Why Isn’t Palin Coming to Washington to Work on the Bailout Bill?

Actually, after the U.N. a little Economics 101 a the Capitol would have been a good plan.

Hey Jake — maybe you should run for President. Then you could have your very own VP candidate. You could have them do whatever you want!!
I realize that blogging doesn’t require all the standards of real journalism, but this post is pretty weak.

Palin doesn’t know anything to help with the bailout.

She should be there. Her party is willing to do this country harm by not allowing this bill to pass. I’d these companies fair millions of Americans will be effected. She should be there to provide leadership to her party. McCain is treating her like such a wimp. I’m sorry McCain is sexist against Palin. She is to be seen but not heard.

“Why isn’t Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., bringing Gov. Sarah Palin to Washington, DC, to help hammer out the compromise on the bailout bill? ”
she’s not a congressman or a senator!

She went to the U.N. and she isn’t an Ambassador either.

Sarah Miss Alaska Congeniality Palin is a journalist, there is nothing to communicate during financial crisi, so she has to rest after her intensive iunternship at the UN. God save America from McPalin.

I think Jake may be pointing out that if this happened in a few months after McCain is rendered incompetent, Ms.Palin would be the deer in the headlights that Bush was last night.
Isn’t that a comforting thought.

And this stupid meeting b/w the white house and the candidates isn’t being held till 4pm this afternoon!?!?
Hell…a deal will be worked out by then.
I hope my fellow Americans aren’t dumb enough to think McCain was/is actually putting country first…its campaign first. Has been and always will be.
There’s maverick and then there’s reckless. He’s the latter.

I don’t see why Palin shouldn’t be there. She can contribute as much to the negotiations as McCain can. Which is nothing.
Heck, why don’t they invite me over? I’ll just get in the way as well. Hey, let’s all go! We’ll make a party of it.

you have to agree that we need to fire the deregulation people——goodbye mccain

You have to agree, even Dems don’t want Obama around to solve any problem of importance.

Palin isnt a congressman or senator, and if you missed it. While mccain is spewing his devotion, Obama was the one who had been contacting the senate and speaking with his peers about this issue, also stating if they need him there he will come. Mccain wasnt making calls. This is yet another ploy for his campaign. As far as President of Pakistan meeting Palin and stating no wonder AMericans like you, you are gorgeous. I find that offensive, that also shows me they wont take her seriously. Palin has fumbled on issues even for the FEW times she has spoken. People this is NOT the ticket to be on, it will be worse than it is now. Its time for change and Obama is it.

Gimme a break, Jake. One, why isn’t there an unbiased title like “Why are the VP’s invited?” Two, Bush didn’t invite them. Three, it’s to actually help the situation, not create another photo op.

correction: “Why aren’t the VP’s invited?”

IF Obama COULD be helpful he would be there.
Dems have said, “Stay away”
That’s all that needs to said about what fellow Dems think about his abilities.
As far as insults to Palin, Dems have said far worse.

If you want to defend Palin for not being in the washington administration. Then she has time to go to Alaska and deal with her administration scandals which she is hiding from also.

Is Joe Biden going to be there? If he is is as as Senator should he be there?
Since Sarah is a Gov. not a Congresswoman or Senator what would she do?

PALIN IS NOT COMING BECAUSE—SHE HAS GOTTEN LOST ON THE BRIDGE TO NOWHERE—MOOSEHUNTING

Democrats are working to get this deal done. Republicans are bucking the process. The deal must get done, so McCain needs to get his party in line because clearly the president can not. Republicans are grand standing and not getting the job done. Palin should be there to ‘fire up her base’. Or perhaps the only thing republicans are ‘fired up’ for is bashing sen. Obama. If she can’t convince her party to move on a bipartisian fashion, she is useless. The deal will get done with or without these selfish Republican twits.

