ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Sarah Palin "abused her power"
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10/10/panel-palin-abused-power-firing-commissioner/

The much ballyhooed and awaited Troopergate Report finally came out late yesterday. And what was learned or determined? Absolutely nothing aside from the fact that given enough time and interest by those in the media, that partisan slanted politics will produce the desired transparent result and dishonest result every time.

Nothing new and nothing criminal was determined by this sifting search for truth, aside the reality that Sarah Palin fired this turd Monegan, because he went around her via collusion with an opposing party  Alaskan state legislator and attempted to thwart a budgetary veto of Palin's office. And in doing so he , committed insubordination against the governor and her executive authority and was rightfully terminated.  But because the governor's husband supposedly hadn't been sufficiently reined in by the governor, and because those in her administration had been inquiring into why a dangerous and questionable trooper was allowed to remain on payroll, somehow the governor's ethics are in question and should be scorned by the righteous comparative ethics of those who oppose Sarah Palin for the vice presidency. sorry, but i don't think so.

I always love it when liberals and socialist democrats attempt to go after the ethics of others. It only makes their own horrible standards and associations that much more glaring by example. Sarah Palin acted in the best interest of the state of Alaska and her own administration by flushing this turd Monegan when she did, but somehow as always when there are liberal political considerations in the mix, her actions were somehow wrong. as they seemingly always are when it involves conservative office holders in this country.

I for one don't think so. I don't see anything wrong. And personally? I think we need more elected officials who will take their jobs seriously and do what needs to be done when it needs to be done and give up on this bogus and transparent BS of bipartisanship. I say Bravo Sarah! you go girl!

As we head into the last four weeks of this election it seems that the Obama Juggernaut is unstoppable. Barack Obama has turned a 6 point deficit in the polls into a 6 - 10 point lead in the polls and he has now gained significant ground in four key swing states. John McCain needs Florida, Ohio, North Carolina and Virginia if he has any hope to win this election, but right now he has lost ground and is losing ground in each of these states.

McCain's leads in these states has been erased and his trailing in these states become the new reality of this election over the course of the last three weeks. What has changed? The economy has changed. And John McCain has been on the wrong side of this issue for the past three weeks now. And regardless of the best advice of those both inside and outside of his party, John McCain refuses to attempt to take the lead on the economy and do what needs to be done to reposition himself in a role of leadership on the economy with the American people.

The single most important issue of this election right now? It's the economy stupid! And anyone, but particularly anyone seeking the presidency of the United States who doesn't realize that, is doing nothing short of preparing themselves for a loss. The path to victory or defeat in this election has now been set in stone. The candidate who can win the trust and confidence of the most voters on the economy going into November 4th, will be the one who wins this election regardless of where their other policies and proposals may fall in the long term.

Americans traditionally have a political memory of that of a gold fish. And right now? About the only thing that will shake their unreasoned and unjustified confidence in Barack Obama brought on by a souring US economy, would be another terrorist attack on this country. And that in itself is a terrifying thought on all levels. But IMO, for Brack Obama to bomb in this election and lose right now? America would have to be bombed or attacked by terrorist once again.

Last night was the second of three presidential debates scheduled before the November 4th election.  If anyone were to ask me I would tell them to save the money and effort of holding the last one and just let this mule go to the barn on it's own. This election is over.

I sat along with oodles of millions of other Americans last night watching this contest of political weebles, not so much either waiting or hoping for the Ali / Frazier title fight, as much as hoping that there might be just one glimmer of that renowned temperament attributed to John McCain that we have all heard so much about. If there ever was a time for the flash of anger in the eyes and the move for the jugular? Last night was it IMO. And last night was for all intents and purposes, the last great opportunity for John McCain in this election to turn around an election that has slipped away from him faster than a ice cream cone melting on a hot day.

I believe that a lot of people including my own lowly self knew what John McCain had to accomplish last night. It wasn't so much a knockout blow as it was an reckoning of accountability for the present economic mess that we are all witnessing. Do that and you might get the knock out, don't do it and lose. But rather than go directly to those responsible for this economic fiasco, John McCain was content to stand there and allow Barack Obama to pin the tail on the donkey and assign blame to President Bush's supposed failed polices and then tie John McCain to those same represented failed polices.

To borrow a phrase? A blind man could have seen it.  And even the figurative blind to what has gone on in the economy now know, that it wasn't Bush's failed polices that have caused all this. It has been the democrats and their affirmative action approach to the national economy and home mortgages and speculative banking schemes. Or more specifically stated, the socialist agenda of wealth redistribution on the grandest of scales already implemented and presently failing right before our eyes compliments of the democrat party and two previous democrat presidents.

The democrats call these demonstrably failed programs of their own device affordable, the same way they would like Americans to believe that their health care proposals under a b\Barack Obama administrations are affordable. But these schemes aren't affordable when the working and middle classes of this nation have to carry on their backs, the lagging dregs of those who are simply waiting for the bus ride to the promised land compliments of their own elected robber barons the democrats.

John McCain should have gotten mad last night. He should have gotten at least as mad as a lot of people who were watching that prom dance they passed off as a presidential debate. But he didn't get mad and he certainly didn't go after Barack Obama on the important issues. Forget McCain's analogies of attempting to nail jello to a wall and get down to the business of shining a light into the darkness! Hold Barack Obama and his associates in congress and the senate up to scrutiny and the light of day! Make them own up to the responsibility that many people know to be the case, but do it so that these ill informed and easily distracted media driven independents can see it! Rub their noses in it John!  It's time for a bit of the naval principle of damn the torpedoes full speed ahead here sailor!

