AMERICAblog: Chris Matthews: It's McCain's fault bailout bill failed
sittenpretty
· 1 year ago
i saw him say it.............worm turned
Prolapsed_Anus
· 1 year ago
This is an attempt by the neocon shadow government to utterly destroy the US economy. What total irony that the Rethugs failure to vote saved us from a mistake of epochal proportions.
The Bilderbergers will not be pleased. They will rail against this further.
I predict the next threat will be "pass this law or martial law will be instigated."
dad
· 1 year ago
john mccain can't lead the country. he can't even lead his house republicans.
this failure is mccain's. this failure is republican.
HereinDC
· 1 year ago
john mccain can't lead the country. he can't even lead his house republicans.
excellent quote
Griffon
· 1 year ago
I suppose they shoulda done things the "republican way;" kept the vote open for 3 hours and threatened people's (and their kids') careers...
HereinDC
· 1 year ago
This was the SECOND test of McCain's leadsership. His First was picking Palin. Not getting his fellowing GOP is his Second TEST.
Dave of the Jungle
· 1 year ago
There's a real danger here that I may die laughing.
MC_Haiku
· 1 year ago
it's every man for himself amongst the repubes now. bush, rove, cheney truly did destroy the party. very interesting.
seohio
· 1 year ago
McCain would screw up a wet dream!
AdrianBrowne
· 1 year ago
Time to take the car keys away from Grampa. I don't want the next fender bender to turn into a mushroom cloud.
michaelt
· 1 year ago
this is all so fucking confusing. so, because of mccain's crappy leadership the crappy bill is dead? and that's a bad thing?
sukabi1
· 1 year ago
no, it's an opportunity....
The Dem's need to make a couple of things clear:
1) McCain can't lead his own party.
2) The Repubs have enabled and facilitated Wall Street's greed to go unchecked, unregulated for years resulting in the current economic disaster --- AND -- the Repubs, by not supporting the bailout have just crashed the markets, thereby destroying the retirement funds and 401k's and such of the middle class that are invested in Wall Street.
michaelt
· 1 year ago
thanks.
dad
· 1 year ago
Yes. Because of mccain's crappy leadership this bill is dead. It is a good thing. Now republicans own the responsibility for causing the crisis and for failing to solve it. They own the failure. john mccain led the failure. john mccain enabled the failure. john mccain created the failure. john mccain is failure.
scytherius
· 1 year ago
I have decided, after all these years, that Matthews has multiple personality disorder.
lucky hussein
· 1 year ago
anyone have a link showing the breakdown of the house vote?
Here's the thing: these republican congressmen and women have perpetrated the fiction from Washington that the economy is fine, we can have a debt driven economy based on consumer spending and the service sector. They have taught their constitutents how to think about political matters (campaign ads, anyone?). And now that the trapdoor has opened, and the reps, politicians that they are, have quickly adapted to reality, they are too far ahead of their troops. This is massive leadership failure, malfeasance in office, and I am not sure they can correct it without falling on their swords. Leadership is sorely needed. Clearly McCain cannot lead the troops. Can Newt? They need someone, and they need the president to give them cover with a dramatic media campaign. In addition, the rhetoric needs to change to the perspective of Main Street, which might mean talking about all of this in terms of inventory loans for sawmills, etc.
marblex
· 1 year ago
That would be giving McCain credit for killing a horrible bill. DOWN TWEETY!!! DOWN!
McCain took NO POSITION AT ALL on the bill. That's because he's a wimp and too cowardly to commit before knowing which way the wind was blowing.
According to accounts of the White house meeting, McCain said nothing and contributed no ideas whatsoever. Accordingly, it seems contrary to Tweety's rant and democratically spewed thoughtless efforts to blame him for the process breaking down, that in fact, McCain's presence was a nullity.
In sum, he had nothing to do with it. Credit house members who take phone calls and can work their emails and read faxes who decided they'd rather keep their jobs than face a hostile American public UNWILLING TO SHOULDER any more debt for this crazy mindfuck of an economy.
Where money=debt YOU ARE A SLAVE.
Time to let this fucker crash and burn. Save our children from debt slavery. Repeal the Fed and lets have the government issue money instead of borrow it...just like the good ole days before Woodrow Wilson got strongarmed by the international cartel of pirates we call bankers.
sittenpretty
· 1 year ago
CHKKKIE TODD CARRYING GOOPER WATER...saying dems are just as responsible buuuuullllllllKACKY
Ginger_FL
· 1 year ago
Good Catch John....
Did you get Barney Frank handing the Repigs their ASSES????
OMG that was Brilliant!!
HereinDC
· 1 year ago
The vote wasn't even close. So McCain looks like he didn't do his job. If McCain was any sort of leader...he would of gotten the vote alittle bit closer. BUT, when SO MANY Republicans didn't vote for it...that shows McCain didn't or really is not that effective.