Jake,
I’m going to spell this out for you.
Obama and McCain are sitting senators, as is Joe Biden. It is their job to be there and frankly, all three of them should have been there on Monday. The majority leader of the Senate was very clear on Tuesday that no deal was happening without John McCain. So, John McCain is coming to work the deal. Now Harry is a little worried about that for some reason.
As for Sarah, IMO, Steve Schmidt should freakin’ turn her loose. Lord knows she couldn’t do anymore damage than Joe Biden does on a daily basis. And honestly, she’d probably do a heck of a lot of good if the media would lay off of all the distractions. You know, the silly stuff like her being prayed over by some Kenyan. Wasn’t it Barack that told us we shouldn’t be worrying about such distractions?
At any rate, I don’t see why Sarah should be there. She isn’t part of the Senate and doesn’t really have a say in this for the time being.
Is this any clearer for you now?

FIRED UP! READY TO VOTE! SUPPORT EARLY VOTING!!!
Observation…..Is it me or is the word UNPRECEDENTED the most popular word in this election.
The first time America and the Democratic party have a African American candidate
running for the White House the election and republican party is full of UNPRECEDENTED
events.
Sarah Palin, Canceling a debate, postponing a convention, suspending a campaign 4 weeks to election day, 700 Billion dollar legislation, joint meeting at the White House of the candidates… and i’m sure more to come.
Let us be UNPRECEDENTED and get to the polls early and VOTE, just in case in a UNPRECEDENTED action the election day in canceled.
FIRED UP! READY TO VOTE! SUPPORT EARLY VOTING!!!

leonard
these repubs are —incouragable

rodney,
Who wants to admit mistakes or defeat?
No one. I try to stop myself from getting angry about it.

militarymom,
They haven’t suspended the election yet,
only the debate. If the election gets suspended I suspect there are bigger problems than the economy.

Samantha…Clinton is a jerk. I hope he and Hillary are permanently blackbaled fromt he party because of the way they have conducted themselves.
They have disrespected Obama at every turn. I am sure if the tables were turned, the outcome would be very different.
I am personally very disappointed in tow people I used to have great respect for.

The deregulation that McCain fought for the last 29 years is to blame for this mess.
And now McCain thinks he can claim victory for a problem he helped create?
I small a rat.. errr.. a moose. It’s HER debate he really wants to delay …… forever if possible.

because she is busy yelling
“First Dude! Hurry up and cut those trees down in the side yard… I need more foreign policy experience before next week and they’re blocking my view!”

Is anyone else getting tired of Tapper’s constant advocacy and bias for the Obama campaign? Just so we’re on the same page, Mr. Tapper, were you this fired up when Obama refused to postpone the debate, even though McCain reached out to have them both in Washington to help solve the crisis?
This is the job of the US Senators. Hoe come you are not criticizing the other governors for not being there? How come the Maryland and Virginia governors are not there, and they are right next door? Hypocrite!
How did you ever make it to senior correspondent? I am just shocked and ashamed at you.

Now that you mention it, since McCain can’t do anything there either since he isn’t on the Banking and Finance committee, if Palin was there it would give them some quality time together.

Worthless Liberal Democrats blocked the legislation that would have brought this whole mess to light if not solved it in 2005. McCain tried to get this legislation through and Dem’s blocked it….. I’m an Independent and try to see the middle but the extremists on both sides are ruining our great country…

Last night’s Sarah Palin interview is GREAT NEWS!!! For John McCain!!!
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alin’s foreign policy statement:
“”I personally believe that, U.S. Americans are unable to do so, because some… people out there in our nation that don’t have maps, and I believe that our education, like such as in South Africa and the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and I believe that they should… our education over here in the U.S., should help the U.S., er, should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future.., for our children…”
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Some people are eternal optomists, God Bless ‘em

I assume Biden will be there for comic relief
Or a history lesson?

Good one, dl. Barry has much more experience dealing with reps from the land of “snow”, the ones with Columbian accents.

Palin isn’t stupid, she is just being used for something that put her way beyond her experience.
I feel sorry for her now acutally, more disgust with the thinking that allowed it.

Again extremist who can’t see beyond their own party lines (noses) are ruining our country

re:Post by: Leonard Peltier | Sep 25, 2008 8:46:36 AM
Leonard, you do know of course Palin never made those comments don’t you? They were made by Miss South Carolina.
Here’s a help. One woman is blond, the other brunette. One is from South Carolina, the other from Alaska.
Best wishes

Maybe because she is not a member of Congress?

