McCain May Hold Political Keys to Bailout Bill Passage

Rick Davis is the real key here. He just sank the McCain campaign. McCain has no authority left on the financial crisis.

Country first? What a joke McCain has become. He thinks we’re all so smitten with Palin that he can lie, use smoke and mirrors, and politicize this national crisis, and we’ll still vote for him. He has brought dishonor to his name. He has shown that he thinks the end justifies the means to become elected President. This posturing is a horrible display of judgment, just as his selection of Palin. He is willing to jeopardize the American economy in order to place himself and his campaign in better position to win the election. HE DOES NOT HAVE MY VOTE!!!!!

So Harry Reid (Senate Majority leader) is basing his vote on what McCain does. WOW! I take that as an endorsement of McCain.

Jake is quite the Renaissance man.
Who would have thought he could find time from investigating the sex habits of Palin’s/McCain’s extended families to also share his no-doubt deeply-knowledgable insights into the most complex financial crisis in 80 years.
I know we can trust him to give the country wise guidance.

Congress has authority over financial and budgetary matters, For the past 2 years Democrats have been leading the Congress. Things have been sour and the financial woes are getting worse, simply Democrat Nancy Pelosi and Democrat Harry Reid were sleeping at the switch and taking vacations while the rest of the country is financially going down the drain.
This Congress is the worse in the history of the US, We need leaders not DO NOTHING ATTITUDE and just reacting, Liberal Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid and their friend Obama do not deserve to be leaders maybe small town community organizers.

Rick Davis is a swindler.
McCain is a swindler.
Palin is a mascot.

A veteran of the Reagan administration, Rick Davis ran McCain’s first presidential bid six years ago. He also founded a lobbying firm – Davis, Manafort Inc. – which has made at least $2.8 million lobbying Congress since 1998.
Over the past eight years, Davis’ two roles often overlapped. In 1999, while he was McCain’s campaign manager, his firm represented SBC Communications Inc. and Comsat Corp. At that time, both communications companies had controversial mergers pending at the Federal Communications Commission. The Senate Commerce Committee has legislative authority over the FCC, and McCain was chairman of that committee. Both mergers were eventually approved.
In 2003, Davis was president of the Reform Institute, a nonprofit focused on overhauling campaign finance laws. The group, based in the same building as Davis’ lobbying firm, paid him $110,000 in consulting fees that year. McCain served on the institute’s board; Davis was then the senator’s chief political adviser.
Davis solicited tens of thousands in contributions for the institute from communications companies such as Cablevision and Echosphere. Several of these same companies had business before the Commerce Committee while McCain was chairman.
In between two $100,000 donations to the Reform Institute, Cablevision’s CEO testified before the committee in favor of a la carte pricing, and McCain wrote a letter of support to the FCC and asked other cable companies to support the pricing scheme, according to a 2005 story by the Associated Press.
In May, Davis admitted he owned an Internet consulting company called 3eDC with lobbying partner Paul Manafort. McCain’s campaign hired 3eDC to run its website, and by the end of the first quarter owed the company more than $175,000. At the time, Davis was drawing $20,000 per month as the campaign’s CEO.

I don’t believe the Republican Party can count on McCain to bail out their buddies for their greed-driven fraud and corruption. McCain will more than likely nod to root them out. He is the candidate because he goes against the Republican grain. It looks like he always puts country before party and self. Obama has not closed the deal that he thinks the same way. It remains to be seen, time is running out.

Westcoastmanager presents the recommended AP stylebook revisions from the GOP.

Westcoastmanager is quite sure of McCains convictions, he seconds Mr. Paulson.
Okay everybody, NVM!

Jake… do a story on why Ric Davis was accepting money from Fannie/Freddie from 2005 until just last month.
McCain and his buddies had a big role in this whole fiasco and will not own up to it.. his lobbyist buddies were milking money from all of these corrupt big companies and enjoying the good life while us small time americans were struggling to keep a roof over our heads and food on the table.
So ask McCain and Caribou Barbie why we are in this mess and oh yeah, ask him if he remembers the Keating 5?

Wasn’t it McCain who said Obama was using the economic crisis for political gain?
Now we have Newt Gingrich telling him to use it for political gain?
And maybe all the Republicans will use it to separate themselves from Bush to help themselves in the November election?
They seriously don’t give a rat’s a** about us!

2NFER: “Congress has authority over financial and budgetary matters, ”
The problem has been one of regulation of the markets as much as law, a task that clearly is performed by the Administrative branch. Kinda the whole job of the Secretary of the Treasury you know.
As long as reality is so against the Republican’s extreme neo-con policies, I suppose McCain supporters such as yourself have little option but to lie at this point.

McCain has a lose-lose scenario now. If he supports the bailout he is a socialist who loves his financial friends. If he opposes it, then the market tanks a bit more and the economy worsens and it costs him votes.
So, that’s why we get the “I support it but oppose it” stuff from him. Same from Obama, mind you, but McCain has more to lose here (the Republicans already think Obama is socialist anyway, and the Democrats don’t care).
I personally think the bailout is nuts and there are other, and probably better ways to improve things in the market.

