[stockpirate]

“Now I want to talk about the bailout bill that we expect to have on the Senate floor soon. The Paulson proposal is an attempt to do what we so often do in Washington – throw money at a problem”

MY GOD THE REPUBLICANS CAVED!

[MozarkDawg]

MY GOD THE REPUBLICANS CAVED!

Are you telling me that HOUSE Republicans have all folded, 100 of them will vote for this POS to give Dems cover??

[DRey]

MY GOD THE REPUBLICANS CAVED!

Calm down. There is absolutely nothing in that speech that says they caved. Quite to the contrary, the Republicans are going AGAINST the bailout, but there may be enough votes in both house and senate among the Democrats to pass it. The only way this can be stopped is for Democrats to come to their senses, and we all know that is impossible as they are, by definition, nonsensicle. The Republicans are united against this bailout and the Democrats are going to pay dearly for passing it.

[Eagle of Liberty]

MY GOD THE REPUBLICANS CAVED!

Pubs caved? You may want to expand on that one.

[skinkinthegrass]

Congress needs to take this seriously and stay here until we find the right solution, not just throw 700 billion dollars at Wall Street as we walk out the door.

How are they caving-in?
Jim "I have not yet begun to fight!" Bunning.....my Senator.

[dools007]

How do you conclude the Pubbies caved from what Senator Bunning just said?

It’s not that I necessarily believe it to be untrue, but you provide no evidence for that conclusion.

McCain’s going through with debate tonight could mean precisely that or something entirely different. So far as I know he has not restarted the rest of his campaign.

I fully expect him to use the debate tonight to press this issue. Despite dem whinning it was McCain who interrupted the little dance going on between Pres. Bush and dems. And I think it was McCain who triggered public outrage about the so-called remedies being pushed by both those entities. Outrage so intense that voters are contacting their representatives and telling them not only no, but hell no. That’s exactly how one dem Senator described the correspondance from his constituents. He said “it was about 50-50. 50% no. 50% hell no.”

This thing isn’t over until the fat lady sings. You also fail to know or remember that dems have not had any pubbie roll overs since they assumed majority in Congress. Remember the so-called comprehensive Illegal Immigration Bill? Public outrage killed it. Most recently dems lost fight to prevent off shore drilling. The ban expires on Sunday—I think. Have you forgotten already Dingy Harry going before the microphones and cameras proclaiming “we killed the Patriot Act”. Not.

Get a grip Stockpirate.

[Eva]

Look, we know that some sort of bail out is inevitable, it is just a matter of how bad this bill is going to be. At this point the Republicans have the upper hand. The Democrats are trying to force the Republicans to approve something that they absolutely oppose and that the majority of the voters oppose.

The Democrats wanted to hang this on Republicans and try to say that they were forced to do it by the circumstances, so they tried to make it as “progressive” as possible. In reality the whole thing is socialist/progressive.