But alas, none of that was to be presented last night. All that was displayed was the second installment of the savvy young hustler and the older and failing warrior with a dog eared campaign play book that has never been mailable or reactionary to the demonstrations and feints of the enemy.

While watching the reviews this morning, I noted the observations of both Ann Coulter and Mike Huckabee when they were interviewed on the debate. Both interviews were telling insights into the republican faithful IMO and the reaction across the heartland in the party this morning. Ann Coulter was observably livid over what she had witnessed and what she hadn't witnessed during the debate last night. But the main theme that she felt was lacking during the debate on McCain's part, was the same as I and many millions of others had failed to observe in him while watching the debate. While John McCain was trying to tack jello to the wall on the lesser points of stump speech echos, he allowed Barack Obama to completely escape any responsibility for the present financial crisis. No blame, no culpability, no guilt by association....nothing. Ann pointed out that the democrats have used affirmative action to destroy the vitality of this country and it's competitive edge, it's schools and education, and even it's airport safety. and now they have been allowed to destroy the economy with the same tactics of racial guilt and affirmnative action socialism.

Mike Huckabee wasn't so dramatic but he was clearly voicing what many conservatives were thinking last night while watching the debate. No one really won and no one really lost in the big picture according to Mike. No knock out blows or examples of gotcha moments. And the Obama supporters obviously felt that their candidate had done well while the reverse was true of those who support McCain. But those 12-15 percent in the middle who will actually decide this election weren't swayed according to Mike.

Huckabee saw it and knew that what John McCain needed to do last night he failed to do. And to add insult to injury, John McCain threw a 300 billion dollar mortgage rescue bill on the table in the middle of the debate! Mike Hackabee looked like he had been shot when recalling that moment this morning. As did myself and many others who were equally stunned last night when we heard this scheme coming from the lips of McCain during the debate. I immediately sensed it as a weak minded ploy to pander to the segment of the Obama supporters, who had gotten us into this mess in the first place. And not the type of carrot and stick that would budge them away from supporting the messiah. But certainly something that made millions of conservatives cringe at the thought.

No, John McCain didn't openly lose the debate last night, he simply lost the election by letting his last best opportunity to turn this election around slip away. And by not demonstrating that elusive quality that Mike huckabee mentioned this morning and many of us have been longing for. Command presence and demonstrated leadership ability. John McCain was a trained naval officer and a veteran of six years as a prisoner of war. You would think that he has the quality. We have been told that he has the quality. He commanded one of the largest naval squadrons in the Navy when he returned home. Yet the qualities that carried him through the worst moments of his life, have nver materialized during this campaign IMO. When Americans needed decisive and demonstrated leadership in these two debates, John simply didn't deliver. And his failure to do so will cost him this election.

The buzz in the media this weekend, seems to be that the GOP and the McCain campaign have decided to take the gloves off and come out swinging. A nice tactic I suppose if it had been employed weeks if not months ago.

Having Sarah Palin coming out attacking Obama for his associations with William Ayers, should have been a part of her staple stump speeches weeks ago. Therefore, one has to ask themselves what has changed now? IMO, what has changed, is that the reality has finally arrived on John McCain's radar, that his little comet is rapidly losing altitude and his numbers are falling faster than the stock market of the past two weeks.

No great mystery IMO. It was all too predictable. Both the fall of the American economy and the failing of the McCain campaign for the presidency. Even the ill informed twits who have gone looking for answers on the economy of late, have had to have stumbled across the reality that it was liberal democrats that caused all this. From Carter's community reinvestment cat of 1978 to Clinton's expansion of it in 1995, any idiot could have seen the end game and the end result of what would come to pass once all common sense in lending was eliminated.

The same way as any fool should have seen two weeks ago in the McCain campaign, that the candidate himself doesn't  have a clue about how to win this election. And worse than that? He didn't have the ability to look around and see the overwhelming advice that was staring him in the face and literally screaming at him what to do to win this thing.

Go after Obama on the economy (two weeks ago). Go after the democrats and go after their scheme of affirmative action financing of the American dream at the expense and collapse of the entire damn economic system.  But no, just as long as we have "affordable housing," that was all that really mattered wasn't it.

Give me a break. John McCain is just like all the other WASP politicians in this country. He has been so cowed and whipped into race sensitivity and egalitarian compliance and trained to recognize that no matter who many indicators point to the truth? Never and I do mean "NEVER" assign blame to the unwarranted and unjustified propping up of minorities in this country. For to do so immediately makes you a racist. And Americans would rather their mother be branded a street walker and hailed as worst piece of filth on the planet, than have anyone hang the "racist" tag around their necks or een to insinuate that they might have had a racist thought.

John McCain lost this election ten days ago. Back when he suspended his campaign for absolutely  and accomplished nothing by it. And on top of that, he produced absolutely nothing in the form of either leadership or viable plan or alternatives to the American people. So trotting out governor Palin to do what should have been done weeks ago? Is a bit too late John. It makes you look like well......like you are desperate. and that is probably because you are. Most losers are desperate people.

Last night was the much anticipated debate of this election. All eyes were on St. Louis last night, as Joe Biden and Sarah Palin squared off, in the most anticipated vice presidential debate in the last thirty years if not ever.

How'd they do? I suppose as always that depends on who your horse is in this race. Joe Biden was expectedly Joe Biden IMO. No surprises and no major gaffs, aside from his patented political craft of re-manufacturing reality and history to represent something entirely other than the truth.  Sarah Palin? Well IMO, Sarah Palin wasn't there to debate Joe Biden, as much as she was there to debate herself. Maybe not so much directly, as much as the perceived image that has been being constructed by the media for the last two weeks in particular.

