McCain/Obama fiddiling while our country BURNS! Nero would be proud of Frank, Pelosi, Reid, Boehner and the rest of these bums! They'd rather bailout a billionaire and give the check to their own constituents. That tells me all I need to know. Every incumbent will NOT get my vote in this election and especially the next one. Call them NOW and gets this awful bailout that makes the War budget look like peanuts, KILLED NOW! Keep calling! Stand up for your children, stand up for yourselves!

It's not just the bailout, but the joke of the "suspension" of McCain's campaign; stating the seriousness of our economic situation, but not bothering to read the 3 page proposal set forth by his party; lying outright repeatedly; Palin problems; conflict of interest problems; ineptitude and the list goes on and on and on...

The republicans are simply trying to act like they are doing something, but are really just providing McCain a smoke screen to hide behind, since he's getting his head handed to him on a platter. Now he needs to suspend his campaign why Senator? They didn't during WWII or during the Great Depression or during the Civil War, so why do you need to suspend your campaign??? Oh thats right to play politics and avoid the debate where you knew you'd lose.

The story is all over Progressive Talk Radio today about the McCain campaign sending absentee ballot applications to registered democrats or people that have donated to Obama's campaign. These ballots are deliberately misleading and have postage paid return addresses that are for an election clerk that is outside of your city or town. What this will end up doing is either having your vote not counted, or if you return one of these, they will cite you for election fraud, saying that you already voted absentee.
>
> These ballots are only being sent out in 'purple states' and this is a big deal.. This is called voter caging, and is a huge problem.
>
> The McCain campaign is stealing this election as we speak. P lease get this information out to as many people as you can, and tell anyone you know who has received one of these ballots that they need to contact their city election clerk or the supervisor of elections immediately.
>
> Also call the local media and let them know what is going on.
>
> The main stream media is never going to cover this so we have to depend on our ground campaign to get the word out to our voters.
>

now we get why he has been involved in costing this country over a trillion dollars ...3 times... over a trillion dollars

three times!!!

s&l Mccain Keating a trillion +

the Iraq War Mccain Bush a trillion +

now Mccain Gramm Davis etc... and his conservative base shoots us in the head

hmn...what is yor suggestion? Do you know that without a decision soon, and not that I want them ti rush it, the financial markets will fail.
This means everyone from the shifty corporate bankers to the mom and pop shop will be cut off from cash flow.

Is there an answer that satisfies every one? I don't know. But walking away doesn't solve the issue.
McCain needs to either step aside or cool down. The Reps were on the threshold of getting everything they wanted, when McCain stepped in, for his own politcial gain.

Nice one John!!!

mccain didnt realize he was going to come back to a revolt amongst the house republicans

the very people who are teh base of the republican party taht didnt like mccain until he picked sarah palin

he now has to figure out a way to win those people over, and bring them to the table

if they continue to say no, then mccain will have failed to be the leader he claimed he was going to be, and also then what does he do

does he show up for the debate?

last night he walked it back a little bit and said he would be there if there was ENOUGH of a deal

so no matter what hes showing

Minerva...you are so right.
I hope the American people are not so stupid as to vote another Rep back into office especially now, with this crisis which McCain has admitted he knows nothing about.( so what was he doing in DC?)
BTW, isn't that why he has Palin? So where is his economic wiz? She was a ground zero looking in the hole.

Minerva, you are full of it.

When all the dust settles I can guarantee you Boehner will be history and Ohio will be better for his departure.

Bhrandon...so I guess you can see this was ALL a show for McCain? He will be at the debate..and he won't help a darn bit at DC...
Looks like they were pretty close to a deal BEFORE McCain got there.
I am confused as to why he did all this "showboating" unless it was for votes, because he oviously didn't sto camopaining. He was interviewed by Katie Couric, did a speech for his pal Babba, and kept this ads running...NICE..

I going to admit...In the beginning I thought McCain suspension of his campiagn was a great political move but watching this poll number go down I guess the American people are smarter then that.

