Great coverage of the latest Christy. Kind of like preparing for a slam dunk court case huh?

They really have no shame or the ability to be embarassed. God,I’d be mortified to be proven such a dimwit in so large a public forum.

If Palin REALLY loved this country she would have said Thanks But No Thanks to that nomination.

This has been one of the most bizarre weeks in recent memory, I have to say. And I know I missed stuff — I just tried to hit some of the craziness in my post. Utterly and completely bizarro…

lol, I love Statler and Waldorf.

I like the video post, but I might have gone with http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKss2pBYQ6Y.

Oh, and BTW, loved that Letterman’s “look in” on the Couric-McCain interview was as he was being powdered. Kind of a “girly man” moment don’t ya thinK? Am sure McShame just loved that particular video moment of his being caught lying to Dave.

Did not used to care for Letterman. However, since his surgery and his becoming a dad, I enjoy watching him. Feel like maybe we’re now seeing the real fella.

OMG! I am so using that in a post if I can possibly wedge it in…that’s fricking hilarious!

The lying to Letterman portion of this has to be the dumbest maneuver of the whole thing. I’m serious about the rest of the late night comedy set now having to one-up Dave — comedians cannot help themselves. It’s genetic. They will all be riding McCain’s ass while trying to top each other all the way to November. It’s a self-inflicted moronic wound…

Yeah, her eyes were too big for her stomach kind of thing.

But this should end her national political career — good riddance

Honestly, she let Katie Couric give her homework. Watching that just blew my mind. What’s next? Vladimir Putin gives her a research assignment?

Do Dave and those comedians know that McCain was a POW? He was. No, really.

Good of you to have taped the Senate hearings.

Couric was on CBS this morning to comment on the Palin interview…conclusion, no information, general informaion, talking points, etc. Replayed a couple of rambling non-answers.

Sarah and John are great examples to America’s Kindergarteners. The kids will now come up with excuses like “Teacher, I have to use the bathroom because the economy is all poo.”

Morning Christy..morning all. Yesterday was one of those days that if you tried to put it into a movie script, it would be rejected as too over the top to be believed. I’m still putting my money on the following scenario: Palin announces she’s needed at home to repair her marriage, deal with Bristol’s coming baby, and deal with the good people of Alaska. McCain bids her a teary but encouraing buh-bye and announces that Mitt-boy is doing his patriotic duty to come on the ticket as his running mate.

Too Cool!

McCain’s on.

For me, the telling thing is the look in her eyes – it’s that “I don’t know WTF I’m talking about and the teacher is going to fail me – so I’m going to try to jolly this out.”

And maybe it’s just because I’m a little tired and punchy this morning, but the new McCain/Palin theme song YouTube cracks me up…over and over again. Clearly I need a nap…

McCain on CNN live at Clinton Global Initiative.

McCain’s lying to Letterman was particularly egregious because of his personal phone call. This huge gaffe cannot be blamed on a staffer, miscommunication or any of the other excuses his campaign has used before.

Shows just how comfortable ‘ol Johnny Boy is with mendacity. doesn’t it? He must be the “I can’t remember (and/or don’t care) what I said to whom” kind of person.

It sure looks that way.

What a farce this whole thing is. I hope Americans reject this silliness in November and vote Obama. With the McCain campaign imploding, it seems a little more likely. And Palin is a joke on the national stage.

With the complete melt down of the McCain train, here’s a thought on the Mike Huckerbee? appearance on ‘radar’.
1. He is talking sense from a true Republican point of view.
2. He is still a nominee, suspended campaign.
3. The Repugs are only ’supporting’ (barely) McCain through lack of choice.
4. Mike comes across as a good ol’ boy, you could have a beer with him, christian man and all, a VALID choice for those who were looking for a ‘real’ Republican Candidate..
Things could get really interesting(er) and the debates would be watched
(and commented on) by all. Yep, hmmmm.

Haven’t had much time to read or stay plugged in. Thus it is that Week of Weirdness has totally gobsmacked this old bird. Crikey!! Cannot find status of the Friday debate. On/off? WTF is going on, apart from American and global economy tanking, Bush whacking us with ramped-up fear-mongering, McCoward retreating into one of his million-dollar caves, McCoward pretending to be a Congressional leader for a day or so, lies, more lies, still more lies. Jeebus, people, pay attention! This is what America “led” by GI-John and Barbie will look like, all day, every day.

