On page 88, does this fix the problem somewhat? Or can Paulson just refuse to do that? And if so, why would he?

When I saw some of the tax loophole pork in this bill, I was sure that would be too corrupt for McCain to vote for, but McCain just set me straight on that. Any credibility (justified or not) that McCain had on standing up to special interests has been thoroughly shredded by McCain’s support for the Senate bailout bill.

I only hope this abomination switches enough House Republican Yes votes to No, to outweigh the number of Democratic No’s that will switch to Yes, so that McCain will get a do over on this issue. (Whether McCain is dumb enough to again shoot himself in the foot on a do-over is another question.)

I hope I’m wrong, and with Obama as the alternative, I’ll still vote for the jerk. However to win, McCain needs to win a lot of voters who aren’t already leaning to him, and after today he can kiss most of them goodbye.

In my most recent posting of a few minutes ago, I added in that insurance companies will be forced to provide mental health treatment coverage under their policies on an equal basis to physical health coverage.

That little item, snuck in under the radar, might trigger the next Horrible Crisis That Requires An Immediate Government Bailout as the insurance companies can no longer provide private health care insurance without huge premium increases. Which leads, of course, to the need for government-run health care despite the fact that no money is available to provide it after these bailouts.

Great way to make sure that Obama can still get his agenda through, isn’t it?

How long before the Iowa caucus?

You all did attend civics class in high school, didn’t you? You know how bills work their way through Congress?

The Senate can’t initiate a bill like the emergency economic legislation. So the only way they can try to correct the mistake that the House made on Monday is to modify an existing piece of legislation and send it to conference to allow the House to consider the modifications. These pieces of targeted tax relief were already in the legislation, and the rest of the package has been added on.

But please, don’t let me stand in the way of the rending of sackcloth over “earmarks”.

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Like the names of the Senators who think this whole thing is so serious that they must be bribed into supporting the bill by allowing their earmarks to be included!

“We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.”

Aesop

It is not all that hard! Politicians like to make you think it takes a genius to be a politician!

But apparently not!

This is the only way McCain can win now.

He needs space with Obama on this issue, and he needs to put people first.

McCain dug himself into a hole, demanding that something be done and trying to work to craft a solution.
But he can use the add-ons as a good reason to vote no.

You had over 100 GOP House members vote no, only 66 vote yes. This despite the President saying we needed to do this. With everyone ‘blaming’ the House GOP for being the sand in the gears here, we can give them CREDIT for slowing this thing down. House GOP are heros.

I really dont question Boehner. He’s only a minority leader who in the end wanted to be helpful to a process that mostly shut him and his people out. He can only leverage so much. The real questions go to Bush, Pelosi and Reid. WTF are they doing / not doing?

Also, the Senate bill was not the House bill was not the Dodd bill was not the Paulson blank check 3 pager.

As bad as the Senate bill pork items are its got AMT relief. Honestly, strip out the pork and the paulson stuff and you have a good bill.

And McCain, after voting “no” because of “a few add-ons,” can pre-empt that argument by delineating the worst monstrosities in that bill and immediately say it is so swollen with waste that all the Dems who placed their piggies in it have themselves endangered America by putting the special interests first!

There! All of us here have just done the work of the McCain campaign for them!

the expansion of the bill in the original house version made me almost giddy when it failed. This montrosity, 2 pages of economic intervention, and 449 pages of pure crap, should have the writers horsewhipped on national television.

Anyone that votes for this is liable to never recieve a vote from me.

Let Obama advocate his support of it and right before the vote get up and read off a list of the earmarks and the senator asking for each one, Dem or Rep and then oppose it until the earmarks are taken out.