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ACORN, Obama, and the Mortgage Mess
Townhall…..for complete article
by Mona Charen
ACORN attracted Barack Obama in his youthful community organizing days. Madeline Talbott hired him to train her staff — the very people who would later descend on Chicago’s banks as CRA shakedown artists. The Democratic nominee later funneled money to the group through the Woods Fund, on whose board he sat, and through the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, ditto. Obama was not just sympathetic — he was an ACORN fellow traveler.
Now you could make the case that before 2008, well-intentioned people were simply unaware of what their agitation on behalf of non-credit-worthy borrowers could lead to. But now? With the whole financial world and possibly the world economy trembling and cracking like a cement building in an earthquake, Democrats continue to try to fund their friends at ACORN? And, unashamed, they then trot out to the TV cameras to declare “the party is over” for Wall Street (Nancy Pelosi)? The party should be over for the Democrats who brought us to this pass. If Obama wins, it means hiring an arsonist to fight a fire.

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Wild Thing’s comment……….
Obama…. dirty, dirty, dirty politics-as-usual.
Rofl! Today Rush called Obama a little squirrel!
Squirrels love ACORNs, don’t they?? heh heh Good one for ElRushbo.
A past quote from 2007 buy Obama:

“I’ve been fighting alongside ACORN on issues you care about my entire career. Even before I was an elected official, when I ran Project Vote voter registration drive in Illinois, ACORN was smack dab in the middle of it, and we appreciate your work.” — Barack Obama, Speech to ACORN, November 2007

Obama, during his four-year tenure in Chicago as a community organizer, worked as a trainer for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now — the infamous ACORN, whose affiliate, Project Vote, is known for voter fraud — the same ACORN from which a mighty mortgage mess has grown.
Upon his return to Chicago after Harvard Law School, Obama provided legal representation for ACORN and for Tony Rezko (recently convicted of bribery and money laundering), who was Obama’s main money man during his years in the Illinois State Senate. Rezko had helped the Obamas purchase a home in Chicago’s politically correct Hyde Park. Obama sat on the boards of the philanthropic Woods Foundation and the Joyce Foundation, both of whom funneled millions of dollars to ACORN.

Karl Rove said Democrats were already talking about how they were going to use the vote to attack Republicans before the votes were even counted. He blasts Speaker Pelosi for one of the most vicious speeches in US House history.

Congress Floor Monday – 9/29/08 Nancy Pelosi
The videos have a fuzzy thing to them but it does not last, it is not from this blog or YouTube, it is from the original filming of them. I jsut wanted to let you know what to expcet. LOL Maybe it is the Pelosi the witch that zapped them. hahaaha — Wild Thing

$700 billion a staggering number but only a part of the cost of the failed Bush economic policies to our country.”

Pelosi #2 “anything goes mentality”

Wild Thing’s comment………..
Poor Nancy due to her NON leadership in Congress it has the lowest rating of any Congress as far as I know. And she did soooo promise it would not be corrupt too. We keep hearing about Bush’s failed Presidency and yet Nancy has failed much more, turning off the lights and locking the door when her own voters back home were paying high gas prices along with the rest of us. Did she care? Heck no!
She had to have her own plane so she could haul herself and her family and friends back and forth and around our country as OUR expense.
What would be reallly great is if this next election she would lose her leadership bipity bop and the Democrats would lose being in the majority.

‘Cow patty,’ booze denote mess on House floor
USA Today
Here’s a sampling of some metaphors and analogies that made their way into the rhetoric on the House floor, both in support and against the $700 billion bailout package. The measure, and the market, ultimately took a nose dive:
• “This is a huge cow patty with a piece of marshmallow stuck in the middle,” Rep. Paul Broun, R-Ga., said of the package. “I’m not going to eat that cow patty.”
• “We don’t have a perfect bill,” said Rep. Paul Kanjorski, D-Pa. “We do have a perfect storm.”
• “We have individuals who are drunks and regulators who are pouring the drinks,” said Rep. Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y., as he attempted to compare the faltering economy to drunken drivers. “We have to clear the highway.”
• “Like an explorer in uncharted territory, none of us in this body have any good judgment or insight into what happens if we don’t pass this bill,” said Rep. Spencer Bachus, of Alabama, the top Republican on the House Financial Services Committee.
• “The golden parachutes have been exchanged for camouflage parachutes,” said Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., of the proposal’s goal of limiting executive compensation.
• “We are watching one domino after another fall, that are the pillars of our financial system in the United States,” said Rep. Adam Putnam, R-Fla., a member of the House GOP leadership team.

Wild Thing’s comment……….
LOL some of these are so funny. Ah-h-h politics and the crazy people in it.
hahaaha

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Wild Thing’s comment…………….
Thanks to all our troops, this is an excellent video of the conbat helicopters and I wanted to show it to you.