OOO, I love this: I’ve been wondering ‘who’s minding the store’ while Sarah is out campaigning? doesn’t she have a Lt. Gov.? Well, she does, but it doesn’t seem that the McCain campaign will allow him to fulfill his obligations…he can’t even get Sarah to talk or email him:
“Even Palin’s lieutenant governor, Sean Parnell, said keeping in touch has been difficult. And since hackers broke into Palin’s Yahoo e-mail account last week, he said, it has dropped off entirely.

“Until she was hacked, we were communicating just about daily. Now I’m talking with her chief of staff,” Parnell said. “I saw her in person when she came home about a week ago, but I haven’t spoken to her since.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…..29172.html
So, in other words, Sarah Palin was communicating with her Lt. Gov. on state business through a Yahoo email account? Not phone calls or meetings? Does she send memos, too?

I have heard again the debate is on; Obama plans to be there..that’s the latest, I think.

Re: Palin last night. If Katie Couric eats you alive, you are clearly not ready for prime time.

My god Tina Fey is there!

I love the image — Barack Obama and the empty podium. Pretty much how it will be, whether or not McSame shows up, eh?

Teacher I can not take the test because the dog ate the economy and then ran away. If I don’t go and catch him and get it back then no one will be able to come to school because there won’t be any gas for the school bus.
Truly
Johnny POW

I scared the hell out of the cat and my husband over that. I about fell out of the chair giggling.

Crazy is campaigning. “All hands on deck. Danger, Danger, Will Robinson. Worlds are colliding. I must return to Dee Cee and save Trash for Cash. My plan is 1)Stop all Debates. 2) Give Paulson anything he wants. Stop criticizing him, you bahstads are lucky he steals your money. 3)Drill, Drill, Drill, especially with Sarah helping me.

Re: the Republican response to the economic crisis. It’s like teenagers who’s parents were away for the weekend and now they’re trying to clean up the vomit and hide the beer cans before mom and dad get home. That’s why all the urgency, they don’t realize mom and dad already know.

Did I miss anything?

joking right?

how about these:

the dems selling us out on a bill that if passed will take away the chance for re-regulation of the financial markets. and will instead provide cover for giving away congresses power of the purse strings to “private economic power” represented by paulson – that thing called a corporate state.

Nice of Clinto to give McC this air time.

Obama is there, too — they were both invited. It’s not a one-off for either candidate.

McCrazy – “I’d rather take that 700 Billion dollars and build a Bridge to Nowhere right in Sedona, Arizona than to give it to (Wall Street executives)”

umm, ok….

It must have looked good on paper – or something.

?????

don’t ask me………

Have to find somewhere other than YouTube to post videos. I’m getting “unavailable” on most of them now.

And while that is going on — and we’ve covered it a LOT — it didn’t really fit into the theme of “what’s up with McCain/Palin” and my “good lord we need a comedy break because this week has sucked” attempt. Clearly, it didn’t work for you…

McCain Palin 08: We’ll stop malaria.

Didn’t you hear how she “decided”? She did a Bush (and McInsane) and didn’t THINK about it at all, she simply let her limbic system run wild (People of her…type…disability…call this, “listening to the voice of Gawd”) and immediately squeeled, “Oh yes, yes, yes! Praise Jaysus! The babies will be saved!”

Might be your browser. Try clearing your browser cache — sometimes that helps.

McCain is “not campaigning” all over the cable news right now.
What a creepy scumbag he is.

They’re probably censoring the politically “inconvenient” vids, ie, any vid that criticizes any GOPer or GOPer ideers.

the applause for McCrazy is just deafening, huh?

gawd – I’ve got 3/4 of a pot of coffee in me, and he’s putting *me* to sleep….

I loved that CNN and MSNBC both played the market opening bell on top of McCain’s yapping.

what the transcript said…
Palin: I’ll try to find you some and I’ll bring them to you

What she actually said:
Palin: I’ll try to find ya some and bring’m to you

cleaned up it doesn’t sound so hickish but when it is accurate….. Do we really want another person who doesn’t have command of the language?

