So why was W able to bully press but not McPain? Did the media get spinal transplants too?

One online commentator — sorry, I’ve been jumping around so much I forget which one — pointed out that W’s press bullying techniques work pretty well when you actually have power. When you’re only trying to get power, like McCain, not so much.

You like that little violation of Posse Comitatus, eh? Well, who do you think will enforce NPSD-51, the Canadians…? Oops, that’s right, Norcom can draw on the Canucks too… Never mind, carry on…

This is all so serious and scary. Can’t we bring back Sarah Palin now?

I believe posse comitatus has been rescinded by law..>I don’t have a link

Somehow I feel certain Justice Scalia has already written the brief supporting Bush. After all, where in the Constitution is it written…

Directive 51

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N….._Directive

And it includes economic emergency…

So, all Bush has to do is CAUSE an economic emergency to become dictator?
Gee, I don’t remember the Liberal Press putting that on the front page of every paper in America. Do you?

is there any dem with a proposal that includes genuine transparency, accountability and effective regulation – or even attempts to?

We’ve got a bunch of ‘em. Some are pretty capable. I’m betting there will be a battle between something based on Dodd’s bill and something by Hillary (& friends). There will probably be a lot of overlap too.

They might even agree to a core of some things which must be present in both, so all Dems can be happy to that extent.

Where others can come in is to look over these basic bills and try to add a few bells & whistles such as you point to.

It ought to be a very interesting debate.

Whatever happened to posse comitatus?

They’re chasing Habeas Corpus.

What about my boat…what about my summer house…what about my wife, she’s gonna be really pissed off when she finds out she can’t buy what she wants…

Wahhhhhh, wahhhhhh

Whiners.

Oh no, not you too. Why, I read recently of a fellow who was going to have to do the hardest thing he’d ever done…give up his personal jet.

These ARE hard times. heh

How you can come up with a plan so quickly is just disturbing and then to have these asshole lobbying to cover all bad assets and foreign banks is just a rape of the american taxpayers

Elements of the PATRIOT Act had floated around for some time, but somehow appeared together as one bill just when they felt they could ram it through.

Do you think the Bush bailout plan just materialized yesterday?

Dems have some material to work with, but it’s still going to take a bit of time to get all the good parts together in one bill.

Use the internet to inform MSM and they can get word out to the general public. There’s enough pissed off public right now, that the idea might really catch on.

Medical people, service personal and alike need to be told to go to work – don’t want the repubs saying we are killing out fellow man by asking the fireman to stay home and fake a sick call in, or some kind of sick garbage that seem to always come from their mouths.

GOD, let the people ONCE AND FOR ALL TIMES COME TO KNOW THE EVIL THAT president bush IS. WE ARE THE COUNTRY, WE ARE IT’S PEOPLE.

Let’s see if these bobblehaeds roll over or rise up.