House, Senate Democrats derail package of tax cuts
The Hill
A blowup between the Senate and conservative House Democrats has derailed a package of tax cuts, including tax incentives for renewable-energy production, which Democratic leaders hoped to count as a major accomplishment.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) bluntly told Democratic Senate leaders to show some backbone and stand up to Republicans who oppose the House version of the tax package, which includes offsets.
“We’ve been willing to compromise on everything, but not on fiscal sanity. That is why we ask Senate Democrats to stand up to the Republican minority,” said Hoyer.
But Senate Democrats fired back at their Democratic colleagues in the House, accusing them of taking too adamant a stance in the face of overwhelming opposition.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) pleaded with House Democrats to understand his difficult position: a slim majority, procedural rules that empower minority opposition, and the regular absence of three members of his caucus.
“I do not have the strength and the power — legislatively, procedurally — that they have in the House,” said Reid on the chamber floor.
“My majority is extremely slim, 51-49, when everybody is here,” he said. “I just beg my House colleagues to understand, this isn’t something that we are trying to surprise them with.”
House Democrats, led by Hoyer and members of the conservative Blue Dog Coalition, flatly rejected a Senate package that included energy tax relief extensions, business tax relief extensions and an extension of Alternative Minimum Tax relief.
Senate negotiators combined those tax breaks with disaster relief, mental health parity legislation and a bill to help rural schools.
The unexpected hard-line stance taken by House Democrats caught their Senate counterparts by surprise. Most painfully for Democratic leaders, the flare-up threatens renewable-energy tax breaks, which they hoped to count as a significant achievement of the 110th Congress.
“It’s unthinkable to leave town without renewing the tax extenders for renewable energy,” said Sen. Byron Dorgan (N.D.), chairman of the Senate Democratic Policy Committee.
A Democratic lobbyist said leaders had hoped their candidates would be able to tout the renewable-energy tax breaks on the campaign trail.
“They want to go home and campaign on that,” said the lobbyist.
A victory on taxes would have helped offset the loss they suffered on offshore drilling.
Congressional leaders this weekend sent to President Bush a $630 billion stopgap spending measure that lifted the congressional moratorium on offshore drilling.
Conservative Democrats balked at the Senate-crafted package because it failed to offset the cost of many of the tax-relief extensions, said a senior Democratic aide. The Senate bill would cost $107 billion over 10 years.
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, said House Democrats should accept the Senate package because it passed by an overwhelming vote in the upper chamber and Bush has promised to sign it. He noted that Bush has vowed to veto the House alternative package.
House Democrats wanted to help pay for the proposals in their package by closing what they call tax “loopholes” for hedge fund managers.
“That’s why we ask Senate Democrats to stand firm against the Republicans insisting on the principle that we must finance tax cuts with debt,” Hoyer said.
The derailment of the tax package also threatens to subject tens of millions of Americans to higher Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) rates next year, a scary political scenario for many Democrats who represent higher-income areas of the nation, such as the Northeast, that would be the hardest-hit.
Sen. Jon Kyl (Ariz.), the Republican whip, told The Hill that Republicans would not support AMT relief legislation if it were separated from the larger package.
Senate Republicans have refused to consider any alternative to the carefully negotiated package of tax cuts that it sent to the House early Monday.
Reid told his House counterparts that, otherwise, he would accept their proposal to break the tax package up into smaller pieces.
“If it were up to me, I would accept this in a second,” said Reid.
But House Democrats are getting sick of the Senate’s hardball tactics.
Citing an attempt earlier in the 110th Congress to force House Democrats to accept a Senate-drafted surveillance bill without changes, Hoyer said his colleagues are not going to let themselves be jammed again.
“We’ve seen it before. Some of you remember FISA — the message was the same, ” said Hoyer, in reference to an overhaul of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. “Legislation by blunt force is not the way, as I said, we ought to proceed.”
Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said that House Democrats may be more open to compromise in the wake of the defeat of a $700 billion Wall Street bailout package, which sent the stock market plummeting more than 700 points.
Economic experts warn that millions of Americans could lose their jobs if a rescue plan doesn’t pass.
Baucus predicted that House Democrats would be more amenable when faced with the prospect of letting tax breaks expire while the nation’s economy teeters on the brink of recession.
“There are more dynamics in play now,” he said, speaking of how the bailout would affect negotiations on tax cuts. “Things are related.”