This debate wasn't a debate for either candidate to win IMO, as much as it was a debate for Sarah Palin to lose. And the news this morning across the board in MSM, is that she didn't lose it. She never stumbled and she never stammered, she just stood toe to toe and delivered the representation of a folksy down to earth woman come to the people to defend her guy and her party and her position. And she demonstrated to both Joe Biden and America, that she wasn't about to be cowed or pigeon holed by either the intended perceptions of the media or the political constructs of the democratic party and their champion of the night Joe Biden.

I was quite proud of her performance, having spent most of the last week literally shuddering over the thoughts of what a failure by Sarah Palin would be and represent in this election. I was particularly satisfied last night to see Sarah Palin look right at Joe Biden and tell him, that she wasn't there to give him or the moderator the answers that "they" wanted to hear or that they assumed that she should be giving to the questions. She let it be known rather quickly, that she would be answering the questions as she felt capable and comfortable answering them and that she wasn't concerned with how they felt about that. That is a paraphrase, but that was the message that I came away with after hearing her make her initial case.

And toward the end of the debate last night, I felt that she really hit her stride and stood toe to toe with Joe Biden on every point. Especially when she went after him on his intentional misrepresentations of McCain's record on votes for the troops and the support of the war in Iraq.  What else could be ask for in a debate like this. This was a title fight no doubt and both contenders were formidable and demonstrably not prone to fall on their own swords. This debate wasn't Godzilla versus Rodan, nor was it really a David versus Goliath contest of either wills or platforms or clashing styles of representation. It was more of Elly Mae meets Mr. Drysdale to me and in the aftermath of the confrontation Mr. Drysdale once again walked away knowing that he had not been successful in trying to win out against simple down to earth principles.

So we move on from the here and now and wait and see how this great contest plays out over the next week or so and how it plays out in the polls. IMO, this debate will slide into the shadows of our discussions by tomorrow afternoon at the latest. Twenty four hours is about the lifespan of the battle of the vice presidential titans, seeing as no one was carried from the field and no one held up the head of their defeated foe. And besides, Americans are more consumed right now with the outcome of the economy and the passage or defeat of the "Rescue of Wall Street' bill than anything else.

This debate will be revisited by scholars and historians in the months and years to come. Particularly as it is perceived to have either benefited or impacted either or both candidates for the presidency. But how ever this debate plays out historically, right now in the moment of after glow and digestion of what was played out before our eyes last night. The consensus has to be that the gal from Wasilla came to the title fight and held her own and gave as good as she got against the best that the grizzled veteran Joe Biden could muster. And that has to count for a lot IMO.

The US Senate passed the Wall Street Bail out bill last night. Even though it has now become the Wall Street rescue bill. That's the way they do things in modern Washington politics. They take the obvious and wrap it in an entirely different term and it suddenly becomes something else. Something akin to makeup or a make over, but I'll get back to that later.

The bill that began life in the US treasury as written by Secretary Paulson last week, as a draft of three pages? Has now become over 400 pages of additions by the professional politicians in Washington that we have elected as congressmen and senators. And in a time when most Americans are becoming increasingly more angry by the day over pork barrel spending and waste in Washington? The house and senate still don't seem to get it. Either that or they simply don't care.

This bill was soundly defeated in the house on Tuesday. And regardless of what speaker Nancy Pelosi and others would like Americans to believe, the reason it was defeated in because millions of Americans let their representatives know, that they didn't like it and they didn't want it. And many of these representatives are up for reelection.  So the US Senate decided after the house failure to pass it, that they would take a crack at it. And after the stock market plummeted precariously on the news of the house failure Monday, there was new fear and anxiety being pumped into the emotional reality of America to fuel a second look by the senate.

so yesterday, after a day of wrangling and wrestling to produce a bill that supposedly everyone could live with? The bill that the senate finally produced and passed last night, was over 100 billion dollars larger than what had been initially called for by either the treasury or the president or the house. And now the bill includes things that literally border on the bizarre. Millions of NASCAR and million for the wool industry, money for the production of safer "toy arrows" for bow and arrow sets. Provisions for federal money to be spent on artificial sweeteners and provisions to "require insurance companies to provide mental health care to all." All total? Over 100 billion dollars in additions. All so we can supposedly rescue Wall Street.

Here we go again folks. What part of no and it's the pork stupid! do these people not understand? It was supposedly "affordable housing for all" that got us where we are with the housing and subprime mortgage collapse that has brought about this crisis in the first place. And Americans are now told? That the only way to solve and rescue America from the proven idiocy of our elected officials and financial institutions, is by giving them more of the people's money to rescue them and allow them to lend out more money. And while we are at it? Why not thrown in another 100 billion dollars of money we don;t have, for things that we don;t need and that they weren't able to get tucked into the other bills so far this session.

Meanwhile our two presidential candidates yesterday told us what? Barack Obama said that this was a bill that had to be passed to avoid a catastrophe. While John McCain added that he thought it was a better bill than what the house had defeated on Monday. At least Obama made an appearance on the floor of the senate to make his rhetorical presentation for the cameras. McCain was apparently too occupied with his own decision making yesterday to actually make a decision on his own concerning his previous political rhetoric about making pork barrel hacks in Washington famous. However, he did finally make it to the senate last night to cast a vote, even if the only person he succeeded in making famous over this latest barrel of pork is himself.