Kitty...it is because of stupid people like you that Bush got elected twice..
Get informed!!!

Well out military mom. The act by MCCain is noting more than political postering and distraction from the Palin fiacso. He will show tonite. Unfortunately I will be at a homecoming
football game and will have to catch a repeat. Ah the dedications of mothers.

Obama is a jerk. He is completely helpless in this mess -- a graphic example of ineptitude. Think what the shallow one would do if confronted with a serious situation in the White house. Frightening thought!

At the first place I did not care
McCain's age. But now I
care a lot as we all witness unusual
events One after the other.

Who's McCain think that he's fooling --"Country First" my a**; IT'S "POLITICS FIRST"!!! Only this time, the American People will see just how dishonorable he has become [just to get elected]!

Why would anyone in their right mind blame McCain if this fails, perhaps they should look at all the add ons the dems are doing. They want to throw on a 56 bil stimulus package, oh it's 700 bil what's another 56 bil. And now I hear that Biden is seeking millions in earmarks...

John McCain and Sarah Palin have taken 84 MILLION DOLLARS FROM WE TAXPAYERS to run their campaign.

We are expecting to see the two presidential candidates debate on a stage tonight in Mississippi.

Somebody should explain to John McCain that keeping an important committment to the American people is putting country first!

What a circus, what a bunch of crap!! McCain has made a joke out of the American people.

Dems and Repubs. come out to announce the plan was been substantially revised and is now finalized. The McCain comes to town, meets with the House Republicans and heads to the White House. And lo and behold, the deal is busted apart and chaos reigns. People can see why McCain suspended his campaign and the debate --he had to get to D.C. to blow the deal apart!!!! Dems are holding their noses to vote for this stinker caused by Bush and the GOP f'ing up to save the economy and McCain (through his House surrogates) is torpedoeing it. Meanwhile WaMu has the largest bank failure in U.S. history. It's 100 % pure politics by "maverick" John McCain. Country first -- I think not!

Barack Obama continues to display the leadership and temperament required to be the next president of the United States.

This may seem cynicle, but I can't help but wonder if John McCain didn't stage the House Republican revolt on Thursday, only to plan to "rescue" the country hours before the scheduled debate on Friday night. He would then attend the debate and proclaim to be the hero that saved America from financial doom.

Both parties were close to an agreement before John McCain arrived in Washington DC and had a private meeting with the House Republicans.

Time will tell....

McCain is just a joke, he is not up to the task and is hiding behind his lack of skills, inabilities and lack of knowledge. That is unfortunate. McCain has no judgement, he is not a leader and will not succeed because God loves America.

Hey, what is important here to hear Obama and McCain talk about issues that might NEVER happen if the economic crisis continues. Obama is a "fruit cake". Obama should stay and help--- he is a Senator still paid to do this job, if not willing to do it for Illinois, how about willing to do it for the country.
Obama said it is critical but he is acting like it is not...only having his prepared debate is now important.

Rhonda - Very interesting idea. I will bet McCain will show up after a miriclious ending to the meetings in which all will be settled and he will attempt to take all the credit. I am very disappointed in MCCain, he was at one time a man of integrity now I am not so sure. The Straight Talk Express has had a major derailment.

The paid Republican bloggers spewing their partison rhetoric are ruining these blogs for those of us who would like intelligent discourse. I encourage everyone to look at the various blogs and see that Kitty, Belle Starr, John,etc. blog over and over and over in disdainful ways. These people are highly partison, repeat untruths, and generally will do anything for McCain. Most of us regular people are just trying to work through the issues and be good patriots. They should be ashamed of themselves.

