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[Spytheweb]

McCain Has Based His 2008 Campaign On Promoting Less Regulation

McCain: ?I Don?t Think Anyone Who Wants To Increase The Burden Of Government Regulation And Higher Taxes Has Any Real Understanding Of Economics.? During a McCain Town Hall in Inez, Kentucky, John McCain said, ?When we come out of this recession and we will because I believe that the fundamentals of our economy are good ? Sen. Clinton wants the government to make the decisions for you on your health care, I want the families to make the decisions on their health care. I don?t think anyone who wants to increase the burden of government regulation and higher taxes has any real understanding of economics and the economy and what is needed in order to ensure the future of this country.? [McCain Town Hall in Inez, Kentucky, 4/23/08; emphasis added]

McCain: ?I Understand Why The AFL-CIO And Maybe Other Unions May Oppose My Free Market, Less Regulation, Right To Work.? During an appearance on Fox?s ?Special Report with Brit Hume,? John McCain said, ?I understand why the AFL-CIO and maybe other unions may oppose my free market less regulation right to work. I think we have honest differences of opinion. I respect those labor unions, but I?m sure that those differences are very intense and very real.? [Fox News,? Special Report with Brit Hume,? 3/12/08]

McCain: ?Let?s Reduce Regulation.? While speaking about the economy in St. Louis, Missouri, John McCain said, ?I?m asked all the time are we in a recession or not in a recession. And I don?t know the answer to that because it?s kind of a technical term? I do not believe we should raise your taxes. I think it would be the worst thing we could do. And that means to me I think the tax cuts need to be made permanent. When you?ve got a bad economy, the worst thing you can do is increase people?s tax burden. Let?s reduce it. Let?s reduce regulation.? [CNN, ?Ballot Bowl, 3/15/08]

McCain: ?We Need To Return To The Reagan Years? We Need Less Regulation.? As shown on PBS?s ?Washington Week,? John McCain said, ?We need to return to the Reagan years. We need to have fiscal conservatism. We need less government. We need less regulation. We need to end of spending spree which has eroded our base of Republican support.? [PBS, ?Washington Week,? 1/25/08]

McCain Promised To ?Give Them Lower Taxes, Less Regulation, Less Government In Their Lives.? As shown on CNN?s ?CNN Newsroom,? John McCain said, ?We?ve got to do the other things necessary to encourage business and give them lower taxes, less regulation, less government in their lives, and that means a simpler, fairer ? tax code. The tax code in America is broken and it needs to be fixed.? [CNN, ?CNN Newsroom,? 2/14/08]

 

[THE KOD]

WASHINGTON ? The FBI is investigating four major U.S. financial institutions whose collapse helped trigger the need for a $700 billion bailout plan by the Bush administration.
Two law enforcement officials said Tuesday the FBI is looking at potential fraud by mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Lehman Bros. Holdings and insurer American International Group.

The inquiries, still in preliminary stages, will focus on the financial institutions and the individuals that ran them, a senior law enforcement official said..

Officials said the new inquiries brings the number of corporate lenders under investigation over the last year to 26.

Spokesmen for AIG, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac did not immediately return calls for comment Tuesday evening. A Lehman spokesman did not have an immediate comment.

The law enforcement officials spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigations are ongoing and are in the very early stages.

Just last week, FBI Director Robert Mueller put the number of large financial firms under investigation at 24. He did not name any of the companies under investigation but said the FBI also is looking at whether any of them have misrepresented their assets.
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The mofos are going to Jail where they belong !

:00hour :00hour :00hour

BUSH WANTED THEM TO HURRY AND SIGN THE BILL BEFORE THE FEDS GOT INVOLVED :SIB

 

[THE KOD]

McCain Aide's Firm Was Paid Recently
Davis Said Work for Freddie Had Ceased:scared

By Michael D. Shear
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, September 24, 2008; Page A06

The lobbying firm founded by Rick Davis, the campaign manager for Sen. John McCain's White House bid, was paid for work on behalf of Freddie Mac in recent months, despite assertions by Davis earlier this week that his work for the firm had ended three years ago, according to reports yesterday.

Two unidentified sources told Roll Call newspaper yesterday that Davis's firm, Davis Manafort, continues to receive $15,000 per month from the mortgage giant, one of several financial institutions at the center of the nation's housing crisis.

Another report by the New York Times said the payments to the firm stopped last month. Both reports appear to contradict Davis, who told reporters on a conference call this week that his firm had not done work for Freddie Mac for roughly a year and a half.

But an industry source told the Post last night that Davis Manafort continued to receive payments in the $15,000 range from Freddie Mac until recently, describing the relationship as one in which the firm was on retainer and did little actual work after early 2007.
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fawking lier crooked no good sum bitchs.