Talk about lipstick on a pig? Isn't this bill a doozy. And now the bill will be passed off like the proverbial pig skin that it is and the house will once again be forced to take up something that they really would rather see go away. And the band plays on and the flames of Washington politics and deceit lick higher along the walls of the facade that have been represented to Americans as their government.

Sound familiar? That axiom of leadership has been around for ages that I know of. It is a principle that was or should have been learned by everyone with a military background IMO. Especially those who have risen to the level of a commander, or one's vying for the job of commander in chief.

But alas, as much as I would like to put Humpty Dumpty back together again, I and many others are getting a bit bone weary of watching John McCain shoot himself in the foot and then quickly topple to the ground once again. The economy of the past two weeks, has presented the golden opportunity for John McCain to step out and step up front as the problem solver and leader that he has desired himself to be portrayed as. But at every turn and at every opportunity, John McCain has shirked both the responsibility and the opportunity to become the leader that this country is looking for.

All Americans aren't stupid and many Americans recognize a real leader when they see one, regardless of the portrayal of media, or the color commentaries of the media in their attempt to sell us  their guy. But McCain just doesn't seem to get it. He isn't leading. He had that opportunity last week when he supposedly canceled his campaign to return to Washington to forge a solution to the banking crisis. But what did he do? Or more importantly, what did he accomplish? Nada, zip, zilch nothing. Nothing other than a few photo snaps of him sitting at the far end of the table with the president with that patented smirk on his face, while absolutely nothing was accomplished.

Aside from that smile, nothing was accomplished that I could see. No leadership and not even any following of the leads of other lesser players by McCain or anyone else. Just a pointless side trip prior to the debate that accomplished nothing, short of making John McCain look stupid. Barack Obama was there too, but he was invited by the president.

Then last Friday at the first presidential debate, once again John McCain had the opportunity handed to him to be a leader and th=o set the standard. Everyone saw the opportunity and knew that he could step forward and hammer Obama on his tax an spend platform. There is absolutely no defense for Obama or the democrats on that platform of tax and spend now. Everyone but john McCain saw the opportunity and many spoke of it before the debates. But John McCain just stood there and let the "coup degra" moment of this campaign just float right on by him. Meanwhile, America was treated once again to the dog eared cliche that "I didn't win Miss Congeniality" in the senate again last year. Ha Ha Ha! LOL!!!! Excuse me while I spit coffee all over myself and wet my pants from the stupendous and captivating humor of a man who is failing faster than a spent Roman candle and obviously doesn't have the sense enough to know it.

What part of this don't you get John? The part about lead? The part about follow? Or the part about get the hell out of the way for someone who can? You are demonstrating absolutely nothing in the form of leadership to the American people and your dog eared references to having always been a maverick are meaningless in the absence of meaningful action (now!). Especially any identifiable action in the face of the present financial crisis that is gripping this country and everyone including you seems to be hypnotized by.

John? You are reminding me of that old mule cart on the bridge blocking the advance of the entire 3rd Army during WWII scene in the movie Patton. When George Patton recognizes the problem? That his entire army was stalled and exposed on the roadway to enemy fire? He immediately drives to the front of the column, surveys the problem, promptly pulls his pistol from his belt and shoots both mules in the head. Then orders their carcasses thrown over the side of the bridge while the column proceeds.

That is what is called "action" John. Right, wrong or indifferent, the people will follow a leader. Even one who is brash and from time to time insults their sensibilities with raw actions. Just as long as they are assured that his heart is in the right place and they know that he would rather speed happily on the highway to hell, having made the wrong turn at the fork in the road, than sit idly by and wait for fate to catch up to him. At least he found himself hell bent on the path that he chose and the decision made John and that is a start. Albeit wrong, but at least a start  At least you can tell where the leader's head and his heart are at in moments like that. And that they aren't up his back side or being parsed and played against perceptions in the media by campaign staff that would rather lose a campaign than make a decision.

So take it easy John. Someone will take care of all this for you in a little while and don't worry. It won't be your opponent. He is busy doing what he does best right now. He is sizing up the factors at play and consulting with his handlers and and planning his move of being present while being absent, while making you look like a damn fool in the process. While the media makes him look good doing nothing which is what they seem to do best of late.

So relax John and enjoy the traffic jam of crisis politics and principled dilemma. Maybe if you are lucky? Someone will be along in a while to pull their pistol on this FUBAR, shoot it in the head and throw it over the bridge. So that the rest of us can proceed on to either glorious victory or hell in a hand basket which ever it may become. But somehow? I don't see that person leading that parade will be you John. And I'd rather like to think of my self as being led on the merry way to hell in a hand basket, than simply sitting idly by and waiting for someone to put that bullet to my head.

Yes, there are obviously politics afoot at youtube. As has already been demonstrated at other stops along the internet highway like Google and Snopes, their fingerprints are easily identifiable.
 
Yesterday, I posted two youtube clips concerning yesterday's bailout failure. Specifically, Nancy Pelosi's speech to congress yesterday before the vote and a video cataloging the evidence supporting the fact that democrats have blocked every attempt to regulate Fannie Mae of the last eith years. As a matter of fact? I posted the Pelosi link twice here yesterday. As having posted and linked it the first time, I discovered within an hour that the video had been taken down. So I found another one of the same speech and linked and posted it. Only to return this morning to find that it too is "no longer available."