Wild Thing’s comment………..
Cannot quit laughing — The Dem Majority wants them to stand up to the Minority. What am I missing here?
The Blue Dogs are panicked… they’re worried about the election. They just helped to shoot down the socialist bailout.
I thought Obama was uniting the libs. They can’t even stand each other. Wow, a bill without any money for a new highway? That might be a first. LOL
You got to laugh. Laugh or go insane. I choose laughter.
Republicans just need to run ads highlighting their experiment with the Democrat Majority has failed miserably and provide the examples.
Americans who earned what they have, are tired of poor decisions by people who default on their mortgages and by the poor decisions made by businesses that lent them the money and we want to save the country from socialism

Barack Obama’s team believes he can win by a landslide
Barack Obama’s senior aides believe he is on course for a landslide election victory over John McCain and will comfortably exceed most current predictions in the race for the White House.
Telegraph.co.uk for complete article
Their optimism, which is said to be shared by the Democratic candidate himself, is based on information from private polling and on faith in the powerful political organisation he has built in the key swing states.
Insiders say that Mr Obama’s apparent calm through an unusually turbulent election season is because he believes that his strength among first time voters in several key states has been underestimated, both by the media and by the Republican Party.
Mr Obama has come under fire from within Democratic ranks over his message and his tactics. Critics say he has failed to connect with the blue-collar workers seen as crucial to winning the election, and too reluctant to make direct attacks on Mr McCain.
But his aides are convinced that he has a strong chance of winning no fewer than nine states won by George W.Bush in the closely contested 2000 election, including former Republican strongholds like North Carolina, Virginia and even Indiana, which have not voted Democrat for a generation.
David Axelrod, Obama’s chief strategist, said last week that Obama had “a lot of opportunity” in states which Mr Bush won four years ago

Wild Thing’s comment………..
“he believes that his strength among first time voters in several key states has been underestimated”
First no one will know till the votes are all in and secondly the “first time voters” does not mean they will be reliable and vote when it is time. It is one thing to get tons of new voters registered and another for them to follow through.
We know they are very organized, so much so that I have never seen anything like it. The teenagers going door to door in neighborhoods telling people to vote for Obama and his Camp Obama’s and all the other things.
But we have a tremendous draw with Gov. Sarah Palin, she is awesome and real. Conservatives are not known to sit home when they have a conservative to vote for especially.
Either way this will be one exciting and scary and nervous Nov. 4th and I pray we win.

“A Pro-McCain march on the Upper West Side in Manhattan on Sunday, September 21, 2008. A group of McCain-Palin supporters dare to march through the Upper West Side – infidels in the liberal Mecca. Local “progressives” boo, jeer, and flip fingers at them with a rage they never display even to this country’s enemies. We would like them to take a look at themselves in this video and maybe learn a few things about the human condition that the academia has obviously left out. “….from the person that did the video.

Wild Thing’s comment………
haha Liberals invented the definition of what rude means. I have heard in the news that Obama followers and they are followers not just voters, have stolen McCain/Palin yard signs, spray painted on garage doors the word in huge lettering ‘ OBAMA”, keyed cars, and other things.
What nice upstanding citizens Obamaites are. ….NOT.

Conservatives Come Out Strong against Bailout Bill
Roll Call
As the House kicked off three hours of debate on the $700 billion bailout package Monday morning, conservative Republicans wasted no time expressing their opposition to the massive government support of the financial sector.

Before the debate began, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) requested that the House adjourn without taking up the bailout package “so we don’t do this terrible thing to America.”

Gohmert temporarily delayed debate by seeking a 15-minute vote to establish a quorum on the floor.
Rep. Jeb Hensarling (Texas), chairman of the conservative Republican Study Committee, said he “cannot in good conscience” vote for the package because it “socializes losses,” and he called for spending more time reviewing other proposals.

“I believe that this plan is fraught with unintended consequences, would force generations of taxpayers to pick up the tab for Wall Street losses, and could permanently and fundamentally change the role of government in the American free enterprise system,” Hensarling said.

The RSC chairman said Congress rushed through the issue and “did not adequately discuss or investigate potential alternatives that would have constituted a work out and not a bail out.”
On the other end of the spectrum, some progressive Democrats are opposed to the bill over its lack of foreclosure provisions and for handing over so much money to the Bush administration.

“Why are we willing to even make available $700 billion to this administration?” asked Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-Calif.)

President Bush and Secretary Paulson have been wrong from the start on just about everything,” said Woolsey. “If you think they’ll be responsible with this money, think again. I, for one, will be in eminent opposition of this bailout.”

Financial Services Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) warned members that not passing the bill could have dire consequences.

“If we defeat this bill today, it will be a very bad for the financial sector in the American economy and the people who will feel the pain are not the top bankers and the top corporate executives, but average Americans,” Frank said. “Pain averted is not a basis on which you get a lot of gratitude, but that is what is coming if we do not do something today.”

