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Normally I look forward to a visit to my polling place, and I’m not at all looking forward to mail only ballots. Perhaps I should reconsider, I don’t like blood…
Dow down 348.62 to 10,482.45.
Total DJIA performance since Bush took office almost eight years ago: -105.14 points (-0.99% gain).
The McCain campaign has effectively conceeded Michigan to Obama (17 electoral votes), closing offices and diverting staff to other critical states which McCain MUST win (Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida). All three of those states are in play, with the latest polls giving Obama a slight edge in all three states.
The judge in Sen. Ted Steven’s trial has put the trial into recess as he considers a mistrial motion by the defense, based upon the prosecutor’s inexplicable failure to deliver some crucial FBI reports to the defense in advance. A mistrial would greatly aid Stevens, as he any re-trial would certainly be scheduled for after the election. Makes me wonder who was responsible, or why, the evidence was “inadvertantly withheld”.
And five Republican lawmakers have gone to court to ask a Republican judge to stop an investigation into Sarah Palin’s “troopergate” scandal, which only a few months ago was authorized by a Republican-led Alaska legislature to investigate a Republican governor who had promised to cooperate (but now suddenly decides the investigation is “biased”). Anybody want to take odds on this one?
David Letterman’s “Top Ten Things Overheard at Sarah Palin’s Debate Camp”:
10 — “Let’s practice your bewildered silence”
9 — “Can you try saying ‘Yes’ instead of ‘You betcha’?”
8 –” Hey, I can see Mexico from here!”
7 — “Maybe we’ll get lucky and there won’t be any questions about Iraq, taxes, or health care”
6 — “We’re screwed!”
5 — “Can I just use that lipstick-pit bull thing again?”
4 — “We have to wrap it up for the day — McCain eats dinner at 4:30″
3 — “Can we get Congress to bail us out of this debate?”
2 — “John Edwards wants to know if you’d like some private tutoring in his van”
1 — “Any way we can just get Tina Fey to do it?”
Like I’ve said numerous time…
Government employees suck!!
Incompetence is going to let someone everyone knows did wrong get off. and I don’t mean get off in the steve/goat type of getting off.
How often do we hear that, no fair trail if it was up to the government.
Yet the left wingnuts believe more government is better.
Sad.
Like the liberal media has pointing out
Alaska has less people than detroit.
What is taking months?
Besides dragging it out so it can be used against palin day after day.
“Government employees suck!!”
Do you make an exception in the case of government employees who wear uniforms and shoot people? Or are you really ready to go “support our troops” by telling them they’re all fired and letting Blackwater’s mercenaries take over for them?
@4 You and Pudz are definitely mind-fucked over this thing you guys have about goats. I’m almost sorry I outed you guys.
“How often do we hear that, no fair trail if it was up to the government.”
What on earth are you trying to say?? Oh, hell, forget I asked. Now that you’ve been outed, nobody cares what the fuck you think anymore.
“Yet the left wingnuts believe more government is better.”
If that was the case, we’d vote for a Bush third term through McCain.
@4 “Government employees suck!!”
Compared to who? The CEOs of GM, Ford, Merrill Lynch, Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, Wachovia, WaMu, Countrywide, Enron, Worldcom, Adelphia, Tyco, Blackwater … ?
Is Sarah Palin an expert on NASA because she can see the moon from her porch?
Marvin @ 5: “What is taking months? Besides dragging it out so it can be used against Palin day after day.”
Since you asked, here’s an abbreviated timeline:
Since you asked, there’s the answer. It’s all one state empolyee’s fault. Palin. She could have had the investigation wrapped up in two weeks, if she had wanted to. I guess she’ll have to be fired. I certainly wouldn’t want to promote her.
Hey RHP, using your same logic, what was the DOW when democrats took over the house and the senate two years ago?
John McSame has joined the chorus of righties whining about tonight’s debate being moderated by a journalist who’s writing a book that might say something positive about Sen. Obama.
No doubt they’d rather have Hannity or Limpdick stack the deck in Palin’s favor.
Republicans think making them play fair just isn’t fair.
@11 Same logic? LOL!!!
@12 If they knew how to use der Google, they could have figured this out for themselves. It’s not like Ifill’s book was a fucking secret. Well, except to the willfully ignorant. In her reading of all things in front of her, Palin should have known herself. Although I doubt it was in the Bircher rag she keeps on her desk.
Mark @ 11: Don’t try to use logic. It might hurt your brain.
If you did, you would have to consider the fact that Republicans have had control of the White House, Treasury Dept., etc. for almost eight years, control of Congress from 1994 through 2006 (except for a one-vote minority in the Senate when a Senator changed party for a few months around 2002), and seven of the nine current Supreme Court justices were appointed by Republicans.
Then consider that virtually all Democratic bills were in this Congress were either filibustered in the Senate by the Republican minority or vetoed (or threatened to be vetoed) by Bush.
But that’s too much detail for you to handle. It might hurt your head. Just go back to sleep, and dream of Palin as VP in a dominatrix outfit and a whip, and have sweet dreams….