After seeing Bill Clinton last night on TDS….. it was OMG I remember having a President who can actually put full sentences together…..who has a quick mind and grasps the snark…..

Couric this morning

Can anyone believe the Clintons latest ploy, Bill Clinton now says that McCain was acting in “good faith” in refusing to appear for the first debate pre-empting the Obama campaign on the issue. Just watch the Clintons for more, the more the Clintons think Obama might win the ge.

It sure looks bad for McCain, but lets not get too excited. After all, the day the Sarah Palin pick came out we were all giddy (how can he be that stupid?), yet Palin actually revived McCain.

I agree the it looks very dire for McCain (and am happy for our Country), but wonder whether he can pull a rabbit out of a hat as he did with Palin.

Obama’s only choice is to stand firm on debate happening this Friday. It appears a win-win for Obama: if McCain doesn’t show, Obama has a 1.5 hour interview with Jim Lehrer (pretty fair interviewer and not likely to come up with a gotcha, even if he might ask Obama some tough questions). If McCain shows up (especially if bailout is not done), he looks like he caved and appears to be floundering, plus the economy will be brought up – albeit briefly – and overshadow the rest of the debate.

Christy:

You passed up an opportunity. When quoting Palin’s remark to Katie you should have altered the transcript to how she actually said it rather than how the transcriber corrected it.

I’llll try to find jii some an I’ll bringem to yu!

OT From the LA Times

Rice admits Bush officials held White House talks on CIA interrogations

WASHINGTON — Senior Bush administration officials held a series of meetings in the White House in 2002 and 2003 to discuss allowing the CIA to use harsh interrogation methods on Al Qaeda detainees, according to a written statement Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice recently provided to Senate investigators.

Rice’s written response to investigators on the Senate Armed Services Committee marks the first time a high-ranking White House official has formally acknowledged the White House discussions, which led to the CIA’s use of waterboarding and other coercive methods.

In particular, Rice wrote in the Sept. 12 statement that officials discussed simulated torture techniques that elite U.S. soldiers were subjected to as part of a survival training program, and that she and other officials were told that such methods “had been deemed not to cause significant physical or psychological harm.”

…

sorry, no. has a bit of a feel of nero fiddling while rome burns. but maybe this isn’t the big deal i think it is.

OMG it really IS cut and run McCain…
Friday’s Debate Will Focus In Part On The Economy

A senior Obama adviser says that the CPD has told both campaigns that there will be questions about the economic crisis during Friday’s debate.

They were told this last week…

I’m so pleased. I was writing out a timeline of this debacle over at TPM just before Obama came out with his statement and I wrote this:

7. Who knows? My prediction is that McCain’s gambit will again fall flat; hopefully by the Obama campaign pointing out that presidential campaigns (including debates) have continued through world wars before, that the presidential campaign is an important process of democracy, not some cheap political sideshow, and that presidents need to be able to walk and chew gum at the same time.

And then he said exactly that, only much better!

I was especially pleased because McCain was clearly trying to pull the standard Republican crap about “let’s not let that messy politics stuff pollute our pure work for the country,” and Obama clearly said “No, this is democracy, not a sideshow; it’s not about you, it’s about the American people.”

I was waiting for that Rotary Club slap on the back and “the wink”

[palin] I’ll try to find you some and I’ll bring them to you.

someone downstairs said the trasnscript was wrong, she said something like;

“i’ll brimg’em to ya”

I don’t notice anything wrong with McC’s left eye. Maybe it’s a little droopy but nothing I would have noticed if it hadn’t been mentioned.

WOW!

From the second McCain announced Palin as his running mate choice, I knew Alaska would never be he same, but after watching their campaign start to auger in yesterday, I began to wonder if American politics will ever be the same.

Do I really need to put some plastic over my laptop before I look at Christy’s YouTube?

yup, I just watched it, she goes;

“Ihhhlll try to find you some and Ihhhl bring em to yah

Obama seems to have the knack of making his opponents implode. He’s helped, to be sure, in his opponents. I was thinking yesterday that of all the crummy candidates the Republiks put up, the Mittster was probably the best qualified.

