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House to Vote on Historic $700B Market Bailout
Associates Press via FOWNews.com ^ | September 29, 2008 | AP

Posted on 09/29/2008 4:00:47 AM PDT by NCDragon

WASHINGTON — With the House slated to vote Monday on a deeply unpopular $700 billion rescue plan for beleaguered financial companies, President Bush and congressional leaders were scrambling to corral support.

Bush called the election-year vote a difficult one for lawmakers but said he is confident Congress will pass a measure his top economic officials have argued is vital to averting a broader economic meltdown.

"Without this rescue plan, the costs to the American economy could be disastrous," Bush said in a written statement Sunday.

Convincing their colleagues to back the plan despite thousands of angry phone calls, e-mails and letters pouring in from angry constituents proved a tall order for leaders in both parties.

"Now we have to get the votes," said Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., the majority leader. He said the measure could pass the Senate as early as Wednesday.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 110th; bailout
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1 posted on 09/29/2008 4:00:47 AM PDT by NCDragon
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To: NCDragon

Tar and feathers.


2 posted on 09/29/2008 4:01:27 AM PDT by dinodino
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>> “Nobody wants to have to support this bill,” said Rep. John A. Boehner

Then DON’T support it, Boner! Stiffen up, man.


3 posted on 09/29/2008 4:03:07 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (I've left Cynical City... bound for Jaded.)
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To: NCDragon
Republicans....PLEASE....PLEASE VOTE THIS DOWN!!!! Get a BETTER...CLEANER BILL!! You will be DESTROYED by this!

The Dems have the majority....let THEM VOTE FOR IT!

4 posted on 09/29/2008 4:03:47 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: NCDragon

I agree with GWB on this: I am also confident that Congress will pass this bailout. Congress nearly always does the WRONG thing!


5 posted on 09/29/2008 4:04:35 AM PDT by Theodore R. (Cowardice is forever!)
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To: Nervous Tick

Boehner might be getting an eternal nickname: either “Little GWB” or “Chicken Little”!


6 posted on 09/29/2008 4:05:24 AM PDT by Theodore R. (Cowardice is forever!)
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To: NCDragon

I hope McCain and the republicans put the kibosh on this. If not they destroy conservatism and the party.


7 posted on 09/29/2008 4:06:09 AM PDT by screaminsunshine
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To: NCDragon

Just say no.


8 posted on 09/29/2008 4:06:14 AM PDT by murphE (I refuse to choose evil, even if it is the lesser of two)
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To: NCDragon
House to Vote on Historic $700B Market Bailout corrupt 2008 Democratic-Wall Street+Bank=>Kickback Bill

More accuracy.


9 posted on 09/29/2008 4:07:25 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: murphE

All Republicans should vote Present.


10 posted on 09/29/2008 4:08:16 AM PDT by blf1776 (Compassionate Conservatism Is Dead - It is time to fight, fight, FIGHT!!!!)
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To: murphE

“Just say no.”

Where have I heard that before?

;-)

It is a simple plan- let the dems pass this travesty.


11 posted on 09/29/2008 4:09:53 AM PDT by Canedawg (If the law supposes that, said Mr. Bumble, the law is a ass, a idiot.)
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To: NCDragon
The Democrat constituencies see this as a $700B bonanza. In order to get a place at the table, companies WILL have to be "nice" to certain parties.

This bill MUST be killed.

12 posted on 09/29/2008 4:09:55 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (When injustice becomes law, rebellion becomes duty)
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To: Diogenesis

Glad that they find sticking us w/ a 700 Billion dollar bill is so funny.

13 posted on 09/29/2008 4:11:50 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: Theodore R.

>> Boehner might be getting an eternal nickname: either “Little GWB” or “Chicken Little”!

I have a few other nicknames for him and the other socialists. Mrs. Tick gets mad when I use these nicknames around the house. I probably ought to use them *here* in the forum, so I’ll get banned and I can get some work done.


14 posted on 09/29/2008 4:12:14 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (I've left Cynical City... bound for Jaded.)
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To: NCDragon
They should all have to watch these before they vote.

And if they don't, the American People should.

It's time for this country to take back our money from the money masters, once again.

The Money Masters - How International Bankers Gained Control of America - 215 min - Mar 27, 2007
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-515319560256183936

Money As Debt - 47 min - Feb 12, 2007
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9050474362583451279

“Whoever controls the volume of money in our country is absolute master of all industry and commerce…when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.”

~James Garfield,
20th President
Assassinated, 1881

I wish our congress critters could all be held down and forced to watch these two videos, kinda like in Clockwork Orange... (No, they don't recommend going back to a gold standard.)

15 posted on 09/29/2008 4:13:38 AM PDT by EasySt ( Fold Here! Fold Now! (Free Republic Folders)
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To: NCDragon

Dow futures down 200, the bailout is really working(eyes rolling)


16 posted on 09/29/2008 4:14:20 AM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: NCDragon
It was going to pass one way or another. This just give Pelosi the chance to blame it on the GOP.
17 posted on 09/29/2008 4:15:08 AM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: NCDragon
When this boondoggle is passed, can we once and for all put to rest the asinine idea that the ne'er-do-wells somehow deserve some kind of payment for their ancestors slavery?

Not only was that bill paid in full, by the deaths of 618,000 Americans in the Civil War, but this little gem should make them owe enough that they will become assimilated ... finally.

18 posted on 09/29/2008 4:15:39 AM PDT by G.Mason (Duty, Honor, Country)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor
"No Thankth! I rode one of thoth latht night and I'm thtill thore! Thlip THAT thing to the takthpayerth inthtead! [giggle]"


19 posted on 09/29/2008 4:15:52 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (I've left Cynical City... bound for Jaded.)
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To: DallasBiff

Yeah, but that seems to be moving toward green. Way too early to determine what “the markets” will do yet.


20 posted on 09/29/2008 4:24:56 AM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
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