As a US American, I feel good that a Mom, somebody who are a lot like my Mom , is running for Vice Presidont of the US America. Screw all those educated peoples like Obama and such. We need reel peoples that can get things finished,

Obama:
Call if you need me–I’ll pop in and vote present.
I can’t afford to give up time cramming for the debate.

Obama wants to keep his hands off this so if GOD FORBID he does become the next president and this whole plan blows up in our faces he can say he had NOTHING TO DO WITH IT!

A better question would be where the hell is Biden? Last I checked Sarah Palin is not a member of Congress (and doesn’t even get along with most of her state’s delegation), but the whole democrat ticket is!
Dems (aka Tapper) are ###### because McCain’s move was a master stroke. First off they get a free ad out of Harry Reid saying McCain was the only one to save the bailout plan and lead the Senate. Then if they get the bailout done before he gets to weigh in he can criticize it all the way to the election, exactly what Reid didn’t want. If though he takes part in negotiations then it further shows how much bipartisan cred McCain has, especially as he’s going against the administration again, where Barry has none. Then McCain can make another ad about how you Barry wants to meet face to face with people like Hugo Chavez and Ahmadinejad (though his bundler Jodie Evans beat him to it) but won’t do the same for Senate republicans.
Though interesting last night who was coming back to DC? Barry! Flip flop much?

Dave in lv,
I stand corrected, will not use that comment. Not like it matters much anyway.

You go Samantha! A Hilary supporter who doesn’t support Obama, love it!
(btw, according to all the “smart” people you don’t exist.)

oleg,
Separation of powers is so old school.

Linda, exactly right. Obama is doing his best to look presidential while voting “Present”.

Obama’s version of leadership during a time of national economic crisis: “If they tell me I can be helpful, I’ll be there…”
Think he would want to take a bit more leadership on an issue that will have huge impact on the country and his administration should he become president? No, he would have preferred to remain holed up in Florida (as he has been most of this week), preparing for a debate on foreign policy. Clueless.
As for Palin, aside from having no clue herself, she is not a member of Congress, so she does not even have a seat at the table. Guess they will call her too if she can help. Not.

The education of Sarah Palin should include a day at the Senate.

I think she is driving Biden to the Amtrak station. Oh wait, Biden must not have received the call that he is a Senator still and is too busy telling OH, PA, Virginia “no” to new coal plants.

Oh come on. Why isn’t Joe Biden coming, then?

Last night’s Palin interview with Katie Couric was a GAME CHANGER!!! For John McCain!!!
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Indeed.

If mcvain’s antics were to portray strong leadership.. he FAILED MISERABLY
For outstanding vision and calm making the right decisions look no futher obama/biden08.

Samantha, you discount the value and importance of your own state Senate.
C’mon, you are a worth while State, believe it!

Now McCain should agree to a debate but change the topic to the economy! Obama’s head will explode since he hasn’t been prepping for that yet.
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Oh dear God please let this happen.

Funny even with his 30 years of Washington leadership, NO ONE wants Joe Biden back there. Gee I wonder why? Perhaps because they know that they last thing they need in DC is windbag Biden in there talking about nothing ad nauseaum.

Sarah take it to the root time and time again!
The girl has got some SKILLZ!!

“If they tell me I can be helpful, I’ll be there…”
Which is why no one called the lightworker (correction lightweight), until Pres. Bush felt sorry for the empty suit and and invited him for a photo op.

What exactly is wrong with you people?

For outstanding vision and calm making the right decisions look no futher obama/biden08.
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From Bill Ayer’s Buddy:
“As I said before, I think that one of the things we have to determine is how we can be most helpful. It’s my sense that the most helpful thing we can do right now is, uh, to let everyone know this is a sufficiently important problem. I can be helpful, and I am prepared to be anywhere, anytime. So, uh, I think the message is, if I can be helpful, I am prepared to be there at any point.”
Well, that explains it! Obama knows the Senate is going to have to actually DO something, as opposed to just TALKING about it. He realizes that’s ABOVE HIS PAY GRADE!

Call if you need me.
Solving the worst economic crisis in US history is Above My Paygrade.
My campaign is more important.