As to the McPalin meltdown, it’s too early to bring out the champagne. Roger Cohen, who is making more sense lately now that he’s looked into the abyss that is his stock portfolio, has a good and scary column today on American exceptionalism. If and when the bail-out goes South — and we have every reason to believe on basis of past experience that it will — the American public will go in one or two directions — towards the left and realism, or to the hard right, with a strong man and emotion. I would not bet my life savings — diminishing as we speak — on the former.

I hope Sandra O’Connor sleeps well at night for her role in bringing this nightmare to birth. I sure don’t.

Thanks Katy — it’s one of those things where the video just tells you so much more than a standard transcript does – gives you a real flavor of that totally thrown away line.

per my comment downstairs – I think it dawned on these klowns that Obama was going to be able to stand up friday night and speak coherently about the “global economy” and how things are so much more interconnected and interdependent – while McGimick was planning a Full Metal Reagan fusillade of platitudes – scared ol Gramps

The life cycles of the malaria parsite and neo-cons is very similar. In fact the malaria parasite looks very similar to Hank Paulson.

Sometimes, you have to pause for a laugh. Or you spend your whole life with a sour migraine, crabbing at the world. At least that’s how it works for me. I’d rather pause and laugh and find some enjoyment somewhere than spend my entire day being a Debbie Downer. Because otherwise, I’m not really living.

Different strokes and such. It’s not Nero so much as a much needed sanity break.

Thought everyone could use a little humor break this morning because the news has been so abysmal of late and we’ve been mired in it. Frankly, I reach a point where if I don’t laugh at something, I feel like my head is going to explode (watching Bush increases that exponentially, btw).

Here’s another Republican talking point, “this is not the time for finger-pointing.”

Only people who know they are to blame want to avoid finger-pointing.

McCain has demonstrated that when the going gets tough, he cuts and runs. Not just from his own positions and principles, but from debates as well.

‘ere ya go:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM72M62jAUc

Craig Ferguson on the Late Late Show following Letterman was just brilliant, the best he’s ever been. He’s a newly-minted American citizen, full of righteous fire, serious and hilarious at the same time. He also brought in the element that many are thinking but no other public figure is willing to risk saying, that trying to cancel a debate because of a crisis hints at trying to cancel an election because of a crisis, and we don’t do that.

McCain is still running ads here in Iowa. I viewed one during the early morning news about 6:30AM CDT. So it is just a political stunt. There has been no suspension of advertising and campaigning like all the media is reporting.

all this and my cousins on my mother’s side LOVE Sarah.

And my mother wonders why I don’t keep in touch with them more often.

Gah! That freakin’ drives me nuts! There is a HUGE difference between we (soldiers and flyers) who get “the treatment” in survival training and real prisoners getting the same treatment! WE could opt out at any time and they were limited in how far/long they could go with it. With a real prisoner, there are no such controls and protections. They CAN’T opt out and the torturers can continue as long as THEY can last, NOT how long the prisoner can last.

it was very very noticeable in yesterday’s taped “suspend the campaign” speech.

thanx for bringin em to me, ahh owe ya

shades of Rudi Gi911iani.

Christy,

that little intuitive voice is screaming there is a real possibility that yesterday’s disclosures about Davis/Manafort may have included possibile criminality

yeah I know, there are what, 3, 4 laws Lobbyists can break ?, but just wondering if it didn’t set someone’s hair on fire outside of the rather large political implications

Thanks Christy. Like you, I need to laugh regularly or I’ll be so bound up with anger and outrage that my head will explode.

So let’s see if we can find a deal buying some kevlar yarmulkes in bulk.

Everyone’s frazzled, but judging by the wait times for the capital swtchboard and congressional offices this morning, nobody’s letting up.

Nobody around here is fiddling, I’m sure.

You know, the weird thing is that McCain also did a press conference outside his hotel in NYC yesterday which had been planned long enough that they had teleprompters set up outside for him to speak from as he read his statement out. It wasn’t just some impromptu decision — you don’t get that much set-up together in a coupla minutes, so they must have had some big huddle yesterday to figure out how to best game this to get attention.

Absolutely bizarre.

The suspension of ads really had me baffled. It made no sense. It didn’t enhance the perception that he was rushing to DC and it would hurt him in the long run. So I’m not surprised that they’re still running but I don’t understand what he was trying to get across with that statement.

