Just before the vote, when the outcome was still in doubt, Speaker Pelosi gave a strongly worded partisan speech and poisoned the outcome.

She just didn't show House Republicans the respect and deference they deserved.

You know, reading what Obama just said did calm me down quite a bit. I hope it will others too. Thank you Senator for your reassurance. I needed that.

This reminds me of one the few poems I know (because i had to learn it while pledging):

IF If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you But make allowance for their doubting too, If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise: If you can dream--and not make dreams your master, If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!

Amelie - yeah, I agree. It's the perfect, tone, too.

The Repugs threw a tantrum and so did McLame. Meanwhile, back in Denver, the president is reassuring everyone.

;)

As I've stated before, so far this is going as McCain planned it. It's his last horrah to look Presidential and make Obama look petty. The public doesn't matter...only winning does.

Is the new marketing slogan, "a Teddy Roosevelt Republican," catching on anywhere or is this just one of many they are going to throw out in the hopes that one will stick?

Did anyone see the smack down that CNN's Freed Zekariah (i butchered his name) just put on McCain and Gov Plain just now? This is one time i wished this post enabled us to embed video. It was priceless.

OK Folks:

Here is something to promulgate.

Now that we have a real crisis at hand, we are in a stock market meltdown, and "The Economy Is Cratering", this time for real:

Why hasn't John McCain immediately suspend his campaign, and rushed to Washington to help alleviate the national catastrophe.

He did it last week, and now that situation has gotten much worse, he is still campaigning.

Sure makes clear that last week all he was doing was trying to kill the debate.

I predicted this outcome in my last blogpost on Sunday although I was wrong about the timing;

I don’t think there is anyone who can predict how this bailout plan will affect the credit markets on Wall Street or on Main Street. The case for the bailout implies that without it the credit markets will seize up and precipitate a world wide recession if not a depression. No one is saying that the bailout will turn the economy around, it will just avert disaster.

The best case with the bailout is the economy will probably continue to drift sideways if not down, unemployment rising, energy prices remain high, housing still searching for a bottom and inflation surging. If the prospect of a bailout has “created its own weather” and the credit markets still seize up then it will obviously be a failure. Either way anybody who votes against the bailout will be able to paint it as a failure and a waste of taxpayer’s money and then run against it as the election approaches.

So I think we know how this will play out today. They want this to pass before the Asian markets open tonight. This afternoon most House Republicans and those Senate Republicans who are up for reelection will find a last minute objection to the bill and vote against it. Congressional Democrats will face the prospect of passing the bailout with minimal Republican support or letting it fail and risking a market crash. Neither McCain nor Obama will cast a vote.

So no matter what happens Congressional Democrats will be lashed to the stinking corrupt corpse of the Paulson/Bush Administration and McCain and the House Republicans will brand themselves as populist heroes for opposing the bailout fiasco.

How will Obama play this today? Will the majority of voters who apparently oppose the bailout take it out on Democrats in November? Or will they punish Republicans for playing political chicken with the world economy?
http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/09/the-loselose-politics-of-the-b.php

That brings up what happened in "overtime" when they left the vote open for armtwisting and vote switching.

Is McCain really a maverick, or is he just reckless and undisciplined?

One can tolerate his antics as a senator, but his style of "leadership" is not fit for the presidency.

We need a leader, not a gambler.

Seriously, forget Palin, can our country afford McCain as the leader of the free world?

John McCain: Not ready to lead.

So McSame left the field, quit doing the "right thing," Country First, because Obama attacked him? What would he do if Putin, Kim Jong-il, Chavez, or Ahmadinejad attacks him? Would he just leave the field, saying, "I see KGB on your forehead," or singing Beach Boys' "Barbara Ann" ?

And Obama failed with more than two-thirds of Republicans opposing and 60% Democrats supporting the bill?
The numbers don't lie, dumb ass.

Copied & pasted from the other thread, as it makes more sense here:
CEOs and lobbysts funded GOP House members killed the bill (2 3rd oppsed)because there was retraint-on-CEO-and-Executive string attached to it.
So CEOs and other executives succeeded to fail the bailout bill through their loyal GOPs, the recipient of regular campaign contribution, kickbacks, and gifts.
Where is the self-proclaimed maverick, one who cannot reach his own side of the aisle and brags about reaching across the aisle? Is he not part of failing the bill?
Did he not mean he would suspend his campaign until he did "necessary work" for failing the bill when he said he would "suspend my campaign and return to Washington until a deal can be reached in Congress"? Did he not mean "the deal" to fail the bill?
Freud is helpful here to psychoanalyze the McCain suspension of the campaign statement: It is called sublimation with relation to the desire of the conservative base of the party, in which he masked his desire to fail the bill by articulating the opposite in public, something acceptable in appearance but coded to be read as the directive in reversal. But introduction of the conservative bill at the end of the White House meeting and refrain from taking a position was a veiled endorsedment of the conservative base's position and his support for failing the bill and protecting all Carly Fiorinas, contribution base of the party.

F*ck Kucinich and his whacko lobby as well. Thanks Dennis.

By the end of this week the McCain campaign should be toast, unrecoverable. And if not for the supposed financial meltdown, I would be breathing easier. The only way Grampy and the Moose Hunter can win is if there is a terrorist attack and Grampy shows up on the scene and pulls victims out with his bare hands. What are the chances of that. More likely he would suspend his campaign, show up a few days later, fark it all up and lead to more civilian casualties. And then blame Obama.

Judd Gregg is saying that the package was fair, that everyone who left the negotiations felt there views were heard and that the package needs to be passed.

Do the republicans have a "bailout plan" of their own?

There is a growing reality by the day that Obama will be the next president. That being said wouldn't republicans want to hand over an economy that is so utterly decimated that it doesn't allow for any agenda to be pursued, bold or otherwise?

Now the republicans can run and hide behind their old values of supposed smaller government, less spending ( a little late though ) and claim victory.

It's early yet, and it's highly unlikely the robber barons of Wall St ( the money men of the gop ) will be left holding the bag. There will be a deal because after eight years of screwing everyday people that have to work 40 plus hours; the big guys need their friends to help them run out the back door.

Do the Republicans have a "bailout plan" of their own?

In May, 2007, President Bush signed NSPD51, a presidential directive dealing with maintaining the continuity of the US government in case of attack, natural disaster (Katrina type) and in section 5g, financial threat to the United States security. Under the powers granted to the President, and his appointees (Homeland Security, etc.) the President would assume unitary powers until such time as the emergency was over. Although many provisions of this directive were repealed in 2008, in signing the repeal, President Bush added a signing statement which essentially kept the provisions in place. Please feel free to Google the many references to this act.

In addition, this year a new Army unit was formed to learn and deploy the latest crowd control tactics. In violation of the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, this deployment allowed the use of regular Army troops for domestic control within the United States.

Pardon me, I'm going to get my tin hat now!