Bailout Bill Overwhelmes House Internet Servers

"I wonder how much money McCain took from Fannie and Freddie? You guessed it........ ZERO, ZILCH, NADA, NOTHING!!!"

McCain has raised nearly $189K this year alone from 8 Fannie Mae big wigs in joint fundraising with the RNC.

The rich CEOs of Wall Street either have ALREADY been paid off as they exited from the scene ... or WILL BE PAID OFF FROM PREEXISTING clauses in their contracts. As I understand the bill, none would directly benefit from it. Personally, I am on the fence. AS bad is the idea is - IT NEEDS TO BE DONE!! I think that the NO VOTERS in the House did the right thing as there is just too much bad stuff in there and it was pushed upon then TOO FAST!!

In 2005 when the US Senate tried to reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (at Bushes' urging) .... OBAMA SAT BY IN SILENCE AND.... DID NOTHING!! LITTLE WONDER..... OBAMA HAS TAKEN OVER $126,000 in CONTRIBUTIONS FROM BOTH.. FANNIE AND FREDDIE, second highest in Senate, behind Banking Committee chairman, CHRIS DODD!!! Obama accuses the Reps and greedy Wall Street CEOs of getting us into this mess. TALK ABOUT THE POT CALLING THE KETTLE BLACK!!! I wonder how much money McCain took from Fannie and Freddie? You guessed it........ ZERO, ZILCH, NADA, NOTHING!!!

They'd rather spend 700 Billion Dollars on mismanaged private enterprises than a few thousand on the necessary computing power to facilitate democracy. Well, these idiots are so out of touch with the times they don't even know how to use computers, right? (I don't even know how long it's been since I've seen an SHTML file extension on a page anyway.)

Joe Adams administers the servers, according to a Network Lookup. I will e-mail this buffoon and I suggest the rest of you urge him to acquire more servers and cut out this BS to prevent me from telling my Congressional representatives how to represent me.

Please don't vote for Obama.

No matter how they word the economic bailout in the future, we still say NO, so vote against bailing out the rich again and again. If the economy goes down, prices on everything will have to eventually also and that is what American consumers need anyway.

"..it's the high server load!"

Yep. They need blades and someone to tune them. Ask the folks who do multi-user virtual worlds.

BTW: To those who believe it when Obama talks about 'googling' and internet-based transparency, this is what happens when it's done badly, under budget, or by amateurs. This is a whole lot harder than stitching up some HTML and ftping it to a directory.

Wouldn't you think that congress would get the message? The sad thing is they won't. They know most of the public doesn't want this but they think they know what's best for us. Let's kick all those bums out of office. Larry, Curly and Moe look like well disciplined and organized executives next to the US Congress.

Did anybody call Al Gore? He might be able to fix it....

It's called "load balancing". So are they running that site on ONE server or are they clustering? Hmm... it's not the bandwidth per se -- it's the high server load!

Now they're blaming the internet. Our Congressional leaders failed the test. We'll survive the economic failure. We may not survive the political failure. Recent events reveal an intolerable level of partisan politics which has resulted in the most dysfunctional Congress in history. A change in leadership is needed.

YES!!!!!!! no to the Bailout! I experienced that today. if these yahoos do not realize that this is a hustle. They're either in on it or They're blind to it.

You broke it, you bought it.

Heck no, we won't go.

LONG LIVE DEMOCRACY!

Was the bill to raise government employees pay passed? Is there a raise for congress in that bill?

Based on past action by the house now would be a perfect time to table everything and work out a raise or make some sort of baloney proclamation.

There's no 'e' in 'overwhelms'.

Seems to me people don't want this bailout plan. Let's put it to a national referendum, you know....democracy-style.

Ironic that the house system falters under what would be called a DOS or denial of service attack if it were malicious.
That’s what the public has been experiencing from the house for the past generation.

Democrat Leaders Played to Lose

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ordered her Majority Whip, Jim Clyburn, to essentially not do his job in the runup to the vote on Monday for the negotiated Wall Street bailout plan, according to House Democrat leadership aides.

"Clyburn was not whipping the votes you would have expected him to, in part because he was uncomfortable doing it, in part because we didn't want the push for votes to be successful," says one leadership aide. "All we needed was enough to potentially get us over the finish line, but we wanted the Republicans to be the ones to do it. This was not going to be a Democrat-passed bill if the Speaker had anything to say about it."

During the floor vote, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and House Democrat Conference chair Rahm Emanuel could be seen monitoring the vote on the floor, and gauging whether or not more Democrat votes were needed. Clyburn had expressed concerns, says the leadership aide, of being asked to press members of the Black and Hispanic caucuses on a bill he was certain those constituencies would not want passed.

"It worked out, because we didn't have a dog in this fight. We negotiated. We gave the White House a bill. It was up to the Republicans to get the 100 plus votes they needed and they couldn't do it," said another Democrat leadership aide.

Emanuel, who served as a board member for Freddie Mac, one of the agencies that precipitated the economic crisis the nation now finds itself in, had no misgivings about taking a leadership role in tanking the bill. "He was cheerleading us along, mothering the votes," says the aide. "We wanted enough to put the pressure on the Republicans and Congressman Emanuel was charged with making it close enough. He did a great job."

Pelosi and her aides have made it clear they were not going to "whip" or twist the arms of members who did not want to vote, but they also made no effort to rally any support for a bill they attempted to hijack over the weekend.

Further, according to House Oversight Committee staff, Emanuel has received assurances from Pelosi that she will not allow what he termed a "witch hunt" to take place during the next Congressional session over the role Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac played in the economic crisis.

Emanuel apparently is concerned the roles former Clinton Administration members may have played in the mortgage industry collapse could be politically -- or worse, if the Department of Justice had its way, legally -- treacherous for many.

no len ,its not time to upgrade...

they will be using 2 dixie cups and a long string pretty soon so enjoy the high bandwidth now while you can.

Time to upgrade to IBM blade servers.