McCain has the crooks all up in his campaign.

WHY ? Because thats the people he was given.

 

[jer-z jock]

McCain Aide's Firm Was Paid Recently
Davis Said Work for Freddie Had Ceased:scared

By Michael D. Shear
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, September 24, 2008; Page A06

The lobbying firm founded by Rick Davis, the campaign manager for Sen. John McCain's White House bid, was paid for work on behalf of Freddie Mac in recent months, despite assertions by Davis earlier this week that his work for the firm had ended three years ago, according to reports yesterday.

Two unidentified sources told Roll Call newspaper yesterday that Davis's firm, Davis Manafort, continues to receive $15,000 per month from the mortgage giant, one of several financial institutions at the center of the nation's housing crisis.

Another report by the New York Times said the payments to the firm stopped last month. Both reports appear to contradict Davis, who told reporters on a conference call this week that his firm had not done work for Freddie Mac for roughly a year and a half.

But an industry source told the Post last night that Davis Manafort continued to receive payments in the $15,000 range from Freddie Mac until recently, describing the relationship as one in which the firm was on retainer and did little actual work after early 2007.
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fawking lier crooked no good sum bitchs.

McCain has the crooks all up in his campaign.

WHY ? Because thats the people he was given.

Amazing how far they go and what goes on what out us even realizing some of the junk they pull off and do to us SERVING CITIZENS........
Just never stops.....the WAR ON DRUGS has become the WAR ON TERROR. Milking us for every penny we can find on the street.....Many and many people got rich and put into high places from the war on drugs and that had there hands in the Iran Contra garbage, but those very same people are now in Bushs circle and in power in some fashion. Lets see how the next "President" uses his powers to enrich the lives of those closest to him. You dont think being caught in a lie means much do ya'?


Iran Contra Links

I think its Sponge that says: "You can make this stuff up."

 

[THE KOD]

Pakistan's president tells Palin she is 'gorgeous'
Posted: 06:20 PM ET

From From CNN's Peter Hamby and Wes Little

Pakistan president Asif Ali Zardari told Palin she's gorgeous.
NEW YORK (CNN) ? Sarah Palin and the foreign leaders she has met with in New York have said very little to reporters over the last two days, but the press happened to be in the room on Wednesday for one eyebrow-raising exchange, as the new president of Pakistan lavished praise on Palin's looks.

On entering a room filled with several Pakistani officials this afternoon, Palin was immediately greeted by Sherry Rehman, the country's Information Minister.

"And how does one keep looking that good when one is that busy?," Rehman asked, drawing friendly laughter from the room when she complimented Palin.

"Oh, thank you," Palin said.

Pakistan's recently-elected president, Asif Ali Zardari, entered the room seconds later. Palin rose to shake his hand, saying she was ?honored? to meet him.

Zardari then called her "gorgeous" and said: "Now I know why the whole of America is crazy about you.":142smilie

"You are so nice," Palin said, smiling. "Thank you."

A handler from Zardari's entourage then told the two politicians to keep shaking hands for the cameras.

"If he's insisting, I might hug," Zardari said. Palin smiled politely.

The Alaska governor did not answer questions from reporters at her first two appearances on Wednesday, when she joined McCain in meetings with Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili and Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko, and then traveled downtown to meet with Iraqi president Jalal Talabani.

But she did offer brief remarks to a reporter at the Zardari meeting who asked about her day.

"It's going great," Palin said. "These meetings are very informative and helpful, and a lot of good people sharing appreciation for America."

Filed under: Asif Ali Zardari ? Sarah Palin

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Just what Palin needed. She is meeting with foreign leaders to show she has diplomatic capability and they say she is gorgeous to her face in front of reporters .

:scared :sadwave: :142smilie

embarressing

 

[The Sponge]

THATS A DUMB QUESTION SCOTT!!! The answer is BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT REPUBLICAN:00hour They still defend this party after 8 years of waste and lies, and worse then that...they are still backing the party trying to put another but the same guy in office...you know the guy who went from "I am experienced and I am a leader'' to "We need change in Washington and I am the guy to bring that"......only thing republicans want to change MAYBE are the underwear they put on this morning. How many republicans do you know on welfare or jobless and living in a shelter?

If Hitler was the Republican nominee 95 percent of the republicans would support him. That is how retarded they are. Just mold their minds into believing anything. Its laughable that for a year now we had to read paste after paste on how great the economy is running from these simpletons when its right in front of their face with the gas prices and every thing else that cost three times as much (along with businesses laying off or closing)but they will let the Fox new's of the world show them how to think.