Wild Thing’s comment……..
“and could permanently and fundamentally change the role of government in the American free enterprise system,” Hensarling said.”
Please if you can call your Rep. and tell them NO and to stop this insanity. This Bill will keep us permanently enslaved to the government. It is socialism.
C-Spam LIVE Stream video
I have both C-Span on and Rush and Rush said it was designed to fail and Dems are demanding that the GOPers go along. So far most speaking are saying NO to this ( on C-Span) the ones saying yes are kissing up to Barney Frank this makes me physically ill watching anyone kiss up to Frank. But I want to see what and if there are any good guys saying NO way.
Oh my God, what happened to John Boehner, he is giving a speech on why they have to vote YES, has he lost his mind. Has he been threatened with something. I don’t get this at all.
Well he just got kicked out of MY FOXHOLE that’s for damn sure.

UPDATE:
Pelosi needs a certain amount of GOP votes for this to pass. She needs 100 votes.
195 FOR – 220 AGAINST!
TIMES UP, why is it still tallying?!?!

OOPS new UPDATE:
206Yea………..227 Nay………To Non votes 2
If I understand this right, It’s over, it is defeated. It looks like the Bailout bill has FAILED!
Now the dems are as Rush just said ” brow beating 11 of them to change their vote.”
FOX Business said they will hold the vote open a few hours to twist arms and change votes.
Wall St is having a hissy fit.
We struck back at Socialism and live for another week or so until the “refined” bill comes back to the House.

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Victoria Sahadi, 7, dressed up as the Alaska governor/Republican vice presidential nominee.

John McCain: Sarah Palin’s the best, forget the critics
NY Daily News
John McCain had a message Sunday for critics of his veep pick Sarah Palin: buzz off.
Palin has been blasted for appearing to be in over her head following a choppy, and at moments unintelligible, recent interview with CBS’ Katie Couric. Some conservative Republicans have demanded she be yanked from the ticket.
McCain is having none of it.

“They can complain. I’ll rely on the American people. They have responded in a way that is positive. She’s brought a kind of excitement that makes you think that campaigns can be an exciting trip,” McCain told ABC’s “This Week.”

“I’m so excited by the reaction that she has gotten across the country. She knows how to communicate directly with people. … They respond,” McCain added.

But polls show Palin’s popularity waning as she has struggled to answer questions about foreign policy in the few interviews she has granted to journalists.
With even Republicans wincing over Palin’s difficulty explaining the importance of Alaska’s proximity to Russia in the Couric interview, McCain’s camp was quick to note the many mistakes of the Democratic ticket’s No. 2, Joe Biden.

Wild Thing’s comment………….
I saw the interviewi with McCain Sunday morning on This Week, and McCain laughed when it was suggested Palin step down. He genuinely thinks the world of her.

How McCain Wins
By WILLIAM KRISTOL
New York Times
(snipet from the article)

With respect to his campaign, McCain needs to liberate his running mate from the former Bush aides brought in to handle her — aides who seem to have succeeded in importing to the Palin campaign the trademark defensive crouch of the Bush White House. McCain picked Sarah Palin in part because she’s a talented politician and communicator. He needs to free her to use her political talents and to communicate in her own voice.

I’m told McCain recently expressed unhappiness with his staff’s handling of Palin. On Sunday he dispatched his top aides Steve Schmidt and Rick Davis to join Palin in Philadelphia. They’re supposed to liberate Palin to go on the offensive as a combative conservative in the vice-presidential debate on Thursday.

That debate is important. McCain took a risk in choosing Palin. If she does poorly, it will reflect badly on his judgment. If she does well, it will be a shot in the arm for his campaign.

In the debate, Palin has to dispatch quickly any queries about herself, and confidently assert that of course she’s qualified to be vice president. She should spend her time making the case for McCain and, more important, the case against Obama. As one shrewd McCain supporter told me, “Every minute she spends not telling the American people something that makes them less well disposed to Obama is a minute wasted.”

Wild Thing’s comment………
I agree with this above, this makes me very happy, let Sarah be Sarah! She’s a kick butt conservative. Don’t try to rein her in. Her conservatism and patriotism will shine through. When she started she was doing great, if they have been trying to reign her in like they want McCain to do I am agsint that for either of them.
McCain too is at his best when he lets his passionate side shine through.His debate at Saddleback was his best and that night he did not hold back. I liked this last debate but he could have said more, hit harder and maybe he was holding back too.
The best ads McCain ran that we all loved where the hard hitting kind too.
In my opinion this is not the normal election, we are up against a man that is the most evil from the left running for President and we need to have the take no prisoner attitude with the left always.
Bush wasn’t a Conservative and we all knew that, but he did, and tried to do, some good things. He just refused to fight and/or articulate his positions to the American people. Palin will fight, turn her loose and let her do what comes naturally.
SARAH PALIN DID JUST FINE …then “they” thought “they’d” HELP her….DON’T FIX WHAT ISN’T BROKEN PEOPLE!
LET HER BE HERSELF!!!!!!!!!!!!!