It makes me sick

It makes me sick how the Democrats have made the financial situation purely political.  I thought for once, just once, Republicans and Democrats could get together and do something for the good of this nation and put politics aside.  Silly me.  Everything is politics first -- get Obama elected at all costs.  I'm fed up.  Below are some articles you may have missed:

Planned Parenthood Gains From Anti-Palin Internet Campaign , from Cristy Lee

Planned Parenthood, is suddenly a lot richer thanks to the Anti-Palin e-mail campaign.

A three week old Internet Campaign is asking Abortion Rights activists to send donations to Planned Parenthood in honor of Gov. Sara Palin---Planned Parenthood denies that they are behind the campaign.

According to the Rocky Mountain News one e-mail making the rounds on the Internet says, "Instead of (actually, in addition to) all of us all sending more e-mails about how absolutely horrible she is,
lets all make a donation to Planned Parenthood in Sara Palin's name."

Katie GrokeEllis, Field Manager for the Planned Parenthood of the Rockies Action Fund, predicts the five state chapter of the group alone could draw $100,000  in donations.

Jeff Sadosky, Director of Regional Communications for McCain/Palin Campaign said, "This crass political stunt is yet another reminder that the Barack Obama Campaign and its surrogates have given up on the new politics of hope that they were so proud of a few months ago."

Schumer Tells McCain to Leave Washington!, at Aukmuntr Bizzarre

When will Americans see through this BS? Paulsen was the one who asked McCain to come back and the Democrats just simply leave such facts out. Here, in this case, who is actually politicizing the issue? Democrats must not own mirrors, because as they point the accusatory finger, they fail to see that it is they who are the culprits. They really do think you are stupid America, and if you keep swallowing the kool-aid and acting out of emotion instead of reason, you will get what you asked for!!

Zogby Predicts Election Landslide, But I Said It First at BobMcCarty.com

In an article this morning, The Rochester (N.Y.) Democrat-Chronicle attributed the bombshell prediction below to pollster John Zogby of Zogby International:

One of the country's top pollsters was in Rochester on Thursday and suggested that the November presidential election will end in an electoral landslide, even though the candidates are running close.

"Essentially the election is at equilibrium," said John Zogby, president of Zogby International. "This election will stay close until the end."

I believe it wholeheartedly!  After all, it comes only one day after I made a similar — albeit indirect — statement through a statement on a t-shirt: BURY OBAMA!  GOP LANDSLIDE NOVEMBER 4.

John McCain is and honest man:  (from MK at Down Under on the Right Side)

Ann Coulter, Human Events - On MSNBC this week, Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter tried to connect John McCain to the current financial disaster, saying: “If you remember the Keating Five scandal that (McCain) was a part of. … He’s really getting a free ride on the fact that he was in the middle of the last great financial scandal in our country.” McCain was “in the middle of” the Keating Five case in the sense that he was “exonerated.” ……

The Senate Ethics Committee lawyer who investigated McCain already had explained that scandal away — repeatedly. …… In February this year, on Fox News’ “Hannity and Colmes,” Bennett said, for the eight billionth time: “First, I should tell your listeners I’m a registered Democrat, so I’m not on (McCain’s) side of a lot of issues. But I investigated John McCain for a year and a half, at least, when I was special counsel to the Senate Ethics Committee in the Keating Five. …

And if there is one thing I am absolutely confident of, it is John McCain is an honest man.

Obama Campaign Memo: Debates Are Not A Good Format For Obama, 

From Wake Up America:
In what many are calling Team Obama's attempt to lower expectations about Barack Obama's debate performance tonight, the campaign has released a memo showing how McCain is hailed by pundits as a good debater and how debates are not a good format for Obama

The memo was sent to "interested parties" and "from the Obama campaign", with the re: listed as "Home-field advantage: John McCain," referring to the debate itself.

The Atlantic.com site says "If it's 2pm the day of the debate, it must be an expectations-lowering memo."

Why the Dems Are Desparate for a Bail-Out...

NRLC: We’re still waiting for Obama to apologize

Carl Cameron and Bill Sammon on Fox News: ''There was no deal when McCain arrived in Washington and anything said to the contrary is 'patently false''

Put Joker in Charge of Financial Crisis! [Update: Or Peter Gibbons]

Socialism For The Rich

Another Democrat uses the Race Card

Fighting Obama’s Goon Squad

BAILOUT AND THE COMING STORM: CONSERVATIVES OPPOSE IT

BARACK AND BRIT

Obama grant being probed

Hey Congressman Frank, what happened in five years?

Obama Campaign Tells TV Stations Not to Run NRA TV Ads

The 700 Billion Dollar Bailout Is Not Enough For Democrats

"If you can't win fair, win dirty"

Lowlifes Pigs and Murderers

The Hive - The First Obama/McCain Debate

If She Thinks It's A Good Idea, Maybe It Isn't

Zogby Predicts 2008 Electoral Landslide

President Bush was Fifteen Minutes behind Schedule

Enjoy the debates tonight.  My predictions:  Obama will try every dirty, snide, tacky, rude, ugly, underhanded statement and jab he can come up with.  Knowing McCain, he will probably smile and take it.  I sure hope I'm wrong.

Comments

[Paul]

Also Debbie this spend,spend and spend nature of congress and the government must stop !
Someone needs to set spending priorities and let the people know what they are. Our government is broke .