Actually, I would agree that a good number of the government employees currently occupying the West Wing of the White House do, indeed, suck. But only the political appointees and the one guy who resides there.
@15 “Palin as VP in a dominatrix outfit and a whip”
Nasty thought. Then again, maybe that’s why McCain picked her. She certainly doesn’t have any other qualifications for the job.
15 You avoid my question, what was the dow
when the dems took over? Don’t hurt your brain.
@11 Democrats haven’t been running the economy for the last 2 years, dummy!
@18 What is that relevant to, Mark? Congress doesn’t make economic policy. The Republican administration does.
I just got a reply from Norm Dicks to the umpteen emails I’ve sent him in the last few days.
Dear Mr. ******:
Thank you for contacting me to comment about the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act (EESA), a bill to stabilize the financial sector and prevent the credit crisis from devastating the U.S. economy. I appreciate your interest in this critical issue facing the country.
Two weeks ago, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke issued a solemn warning to the President and Congress about the increasingly fragile state of the nation’s economic and banking system. They expressed their belief that, without prompt Congressional action, widespread failure of financial institutions on Wall Street and across America threatened to send the nation into an economic crisis not experienced since the Great Depression.
In the past few months, several financial institutions in United States have failed, been acquired by other companies through government intervention, or been sustained only with federal help. In the last two weeks, the number of failures has accelerated at an alarming rate. In our state, the failure of Washington Mutual and the potential loss of thousands of jobs in the Puget Sound region have underscored for me just how much this escalating crisis means, not just for Wall Street, but for working men and women in the Sixth Congressional District.
But even without the collapse of Washington Mutual, I recognize that the growing crisis of liquidity would have devastating effect on the middle class in America. Companies failing because of an inability to manage their debt would not just be isolated to Lower Manhattan; indeed, every state in the country has businesses large and small that rely on the ability to access credit to survive. These businesses may well fail, too, if this crisis is allowed to continue without intervention. Retirees and workers alike are facing the loss of their retirement funds and pensions if they are invested in the markets on a scale not seen in 80 years.
I firmly believe that Congress must act quickly to stave off these disastrous consequences. The legislative proposal initially drafted by the Bush Administration, however, was overly broad and lacking any substantive oversight by Congress or safeguards for taxpayers.
After 10 days of intense, often around-the-clock negotiations, the original proposal drafted by Treasury Secretary Paulson has been dramatically improved in the legislation that was under consideration by the House of Representatives. In addition to helping stabilize the U.S. economy, the bill would provide strict, independent oversight of the new program; it would help existing homeowners to stay in their homes and continue to make payments; it offers financial protections to ensure that taxpayers are insulated from any losses sustained in this program; and, it contains the first-ever restrictions on so-called “golden parachutes” and executive compensation for companies participating in the new program.
I believe the version of the legislation that was ultimately developed through the efforts of the House, the Senate, the Treasury Secretary and the Federal Reserve Chairman represented a responsible and prudent means of addressing this crisis, and I supported it on Sept. 29th. I recognized that many of my constituents had deep reservations about this package at the time, but it was my judgment that prompt action in Congress was needed to avoid even more serious consequences. After that proposal was narrowly defeated in the House, the immediate and devastating reaction of the stock market – $1.2 trillion in market value lost – represented a strong incentive for Congress to try once more to find an acceptable way to respond to the crisis.
Last night, the Senate approved a newly-revised version of the legislation that added a provision offering substantially greater protection for the bank accounts of everyday Americans. This new version of the bill is expected to come to the Floor of the House tomorrow. It is my intention to support the bill and, for your information, I am forwarding to you some background information that helps explain why I believe we should take this important action at this time.
I have attached two articles; one discussing the effects of the credit crisis on the auto industry and another considering its growing effects on small businesses.
Thank you again for your interest.
4 MS
Yeah, like if it were left up to Republicans there’d even BE a rule that prosecutors have to disclose all discovered evidence to defense counsel.
You can play Palin Bingo tonight.
http://www.palinbingo.com/
21 This is pretty similar to the email I received this morning from Patty Murray’s office, presumably in response to what I sent her last week.
Seems the judge has decided NOT to declare a mistrial in the Stevens case. I don’t know of any other details at this time. I presume the judge will give the defense some additional time to prepare their cross-examinations based upon this new evidence. And the Defense team will add that to their list of items to complain about upon appeal.
The Latest Dino Rossi missive:
How many times are we going to have to tell him that that was a BUDGET FORCAST not the budget.
We we sat down to work on the ’08 budget where I work we came came out a bit in the hole, but by the time we finished the budget we looked to be a little in the black, we’ll finish off the year a little better than we forecasted.
Hey Dino,
Next time try talking about specific policies. Gregoire can do it why can’t you?
Thanks for using my mind-fucked term.
I knew I could count on you.
Get the goat off your back and act like a 50 year old man.
Yet the democrats were afraid to debate amongst themselves on fox.