Hopefully it will ANY political career. May Alaskan’s have enough gumption to stand up and say, “We’re mad as hell (at her leadership) and we’re not gonna take it anymore.” And then recall her butt–or vote her out at the soonest opportunity.

McCain & his campaign resemble chickens running around with their heads cut off but is that the best they could prep Palin!? Or maybe she has comprehension issues. 5 colleges in 6 years comes to mind.

I’ll go see if I can find it.

but I don’t understand what he was trying to get across with that statement.

I’m beginning to think he doesn’t understand it either.

a Kos Diary with some am response to McGimmick

Not getting excited here — too much fluidity and weirdness for any excitement, especially given the crazy economy and our downward spiral on so much else. But that doesn’t mean that I can’t put up a chicken video for a little mockery break. *G*

McCain is still running ads here in Iowa

where he’s down, what – 12 points?

MWAHAAHAHA!

Brilliant wit da money, that JohnnyMac…..

Palin-McCain: The bridge to Russia. I can see it from my house.

Honestly, she got punk’d by Charlie Gibson and Katie Couric. It is to laugh.

Did Couric use the usual sepia tones and soft focus to film herself and Palin?

Exactly — can you imagine what would have happened to her at the hands of a tough interviewer?

Take a look here.

“Any change is as good as a vacation at this point. I don’t know if you’ve paid much attention to the past eight years, but it has been a shit burger supreme. If somebody gives me an empty burger, it’s better than eating shit.”

– Stephen Colbert, setting aside his conservative TV pundit character for an interview with Entertainment Weekly.

The sheer overwhelming idiocy of McCain’s campaign is mindboggling. A McCain-Palin administration would be stupider than a bad sitcom on the WB or CW.

You have to laugh occasionally at the sheer absurdity of what we’re watching. It’s like watching a continous loop of both the emperor and the empress having no clothes while the media pretends not to notice.

Talking to my Senators people, blah, blah, blah, blah. Talking to my congress person’s office. If there is any way we can help you please let us know.

Senators are goopers
Congresswoman is Progressive

oh and ps again – FOIA not withstanding, I don’t ever, ever want to know what it is Cheney has on McConnell X~o

Or during a tough negotiation if, heaven forbid, she ascends to the presidency? Facing off across the table on a nuclear arms deal or with some necessary treaty negotiation on pretty much any topic?

Uh. Mah. Gawd.

She offered to turn in homework to Katie Couric. Offered!

CBS’ summary of Couric [appearing next to the video]:

“Couric calls Palin cool, calm and collected.”

Jeeze, can the corporate masters’ invisible hand be any more obvious?

McSchtick and Failin sure got a one two punch from Ferguson and Letterman.

They are amatuers, hacks and losers and it is showing more and more.

At least Pakistan’s Zidari was drooling over Palin only months after his wife was blown to shreds…..Class act.

-G

Lets see what other silly Repug games we know they play….

What about the “Blame game” …. remember that one?

I have a question about the Keating 5….. two out of the 5, Glenn and McCain had military careers and the others didn’t per wiki…… Did the ethics investigation go easy on our military heroes not to tarnish them too much?

Politico:

According to an internal fundraising calendar put together in late-August just before McCain’s vice presidential selection, Palin was to have headlined nine fundraisers across five states by now.

someone help me out here – fundraising ? what happened to the $84M from FEC ??

Thanks, RevDeb. I see now what everyone’s talking about.

I think that was damning with faint praise..she added more about the non-answers/talking points.

And I am convinced that she would ascend to being Pres. I do not think McCain’s health will last through four years.

Hell, if he can’t stand the pace of the campaign, he surely cannot manage the daily demands of the White House.

I have been ruminating on, if they are elected, how any decision would/could be made? They are beholden to so many special interests, wouldn’t there be gridlock at the trough?

Pop Quiz: Hank Paulson chose the number $700000000000 because

a) It is very large
b) Goldman Sachs needs that much for big bonuses
c) Randomly, random number generator, Paulson actually has no idea how much is needed.
d) That is all the money left in the US Government Check Account

With Republicans, the only time for “finger pointing” is when they get to do all the pointing.