Yes, it is so funny how McCain rode into Washington when there was an agreement on hand and now its all disrupted because of the politics he injected into it....why? Because he's a coward and didnt want to face Obama (and not to mention his wish to postpone/delay/cancel the Palin debate). The news also reported last night that while Obama was asking some very tough, specific answers during the White House meeting, McCain remained "mostly silent." So where's this maverick McCain who held the financial solutions in his hands (AND he didnt suspend his negative ads during this process either, oh just another lie). I want this election to be over and McCain/Palin to be thrown into their respective ditches. We're tired of THESE two who say they have answers, experience, the will to lead, blah blah blah....but instead they offer us silence, lies, confusion, frustration, anger, and embarrasment (you almost feel sorry for Palin's ignorance on questions she has BEEN ASKED BEFORE!!! And Laura Bush said she was a "quick learner" well....sorry Laura, we're not taking YOUR word for it).

I see by the obvious link to Obama's website, as well as the slant of the information posted here, that ABC wants a certain man to be president, regardless of what is really true.

I’m only getting bits and pieces of the bailout plan, like all of you, but it looks like the Dems are trying to stick in the usual spending plans to “spur” the economy. I wanted the plan to help out regular people, but that kind of spending is just the usual way Dems say they “help” people to get votes.

I’m glad the Republicans are sniffing out ACORN voter fraud. They better get on that. I wonder if they can sue/take to court ACORN if they link fake registration cards to members of their organization. They should be really aggressive with that. Those fake registration cards keep popping up and it seems like they are mostly being linked to ACORN.
Acorn has been added to the bailout, a "earmark" from the DEMS....shame on them!!

MCCAIN LIED ABOUT SUSPENDING HIS CAMPAIGN.
PROVE ME WRONG

Hey I am not a paid blogger how do I get that job???Wow McCain is giving out jobs like that.I will surely vote for him now!

The fact that Barack Obama has the most liberal, left wing voting record in the Senate proves he is not a discerning politician. He's not a democrat that thinks and weighs, he just votes "yes" when the issue is liberal. He's not a democrat like the others, he's a socialist.

house republicans stalled, and perhaps this is a big part of why.

http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/26/the-democratic-acorn-bailout/

Just cant keep thier paws off it. Out tax doallars ALREADY pay for these groups, they DO NOT need to be part of this.

Ann - since Obama (nor McCain for that matter) sit on any committees pertinant to the crisis, just what are they supposed to do? They are to sit in on and participate in the negotiations which they have done. They are supposed to vote on the bill when the time comes. They sat in yesterday, they can fly back from Mississippi in what a couple of hours. The debate must go on. We need to hear what these guys have to say about the economy as well as their foreign policy.

niether am i, i am just an underpaid military member concerned about our country

I previously had tremendous respect for John McCain and was considering voting for him. What a disappointment and embarrassment he has turned out to be. Sarah Palin, his most important decision, would jeopardize this country in ways we could only begin to imagine with her lack of qualifications. The McCain has assumed the Rovian standard operating procedures, and have told so many lies, the American people just expect that what comes out of the campaign to be lies! McCain did not suspend his campaign, nor has he even thought of putting country first. He is playing partisan politics with the economic future of this country. This is unforgivable.

watching :He said I heard him I think Because obama refused to do the same he kept the ads on tv and also most of the ads are set-up way in advance by the networks

house republicans stalled, and perhaps this is a big part of why.

http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/26/the-democratic-acorn-bailout/

Just cant keep thier paws off it. Our tax dollars ALREADY pay for these groups, they DO NOT need to be part of this.

McCain's ads were on TV all day here in PA. He's a lier.

All I know is what I saw, Obama made his points at the meeting, McCain deffered to another person, perfect!
McCain went there and fixed the problem...

DEMOCRATS- Fannie/Freddie doing just fine, no need to regulate:

''These two entities -- Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac -- are not facing any kind of financial crisis,'' said Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts, the ranking Democrat on the Financial Services Committee. ''The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing.''

