as “if you dissent on such-and-such a government policy, you will be unable to purchase items . . .”. Too much power concentrated in the hands of a few–the definition of an oligarchy. AND MCCAIN JUST SAID HE WANTS TO BE A DICTATOR! YET PEOPLE STILL ARE INTENDING TO VOTE FOR HIM!

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By: JD

JD — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:42:59 +0000

Nate – “It’s not going to work in the sense that it remedies the cause. Plus, what will these politicians do if the DOW drops next month? Will they be writing more checks? Bailouts are an endless circle, there will always be someone else waiting in line for their cut of the pork.”

It may not matter. There are reports coming in that they are still not certian there are enough “yea” votes which means Dems are going to have to come up with the missing votes if they cannot convince the Republicans.

http://www.time-blog.com/.....orrow.html

“Unless more names of Republicans committed to switching their votes are produced by tomorrow the vote will be postponed till the weekend to give Bush and the GOP more time to convince their members to vote for the deal. Fearful of a Monday repeat, Dems are refusing to bring the bill to the floor unless the have the actual GOP whip counts – including names – showing they have enough votes, the aide said.”

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By: ed read

ed read — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:51:32 +0000

I have been pretty busy with my work to follow closer some explanation about the cause of this bailout.
Why the bill request 700,B USD and where exactly they are going to apply it to fix the problem?.
Still, I think it is unfare to charge the bill uniformly to all the american people.
Why this bill is not charge differentialy to oil companies, weapons companies and rich people?

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By: Babs

Babs — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:36:39 +0000

Agreed, Nate. No more tax and spend. Cut, cut, cut.

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By: Dreadsen

Dreadsen — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:36:27 +0000

I am so glad both of them voted on this. I could imagine if one voted different from the other one. There would be so much partisan spin on how one is the devil while the other one isn’t and there would be 60 posts here. This goes to further show just how similar these guys intentions really are.
Both of these guys voted for it because they both have big corporations in their back pockets. Warren Buffet is a supporter and advisor to Obama and he has a lot to gain in this deal. Roger Altman Obama spokesman who has a whole host of investors who have bad ties in AiG who need this bail out to happen so their money is diluted.

Don’t think i need to explain McCain he has a TON of wall street lobbyist working directly for his campaign. 83 i read somewhere. So don’t believe either one of these guys.That is probably the real reason why they voted for this.

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By: Nate

Nate — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:13:16 +0000

“I’m not completely sold this thing is going to work— 700 billion dollars divided by 300 million people equals how much again?”

It’s not going to work in the sense that it remedies the cause. Plus, what will these politicians do if the DOW drops next month? Will they be writing more checks? Bailouts are an endless circle, there will always be someone else waiting in line for their cut of the pork.

We need long term steady perspective here.

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By: Babs

Babs — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:41:55 +0000

Now that it’s pretty much a done deal, I’m ready to start fixing blame. And here’s video from C-Span to tell me where to fix it – from the donkey’s mouths. THIS is what should make every american furious.

http://www.youtube.com/wa.....MGT_cSi7Rs

It’s over 8 minutes long, but stick with it. I’m disgusted, and I really, REALLY want actions against these democratic leaders.

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By: nyth

nyth — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:44:56 +0000

Ah, the sweet smell of corporate welfare.

Traitors, the lot of them.

I almost feel sorry for the congressmen who are having to choose between not having votes to be re-elected, because they vote for this inane bill, and not having the bankroll to fund a re-election campaign, because the big “donors” are looking for stooges who will shovel money into their pockets on demand. Almost, but not really.

I was already heavily leaning toward voting third party, but this irrevocably sealed it.

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By: Babs

Babs — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:25:02 +0000

I’m not sold on it either in principal or practicality. I’ll be more interested to see what steps are taken after the bill has passed the house in regards to actually fixing what’s broken. This bill only stops the bleeding – I want to see some major surgery done to these institutions, especially Freddie and Fannie. I still say if we had to buy up the bad paper we should have also bought up an equal amount of good paper.

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By: Judy Dean

Judy Dean — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:08:54 +0000

I hope the voters take note as to how their representatives
vote, and when they are up for re-election, repay them for
spending our money so foolishly. How dare they.

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By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:06:53 +0000

I’m not completely sold this thing is going to work— 700 billion dollars divided by 300 million people equals how much again?

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By: nzpudding

nzpudding — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 02:44:06 +0000

I saw Obama’s speech on C-Span but I must have missed McCains, did he give one?

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