Talking about the Economy and the ‘bail-out’, here’s Dennis ideas….
love this man :)

Protecting the public interest in any economic “bailout”
The U.S. government has been turned into an engine that accelerates the wealth upwards into the hands of a few. The Wall Street bailout, the Iraq War, military spending, tax cuts to the rich, and a for-profit health care system are all about the acceleration of wealth upwards. And now, the American people are about to pay the price of the collapse of the $513 trillion Ponzi scheme of derivatives. Yes, that’s half a quadrillion dollars. Our first trillion dollar compression bandage will hardly stem the hemorrhaging of an unsustainable Ponzi scheme built on debt “de-leverages.”

http://kucinich.us/index.php

I like these reforms Nader has put out.

Nader has come up with 10 market reforms that he says need to be implemented immediately along with any bailout. These reforms are:

No bailouts without conditions and reciprocity in the form of stock warrants.
No more lobbying for any company that is bailed out.
No golden parachutes or get-out-of-jail-free cards for guilty executives.
No bailouts without public hearings.
Reduce the moral hazard in U.S. mortgage markets by introducing covered bonds for the majority of mortgage products, as is done in Western Europe. That gives institutions that finance mortgages an incentive to be prudent, because they cannot just unload them and wipe their hands clean of the liability, but are instead on the hook if the homeowner defaults.
Maintain neighborhood stability and housing security by passing a law with a sunset clause allowing below-median-value homeowners facing foreclosure the right to “rent to own” their homes at fair market value rates.
Avoid future housing bubbles by removing implicit government guarantees for new mortgages that exceed thresholds of greater than 15 to 20 times the annual fair market rent value of the home.
Make the Federal Reserve a Cabinet position, so it is accountable to Congress, as well as make sure all Federal Reserve Bank presidents are appointed by the president and answerable to Congress.
Reduce conflicts of interest by taking away power for auditor and rating agency selection from companies and placing it in the hands of the SEC to be administered on random assignment.
Implement a securities speculation tax, starting with derivatives, to deter casino-style capitalism.

http://www.truthdig.com/report…..f_america/

Christy – she was lost because she didn’t have someone like Joe Lie at her side whispering in her ear. We’re at the point where both Repub executive branch(sorry, Dick, the VP is part of the executive branch) candidates require a Cardinal Richelieu? An eminance gris? Someone with a brain and knowledge and experience to stand at their side, feed them the lines and pull the strings? Is this what the GOP is reduced to trundling out as ‘vote for the best’? These guys must look in the mirror every morning when they go to shave and want to slit their throats..

o/t

Gitmo Prosecutor Quits Over Lack of Due Process
TPM

Oh, and I completely forgot to link this piece from Mara Liasson of NPR and Fox News. Because nothing says “put that man’s finger on the nuclear button” like this does:

“Princeton University political scientist Fred Greenstein, who has written several books about personality and politics, said that he views McCain as a “kind of force of nature.”

He says McCain’s temperament had two distinct sides in the Senate.

“He could go off like a rocket launcher and spew profanity at somebody who crossed him or he thought was crossing him,”…

you forgot…
e)all of the above..

Christy, Just to say thank you for keeping us informed, or afloat. There really is toooo much happening for it to make any sense, esp. in the whirl of all the financial stuff. Alittle laugh or smile for a break; I almost lost it last night with the comments during Ws speech. It was Saturday Night Live at the Lake. ;)

“Couric calls Palin cool, calm and collected.”

ok, lemme see if I have this straight:

Katie Couric is too stupid to realize that Sarah Palin was too stupid to answer the questions from the very stupid Katie Couric.

Is that about right?

The Palin-Couric interview, a case of the lame leading the limp.

Have something coming up on that in a bit…

Coward, doesn’t he know there are head choppers who want to chop of your children’s heads?

-G

Yep..not the sort of guy who’d look in Putin’s eyes and see his soul, huh?

They’re circumventing that. I’ve rec’d a few email requesting donations. This is at the end of each letter:

Because the McCain-Palin Campaign is participating in the presidential public funding system, it may not receive contributions for any candidate’s election. However, federal law allows the McCain-Palin Campaign’s Compliance Fund to defray legal and accounting compliance costs and preserve the Campaign’s public grant for media, mail, phones, and get-out-the-vote programs. Contributions to McCain-Palin Victory 2008 will go to the Compliance Fund, and to participating party committees for Victory 2008 programs.