Yet you can go to youtube and easily locate videos posted to their site that are pro democrat, pro Obama and anti John McCain. Videos that have been up and running for weeks and months at youtube. Surprisingly? Those videos never seem to go down or get removed at youtube. The problem is as I see it, these people running these supposed services and sites, must think that only the blinded myrmidons and the intellectually dulled are reviewing their sites and therefore, not seeing their obvious politically motivated manipulations.

I am not one of them. and I intend to let people know precisely what is going on with youtube and other sites attempting to force their political perspectives on the rest of us.

The ignorance and stupidity of Nancy Pelosi is only surpassed by her abject arrogance.
Some have said that even a blind squirrel finds an acorn from time to time. But what if the blind squirrel is a raving lunatic wild eyed rodent and the speaker of the US House of Representatives?

Personally, I know (as does anyone else with half a brain or better) that the Wall Street bail out deal today on the floor of the House today was a flawed bill. It was also well within the democratic majority to pass this bill whether the republicans showed up or not. But the bill failed on a 228-205 vote with 94 democrats voting against the bill.

Yet Nancy Pelosi and Barny Frank held a news conference after the bill failed this afternoon, blaming the failure of the bill on the republicans and chastising the republicans for not taking their tongue lashing properly by madam speaker earlier in the day.

Give me a break. Pelosi may have cost the democrats the success of this bill today, only over her own gluttonous desire to gloat and press salt in the wounds of republicans, but if that truly the cause of the failure of the bill to pass? What better example of bad karma and what this woman truly represents to the country and our future as a whole.

A theme that has been hammering around in my head for a week now is affordability. Particularly as it concerns the perceived affordability that liberal democrats would have us believe is readily within our grasp. What does affordability really represent to a liberal? What does it really represent to a conservative? These are definitions and values that I for one believe need to be explored during our present election cycle. Particularly as it concerns our current economic meltdown and proposed bailout of Wall Street and after considering the proposals of either candidate who may become our next president.

Wall Street is culpable in the present economic fiasco, make no mistake about that fact, but who else is culpable? Who or what else led those on Wall Street to be so stupid and to play so fast and loose with the realities of sound financial planning and the economic survivability of this nation? Those who know the answer to those questions, know immediately that the seeds of our present destruction were planted thirty years ago during a different era and during a different administration. Surely the likes of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid aren't so obtuse or even outright stupid as to believe that all this has been caused by the present administration of George Bush.

Surely Pelosi and Reid are aware of George Bush's attempts in 2003 on the heels of 9/11, to rein in and put the brakes on what had obviously become a runaway train on Wall Street, as it concerned the present implementation and incarnation of the Community Reinvestment Act and the runaway train of the repeal of Glass Steagall.  Surely Pelosi and Reid and the other supposed leaders of the loyal left recognize that as recent as 2005, Senators Hagel, Dole and Sununu were sounding the alarm on Fannie Mae and subprime failures across rthe market and what that represented for the future economic viability of this nation. And surely they recognized as recent as 2006 that John McCain had joined the same chorus in Washington  sponsoring a bill to address the coming collapse and failure of Fannie Mae and Wall Street  if nothing was done to stop it.  Surely these people who call themselves loyal Americans realize that the evil seed of America's economic demise was planted and nurtured in the garden of multiculturalist dogma and a belief that forced socialist perspectives can become reality, if only given enough of the people's money and a free wheeling enough congress and presidency to assure that the absurdity passes into law. Surely they knew all these thing. Any reasoned thinking person with an IQ above room temperature and an awareness of history knows damn well that they did.

The evil that has been visited upon us presently, has been brought to us by the presidency of  Jimmy Carter in 1977 and it is precisely what was further propelled and ramped up under the presidency of Bill Clinton in 1995. It was called the "Community Reinvestment Act" of 1977 when Carter signed it and later when Bill Clinton took it to the present level of "affirmative action in banking" that has realy led to and been responsible for this disaster. Of course now?  (present day) The democrats want to hit the ditch and attempt to claim that it was the republicans all along who did this to us. The same way they would like most Americans to believe that they (democrats) had absolutely nothing to do with the repeal of the Glass Steagall Act, which literally threw open the doors of financial and market speculation by banks in America after a 75 year prohibition of same. Something known and recognized as the harbinger of doom back in 1932, back when the stop gap Glass Stegall Act was first enacted and signed into law.

But in 1999 it was cast aside by those in both parties seeking a bigger, better, faster way to supposedly grow the economy.

In my opinion, I believe that those like Phil Graham and other republicans who pushed for the repeal of Glass Steagall in the 90's, were so consumed with their own desires to see the last vestiges of New Deal programs eliminated, that they blinded themselves to the realities that all junkies face when looking at a fix. Once you are hooked on main lining the opiate? There is no turning back. And OPM (other people's money) was the opiate influencing all in Washington over the last ten years. The democrats who were behind eliminating Glass Steagall, including President Bill Clinton, knew all along that their interest in the ploy, was to attempt to cover the tracks of the ever approaching Tsunami of the Communities Reinvestment Act that Clinton had truly unleashed on the country four years earlier.

The economic reviews were already in and the bean counters on both Wall Street and in Washington knew that what they were seeing as the much lauded "affordable housing for all" was in fact beginning to seriously weaken and damage the underpinnings of the most respected financial institutions in this country. But the federal government was the one with the gun to the collective heads of banking in America. And the band played on, because after all the goal was both honorable and desirable and the federal government sadi that it was both right and doable.

