Phuking Republicans!

[Kirkland Laing]

Here are some specific questions for you since nobody asks you any :

Explain exactly what legislation McCain tried to pass to help the economy.

Explain who Obama's bad buddies are.

In 2005 McCain co-sponsored The Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005, S. 190 a bill which would have added regulation to Fannie and Freddie.


Obama's buddies: other than Rev. Wright and Bill Ayers, there are a couple of his TOP financial advisors who worked for Fannie and Freddie and got millions of dollars from their "work"

No, McCain sponsored a spoiling bill to block a Democratic bill that would have actually reformed mortgage lending. I'm going to do a blog post soon which will show how the mortgage crisis, Fannie and Freddie etc. happened. Be sure to look out for it, it'll be an entertaining read. I'm just hoping I bump into a few more nice quotes over the next few days before I post it.

You'll see that the current meltdown came about due to a bunch of deregulation led by McCain's buddy Phil Gramm. The McCain campaign refused to comment a few days ago when asked would Gramm be appointed Secretary to the Treasury in a McCain administration so he's clearly still in the running. In a democracy with a free press McCain potentially appointing the enabler of the current mess to clean it up and be in charge of introducing and enforcing new regulation when he's made a lucrative career of smashing regulation would make a few headlines.

Obama isn't buddies with either his ex-pastor or Ayers, a man who sits on charitable committees that both Republicans and Democrats sit on. No Obama economic advisor has worked for Fannie and Freddie, never mind the top ones. One guy was mistakenly called an advisor by one newspaper and the McCain campaign seized on it to claim Obama was being advised by the guys who brought you the Fannie and Freddie bailout, the companies responsible for six trillion in debt.

However the opposite is true. McCain's campaign manager was lobbying for Fanie and Freddie till last month, even after it was clear they were fucked, something else that isn't getting much medai coverage. And they were paying for literally nothing other than the campaign manager would have a big job in a McCain government (like Karl Rove) and would get them access. That's technically illegal. He should be facing conflict-of interest SEC charges. If you or I did that we'd be breaking the law.

And now he's acting like a drama queen because he's behind in the polls. He really is a sorry individual.

[El Kabong]

Jim Johnson and Frank Raymes(sp?) are advisors to Mr. Obama and they were big into Freddie and Fannie.


There was no oversight on Freddie and Fannie and WHY? Because the DEMOCRATS blocked that legislation.


But I digress there is enough blame to go around, Phil Graham is worthless yes you are correct.



As for Obama he calls this crisis the "Biggest we've ever faced" and then says "If you need my help on anything just give me a call"....you're a fucking Senator not BATMAN!!!!! Get your ass to Washington and do your fucking job. And what he wanted was a joint prepared statement with McCain....what fucking good would that do

[amat]

Lyle, isn't McCain the one who is swearing up and down that he knows how to catch Bin Laden? He said that, that he knows how. So shouldn't he...share?

[Kirkland Laing]

Jim Johnson and Frank Raymes(sp?) are advisors to Mr. Obama and they were big into Freddie and Fannie.


There was no oversight on Freddie and Fannie and WHY? Because the DEMOCRATS blocked that legislation.


But I digress there is enough blame to go around, Phil Graham is worthless yes you are correct.



As for Obama he calls this crisis the "Biggest we've ever faced" and then says "If you need my help on anything just give me a call"....you're a fucking Senator not BATMAN!!!!! Get your ass to Washington and do your fucking job. And what he wanted was a joint prepared statement with McCain....what fucking good would that do

No Lyle, Raynes is not an advisor to Obama. A newspaper mistakenly claimed he was and the McCain used this mistake to put another bs ad out criticising Obama despite the Obama camp telling them beforehand it was bs. Johnson was one of three people om a vetting committee for Obama's vp pick. Once a potential conflict of interest occurred when Fannie/Freddie blew up he resigned. This is not the same as having your campaign manager continue to make money from lobbying Fannie and Freddie months after they became a problem and not resigning, something that's illegal.

The Democrats didn't block any actual legislation. The people who created this problem are the GOP who deregulated the mortgage and investment banking industries so that the mortgage guys could sell their mortgages to investors via securities. Since they took control of the Senate committees in the 1990s the GOP have deregulated the shit out of the financial industry. They're the guys responsible for this. Read my blog post in a few days.

