In my Inbox:
"I will oppose the Wall Street bailout plan because though well intentioned [oh?], and certainly much improved over the administration’s original proposal, it remains deeply flawed. It fails to offset the cost of the plan, leaving taxpayers to bear the burden of serious lapses of judgment by private financial institutions, their regulators, and the enablers in Washington who paved the way for this catastrophe by removing the safeguards that had protected consumers and the economy since the great depression. The bailout legislation also fails to reform the flawed regulatory structure that permitted this crisis to arise in the first place. And it doesn’t do enough to address the root cause of the credit market collapse, namely the housing crisis. Taxpayers deserve a plan that puts their concerns ahead of those who got us into this mess."
Silly Russ. Such a plan is exactly what the little people don't deserve!
You know, if McCain had just had the stones to vote against this thing, I would have had a hard time not rewarding him for it. But n-o-o-o-o. The Village
circled the wagons....
- lambert's blog
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Russ is the only man I trust in the Senate
Right about McCain. Trouble is the media is all for the bailout, and would have pummeled McCain if he voted against it. They keep saying he needs this issue to go away to have a chance. Not only that, he needs to appear to have been the one who led us out of this mess. Yup, a nice low hurdle.
BTW - I'm on the mainland and watching the teevee tubes for the first time in a long time, and based on what I'm seeing, McCain and Palin are dead meat. The media is burying them on the network news with subtle verbal diminution and poor visual framing, open bias by the cable commentariat, and almost constant ridicule on the late night shows, where Obama and Biden aren't even mentioned, let alone made the butt of any jokes. The fix is in as only our famously colluding media can do it, and I don't see any way short of a miracle (which then would be spun away, anyway), that can be overcome. Get ready for eight years of Democratic atrocities. I'm really going to appreciate not hating the Republicans, anymore, but I'm sure our team [?? hilarity ensues] will pick up the slack.
so why didn't he filibuster or otherwise stop this?
i'm beyond tired of them talking against things that hurt us but not acting beyond votes.
if he really hated this, he should have stopped it--it only takes one Senator to stop stuff--and the GOP does it all the time.
It Only Takes One GOP Senator To Stop Stuff
Remember Reid basically ignored Dodd's hold on FISA. So while any one GOP Senator appears to be able to hold up bills, the Democrats hold their own to a higher standard.
Personally, I don't think any one Senator or even a small group of them could stop this bill. I wish Feingold had filibustered for the theatre, but the cloture vote wouldn't have been close and that would've ended it.
"Do what you feel in your heart to be right -- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't. " - Eleanor Roosevelt
what about that "secret hold" shit?
they do that all the time (the GOP, that is)