NYTimes, 2003

house republicans stalled, and perhaps this is a big part of why.

http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/26/the-democratic-acorn-bailout/

It was a stupid move on McCains part. He forced the issue, the president had to call in Obama to save McCain, the Republicans then revolted so that McCain could look like he was there to accomplish something, and then McCain has nothing to say. There is nothing more to be said The Public isn't buying it

Posted by: gater23 | Sep 26, 2008 10:15:06 AM would jeopardize this country in ways we could only begin to imagine with her lack of qualifications. She is running for vp and has as much qualification as the other guy running for PRESIDENT

This was a previous post....but its very disturbing and important people are made aware:

The story is all over Progressive Talk Radio today about the McCain campaign sending absentee ballot applications to registered democrats or people that have donated to Obama's campaign. These ballots are deliberately misleading and have postage paid return addresses that are for an election clerk that is outside of your city or town. What this will end up doing is either having your vote not counted, or if you return one of these, they will cite you for election fraud, saying that you already voted absentee.
>
> These ballots are only being sent out in 'purple states' and this is a big deal.. This is called voter caging, and is a huge problem.
>
> The McCain campaign is stealing this election as we speak. P lease get this information out to as many people as you can, and tell anyone you know who has received one of these ballots that they need to contact their city election clerk or the supervisor of elections immediately.
>
> Also call the local media and let them know what is going on.
>
> The main stream media is never going to cover this so we have to depend on our ground campaign to get the word out to our voters.

We'll have to watch and see if indeed now McCain announces he was able to bring the House GOP back into line and rescue the bailout plan. McCain proclaims he is above politics, but I have never seen a candidate who danced so much to the political drummer. One political stunt after another, from picking Palin, to dropping out of the debate. Being unstable, erratic and politically motivated does not make you a maverick, it makes you a nut.

Yeah "Bush Hugger" McCain rode into town claiming he would save the day and all he managed to do was blow the deal out of the water. What a total failure of leadership if he can't get the wayward conservative lunatic fringers of his own party under control. Maybe "Sinner" Sarah could do a better job of whipping the recalcitrant ones into line.

"Incompetent" Bush is a lame duck president with only a few months to go but McCain is already a lame duck president before he ever gets elected.

Now what will the old debate dodger do with the debate? If he now goes down to debate he flip flops on his promise to stay in Washington until a deal is done. If he doesn't go he flip flops on his promise to do debates. A totally lose lose situation.

What a waste putting the Moronic Jerk on tv after his show is over. I can't stand that fool and will have to switch channels until he's gone.

If you consider a bachelor degree in journalism obtained from five universities in six years equivalent to a Columbia ungrade, Harvard Law, editor of the Harvard Law Review, constitutional law professor at the prestigious University of Chicago as more qualified, then I bow to you.

Did we not see this crap coming at us yesterday??? We have become so aware of the Repugs and their games this past 8 years. Several people writing in on this site yesterday had today nailed.

McCain is one Empty Suite.

So What if he blew the deal out of the water From what I read about the deal The deal SUX!!!!I dont want to foot the bill do you BECK????

The story is all over Progressive Talk Radio today about the OBAMA campaign sending absentee ballot applications to registered democrats or people that have donated to Mccain's campaign. These ballots are deliberately misleading and have postage paid return addresses that are for an election clerk that is outside of your city or town. What this will end up doing is either having your vote counted twice.
>
> These ballots are only being sent out in 'purple states' and this is a big deal.. This is called voter caging, and is a huge problem.
>
> The OBAMA campaign is stealing this election as we speak. P lease get this information out to as many people as you can, and tell anyone you know who has received one of these ballots that they need to contact their city election clerk or the supervisor of elections immediately.
>
> Also call the local media and let them know what is going on.
>
> The main stream media is never going to cover this so we have to depend on our ground campaign to get the word out to our voters.
> ACORN is getting money from the Obama Campaign to get this voter fraud in all the swing states!
Get out there and stop this now. If you receive an absentee ballot go to your SECETARY OF STATE AND FILE A COMPLAINT!

McCain is one Empty Suite.

Posted by: beck | Sep 26, 2008 10:21:26 AM

Beck sweetie it is empty SUIT as in OBUMA IS AN EMPTY SUIT!