 

[THE KOD]

 

[THE KOD]

For one thing, America may be a republic of amnesiacs, but deep in some seldom-used brain lobe, it does recall that its two political parties have differed on questions of regulation and stimulating the economy, a comparison that does not now work in Republicans' favor. For another, presidential debates aren't distractions from the business of the nation. However confining their formats may at times be, they are central to the business of democracy, and suspending that business so that a lowest-common denominator consensus can be reached in Washington -- or so that McCain can complain that Obama is an obstructionist if he doesn't go along with McCain's proposals -- is an affront to American voters.

McCain's ploy was transparent. To counter the public's preference for Obama's economics over his own, he would get both of them in a room and emerge proclaiming that they had reached agreement, that they had no differences. In fact, they have very real differences. McCain wants to retain tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans; Obama wants to create tax cuts for all but the wealthiest 10 percent of Americans. Obama favors policies -- through investments in infrastructure and education and through legislation enabling Americans to join unions without fear of being fired -- to build the base of the economy, while McCain's record is one of opposition to such policies. Obama favors trade agreements only when they raise labor and environmental standards with our trading partners and protect them here at home; McCain has supported every trade pact that has weakened such standards and has never said one word about protecting our standards or raising them abroad.

Comparisons such as these are odious, however, to McCain's prospects.

He cannot win on the strength of his positions. He can only win on the strength of his character. Problem is, McCain's character, as we have seen in his selection of Sarah Palin as his running mate, is heavy on decisiveness and weak on judgment. In this, despite his campaign's protestations, a McCain presidency would be very much an extension of George W. Bush's. The president helped McCain out last night by inviting both candidates to Washington today to put their imprimatur on a deal that seemed near completion. At the risk of making McCain's gesture look less heroic, he also made it look less self-absorbed.
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[Hard Times]

If this was a card game,then Bush just played the trump card. By bringing McSame back to Washington and the vote goes down and the matter is resolved they will sell this to the public that they needed McCain to come back and get things done.What a crock,IMO.

 

[THE KOD]

McCain Stops at Senate en Route to White House
Updated 4:19 p.m.

By Michael D. Shear and Lori Montgomery
Sen. John McCain returned to Washington on Thursday after declaring that he has suspended his campaign, but he appeared largely detached from the flurry of negotiations on a $700 billion economic rescue package that appeared to be headed to a successful conclusion.

McCain's "Straight Talk Air" landed at National Airport just after noon, and McCain's motorcade sped toward the Senate. But by then, senior Democrats and Republicans were already announcing that a deal in principle had been reached.:shrug: :SIB

That news appeared to be somewhat premature as House Republican leader John Boehner told his members that "no deal" had yet been reached. McCain arrived at 3:40 p.m. at the White House, where he and his rival, Sen. Barack Obama, were scheduled to meet with President Bush and congressional leaders at 4 p.m.

The leading Democratic negotiator on the Bush administration's $700 bailout plan accused John McCain of undermining the proposal and prodding House Republicans to lay out a wholly different approach that is opposed by the White House.

"This is the presidential campaign of John McCain undermining what Hank Paulson tells us is essential for the country," said Democratic Rep. Barney Frank, (D-Mass.), chairman of the House Financial Services Committee. "This is McCain at the last minute getting House Republicans to undermine the Paulson approach."

Republican leadership aides reacted incredulously to Frank's broadside, saying there was no way McCain's chief economic adviser, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, could undermine a deal with House Republicans that has never had rank-and-file support.

Holtz-Eakin met this morning with Boehner, House Minority Whip Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) and House Republican Conference Chairman Adam Putnam (R-Fla.), but the GOP leaders did virtually all of the talking, and what they told him was how little support the $700 billion package had with their rank-and-file. When McCain emerged from the back door of Boehner's office in the Capitol, both Holtz-Eakin and Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), a key McCain ally, said they knew very little about the deal.

GOP aides familiar with the alternative proposal said that it had been in a draft stage for several days, with one adviser saying the lawmakers wanted to unveil it yesterday, but that McCain's entree into the deliberations actually made them wait a day.

The White House meeting was in part the result of McCain's stunning pronouncement Wednesday that he would stop campaigning to return to Washington, where he had urged Bush to convene a summit to address the crisis.

But for most of the afternoon, McCain has not visibly been part of the action on the issue. He was not present when House and Senate negotiators emerged from a two-hour meeting to declare success. That announcement was made by Sen. Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.), chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, Sen. Robert F. Bennett (Utah) and Frank.

McCain, by contrast, spent some time in his office with several Republican colleagues, briefly stopped at Boehner's office, then left for lunch at the Capitol's Mansfield Room before returning to his office in the Russell Senate Office Building.