Emma sez:
..this is the fault of both parties, you cannot lay this at the foot of one over the other. This Democratic Congress is THE WORST IN AMERICAN HISTORY.
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In a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey released Tuesday, 56 percent of those questioned are backing the Democratic candidate for Congress, while 42 percent support the Republicans.
That’s a change from immediately after the GOP convention, when the Democrats had only a 3-point lead lead over the Republicans, 49 percent to 46 percent.

It is well known that a guy named Ayers drew his inspiration from a woman named Emma.

Das 2 said “McCain will have no credibility as long as Rick Davis remains with his campaign.” I think McCain threw his credibility under the bus next to Phil Gramm when he lied about Davis severing his connection to Fannie Mae three years ago. Oh, and Emma and Samantha, its on videotape.

So Samantha, I am guessing you find it too huge a sacrifice for our population to not be obese, to not drive huge gas guzzlers, and not to waste energy? I am guessing you would rather be in debt to the Chinese and the Saudis, and have a population so fat they can’t even walk down the block?

Samantha: “The fact is that Obama is stupid and does not lie well. He is only good when spinning his canned speeches and cliches or when in a totally friendly environment.”
Typical McCain campaign lines. Note the complete absence of facts, the Big Lie approach to reality (“the guy who earned a spot in Harvard based on merit and who was offered tenure as a constitutional scholar is stoopid!!”) and the denial of reality (Obama is always in a friendly environment and never grilled over Wright/looking too presidential on his Europe trip/the surge having some success/etc.).
John McCain is not as much a shameless liar as his campaign makes it appear. I expect a contrite apology after November from him, along the lines of the “it was the wrong thing to do” admittance he gave after being found guilty of “poor judgment” in the Keating Five scandal.

Samantha,
What do you have against American cars?

Samantha:
republicans fear intelligence..
what we do know, is that McMuffin graduated 5th from the bottom..
why don’t you share all the secret Obama educational rumors you found..
I want to see Obama’s coloring books, so I can finally see if he did indeed, stay inside the lines,
otherwise how could he have gotten into 1st grade.
Mission Accomplished

Nobody was “convicted” for Keating 5, it was a Senate Ethics Committee investigation. Both John Glenn(D) and McCain were “cleared of impropriety but criticized for poor judgment”.

Mila,
Obama’s a run-of-the-mill corrupt Chicago lawyer. There are a ton of those. Some of them, but not enough of them, are in jail. Get some perspective.

“How do you know that Obama earned a spot at Harvard based on merit?”
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It’s possible that, like Michele, B O’s score needed to be nudge up a couple of points by affirmative action in order for him to win entrance……
Else, why is he being so secretive about it?
And what’s the scoop in Obama’s medical records?
One page? Written by a friend of his who’s also a Doctor?
And what’s happening with that suit regarding his doctored birth certificate?
Obama is just a a multi-facet mystery, isn’t he?
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

midwestlady, No I can’t name a single one. The point I was trying to make, however, is that Harvard Law Review editors are chosen based on first-year grades and written exercises. Hard to see how a Columbia University wash-out, as you allege, could fake that.

Keating/Mccain background info:
McCain and Keating had known each other since 1981 and had become fast friends. Of all the “Keating Five,” it was McCain who moved into the life of the Lincoln S&L chief. The two men vacationed together multiple times, with the whole McCain clan (babysitter included) heading out for Keating’s private Caribbean property on Keating’s private jet. McCain didn’t think to actually report these trips, or pay for them, until the investigators were breathing down his neck.
McCain took his payment in the form of more than just vacations. Keating and other members of Lincoln’s parent company padded McCain’s pockets with $112,000 in campaign contributions.
In John McCain’s biography, he called his meetings with Keating and regulators “the worst mistake of my life,”
though from the text you’d think this was a spur of the moment decision, not something that McCain did repeatedly over a space of years.

George W. Bush graduated from Harvard too just like Barack “Politician” Obama.
Posted by: Roger Miller | Sep 24, 2008 3:32:40 AM
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Bush went to Yale fool. You’re just Another Republican liar…
McCain is a “has been” liar and Palin’s 15 minutes are up.
So can we just get it over with and elect President Obama now?

Davis,
Bush did his undergrad at Yale,
MBA at Harvard.
They should both be SOOO proud.
The difference between Bush and Obama is that Bush never read the homework he turned in, while Obama knew why he was there.

emma
re: ‘Give me McCain….a man who says what he thinks and stands behind it.’
where have you been for the last 2 weeks..?
it’s astonishing, in light of the many change’s in McCain’s statements, sometimes contradicting himself within hours that you could seriously say that. have you read any newspapers or watched any news at all?

Rex, you write like bloggers on the KOS or Huffington Post. Twenty years later, still spamming partial truths.
Read Robert Benning who was appointed cousel by the Democrats to investigate the Keating 5. Benning reported to the Senate Ethics Committee PRIOR to the hearings, McCain and Glen should be EXCLUDED, as they were guilty of breaking no law, only the appearance of impropriety. For which apologies were received, and monies returned for vacations with Keating.
But who can resist the temptation to drag a real American’s reputation through the mud?