After spending this past week with young Max Blumenthal (he’s writing about more startling stuff now) I don’t think this is a “bridge to Moscow.” It is more like a bridge to Jonestown…

I’ll take e) all of the above.

Isn’t it amazing that the only solid thing in all these bailout plans is the $700 billion, and that’s made up? It’s like sending in an arsonist to investigate the leaking gasoline tank in your big wood barn.

Keeping his powder dry?

I know it seems that way, but Katie is not stupid. I don’t take ” cool, calm, and collected” in this context as anything but very subtle snark.

My translation ….. “look at Palin. She’s too dumb to know how she comes across.”

already giddy at the thought of a few thousand dfh’s poring over their compliance reports sometime in the next few months

From McCain’s talking points e-mail

John McCain is calling on the President to convene a meeting with the leadership from both houses of Congress, including himself and Senator Obama.

So, did Georgie do a little favor for McCain to help make him look important?

I don’t think so. I thought Katie did a good job of giving her alot of time to talk, not interrupting her, so she kept talking and sinking.

Yes. This has been another edition of…

It’s a possibility that Bush will meet with the Candidates and Congressional Leaders this afternoon – and Tell Them that he’s not Asking for Their Permission to Give Paulson the $700B.

Bush might Tell Them that he already has the Inherent Authority to do so, by virtue of being the President, Acting as Commander in Chief, during a Time of War and National Emergency.

At the least, Bush will have the opportunity to proclaim his UE Powers over the Attendees, the Economy and the Rule of Law.

Could be an interesting meeting…

CNBS talking heads are laughing out loud at the market intervention today. The credit market is literally frozen – not trading – yet the DOW is up 235 points – despite the worst home sales numbers ever seen.

CLEARLY the PPT is propping the pig up. Odds are there is no volume at all.

It’s all Republican kabuki to get the Democrats to give them cover for blowing up the economy. The $700 billion bailout will further damage the government and country, and won’t fix the economy.

what’s the PPT?

I thought the chicken youtube was hilarious. Remembering that I’m on the west coast, it’s early here and I needed a good laugh with my coffee to face whatever comes today.
I’m listening to the one-minute speeches from the House. What a week, indeed.
Anyone else thinking of the Beatle’s A Day In The Life? I read the news today, oh boy.

solai:

there’s a short diary over at Kos talking about his face and health with video.

Something is very wrong with him I think (yeah, besides that). Calling Dr. Murphy!

Protests are planned

September 25, 2008 at 07:43:31

Bail Out on this Bailout– Join Rev. Jesse Jackson at US Treasury Protest Friday Sept. 26 12 noon

By Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr.

Are we witnessing the death of the republic? Sound hysterical? Look at how Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson proposes to govern the $700 billion “” some $2,000 for every man, woman and child in America “” that he wants to bail out the banks.

…..

Treasury Secretary Paulson says Congress must act immediately. Well, wait just one minute. If it takes $700 billion to bail out Paulson’s former colleagues on Wall Street, some basic questions have to be answered:

Who pays? The rewards of the economic growth of the last decade went overwhelmingly to the wealthiest Americans. Send the bill to those who had the party. We need an excise tax on high incomes to pay for cleaning up the mess.

Who decides? We can’t allow the folks who helped create the mess be in charge of cleaning it up. We need an independent entity, governed by a board with union and consumer representation and the power to make the rules for any bailout.

Who benefits? If taxpayers are bailing out banks, taxpayers should get partial ownership “” so if the banks do return to profitability, we get some of our money back.

Who gets helped? We can’t just bail out Wall Street and ignore Main Street. The bailout must be bottom up, not just top-down. Any bailout must include provisions for renegotiating mortgages, freezing foreclosures and keeping people in their homes.

What gets the economy going? It’s not enough to bail out the banks. We need serious public investment in the real economy “” in rebuilding schools and sewers, in green jobs and conservation that will put people back to work.