Charles2
· 1 year ago
Tweety is the blind squirrel - finding his "once in a while" acorn.
Dave of the Jungle
· 1 year ago
George can send in Karen Hughes to kick their butts.
That'll show'em.
HereinDC
· 1 year ago
UGh, just the thought of her , would be enough to change my vote :)
snoozer
· 1 year ago
"Can a maverick be a leader?" Very good question!
Joneses
· 1 year ago
Right now McCain has grambled wrong. It didn't know when to fold them.
Right now the Regugs in congress had three of a kind to McCain's two pairs.
Ok, so now that the stock market is failing big time, does this give Bushco an advantage of invoking some sort of Martial Law? I mean, he can claim financial meltdown which can cause unrest.
Good lord, I was busy this morning but I didn't expect this. Market looks like it is in free fall. At what point do they close the the markets?
HereinDC
· 1 year ago
1200 drop
aquarius2
· 1 year ago
Thanks I knew t\here was a number at which the markers would close.
Dave of the Jungle
· 1 year ago
Aw. The poor putty cat fall down and hit his witto head.
blackwolf
· 1 year ago
We'll see what the spin is at the end of day. This is common sense that McCain failed to deliver the republican vote.
dad
· 1 year ago
so. when do you think speedy mccain will get out a statement on his failure to lead?
aquarius2
· 1 year ago
MSNBC just said McCain's campaign issued a statement that Obama is directly responsible for the failed vote. This is crazy, the Dems voted FOR the bill so how the hell is this Obama's fault.
HereinDC
· 1 year ago
LOL Lord. It just makes the GOP look even more foolish with that kind of statement.
I can just see FOX TV telling that story. Wanna be FOX doesn't report that?
percol8r
· 1 year ago
Way to go, Republicans! Way to keep the economy the dominant news as we inch closer to the election! This couldn't have played out any better if the DNC had actually written the script! Now -- one of you say you didn't vote in favor of today because "the fundamentals of the economy are strong."
dad
· 1 year ago
joe scarborough says mccain is a big loser.
scottinsf
· 1 year ago
I said it first dammit.
dad
· 1 year ago
indeed you did :)
percol8r
· 1 year ago
I don't understand what happened today. I need Tucker Bounds to clear it all up for me. Ha ha ha! God -- this is all too amusing!
HereinDC
· 1 year ago
I just went to the FOX NEWS web site. NOWHERE on there does it mention the GOP voted it down. NOWHERE.
Prolapsed_Anus
· 1 year ago
Financial industry rep. Paulson is the ringleader in a banker’s coup the results of which will decide America’s economic and political future for years to come. The coup leaders have drained tens of billions of dollars of liquidity from the already strained banking system to trigger a freeze in interbank lending and hasten a stock market crash. This, they believe, will force Congress to pass Paulson’s $770 billion bailout package without further congressional resistance. It’s blackmail.
henrythefifth
· 1 year ago
Don't worry, in about 5 minutes, the McCain campaign will say they changed their mind and when he said he was for this bill, what he really meant was that he was against it.
Prolapsed_Anus
· 1 year ago
Karl Denninger: “The effective Fed Funds rate has been trading 50 basis points or more below the 2% target for five straight days now, and for the last two days, it has traded 75 basis points under. The IRX is demanding an immediate rate cut. The Slosh has been intentionally drained by over $125 billion in the last week and lowering the water in the swamp exposed one dead body — Washington Mutual — which was immediately raided on a no-notice basis by JP Morgan. Not even WaMu’s CEO knew about the raid until it was done. . . . The Fed claims to be an ‘independent central bank.’ They are nothing of the kind; they are now acting as an arsonist. The Fed and Treasury have claimed this is a ‘liquidity crisis’; it is not. It is an insolvency crisis that The Fed, Treasury and the other regulatory organs of our government have intentionally allowed to occur.”
lucky hussein
· 1 year ago
according to someone at the fdic (in some article i read), there was a bidding process the day before wamu declared themselves done. jp was the highest bid. seems fair to me..
Prolapsed_Anus
· 1 year ago
Of course you do Herr Paulson...
dad
· 1 year ago
- 614
Rob Mule
· 1 year ago
Poor Corntussa Sewer...She couldn't cope with Tweety's reality...I never thought I'd be humping Tweety's shiver-prone leg but he's had some killer bits larded amid the gale normally blowing outa his mouth.
Anyone see a list of banks with big mortgage exposures?
I was thinking that if someone shows McCain this Chris Matthews video while he's on his plane, McCain may put his fist through the airplane's wall!