Neither Obama or McCain are involved in the actual negotiations over the bailout bill. Neither of them need to go to Washington to do anything. McCain is just grandstanding because Obama is polling better than him over the economy. He hasn't actually suspended his campain, all the field offices and TV ads are still working/running and his people are still constantly on TV. McCain is doing primetime interviews for three national TV networks tonight. So he's obviously really busy saving the economy.

[OumaFan]

LOL. I can't believe there was a time when I actually had a modicum of respect for this guy. He kept a low profile, LOL. Thankfully he came to our rescue and worked it out all by himself. Has no shame.

McCain takes credit for bill before it loses - Politico.com Print View

[amat]

Hahaha what a tool. Really, how on Earth does anyone actually buy this stuff? Really now, how? Even if it passed with 400 votes was it really McCain who got it done? It makes me mad it really does.

[Trainer Monkey]

Jim Johnson and Frank Raymes(sp?) are advisors to Mr. Obama and they were big into Freddie and Fannie.


There was no oversight on Freddie and Fannie and WHY? Because the DEMOCRATS blocked that legislation.


But I digress there is enough blame to go around, Phil Graham is worthless yes you are correct.



As for Obama he calls this crisis the "Biggest we've ever faced" and then says "If you need my help on anything just give me a call"....you're a fucking Senator not BATMAN!!!!! Get your ass to Washington and do your fucking job. And what he wanted was a joint prepared statement with McCain....what fucking good would that do

Ooopsie

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/24/us...s/24davis.html

[Kirkland Laing]

Well, that's it. Money markets have completely broken down. There's no trading and nobody lending. The only people lending are central banks and they're going to have to keep printing money to do it. A multi-trillion dollar market to fuck all overnight. God knows wha things are going to look like a couple of weeks from now. The financial system is like a country's motorway/freeway system. It needs to move freely at all times. Right now all the entry/exits are blocked off. And this is global, not just in the US. Fuck me backwards. Heads need to roll over this. I'm off down the pub.

[OumaFan]

Who would want to be President now? Seriously. What a fucking mess.

Good job Republicans! And the election is still pretty close Were smart people. You just have to laugh or drink or both.

McCain and Palin were being interviewed by Katie Couric who said something about them disagreeing about climate change and McCain (I'm not making this up) said something like "You can't expect two mavericks to agree on everything. "

I'm not kidding. He actually said that.

I'm really not kidding.

There exists on this planet a person who talks about himself like that.

How Couric didn't vomit all over him is beyond me.

He should be arrested on charges of douchebaggery.

[El Kabong]

OumaFan this may come as quite a shock to you but Presidents and Vice Presidents haven't always gotten along, they haven't always been buddy-buddy, they haven't always been a perfect match and in this case the selection of Palin was merely a demographics decision.


Also we've had idiot Presidents before and we've had extremely intelligent Presidents and they have both had successes and failures.


I'm voting for McCain for several reasons but here are just a few for you guys: #1 I would have voted for him in 2000, #2 Over the past 8 years the one guy in the Republican Party who was a thorn in George W. Bush's side was JOHN McCAIN.....Hagle doesn't count he's just insane, he's a Republican like that crazy ass Ron Paul is a Republican. #3 Barrack Obama is inexperienced and we've already had 8 years of that, I've heard all the "He's a Washington outsider", "They'll surround him with good people", and "He's going to change Washington"......people said the exact same thing about George W. Bush....believe it or not

[Kirkland Laing]

McCain has done nothing but support Bush. His economic/foreign policy advisors are guys who were considered too extreme to be employed by even the Bush administration. If he gets elected in November and actually enacts the policies he's currently running on then what's left of the American economy after Bush has finished with it will melt down into a small puddle. Foreigners will stop funding America's debt and the dollar will turn into confetti.I originally wanted McCain to win so that he could screw everything up so badly that people would have to start paying attention, change course and put America on a new track. But things are already screwed so now we need to see a new direction toot sweet. The US doesn't have a choice now anyway, conservatism as defined by Bush/McCain is dead and buried.

[amat]

OumaFan this may come as quite a shock to you but Presidents and Vice Presidents haven't always gotten along, they haven't always been buddy-buddy, they haven't always been a perfect match and in this case the selection of Palin was merely a demographics decision.

I think you missed his point, just a little bit.