[sickoflibs]

RE “HOw did Frankin vote against anything again ? ????:
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The bailout was right in the prime election window so Frankin took the position against the bailout, while Coleman was one of those who voted for it. I am not at all saying that I support Frankin or that he was anything but cynical, What I am saying, as I did in my warning post below, that this Bill pushed by GWB, swallowed by McCain, hurt republicans on election day (helped democrats) and gives democrats the PR that republicans are socialists for the rich, and that any giveaway they propose is moral, and republicans that oppose them are hypocrites defending only the rich. I am thinking this is the worse thing GWB did to us, although I have a huge list.

Why Republicans supporting democrat's investor bailout bill is political suicide October 1, 2008

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2094884/posts

[Richard Kimball]

I've also wondered how much of the instability in the stock market was the direct result of Bush coming out a few weeks before the election and declaring the end of the economy without a 900 Billion bailout. A lot of us were upset with Schumer over his comments about one bank, but he's a Senator, and Bush is President, has a much bigger microphone, and made far more inflammatory remarks, backed with specific legislation that was pushed in over the objections of the general public.

So much of what has happened with this election made it seem like people on both sides were trying to throw it to the Democrats. In 1992 and 1996, I believed, and still believe, that Perot ran strictly to keep Bush from a second term and to give the election to Clinton. This year, it seems like the whole Republican party hierarchy was working for Obama.

[WOSG]

I bet Liddy Dole voted for it too. Could have won if she had tought otherwise.