"Affordable housing" was after all something that all Americans could both understand and at the same time feel that everyone deserved. Just another example of that American premise of fair play. But little did people realize that there is a difference between fair play and the relative cosmic sense of fairness in all things.  Cosmic fairness is that willow wisp smoke in the haze that exists only in the minds eye. It doesn't exist in reality because as smoke is only a fleeting reality of image, fairness in all things is something that can never be achieved.  Life isn't fair, nature isn't fair, the weather isn't fair and the human consciouness isn't fair, regardless of how much we would like to make it so or think that it can be envisioned so.

But we bought into the hype and the hustle and the rainbow colored world of relativist illusion and Nirvanic ecstacy as it concerned the concept and dreams of supposed affordable housing for all. And that brings me back to the current reality, both as it applies to the past and the future. The democrats in the past wanted us to believe that affordable housing wasn't just some wild eyed dream, but something that was actually achievable "in our life time." Well it has come to pass in our lifetime and I don't think that affordable is what we should be calling it now. Especially having now seen the real price tag of socialist Nirvana and it's sister Utopian representations.

Seven Hundred Billion dollars will just be the opening bid friends. Everyone knows that regardless of what the government of this country promises that something will cost? At best that is maybe twenty percent of what the actual or final cost will end up being once implemented.

And while you are contemplating these realities, stop and think of the other dreams that our loyal liberal friends of the democratic party have in store for us in the immediate future. Their next big ticket item on their agenda? Right after rolling back the existing tax cuts and proposing almost 900 billion in additional spending on top of what we already have? Is that they want us all to have "affordable healthcare."

Remember that? That is what both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and every democrat of the last fifteen years has been pitching at the American public and wailing about. Forty million uninsured Americans, an American travesty, an unjust disparity between the classes, caused by the evil rich, something that we can fix, etc. etc. etc. All the mixed metaphors and analogies have been prepped and primed for almost twenty years now.  All in anticipation of making the big pitch and the big push that we are now seeing in this presidential election.

Is America really ready for this? Ask a democrat and they will tell you that we are overdue for affordable fairness. We are long past the time when affordable health care should have been an reality for all Americans as it is only fair. But the question never answered or even approached relatively by liberals, is where does the money come from for all this. Who pays for all this? And the answer remains as it always has in the Utopian socialist imagery of socialist relativism. It's more taxes stupid! All we have to do is reapportion the tax burden to where it truly belongs. The evil rich have more than enough to pay the social bills of a socialist society right? Just look at every example (any example) of socialism in practice on this planet over the last 200 years? And you can plainly see that.....well you can see that.... well you can see that uh, perhaps we need to revisit the history after our perceived successes have actually been accomplished. Yes, that would be a grand time for us to show off how well we have done and perhaps then? We can fund our new hall of heroes. Perhaps we can even name in Marx Hall. 










has revealed the true crack in the facade of what is really going on in Washington and why,

The weird part of affordable Doom? Is that a couple of weeks ago, I thought that our doom would be met with the firing up of the Hadron collider in Europe. The ultimate doomsday machine had finally been created it seemed and mankind was on the brink of it's last day. Almost at any moment it would seem, all that it would take would be one thrown switch by CERN and we would all twinkle into nonexistence collectively and be propelled along in unison to the next gathering of primordial muck somewhere in the next incarnation of a new dimensional universe.

But all of that dread and worry of a few weeks ago on my part has changed as of late. As I seriously doubt if we can now afford to literally skip out on all of this of debt that has been created for us globally. As a matter of fact? This collective debt may be the very reason why the Hadron colossus fizzled and popped to a stop last week when they did fire the thing up. Perhaps it was too many substandard and government subsidized pieces of silicon to even remotely be effective as either a machine or an enterprise. And certainly those at CERN must have thought the thing affordable, befoer they invested nine billion dollars into it.

So fast forward to today and today looks like it could be the day of doom. The affordable dooms day if you will. No, the Hadron gizmo isn't working yet, but Wall Street is certainly about to explode and take us all with it. Especially if you are listening to all the wailing and gnashing of teeth coming from both Washington and Wall Street today and over the past week. A 4 PM deadline today seems to be the last possible hour of reprieve for us all. What the hell happens after that is any one's guess. I for one know for sure that I don't know what will happen one way or another. But I have my experiences and my knowledge and my guesses.

While the democrats and the republicans are posturing and playing politics and the president has called a "team meeting," there remain those on the periphery of the game who are collectively exhaling a mass WTF? As in are you people crazy? (a rhetorical question when asked of congress) Why should the American people be saddled with what is at best described as the socialization of America via the government sponsorship socialism of private wealth.

Those like Newt Gingrich and others far more knowledgeable than I, are all collectively screaming "don't do this! This is no deal, this is no fix, this is no solution!" Meanwhile, the president and the do nothing and more government congress wants to do what? Give us more government intervention and more indebtedness and more promises to do better next time around. Never mind that they themselves are the express reason that we have arrived where we are at today as a country in economic crisis. And the funny part of all this? We have taken most of Europe and Asia along for the ride with us.Misery loves company it seems.

As Ann Coulter rightly pointed out in one of her columns this week, what we have here, is nothing short of the best example of what happens when you interject affirmative action into the nations banking system. Jimmy Carter began it and Bill Clinton furthered the false holy grail of  "the community reinvestment act" called "affordable housing for all." The same way that the democrats are today hustling affordable health care for all. Affordable?  Sound familiar?Affordable is the liberal socialist code word for "someone else pays for it." And with liberals there is never any other way to finance their pipe dreams. They certainly aren't going to spend their money. And today we have the best example of who that someone who pays for it really is, as we watch the Wall Street meltdown and are told to bend over the table and assume the position of more taxation for the benefit of the nation.