Right.
And s’pose Sarah shows up…the same “journalist” that posted this tripe would be griping like a stuck pig “What is McCain doing, bringing in Sarah? She isn’t a part of the D.C. establishment yet!! How rude and arrogantly political of McCain!”
Those of us in flyover country aren’t as stupid as you media elites believe. That is why your market shares are decreasing.

Illinois state senate:
Approval rating 43%
Indictments this year 12
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See!! They are double digit approval ahead of the feds!! Rejoice!

You’ve said the answer yourself–her office is in Juneau.
So aside from using this non-enquiry to take a swipe at Palin, what’s your point?

Curious… Is Obama still collecting his Senate Paycheck?

That is a ridiculous question. What governors are in attendance?

Let’s see, the American Taxpayers are paying McCain, Biden, Obama to do their job. I know it’s such a little detail, but really Jake, your distaste for her clouds your thinking. I mean really, after listening to Biden, you really think he is qualified to be a heart beat away from the Presidency. In a moment, I will pick myself up from the floor from laughing so hard I fell off my chair.

Uhhh, because she is the sitting Governor of Alaska, not a U.S. Senator?
Better question – Since either the Obama or McCain will be the next President, and will have to spend the next four years living with the results of this poorly crafted, hastily put together P.O.S., why is Obama not trying to help put it together? Agree or disagree, McCain is at least trying to assist.

Samantha, you give me hope for America.

Clay,
Gotta respond, I think this article is facetious. but Jake has p*ssed me off at times as well, so roll with it.

She’s a Governor, not a Senator. She holds no federal position. (yet) A better question would be where is Biden? He is a senator and I haven’t heard of any plans for him to return to, you know, do his job.

Pay attention folks, this is what an Obama Presidency would be like. Staying uninvolved and disconnected until it’s time to make a speech.
Exactly what happens when you have an inexperienced president.
America can’t afford Obama.
Send him back to Chicago!

hmmm. Governor vs. three senators…
I wonder.

Rodney, deregulation is NOT the problem. While certainly fraud and greed had a part to play in this mess, the main problem was government interference with OVER regulation. There is a great article posted on the Investor’s Business Daily (posted Sept 15, 2008). Here is an excerpt:
“But it was the Clinton administration, obsessed with multiculturalism, that dictated where mortgage lenders could lend, and originally helped create the market for the high-risk subprime loans now infecting like a retrovirus the balance sheets of many of Wall Street’s most revered institutions.
“Tough new regulations forced lenders into high-risk areas where they had no choice but to lower lending standards to make the loans that sound business practices had previously guarded against making. It was either that or face stiff government penalties.”
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The housing market is just like any other market, it is cyclical. When home prices get too expensive, consumers stop buying. This causes prices to fall. And when home prices fall low enough, consumers begin buying again. This causes prices to rise. It is simple Economics 101.
We would already be in an upturn in the housing market if it had not been for the lowering of the lending standards coupled with the pushing of the flexible mortage rates. Instead of the free market being allowed to correct itself, now we had the problem with the value of the homes actually decreasing far below the amount of the mortgage. This resulted in the skyrocketing of the flexible mortgage rate (with fixed mortgage rates the banks would have had to have just ridden out the market). When the mortgage payments doubled and even tripled, many consumers were unable to make their mortgage payments and lost their homes. And in the case of the speculators, many who purchased multiple homes figuring they could make huge profits by flipping the houses, when they could not make their mortgage payments they just walked away. The banks had no alternative but to foreclose on these properties. But since there are no buyers, the banks are stuck with the properties–whose value continues to drop.

After the election Palin should start naming names and ending the careers of the corrupt members of Congress who took the money and looked the other way when more responsible people like Bush and McCain were pushing Congress for reform and Democrats were all voting no. McCain said at the convention that he is going to name names and make people famous. He should start with Barney Frank and Chris Dodd.

There is no purpose in her taking any hand in the Senate or House negotiations. She is a private citizen. The other 3 candidates are all members of congress. This suggestion that she somehow involve herself in the procedures is off the wall.

She doesn’t know the guys on the Hill, so being a liason now doesn’t seem a fitting role. There’s no pretending she’s a Washington insider or power broker. She doesn’t have any Hill experience, which isn’t to say she doesn’t have the experience she needs to learn the VP job.
She can explain to the American people why this is necessary, but so can the current Administration and the people currently responsible.
All in all, I’d say her job right now is to get McCain elected (that’s the job of all VP candidates), and McCain’s job is to a)look Presidential and b)be a Senator during a crisis.

