Nancy Pelosi? It was the Republicans who voted down the Bailout. And in the end McCain the party leader is so confusing because of his own desire to jump on whatever is politically expediant he can't help but misdirect them.

How can Mcain direct his own party into regulating any institution when he contradicts himself over and over.?

He's a political monstrosity.

He would eventually achieve his ultimate goal. He would privitize Fannie and Freddi. Giving them free reign to be just as irresponsible as all the other investment firms and subprime lenders. In short his privitization scheme would mean no true reform.


http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1204...?mod=Leader-US


"As far as a need for additional regulations are concerned, I think that depends on the legislative agenda and what the Congress does to some degree, but I am a fundamentally a deregulator. I'd like to see a lot of the unnecessary government regulations eliminated, not just a moratorium.
I've thought more on the area of deregulation rather than a moratorium".

__John McCain

Typical Dems---blaming Republicans when they are in the Minority AS WELL as when they are in the Majority. Odd, isn't it?

Well, thing is----it doesn't pass the smell test. The Democrats are in the Majority of the House AND the Senate. In the House, some 40% of the Democrats didn't vote for this Bailout bill either. All Pelosi needed was something like 13 votes and she couldn't even get it from her own party!!! That's truly pathetic.

Dems are the Majority, Pelosi is the Speaker of the House (the leader) and they clearly couldn't get it done and sought to blame the Bush administration (their favorite "whipping boy") for it.

Sorry, Nancy---you got stand up and take it like a man. You FAILED. BIG TIME. AND in many, many ways.

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"What exactly is this foreign policy experience?" Obama said mockingly of the New York senator. "Was she negotiating treaties? Was she handling crises? The answer is no."

I really wished Dems would read up and watch something besides the mainstream press who is in bed with Obama right now. It was NOT the Republicans who voted it down. Despite the spin you hear from the Democrat leadership and the press who are in bed with them....here's what the ACTUAL vote was: 228-205

The vote split both parties, whose members had been barraged all week with angry messages from constituents who opposed the bill. Among Democrats, 140 supported the bill and 95 voted against. Republicans voted 65 in favor and 133 against. One Republican, retiring Rep. Jerry Weller of Illinois, did not vote.

Got that???? 95 Democrats voted AGAINST the bill. That's 40% of Democrats voted AGAINST the bill. Didn't hear too much about that today, did ya?

42% of Republicans voted against it----close to the same percentages of Dems voting against it.

So, PUHLEEZE, stop with the Democrat mantra that it's all the Republicans fault. Because that's a big fat lie.

Pelosi and the Dem Majority failed. Big Time.

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"What exactly is this foreign policy experience?" Obama said mockingly of the New York senator. "Was she negotiating treaties? Was she handling crises? The answer is no."

McCain's advisors are mostly all lobbyists (now ex-lobbyists ) from Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac. Does that mean the extreme right doesn't care about the facts, or doesn't know them?

Ultra conservatives are in the minority, thank God. Much worse than ultra-liberals, who are merely annoying at times.

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If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
-Albert Einstein

Can't you guys see that partisan bickering is what those in power want? America's a country that belongs to all of you, not just one side. What will placing blame do except distract you further from what's really going on?

You nailed it Jaaaman!

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"The only title superior to President of the United States of America is Citizen."

Did you know the word "gullible" isn't in the dictionary?

Complete and utter BS. It was the CLINTON Administration that Deregulated the Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae Mortgage Giants. The thinking back then was that they wanted Painters, Tile Setters, Plumbers and other small, self employed persons that couldn't get Mortgages without huge down payments to be able to get mortgages. A Noble Effort yes, but the problem was that when McCain blew the whistle back in 2004, that the system was being abused, the Democrats and YES SOME Republicans, were on the take and wanted to keep the status Quo.

Read and get yourself an education.

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America is not a Socialist country, this is why the only democrats who ever win, are democrats who SOUND like Republicans (Hello Bill Clinton - "Low taxes, Free Trade, Welfare Reform, Era of Big Government Over" - Sounds Republican - Hello Barrack Obama - "My Tax Cut is Bigger than yours, Your Health Care Plan is Big Government, Parents need to take responsibility for their kids schooling]").

And YET that didn't stop him from trying to put more oversight on the industry. If anything it PROVES that McCain isn't influenced by Lobbyist as much as Obama and his Democrat buddies that did EVERYTHING they could to stop McCain and the Republicans.

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America is not a Socialist country, this is why the only democrats who ever win, are democrats who SOUND like Republicans (Hello Bill Clinton - "Low taxes, Free Trade, Welfare Reform, Era of Big Government Over" - Sounds Republican - Hello Barrack Obama - "My Tax Cut is Bigger than yours, Your Health Care Plan is Big Government, Parents need to take responsibility for their kids schooling]").

So how does that explain all the GOP votes AGAINST the bailout?

Show me ONE example where the Democrats, as the Majority OR Minority, introduced a bill to regulate the GSE's and Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac and were BLOCKED by Republicans.

Because I can give you an example of the reverse.

I'll wait for YOUR example.

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"What exactly is this foreign policy experience?" Obama said mockingly of the New York senator. "Was she negotiating treaties? Was she handling crises? The answer is no."