All this misery didn't begin yesterday or last week or even five years ago. It began under Carter and was put into turbo boost by Clinton in the mid 90's with the communities reinvestment act. And that was one of the real reasons that the dot.com bubble burst when it did in 1997. Too much strain on the markets from other stressers in the markets of finance to support the wildly fluctuating volatility of any more speculation inside the then constraints of banking. And when the dot.coms went bust in 1997, those who lost their back sides raced over to their friends on Wall Street and in Washington and begged for deregulation of banking and trading of commodities. How else to keep all the wobbly plates spinning in the face of and insane mortgage lending policy being trumpeted by Fannie Mae and others and being held up as the success of the century by the liberals in congress, while the collectives guns were held to the heads of every lending institution in this country in the name of affordable housing. So in 1999 congress repealed Glass Stegal and literally pulled all the chocks out from under the wheels of our economy.

And now the bill for affordable housing under the guise of community reinvestment has come due in all it's glory.

When I bought my home back in 1996? There were only a few options available for me, seeing as I wasn't a minority. Conventional, FHA VA etc. Those mortgage intstruments were all that was available for me. When I bought my home? It was 10% down pay as you go. Since then, the loan requirements for buying a home have basically become a one word question for many Americans....do you have a pulse?

Nothing down, no employment verification, no credit check, welfare recipients qualified immediately, as were those already drawing unemployment benefits with no hope of finding a new job. Don't worry the gullible masses were told, there are plenty of "products" available. Products, that would be one of the other code words used to describe the creative loans and what they called them. Adjustable rate mortgages and every color under the rainbow of ramping up, risking up and getting more money on the mortgage than the property was worth. Flip that house, roll that mortgage, refinance, etc. etc. These were all lucrative businesses and schemes as recent as two years ago. You could have gotten a $200,000 mortgage on a $50,000 RV back in the day. And there would have been plenty of banks and investment companies tripping all over themselves to get your business. Because the real money was to be made by repackaging these loans and mortgages and selling them off to some bigger sucker up the food chain. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac did a lot of that. With Lehman brothers and AIG, Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch.....they all bought in. Because after all, those "government sponsored enterprises" were all fully backed up by the federal government. So how risky could it be?


And now we know who all these bigger suckers were. As we now know what happens when the music stops and the margins are called and the proof of assets and liabilities have to be put on the table to be scrutinized for real value. People thought they had seen the worst of the financial flim flam with the Enron fiasco or even the savings and loan scandals of the 80's, but those was just the harbingers of the more affordable doom to come. And now that affordable doom has come? What of us lesser beings who can't afford it any longer? What of the lowly working class and those who weren't so stupid as to hock their backsides into perpetuity. Those who didn't buy 500 K houses on a 40 K salary?And then turn around and finance tow new Lexus' to boot.

I think most of us working folks will be OK. There will be jobs lost and jobs created, although the money will be nothing like it once was for more than a few years. And along with the market correcting itself will come the correcting of salaries for those who thought they would make their millions in the corporate world of plate spinning. Those poor fools with all those business management degrees might as well start their own leper colony, as no one is going to be interested in employing them in any position other than on the loading dock. The hard times are coming people and they are coming because we were all asleep and fell for the used car hustle of bigger better, faster and everything brought to you by those "oh so easy monthly payments."

The working class and the middle class will survive. The rich will get poorer, while the created and nurtured poor will demand that which can no longer be provided and they will demand it with violence. The government teat has gone dry and there aren't anymore funds to keep those plates spinning for those who were only seeking the "affordable life."  So Americans better be prepared for the Rodney King mentality of the inner city and the minority mentality of raging and rampaging when things don't go their way. Because that is precisely what will happen, (is about to happen) once the present collapse of our monetary system finally settles to the ground. And once again it will take decades to be rebuild. Only this time, their will be chaos and anarchy that must first be dealt with and overcome and addressed before we can even begin to deliver basic services to those who deserve them.

Those who have been born and raised into a system of cradle to grave government entitlement, will not go quietly into the night and assume their rightful position alongside all the others who will be trying to scrape by and make a living. Hell no! The under privileged and affordable class will want what they once had and what they once enjoyed as affordable. They will demand that someone else pay their way out of poverty and misery and make like affordable once again. Only this time their poverty will be real and not imagined and they won't like it.

There is the affordable doom that is facing this country IMO. The best laid plans of mice and men are coming to rest on this nation as we speak. It was all supposed to be so easy and affordable. And all it will take now, is for the collective "we" to stand up and take a long look at the emperor's clothes and we will realize realize immediately what we should have seen years ago. That the house of cards and the illusions perpetrated by egalitarian relativism and supposed Utopian equality, has collapsed around our heads. they were never more than the visages of the hustle to begin with.

So we all should be making preparations and getting ready for the reality that is about to be visited on this nation. And by the way?  Now would be a real good time for everyone to invest both your emotions and your future in the solid reality of your religion and your guns.

McCain Suspends Campaign to Help With Bailout

“America this week faces an historic crisis in our financial system,” Sen. McCain said in mid-afternoon remarks to reporters in New York. “If we do not act, every corner of our country will be impacted. We cannot allow this to happen.”

“Presidents are going to have to deal with more than one thing at a time,” Sen. Obama said. “It’s not necessary for us to think that we can only do one thing and suspend everything else.” He said that he and McCain have large campaign planes that can get them out of Mississippi and back to Washington quickly.