[Debbie]

Paul: There's plenty of blame to go around, both Dems and Republicans.

I've been listening and reading about this "rescue" a/k/a bailout. I'm beginning to think that Dave Ramsey is right. Congress should do NOTHING and let the institutions and the market take eare of it themselves. If institutions fail, then they must fail. But I don't know. As I've said before, economics is not my specialty.

I do know that this give give give mentality in Washington must STOP.

[Paul]

Let me correct something.
The democratic senate minority,was a large one in 2005-2006 and they had the power to block bills.
It was probably in the senate where McCain's endorsed bill failed.

[Paul]

I'am sick of the blame game and political jockying going on and Nancy Pelosi epitimizes the worst case of this in a politician !
She was quoted as saying " The democrats do not have a share of the blame here!"
I think evidence is to the contrary Nancy !

[Paul]

Debbie: Nancy Pelosi was on C-span with the democratic leadership team,talikg about the bailou and she was blaming Bush.
While I suspect thre is enough blame to go around she had better look into the mirror ! What about congressional oversight and was it lacking ?
What about McCain's endorsement of a bill containing regulatory language and providing oversight of financial institutions in 2005 or 2006....I believe a liberal democratic minority in the House or Senate blocked the bill. Bush for his part could have used the bully pulpit more to convince the public and congress that this was necessary .

[Debbie]

Paul: You can bet YOUR money there is pork attached to this. If ACORN gets one penny I think heads should roll.

Yeck, heads should roll anyway for getting us into this mess.

[Paul]

I wonder if there are attached earmarks to the bailout bill !
Acorn and energy policy should not be attached !
Let's see if the media will look into this !
What concerns me the most is any lack of protection for the tax payer and for investments into IRA's and 401K's.

[Aurora]

Planned Parenthood, is suddenly a lot richer thanks to the Anti-Palin e-mail campaign.

A three week old Internet Campaign is asking Abortion Rights activists to send donations to Planned Parenthood in honor of Gov. Sara Palin---Planned Parenthood denies that they are behind the campaign.

Really these organizations that push abortion are the most mean-spirited and amoral people out there. Using a candidate that is trying to fight abortion to push for more child murder is right about at their gutter level sense of morality. It makes me sick too, Debbie.

Yes, we don't exactly have a Rambo in McCain, but with Palin onside, at least there's a chance of some powerful influence and, if they get elected, an insider who sees what's going on and may be able to have some say in that.

Thanks for the link. It's really a unique period of history we're living in, isn't it?

[Mustang]

We under-estimate the Democrats if we think they are incapable of politicizing a national crisis. The facts show that Democrats created this debacle; it is not in their interests to solve it in advance of the November elections. Their behavior is simply despicable.

[Layla]

Debbie this is such a sad situation. ACORN has their fingers in this and no one is bringing this up in the loop - and it is Obama who benefited from this only after Senator Dodd.

[Jared]

Also - I'd love you guys to show me some of Obama's "lies and deceit". I'd be glad to give four or twenty citeable examples of McCain lying just from the debate if you're so interested. You go first.

[Jared]

This solution was proposed by the GOP, and modified by democrats.

The original bill was completely worthless. The draft 'nearly' agreed upon on Thursday night wasn't as bad for the following reasons...

* It gave congressional oversight to how the money is spent as opposed to a financial dictatorship granted by the thirty two words in the bill.

* It limited the amount of money to $350B.

* It puts restrictions on CEO pay.

* It gives ownership to tax payers so there's a slight possibility of it actually working out in our favor.

What's interesting is that the GOP was behind it until the very last minute, and then they left the Dems and Bush holding the ball.

If there HAS to be a bail out - I'll take the Dem version any day over the Republican request for 'mortgage insurance backed by the government'. [READ: Businesses still get the money with no reward for taxpayers]

I like the idea that some GOP members have had - to find a way to keep the paper in the private sector - Unfortunately I'm not seeing a single person step up with a good idea.

I say they should create a company and a new type of fund with special regulations. A Traded Debt Fund if you will. The government should force the companies to sell the bad paper to the company at firesale prices - then promote people to invest by putting tax clauses on the TDFs, and putting limits on ownership. (Manage exposure, and ensure the funds aren't diluted)

The wealthy would shit a brick to buy mortgages at a 3:1 ratio, no matter how risky, if they were told that any profit generated from the fund was tax exempt. Sure the government takes a hit on "lost revenue" so to speak - but I'll take that over $700B any day.

The unfortunate part is that the GOP has politicized this into "look what those dems are doing" instead of generating an actionable plan to keep this stuff private.

[Steve Harkonnen]

Tell me - do any of you think that the liberal majority Congress may be deliberately holding out on agreeing on the economical bailout, because they know that the longer they wait, the more support is garnered upon Obama?

[MK]

Thanks for the link back Debbie. So the left are donating money to Planned Parenthood ey, if that doesn't scream DEPRAVITY, then i don't know what does.

Eagerly paying to knock off the unborn?

[Skunkfeathers]

Yeah, I wish McCain would come out swinging -- the Dems and Oblahblah have certainly given him all the ammo and reason to do so -- but he likely won't.
*sigh* Liars will go on being liars and feted by the press, and McCain will go on being McCain. We might win the election anyway, if enough reasonable middle Americans have had enough of Team Oblahblah's lies and deceit.