Off subject, you brilliant guys , if Bush and Cheney were to resign today, and Pelosi assumed the presidency for the remainder of Bush's term, what do you think it would do to the stock market?
Kansaskitty
· 1 year ago
The Bushies tried to cram this piece of crap down the throats of the American people and demanded passage. Been there, done that, another disaster to foist on the American taxpayer. The taxpayers have wised up and rose up in unison against it.
The Bushies should have explained any problems honestly(!) to Congress and the people and acted like they gave a shit about anything but saving their rich buddies' asses. They didn't, and tried to pull another Iraq on us and this is the result. Congress should have listened to the advice of the administration and then gone thru the normal legislative process & not get scared into rash action. Then they should have crafted their own legislation after hearings with a broad selection of economic experts. They chose to go with the deeply flawed Paulson bill as the basis, and it was too much for the American people to stomach.
Now, quit pointing fingers and get to work and do the normal legislative work to find the best answers for the PEOPLE, not Wall Street, then find a compromise the people can support. WE THE PEOPLE!! Yay!!
mike2582
· 1 year ago
If the bill passes it will only delay what will happen in time. It will weaken the dollar even more in 6 months when we come back to this problem. Please everyone saying vote for this bill take an economics 101 course; I beg of you. The only reason the markets are falling is because everyone is talking about this bill. And those that have no idea of how the free market works are completely ruining the system by pulling out. I say free market loosely...for those of you who understand :P
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The Bilderbergers will not be pleased. They will rail against this further.
I predict the next threat will be "pass this law or martial law will be instigated."
he can't even lead his house republicans.
this failure is mccain's.
this failure is republican.
he can't even lead his house republicans.
excellent quote
His First was picking Palin.
Not getting his fellowing GOP is his Second TEST.
The Dem's need to make a couple of things clear:
1) McCain can't lead his own party.
2) The Repubs have enabled and facilitated Wall Street's greed to go unchecked, unregulated for years resulting in the current economic disaster --- AND -- the Repubs, by not supporting the bailout have just crashed the markets, thereby destroying the retirement funds and 401k's and such of the middle class that are invested in Wall Street.
McCain took NO POSITION AT ALL on the bill. That's because he's a wimp and too cowardly to commit before knowing which way the wind was blowing.
According to accounts of the White house meeting, McCain said nothing and contributed no ideas whatsoever. Accordingly, it seems contrary to Tweety's rant and democratically spewed thoughtless efforts to blame him for the process breaking down, that in fact, McCain's presence was a nullity.
In sum, he had nothing to do with it. Credit house members who take phone calls and can work their emails and read faxes who decided they'd rather keep their jobs than face a hostile American public UNWILLING TO SHOULDER any more debt for this crazy mindfuck of an economy.
Where money=debt YOU ARE A SLAVE.
Time to let this fucker crash and burn. Save our children from debt slavery. Repeal the Fed and lets have the government issue money instead of borrow it...just like the good ole days before Woodrow Wilson got strongarmed by the international cartel of pirates we call bankers.
buuuuullllllllKACKY
Did you get Barney Frank handing the Repigs their ASSES????
OMG that was Brilliant!!
If McCain was any sort of leader...he would of gotten the vote alittle bit closer.
BUT, when SO MANY Republicans didn't vote for it...that shows McCain didn't or really is not that effective.
That'll show'em.
:)
Right now the Regugs in congress had three of a kind to McCain's two pairs.
Ok, so now that the stock market is failing big time, does this give Bushco an advantage of invoking some sort of Martial Law? I mean, he can claim financial meltdown which can cause unrest.
http://www.usalone.com/no_billionaire_bailout.php
Let your voice be heard.
Lord. It just makes the GOP look even more foolish with that kind of statement.
I can just see FOX TV telling that story. Wanna be FOX doesn't report that?
NOWHERE on there does it mention the GOP voted it down.
NOWHERE.
Anyone see a list of banks with big mortgage exposures?
Crappiness lurks in White House corners too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJqD6gwhDH4
Off subject, you brilliant guys , if Bush and Cheney were to resign today, and Pelosi assumed the presidency for the remainder of Bush's term, what do you think it would do to the stock market?
The Bushies should have explained any problems honestly(!) to Congress and the people and acted like they gave a shit about anything but saving their rich buddies' asses. They didn't, and tried to pull another Iraq on us and this is the result. Congress should have listened to the advice of the administration and then gone thru the normal legislative process & not get scared into rash action. Then they should have crafted their own legislation after hearings with a broad selection of economic experts. They chose to go with the deeply flawed Paulson bill as the basis, and it was too much for the American people to stomach.
Now, quit pointing fingers and get to work and do the normal legislative work to find the best answers for the PEOPLE, not Wall Street, then find a compromise the people can support. WE THE PEOPLE!! Yay!!