Republican Rep. Spencer Bachus (Ala.) said he had spoken to McCain yesterday, had breakfast with two McCain advisers this morning and spoke to McCain again immediately after today's meeting. But, Bachus said, "John's not trying to call the shots for the House caucus, I can tell you that. He's just opposed to the plan in its present form."

Frank reacted angrily to Bachus's statements, insisting that lawmakers were well on their way toward an agreement they could put to a vote, and that this afternoon's meeting at the White House was largely irrelevent.

"We'll be glad to go and tell them there really isn't that much of a deadlock to break," Frank said. "But I'm always glad to go to the White House."

McCain aides expressed cautious optimism, saying that there is "no deal until there's a deal," but McCain made no comments to the reporters trailing him around the Capitol.

Meanwhile, the status of the planned Friday night debate with Obama remained up in the air Thursday afternoon. Senior McCain adviser Mark Salter said, "We've got to see," when asked whether the debate would go on as planned.

McCain said on Wednesday that the debate should be postponed so that the two candidates, the president and the congressional leadership could lock themselves in a room for 100 hours to solve the economic crisis.

Obama arrived in Washington later in the afternoon, accompanied by one Senate staffer. Democrats cried foul when a White House list of attendees indicated that McCain planned to take a campaign aide, former Congressional Budget Office director Doug Holtz-Eakin, with him to the White House meeting.
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So when McCain got there to save the day, they told old John he wasnt needed.
:142smilie

Talk about a straigth kick to the nads

 

[THE KOD]

 

[THE KOD]

The economy is in crisis. Without this bailout America could go into a immediate and long term depression like this country has never seen.

John, John, .........

 

[MadJack]

The economy is in crisis. Without this bailout America could go into a immediate and long term depression like this country has never seen.

John, John, .........

:mj07: :mj07: :mj07:

 

[THE KOD]

Has McCain read the bailout bill?
Posted: 01:00 PM ET

CNN's Dana Bash was on Capitol Hill with Sen. McCain Thursday.

(CNN) ? As John McCain returned to Capitol Hill Thursday to support the passage of a package to address the nation?s financial crisis, Democrats spent the morning gleefully directing reporters to a statement from the Republican nominee Tuesday ? three days after the bailout bill was introduced ? that he had not read the text of the administration?s proposal.

"I have not had a chance to see it in writing. I have to examine it,? he told a Cleveland television station.:scared

The McCain campaign said Thursday the Arizona senator had immediately been briefed on the elements of the plan ? but could not say whether or not he had since read the three-page proposal, pointing instead to his meetings with congressional leaders and briefings with top officials. They also said the question was less relevant because final text was likely to be different than the original proposal.
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Let me understand this now.

McCain takes time off to suspend his campaign, but does not take the time to read the fawking 3 page bailout document.

I guess it was just a photo op he was looking for.

Geez Louise.

 

[Hard Times]

How does Lieberman breath,he has his nose stuck so far up McSHAMES ass that I thought that they are husband and wife today in the photo op,don't know which is which.Did they kiss.
I'm waiting for the trickle down from the big tax break that our great president Bush gave to the filthy rich way back when. I know it's coming. I can't hardly wait. When we get the trickle down and start spending,the economy will pick up and the world will be saved by McBush and the great forsight that he had with his great economic policies.He's a great leader,our Bush.

 

[kosar]

How does jew Lieberman breath,he has his nose stuck so far up McSHAMES ass that I thought that they are husband and wife today in the photo op,don't know which is which.
I'm waiting for the trickle down from the big tax break that our great president Bush gave to the filthy rich way back when. I know it's coming. I can't hardly wait. When we get the trickle down and start spending,the economy will pick up and the world will be saved by McBush and the great forsight that he had with his great economic policies.He's a great leader,our Bush.

I'm not sure what Lieberman being Jewish has to do with all that. :shrug:

 

[saint]

I'm not sure what Lieberman being Jewish has to do with all that. :shrug:

Read the second line regarding his nose and the distance it has to reach.

[joke people]

 

[djv]

I don't know what to think about John. He rushs to Wash. He must the world is ending. He goes to a mtging and in a hour and a half talks for little more then minute. And know one understand what the hell he said. And Guys this is coming from all networks and both parties. What the hell was so urgent. All he did was had his theater show.

 

[Hard Times]

I'm not sure what Lieberman being Jewish has to do with all that. :shrug:

Your right. I'm not a racist, but I don't like Lieberman,forgive me.I've corrected the racist remark.

 

[THE KOD]

Your right. I'm not a racist, but I don't like Lieberman,forgive me.I've corrected the racist remark.

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Its ok pt1gard

we forgive you