It's "No Plan Joe" to the rescue. He claims he has a plan but he's not telling.
Posted by Joe B at September 25, 2008 10:33 PMI've been half listening to CNN and MSNBC, I wish they would all get wiped out and have to work for a living, and they are all telling us that McCain is driving the debate, he's won, it's all about him blah blah blah.
I just don't see that at all. I've also been reading the San Diego Union Tribune and they have comments after some articles, and the commenters are all pretty uninformed typical gop workers and they aren't buying McCain's act at all. And if they aren't buying it, nobody else is, except the feckless DC Press Corpse.
Posted by Duckman GR at September 25, 2008 10:46 PMI hope the markets like waiting until after the election before getting some relief...
That's highly naive if you think the markets are going to wait.
If the deal is really dead, it's going to get very bloody very fast.
Posted by JJF at September 25, 2008 10:59 PMJohn "Country First" McCain? I think he needs a new slogun.
Posted by goose1 at September 26, 2008 07:20 AMAs long as such a large majority of the Congress is on the lunatic left or rabid right nothing of substance is ever going to get done.
We as the American people deserve the ultimate blame as it is us who hired these guys and gals.
Posted by John Gibson at September 26, 2008 12:24 PMAs long as such a large majority of the Congress is on the lunatic left or rabid right nothing of substance is ever going to get done.
Name five congresscriters on the "lunatic left". You can't. You can name 150 or so on the rapid right, but not the left.
First, only safe districts elect the wackos. On the Democratic side this, unfortunately, happens too often in the minority-majority districts. An unqualified wacko gets into power and he/she can't lose no matter what she does. See also big city mayors. It's frankly embarrassing. Fortunately the percentage of Democrats who are that blind are fairly small.
Not so for Republicans. At least 2/3rds of the Republican faithful won't ever vote against one of their incumbents unless he/she is thought to be too centrist, and not faithful enough to the orthodoxy. This is why the majority safe Republican district in the red states are represented by an ideological extremist, which coinidentally explains their hissy fit at the White House yesterday.
The Republican problem is so big that it extends to the Senate. States like SC, AL, MS, OK, ID and (until recently) AK were the equivalent of safe districts for Republicans. When a full-fledged looney tune like Inhofe is polling at 67% in his state you know that they'll vote anyone with an R beside their name.
Posted by Anonny at September 26, 2008 04:09 PMDo we really need this deal?
Posted by Brian Brady at September 27, 2008 09:25 PM