McCain has once again proved he will do anything to win. Even at the expense of the American people.

Meanwhile, Stephanopoulos is giving McCain his show on Sunday to hold a town hall. Stephanopoulos is willing to circumvent the debates himself.

Meanwhile, Stephanopoulos is giving McCain his show on Sunday to hold a town hall. Stephanopoulos is willing to circumvent the debates himself.

Meanwhile, Stephanopoulos is giving McCain his show on Sunday to hold a town hall. Stephanopoulos is willing to circumvent the debates himself.

Meanwhile, Stephanopoulos is giving McCain his show on Sunday to hold a town hall. Stephanopoulos is willing to circumvent the debates himself.

McCain Gamble?

No, it's McCain is an idiot...and a liar.

He didn't put his campaign on hold. It's going full fledged forward teetering on the brink of lunacy.

Meanwhile, Stephanopoulos is giving McCain his show on Sunday to hold a town hall. Stephanopoulos is willing to circumvent the debates himself.

Meanwhile, Stephanopoulos is giving McCain his show on Sunday to hold a town hall. Stephanopoulos is willing to circumvent the debates himself.

Meanwhile, Stephanopoulos is giving McCain his show on Sunday to hold a town hall. Stephanopoulos is willing to circumvent the debates himself.

john mccain: my country for a photo

Meanwhile, Stephanopoulos is giving McCain his show on Sunday to hold a town hall. Stephanopoulos is willing to circumvent the debates himself.

Hey HP Boston. Blogging is a place to vent, not where we correct each others spelling errors. You obviously got what they were trying to say.

Meanwhile, Stephanopoulos is giving McCain his show on Sunday to hold a town hall. Stephanopoulos is willing to circumvent the debates himself.

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Good for you George, you are so far on the dark side I bet this is going to be a gotcha plan! So entertaining and sickening at the same time.

Meanwhile, Stephanopoulos is giving McCain his show on Sunday to hold a town hall. Stephanopoulos is willing to circumvent the debates himself.

Meanwhile, Stephanopoulos is giving McCain his show on Sunday to hold a town hall. Stephanopoulos is willing to circumvent the debates himself.

Meanwhile, Stephanopoulos is giving McCain his show on Sunday to hold a town hall. Stephanopoulos is willing to circumvent the debates himself.

Meanwhile, Stephanopoulos is giving McCain his show on Sunday to hold a town hall. Stephanopoulos is willing to circumvent the debates himself.

One of the problems that House Republicans had with the original "plan" was that millions of dollars were earmarked for ACORN, Obama's former employer........

Meanwhile, Stephanopoulos is giving McCain his show on Sunday to hold a town hall. Stephanopoulos is willing to circumvent the debates himself.

Meanwhile, Stephanopoulos is giving McCain his show on Sunday to hold a town hall. Stephanopoulos is willing to circumvent the debates himself.

Posted by: Stephanopoulos is a hypocrite | Sep 26, 2008 10:41:28 AM

Grow up

Today 9/26/2008 10:30 A.M.

Republicans and Democrats think they all should stay in Washington until the crisis is resolved.

Obama would rather be in Mississippi for a debate.

One of the problems that House Republicans had with the original "plan" was that millions of dollars were earmarked for ACORN, Obama's former employer........

Posted by: SandyB | Sep 26, 2008 10:42:48 AM

Well how else would you win an election if you dont have dead people and convicted felons voting for you?

Meanwhile, Stephanopoulos is giving McCain his show on Sunday to hold a town hall. Stephanopoulos is willing to circumvent the debates himself.

The racists are here with their ACORN lies a conspiracy theories. I bet they even try to tell people they're Christians. Well...Christ, our country is showing how and mean and stupid they can be.

Obama is a jerk. He is completely helpless in this mess -- a graphic example of ineptitude. Think what the shallow one would do if confronted with a serious situation in the White house. Frightening thought!