Of course BOTH Sen. McCain and Sen. Obama should be involved in the decision making. One will be the next President of the United States. And this rescue package will have a major effect on his ability to run the country. So it makes since that they both roll up their sleeves LEAD their respective parties into a bipartisan agreement.
As for Sen. Biden, he is still collecting his paycheck as a senator. So yes, I believe he should be there as well.
Now as for Gov. Palin, it is up to the Congress and the president to hammer out this rescue package. Since she is not a member of Congress, she is not involved in the decision making. So no, she shouldn’t be there.

No one is looking for Biden attend? Why should Palin attend? Mccain can make the contribution he wants to with the plan he perscribed… Mccain and Obama.

If Palin went to D.C. she would eventually get cornered and have to speak…….. the Republicans worst nightmare…… can you imagine the nightly news and the visuals of Palin having to answer unscripted questions of substance and policy..

Wow, the partisan Far Right Fringe smear mongers are here in record numbers attacking Jake.
McCain is done, Palin is not fit for the job, never was and Obama wins, period.
Do you really believe the public is going to continue to buy this crap from the GOP? LMAO

How about writing an article on Harry Ried’s statement, “No one knows what to do?”. I am a highly paid LEADER of the SENATE and i don’t have a clue? Or write about Pelosi saying, “Let’s go home, there is nothing we can do.”
Why is it that NO expects our Democratic leadership to do a darn thing, but where Mccain is at least attempting to help, we need to scrutinize his plan before we even give him a chance?

“Do you really believe the public is going to continue to buy this crap from the GOP? LMAO”
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Yes “Cooter” I do.

Barney Frank went on TV to tell the world that he didn’t want either McCain or Obama in the negotiations. This, the man that fought attempts to fix the crisis when it could have been done simply, this the man who told us Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were fine, this the man who’s specific job it is to oversee and prevent such debacles, is now trying to maneuver his party to be the savior as if the fox could fix the hens.
Now you want to stuff Palin in the middle of that and claim she could help, and by implication, say she is too incompetent to do so. Yesterday it was Campbell Brown.
Heck no we don’t agree with you, Jake. DYou don’t get it. Your profession lost its objectivity and as a result, its credibility.
You asked why journalists shouldn’t advocate a few weeks ago. This is why. Because when you get it wrong, you lose your credibility as journalists and we as citizens lose the one thing we really do need in politics: someone to trust. And with these kinds of pieces, you just hammered nails into the lid of the coffin that trust is being buried in.

Palin knows the economy…
She can see money in her purse!

If McCain is the one grandstanding and suspending his campaign, then Palin should be right at his side in DC. I think that all of this is a ploy to postpone the VP debates.

I’m disappointed Jake. I thought you were one of the last “honest” journalists in town.
Sarah is not a US Senator. She can and would play no role in this matter.
You know that.

Palin has no business in Washington trying to fix our economy right now no matter what you say. She is the NOMINEE of the Republicans for vice president.
But where are Obama and Biden? It is their duty to be in Congress RIGHT NOW. Why have you not written about that instead of attacking Palin for no sensible reason.

Sarah can’t be trusted to campaign on her own, especially after yesterday. She’s a lightweight and people are starting to see it. Just wait until the witness tampering in Alaska investigation gets rolling. She may not even be on the ballot in November…somewhere there’s a fork about to be stuck.

Jake I think it would be beneficial for Palin to go.
I have every confidence in Palin–they need to let her answer questions. So many in the media have only one objective–to embarrass her.
But she can handle it.
She cannot possibly be worse than 35 year insider and ding dong Biden.

This is the time for Palin to step forward in front of America and the media and talk about these issues in a thoughtful matter and answer the questions on the Voters mind via the mainstream media which would reach the majority of Americans.

Jake asks a sensible question, and the “you’re hating Sarah” crowd hollers. If she can’t take the heat, she should stay out West.