“I thought this was something that he was mulling over. Apparently this was something he was more decisive about in his own mind,” Obama said in a press conference in Florida, where he has been preparing for the debate.

Obviously, John McCain has felt the searing heat of the media blitz this week over the failures of Wall Street and the proposed taxpayer bailout now being discussed by congress and the president. McCain's plan today....seems to have been to respond in some fashion and to attempt to make a few points of leadership on his own on the issue while the band plays on in Washington.

Mean while, John McCain apparently called Barack Obama in advance of his news conference today and must have thought that he had reached some form of consensus from the democrat as to how to proceed with the looming Wall Street crisis. But the reality proved something different from the discussion once McCain made his announcement to suspend his campaign today and Obama was contacted by the media for his response. It looks to me like Obama thinks that he can float a hustle of leadership on the American people by potraying his own sense of not to worry about the crisis, as this can all be handled without major disruptions to either campaign. And the caveat that as president, one must be able to multitask, wasn't lost on the peanut gallery of already adoring fans.

Never the mind that his hands off approach to hurricane Ike, flew directly in the face of partisan democrat rants three years earlier concerning President Bush's response to Katrina. John McCain has an opportunity to demionstrate himself a leader on this crisis, as long as he doesn;t fall victim to either party cronyism or the not so carefully laid traps of the opposition. John McCain's mistake today, was to approach the purposefully politically reticent Obama with any inkling of what his own intentions may have been. In these rough and tumble times, it is for the opponent to react to the lead and the jab and not be given the advance copy of the intended fight plan or punching list.

Over the next two days McCain has now painted himself in a corner to produce outside the box that Barack Obama seems to have painted him into. and the media will be more than happy to keep refreshing the paint, if they feel that it will help their man Obama.

McCain has to craft something of his own device then demonstrate that raw hide method of getting the job done. And the problem is? He has only allowed himself about forty eight hours to get it done.

WASHINGTON — Leading senators of both parties are expressing strong reservations about the administration's financial bailout plan despite pleas from the treasury secretary and Federal Reserve chairman for quick passage.

Sen. Chris Dodd, a Connecticut Democrat, said on Tuesday, "What they have sent us is not acceptable."

Sen. Richard Shelby, an Alabama Republican, said, "We have got to look at some alternatives."

"Nobody is happy" about the bailout request, said House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., although he spoke of possible passage of legislation by the weekend.

"Nobody wants to have to do this," agreed Rep. John Boehner of Ohio, the Republican leader. He said he was hopeful of a quick agreement, despite withering criticism from conservative GOP lawmakers, some of whom likened the plan to socialism.

Yep, fiscal socialism is precisely what it is and what I would call it too. And while the opposing parties hash it out and bluster each other for the best positions with the viewing public, not a lot has changed or will change IMO.  Reading these reports today and watching the news coverage with all of their highest paid and best financial pundits, did nothing for me other than leave me with that just got screwed (again) feeling in the middle of my gut and a splitting headache.

Congress knew what was going on in 2002 with this crap. Having just deregulated banking and commodity trading, all the indicators were clearly out there for those who cared enough or knew enough to see them and pay attention. And even as recently as 2005, there were those in congress trying to tell the American people what was going on with Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac. But once again no one was watching while the democrats prevented any action of substance from ever clearing the house to reign in the run away horses of GSE's.

And here we are today with the Fed Chair and the head of the Treasury both telling us, that if congress doesn't pony up another 700 billion to "buy out" the existing bad debt of credit banking and speculative idiocy in this country? And then turn right around and allow them to de-a$$ this debt and be able to incur more debt? Then we are all doomed.  Let me see if I get this straight. First I have to buy worthless paper funded by my tax dollars to begin with, only now to spend more of my tax money to try and save the country once again.  And once again afford these same people who did this to the collective "us"  the righteous ability and opportunity to do it to us all over again?

I don't think so. I believe in my limited capacity to understand all this higher level financial trickery? That the time has come for the house to cash in and let the riverboat gamblers shoot it out for themselves. May the best shots win, just stay the hell away from my chips.

So come the news reports today, after Joe Biden's comments to Katie Coric while on the train ride home apparently yesterday. Joe basically said that he didn't think that the Obama campaign ad challenging John McCain's internet savvy or seeming inability to manipulate a keyboard was right. He added that he would not have allowed it to happen if he had been aware of it before hand.

Then today comes the news that apparently Obama had to take little Joe off to the side and tell him that it's not nice to not go along with the program and the big boy assertions of the messianic one. In either event, what really shines through to me, is that Joe Biden realizes what his job and function are in this skitzo lunacy we now call politics, hw none the less he doesn't like the chicken shite game playing and turd wrangling that he sees going on with his team.

Way to go Joe. You may still walk away from this train wreck with a bit of your reputation salvaged.

WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats are proposing to add U.S. government aid for homeowners and limits on executive compensation to the government's $700 billion Wall Street financial bailout.

In the midst of the current debacle on Wall Street and an economy that is teetering on the edge of collapse if intervention isn't forthcoming? The democrats once again want to tack on more. It's like they can't help themselves. Every misery for America is seen as just another opportunity for the democrats to attempt furthering more of their partisan agenda.

Meanwhile Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid seem to have cornered the market on both stupid looks and stupid remarks. I certainly hope that the American people are awake and paying attention to this circus that Pelosi and the democrats want to pass off as a congress either of or for the people. What idiocy! I can't wait for the November elections. Maybe, just maybe we can turn the loons out. Too bad the only person running with a chance against Pelosi is the bigger loon Cindy Sheehan.