I called both my senators and my rep. Used specifics from the bill to talk about. I think that is better than emails. Whatever, they do pay attention to phone calls so do EVERYTHING!!! My grandchildren should not have to pay for wars and a bailout to maintain the lifestyles of the rich and famous.

Snark back at you, my friend. For the authors’ biased eyes, Obama’s larger press conference yesterday, did discuss the urgency of bankruptcy reform, as well as a few other urgent issues. However, he said, there are a few more serious financial issues that, with his 5 caveats attached,(wiping out the Rights’ personal bailout hopes) are more urgent and need quicker action.

He’s clearly been extremely concerned about changing that bill and talked about it many times, as opposed to the author’s more favored candidate who helped write the original bill and knowing it would pass with all of the Right behind it, didn’t vote for it just to cover her own ass.

So pick your poison, carefully.

Hurl away.

I was wondering when someone would finally bring up that this whole economic disaster was called for by Bin Laden!

The following is from the first writing on military science, Sun Tzu, 400 BC, and it’s as applicable today as it was then:

When you engage in actual fighting, if victory is long in coming,
[…] you will exhaust your strength, and if the campaign is
protracted, the resources of the state will not be equal to the
strain. […] In all history, there is no instance of a country
having benefited from prolonged warfare. Only one who knows the
distasterous effects of a long war can realize the supreme
importance of rapidity in bringing it to a close.

IIRC, that’s from James Clavell’s edition.

This was a clear (and somewhat successful) attempt to:

1 Get the Rick Davis story out of the news cycle. If it got it’s due, Davis probably would’ve had to resign.
2 Get the Palin interview w/Couric out of the news cycle.
3 Give McGramps an excuse in advance for his inevitably poor performance in the upcoming debate.
4 Stop the bleeding in the polls.

Our economy is directly tied to national security concerns along with many other concerns…

Exactly. We won WWII by out-manufacturing our opponents. Now we rely on China to do our manufacturing. Does anyone else see the strategic flaw in this approach? ;-)

Also, four years ago, our key opponent in the war on terror, Osama bin Laden, announced his strategic objective:

“We are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy. Allah willing, and nothing is too great for Allah,” bin Laden said in the transcript.

He said the mujahedeen fighters did the same thing to the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the 1980s, “using guerrilla warfare and the war of attrition to fight tyrannical superpowers.”

“We, alongside the mujahedeen, bled Russia for 10 years until it went bankrupt and was forced to withdraw in defeat,” bin Laden said.

As they say, “it’s all about the economy.”