“As the governor of Alaska, Palin cannot participate in the high-level federal government deliberations on the economy that McCain gave as his reason for suspending his campaign.
Sorry the author didn’t know that.”
Oh, listen to ‘em squeal!
Palin has been to Washington a dozen times in her brief tenure as govenor to lobby for handouts.
Anyone can lobby Congress.
It’s McCain who claims the deal can’t get done without him. Of course, he’s really trying to stop Obama from edging further ahead in the polls.
Jake is right: here was a perfect opportunity for Palin to show how she could work effectively with Congress.
Remember, Cheney claims the VP is actually part of the legislative branch, not the executive.
McCain–hiding from debate.
Palin–hiding from everybody.

Maybe I’m not grasping everything you’re getting at, but McCain has not exactly endorsed the bailout (I think that’s the current stand…I get dizzy keeping track of where he and Obama stand on this issue). So why would Palin be used to lobby conservatives for a bailout that McCain doesn’t support…at least in its current form?
I do see your point. Just not sure I agree on this one. Palin can always conference in if she has something to add. For that matter, McCain and Obama could conference in and do not HAVE to be in Washington. The whole idea of going is more symbolic, and perhaps showmanship, than anything else.

Typical lemming, they can’t think for themselves, yet have the audicity to claim other people don’t think.
Do you read? Where are the facts suuporting any claim you have ever made.
this is what seperates us from you.
We will and do provide proof, citiation, quotes, and facts.
You porivde rhetoric and oh-so-easily disproved lies.
It is quite pathetic.
The New YOrk times thing….so transparently hypocritical of you.
Debate postponment? Didn’t McCain say the economy was in great shape?
What a clown show. YOu people do not eve have the intelligence to debate, so you lie and distract.

Mike H writes:
“The reason Palin is not in D.C. to help with the so-called bailout bill is found in a simple civics lesson… She the Governor of Alaska not a member of Congress. By the way, where’s Biden?”
It’s McCain’s attempt to play a joker about his importance, not Obama’s or Biden’s.
Biden, by the way, is out there answering questions like every other political candidate in the history of the U.S.–except Hidin’ Palin.

“Palin could work with them, lobby them, be a liaison to them from the McCain campaign”
Am I to understand that Senators and House members (Dodd, Kerry, Obama, Rangel, Franks, Clinton) are clueless about the mess they created when they systematically looted the American people through their Freddie/Fannie mortgage fraud?
Are you saying these fine examples of public service need Gov Palin to help bail them out of their own mess?

Typical Media inside the beltway approach. She is a governor and not a member of Congress. Why not ask the other 49 or is it 57 governors to assist? And, where is good ol Joe Biden on his leadership in the Senate to get this done. Obama wants to do JFK and rest in FLorida for the debate instead of showing some leadership. It took the current unpopular president to drag his butt back to DC to do what an elected senator is supposed to be doing.
We have truly witnessed some amazing things in this race including the death of the main stream media.

Obama writes his own speeches.
McCain is handled and uses index cards.
Palin is handled and uses a teleprompter
You people are soooooooooo dumb its like arguing with a 5 year old.
I give up, no inteeligent debate from Republican going on anymore, they have all defected to Obama.

@Clay, that was your comeback???
Experience? What a ridiculous claim by the GOP.

If the “anyone can lobby Congress, so why isn’t Palin here?” crowd actually believe what they are saying, why isn’t Michelle Obama lobbying Congress for a resolution?
After all , she is Barrack’s number one advisor. What better way for them to unite the country and show their bipartisan support?

Lindsey Graham told CNN that the McCain campaign was trying to negotiate it so that, instead of debating Friday, Obama and McCain debate when the Biden/Palin debate was supposed to take place and that Palin’s debate would therefore have to be postponed indefinitely.
Hmm. Things are starting to make sense.
But, hey, since she “has that readiness,” as she keeps reminding us, why not have Palin and Biden debate Friday while Obama and McCain do their photo ops in DC and then Obama/McCain can take the VP slot fot their debate? Problem solved.

You wrote this just to be provocative– right???? Can you imagine the media’s outrage if Palin showed up????
The entire focus of the reporting would be on whether it was appropriate for her to be there or not. The public would get EVEN LESS INFORMATION from the third estate.