Who is independent? The oversight committees and the overseers must come off Wall Street’s payroll. Financial industry lobbyists should be banned from the beltway for the next year. Legislators=2 0should refuse Wall Street PAC and executive donations for at least the next two years.

Who is accountable? No executive of a firm that is bailed out should be paid more than the president of the United States.

Will the Congress act with the wisdom to put us back on track? Or will it squander even more money on Wall Street without making America better? We’d better help Congress make the right choice.

http://www.opednews.com/articl…..25-76.html

Clearly there are large swathes of this nation and this planet that are desirous of a cataclysmic final act.

Imagine Palin’s vindictive streak backed up by the US military and the entire legal system.

Good night nurse.

-G

Plunge Protection Team – AKA – “President’s Working Group”

1970’s Nixon and The Plumbers and 2008 Bush and The Plungers.

-G

c) partly true (Hank has no idea); but
d) is nearly the case, in a way; M1 was a bit over $700B last week. (Actually almost $800B, but what’s $100B among friends, right?)

M1 is all the US paper money and coins in circulation.

I resemble that.

Lieberwinner

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/s…..TE=DEFAULT

Obama live on cnn/msnbc

Barf…..I saw a look of a deer moose in a headlight. It is obvious she is in way over her head.

The credit market is literally frozen – not trading – yet the DOW is up 235 points – despite the worst home sales numbers ever seen.

The stock market is just a way of keeping track of the money they are stealing from the poor. The higher it goes the more they are stealing and if we see it go up we give them even more money… fuckin’ marvelous.

The flags are a little jingoistic don’t you think?

McShame said yesterday 700 Billion 1 Trillion.
I did not hear a word between the two numbers.

This is part of the official transcript of the Palin interview with Couric

Palin: I’ll try to find you some and I’ll bring them to you.

However, it is not accurate.
Palin was sounding more phony folksy with this actual sentence. I am not ready to go with regional accent; I believe she is capable of pronouncing the word ‘you’ if she wanted:

Palin: I’ll try to find ya [sic] some, and I’ll bring them to ya [sic].

Obama is having teleprompter problems.

I think he is actually waiting for applauds which we can’t hear because he is live via satellite and they were having audio problems.

did she actually say “them” rather than “‘em?’”

Any true transcript would be much scarier than what is currently circulating.

Could be

I was about to suggest that Obama suggest that the CPD change the topics for the debate from “Foreign Policy” to “Economic Issues”. But it seems that had largely already occurred!

Obama should point this out in his remarks after the meeting on Friday…and at the “debate”. This really WAS a chance for the candidates to bring their differences before the public. McCain knew he had to wriggle out of that debate, especially with his plunging poll numbers.

She and McCain can fundraise for the Republican National Committee (and I believe contributions are unlimited – or maybe $50K)…which then can launder the money back into the McCain-Palin campaign provided that TV Ads or other materials contain some reference to a local Congressional or State race. Money can help fund “joint appearances” by McCain with Elizabeth Dole, for example.

Actually, if McCain-Palin do stop their fundraisers then that could affect the NRC, which could impact their local campaigns as well. But I heard that they had sort of stopped Palin appearing at these “closed door” events, anyway, to focus on her making these “softball” interviews with Hannity and Couric…and to try and infalte the idea that there was crowd intensity and energy back in the campaign.

Good summary of and links to lotsa important stuff. They actually need to put the words “Talking Points” on top of the memo? Is that for Palin’s benefit?

Yes she did..I tried a few hours ago to tell everyone that the transcripts lie!…ya and ‘em…delivered in her awful little girl voice…

She is obviously a woman who has used her looks to get what she wants in life…not her intellect…

It was me..it is hard to hear..I plugged earphones into my speaker to double check…

He has lots…he got his 84.1 million public financing on Sept. 8th.

Apparently,there is no limit on raising State money after receiving public funds. Someone explained to me a few days ago that money can still be raised for attack ads as long as they are against the Democrats…just not Obama alone. I think I got that right…way too many post to read from this week to double check.

(e) They plotted a deflationary curve and after $700B the dollar devaluated so much that printing more would have minimal real value
(f) That’s when the ink supply gets low

Right you are!

It serves us all as a fair warning:

Listen to Palin more carefully. She may not be saying what you think you are hearing.