The debate is back on!
Posted by Carlos C. on Friday, September 26th, 2008 at 11:58 am
John McCain will debate Barack Obama!
Per Drudge Report and Politico.com
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) announces: “The McCain campaign is resuming all activities and the senator will travel to the debate this afternoon. Following the debate, he will return to Washington to ensure that all voices and interests are represented in the final agreement, especially those of taxpayers and homeowners.
The text of a statement from his camapign at about 11:20 a.m. Eastern:
John McCain’s decision to suspend his campaign was made in the hopes that politics could be set aside to address our economic crisis.
Well, John McCain is heading to Mississippi for tonight’s debate. Nothing really got done in Washington, D.C. The bailout talks ended in chaos yesterday. No one could agree on anything. Senator Chris Dodd implied that Senator John McCain sandbagged the negotiations with alternative proposals, though four independent sources said that John McCain did not bring up any of those proposals. Marc Ambinder reports:
Though Sen. Chris Dodd implied that Sen. McCain sandbagged the rest of the negotiators by bringing up alternative proposals, McCain himself did not bring up those proposals, according to four independent sources briefed by four different principals inside the meeting, including two Republicans and two Democrats.
“McCain has not attacked the Paulson deal,” said a third Republican who was briefed by McCain direclty. “Unlike the [Democrats] in the [White House] meeting, he didn’t raise his voice or cause a ruckus. He is urging all sides to come together.”
I can just imagine Nancy Pelosi shrieking at the top of her lungs for attention. President Bush could barely keep control of the meeting. Is it too much to ask for Democrats to act like adults? Also, I know some Republicans are holding their ground and remaining true to their fiscal conservative promises, but can you guys at least come back to the negotiating table? Be true Fiscal Conservative Republicans and show President Bush, Nancy Pelosi, and everyone else not willing to listen that this path of Socialism is not the right idea! There must be another way to come to an agreement on the $700 billion bailout package and protect American taxpayers.
I really do not want to pay $2,333 for something I did not cause.
UPDATE 1: Rush Limbaugh is saying that Democrats passed the chairmanship of the meeting to Barack Obama so they, Democrats, could prove Obama’s “leadership” skills! It was a disaster! Obama ripped apart Paulson’s plan without ever reading the plan! Obama later said that he did not receive a copy of Paulson’s plan, though the plan was sent to him! The room turned chaotic!
This is huge, folks. I am trying to find a link to the story Rush Limbaugh is citing. Rush said that he is citing The American Spectator blog.
Developing…
UPDATE 2: Rush Limbaugh stated that the Democrats wanted to create a myth about Barack Obama coming into the White House and taking over the meeting, so Obama could look “Presidential”.
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September 26th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
“Is it too much to ask for Democrats to act like adults?”
C’mon now…you know the answer to that haha…
September 26th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
Check his website: http://www.rushlimbaugh.com
He usually puts that kind of stuff there.
September 26th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
I did check his website. I also checked the American Spectator.
This is huge, Kelsey. I am trying to find the story Rush is talking about.
September 26th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
Is this it?
http://www.spectator.org/blogger.asp?BlogID=14879
Gotta go, no time.
September 26th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
Please, people. Was it necessary for John McCain to “suspend” his campaign in a big “look at me, I’m putting the country first” charade? Was it necessary for John McCain to run to Washington and pressure the White House into having this farce of a meeting to try to create a situation? People worked hard for 7 days straight before the Messiah(and by that I mean McCain) decided that only he could set things right. Cue the Indiana Jones themesong, Johnny’s coming to the rescue. For once I don’t totally blame the Democrats, I would irritated, too. And the Paulson plan does have serious problems, especially since there is little to no guarantee it will _work_. But it didn’t need Barack or John to politicize it to this extent, and that politicization began with McCain and this silly stunt he’s pulled. Now, after everything has happened, there is still no bill but suddenly McCain feels he might be able to squeeze time from his busy schedule of saving the world to come back to Earth and hold the debate. I wonder if he’ll suspend his presidency every time something important comes up.
September 26th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
Media Mum on Barney Frank’s Fannie Mae Love Connection
Democratic House Financial Services Committee Chair promoted GSEs while former ’spouse’ was Fannie Mae executive.
Prominent Democrats ran Fannie Mae, the same government-sponsored enterprise (GSE) that donated campaign cash to top Democrats. And one of Fannie Mae’s main defenders in the House – Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., a recipient of more than $40,000 in campaign donations from Fannie since 1989 – was once romantically involved with a Fannie Mae executive named Moses.
While Moses served at Fannie Mae and was Frank’s partner, Frank was actively working to support GSEs, according to several news outlets.
In 1991, Frank and former Rep. Joe Kennedy, D-Mass., lobbied for Fannie to soften rules on multi-family home mortgages although those dwellings showed a default rate twice that of single-family homes, according to the Nov. 22, 1991, Boston Globe.
BusinessWeek reported in its Nov. 14, 1994, issue that Fannie Mae called on Frank to exert his influence against a Housing & Urban Development proposal that would force the GSE to focus on minority and low-income buyers and police bias by lenders regardless of their location. Fannie Mae opposed HUD on the issue because it claimed doing so would “ignore the urban middle class.”
September 26th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
Check this site http://www.businessandmedia.org/printer/2008/20080924145932.aspx
Media Mum on Barney Frank’s Fannie Mae Love Connection
Democratic House Financial Services Committee Chair promoted GSEs while former ’spouse’ was Fannie Mae executive.