Earlier I wrote that “John McCain Just Became the Next President of the United States“. It was all so simple really…
- McCain suspends his campaign for public good on Wednesday last.
- He goes back to Washington and helps the bailout bill pass before the Asian markets open (and certainly our own market today).
- Disaster averted… And John McCain is deemed a true champion of the people.
It was as easy as “1,2,3” really. The democrat culprits behind this entire mess would be outed, and McCain would be a shoe-in. It was going to work that way. It had to work that way to avoid putting the global financial system in peril. And yet here we are. (Click on the image below to get a sense of where the BBC thinks we’re at now.)
The vote was 228 to 205 with 133 republicans and 95 dems saying, “Nay.” Unbelievable. Simply unbelievable. The liberal press and the Obama machine are going to hound McCain with this, especially if the economy really goes south. Was the bill perfect? No. Does something need to be done to head off short-term disaster? Yes. Does something need to be done to head off long-term catastrophe? Absolutely!
But somehow, the stuffed shirts in Washington couldn’t get past their agendas.
It’s interesting to watch the news (Fox)… The word from the talking heads is that congressional phones have been on fire all day, and people in general are saying, “No!” Our representatives should have seen this coming for years, and yet they were still blindsided. Now this. And guess who’s going to get blamed for it? J.M. Sorry John, but wave bye-bye to 1600. Unbelievable.
You know what? I hope Obama does win. I hope Pelosi and Boxer and Reid and Frank and their ilk have nice long political careers. I hope they drive this country right into the ground. (Lord knows they’ve got a good start.) That will prove once and for all what happens when the Hippie Generation and their spawn run things. Then maybe we can return to the values of the Greatest Generation and put this country back together again.
So from now until the elections, I’m going to include the following video in all my rants…
Alan Speakman
Hello….and who has been in charge of the Government for the last 7 years? Oh yeah…the Republicans. You can’t seriously tell me that in the two years that the democrats have had a VERY narrow margin of majority that they created this whole mess on their own.
If so, you may need to adjust your medication a bit.
Democrats must accept part of the responsibility, mainly for letting the Republican leadership run amok and voting with them on deregulation, growing worldwide terrorism by over 200% by invading Iraq and taking our eyes off the people who attacked us, but the bulls-eye of irresponsible behavior and corruption lies squarely on the right side of the political spectrum.
Nice writing style. I look forward to reading more in the future.
averageuscitizen misses the whole point—“McCain Just Lost The Election.” Stop being an apologist for the terrible job the Democrats have done in handling the purse strings for the past several years, and grasp the headline instead.
What “averageuscitizen” doesn’t get is that this isn’t about the war in Iraq. It’s about 20 years worth of giving out loans to people who truly didn’t qualify under normal loaning standards and practices.
In 1977, Jimmy Carter and Political Correctness (in the form of folks like Chris Dodd and Barney Frank and other liberal Democrats) joined the banking world under the premise that “Just because someone can’t afford a mortgage, that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be allowed to get one…”
And so it was proclaimed, all throughout the land, “Come forward ye poor folks and we shall give you a mortgage! By buying a home that will always INCREASE in value, you shall be lifted up to join those who DO qualify for loans.
In 1995, it was reaffirmed by Bill Clinton. This was a bombshell just waiting to happen… Congress essentially created a 600hp NASCAR Race Car, but nobody knew how to control it.
Well, actually, John McCain and other Republicans warned against the Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac programs years ago and tried to get control of it THEN, so I don’t know where anyone gets off blaming this on the Republicans. But the liberal media will play the blame game and try to blame it on conservatives, but if you use your head, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realize that CONSERVATIVES, by nature, would NEVER have created a program like this. It’s not about racism, folks… it’s about taking ANYONE who can’t afford a mortgage… and then GIVING them one.
But those who can’t see past their own noses will line up to blame the Bush administration as if it were the war in Iraq that’s caused this. And other idiots will actually believe it.
I think I might register as a Chicago Democrat… that way, nobody will notice if I vote for John McCain 15 – 20 times. And why not? Dead people have been voting there for years… some of them more than once in the same election.