Meanwhile, Stephanopoulos is giving McCain his show on Sunday to hold a town hall. Stephanopoulos is willing to circumvent the debates himself.

Obama, your tax programs will place Americans deeper in debt and cause a depression. Arrogant Obama does not know how to spend taxpayers’ money. What money give-a-way programs does he want to benefit the American taxpayer? All I see in Obama is complete crap about more taxes to give away more money. Reduce taxes and stop the war like conflicts around the world. Obama does not have the financial experience to realize that a free market will seek equilibrium, the badly run business and banks will be picked apart, and the stronger companies and banks will take over the best assets. There is no need for higher taxes unless it is the desire of Obama to feed more corruption. Obama’s tax increases will cause a taxpayers’ debt bubble.

Meanwhile, Stephanopoulos is giving McCain his show on Sunday to hold a town hall. Stephanopoulos is willing to circumvent the debates himself.

Meanwhile, Stephanopoulos is giving McCain his show on Sunday to hold a town hall. Stephanopoulos is willing to circumvent the debates himself.

The racists are here with their ACORN lies a conspiracy theories. I bet they even try to tell people they're Christians. Well...Christ, our country is showing how and mean and stupid they can be.

Posted by: Becky | Sep 26, 2008 10:49:32 AM
it is proven that is what acorn has done and has been find for it as well

“Philip J. Berg, Esquire, the Attorney who filed suit against Barack H. Obama challenging Senator Obama’s lack of “qualifications” to serve as President of the United States, announced today that Obama and Democratic National Committee [DNC] filed a Joint Motion to Dismiss on the last day to file a response, for the obvious purpose of delaying Court action in the case of Berg v. Obama, No. 08-cv-04083“.

“It is obvious that Obama was born in Kenya and does not meet the “qualifications” to be President of the United States pursuant to our United States Constitution. Obama cannot produce a certified copy of his “Vault” [original long version] Birth Certificate from Hawaii because it does not exist.”

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About Contact Archives RSS Columns Photos Michelle Malkin Lead StoryThe Ant and the Grasshopper, 2008 edition
By Michelle Malkin • September 26, 2008 10:27 AM
My syndicated column today updates what used to be one of my favorite Aesop’s fables: “The Ant and the Grasshopper.” It’s been revised over the years (most famously by Jim Quinn in the 1990s), but the tale needed a new revision based on the stimuluspalooza/Mother of All Bailout frenzy of the last year. As with the shamnesty bill, even if the MOAB gets killed, I can guarantee you we’ll see more mini-MOABS.

Thrift is dead.

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The Ant and the Grasshopper, 2008 edition
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2008

With what looks like imminent passage of the Mother of All Bailouts (following on the heels of a year’s worth of government-funded rescues of private homeowners, lenders, insurers, and the automakers), Washington has turned Aesop’s famous fable about prudence and hard work on its head. The time is ripe for a revised 2008 edition of “The Ant and the Grasshopper:”

In a meadow on a hot summer’s day, a Grasshopper was chirping and carousing his time away. He watched scornfully as an Ant nearby struggled to store up large kernels of food and build a secure nest. The Ant pulled overtime shifts to pay off his loans and accumulate retirement funds for the future.

“Give it a rest,” the Grasshopper said. “Why bother saving and slaving and toiling and moiling? Let’s party!” The Ant demurred: “I am planning ahead for winter and you should do the same.” The Grasshopper blew off the Ant, squandered his supplies the rest of the season, and abandoned his home while on vacation (paid for by tapping every last cent of his home equity gain) instead of holding down a job.

When winter came, the Grasshopper’s pantry was empty and his shelter ruined from neglect. The Ant, weary from planting, harvesting, and stocking up for months, was dining comfortably in his nest.

Cold, hungry, jobless, facing foreclosure, and up to his two pairs of eyeballs in debt, the Grasshopper limped to the Association of Community Winged Insects for Rescue Now and demanded recourse. The office was swamped with thousands just like him. ACWIRN immediately put the Grasshopper to work registering dead ants as ne