Governor Palin is not “just” the Governor of Alaska. Governors of Alaska do not meet with foreign leaders at the UN, nor are they briefed on National Security from the Bush administration’s Office of the Director of National Intelligence (which a campaign spokesperson said was standard procedure for all presidential and vice presidential candidates.) Going to DC to help shape the GOP strategy and response to this crisis is in line with her current duties. If she believes it is inappropriate for her to be in DC, perhaps she should head back to Alaska, now that the campaign has been suspended.

One could just as easily turn this on it’s head and as why Joe Biden isn’t there helping gain support for the bill? He is a senator, for goodness sake…
While I don’t disagree that Palin could be helping sell the idea of a rescue bill to the public…
1) Her presence or speaking about a bill that is still to be shaped might be construed as politicizing the issue. And McMav has said the issue transcends politisization.
2) She holds little sway with Democratic politicians nad has ledd gravitas than McCain-who will already be there-has with Republicans.
3) House Democrats, such as Barney Frank-curiously one of the perpetrators of the non-regulation of Fannie/Freddie that they now decry-are already rtying to portray McCains decision to come to Washington and work on the bill as a mere campaign stunt and photo op…What do you think those disingenuous dirtbags would be saying if Palin came to town???
In large part, the Democrats in congress have wrought the current situation, by blocking any reform or oversight of Fannie/Freddie, which are at the root of the current meltdoen, for more than 10 years. Their hypocrisy in trying to lay this at the feet of Bush is astounding. And, their attempts to use it against McCain are equally hypocritical considering he sponsored a regulatory reform amendment in 2005; but what else is new-treachery, demagoguery, deciet, and misrepresentation of other peoples positions have been the Democrat’s, and their accomplices in the MSM’s, stock in trade for the last 15 years.
Make no mistake that their current Kabuki drama will come back to haunt them; it’s just a question of when…

“Palin should be there. Maybe she can learn something.”
If you mean the proper way to loot the American people though Freddie-Fannie mortgage fraud to pay for ACORN voter fraud, to finance Chicago’s slum development, to enrichen Obama’s campaign finance director Penny Prizker, to get money for Raines to donate back to the corrupt Democratic politican campaigns, to donate 41 million to Rev Rainbow Coalition?
No thanks Gov Palin is a Reformer; she doesn’t do fraud, she fights it.

“How about integrity – advantage Obama”
ROTFL! You must have missed your calling as a comedian.

Memo to Jake Tapper, ABC News, and the Media at large:
John McCain = Senator. He works out of an office in Washington DC. He proposes, debates, and votes on legislation in Washington. It’s his job.
Barack Obama = Senator. He works out of an office in Washington DC. He proposes, debates, and votes on legislation in Washington. It’s his job.
Sarah Palin = Governor of Alaska. She is the chief officer of the executive branch of a state located thousands of miles away from Washington DC. Her job is to work with the state legislature and to oversee the executive agencies of the state government. She has no constitutional role in national legislative affairs.
That’s why McCain and Obama need to be in Washington right now working on the bailout. That’s why Sarah Palin doesn’t.

Obama laid out a very reasonable position on the “bailout” (giveaway), too bad its not going to happen. First of all, although you wouldn’t know it from reading the media, Paulson disagrees with every single point.
Secondly, the way this game is played is that the pols who actually care about the people (mostly the most liberal members of congress, with maybe Shelby joining them) will lay out a plan that makes total sense. Then, Wall Street is going to run to the DINOs and tell them that they are the reasonable ones and they need to stop the proposals that aren’t the most beneficial to their greedy little interests.
Reid and Palosi are going to be inclined to back the better proposals but will be stymied by the DINOs. Then, a campaign to force something to be passed immediately will be pressed full force and the worst proposal will be brought forward. Reid and Palosi will back down, introduce it with minor changes they will call victories.
That is the most likely scenario. Only the backbone of the real Democrats is capable of stopping it, but they only have a handful of people.

On your trips around the hill today ask, “What is so signifigant about being done by Monday?”

“to donate 41 million to Rev Rainbow Coalition?”
Pardon me, I have a correction to make:
it’s “$1 million to Rev Rainbow Coalition?”

No thanks Gov Palin is a Reformer; she doesn’t do fraud, she fights it.
Posted by: syn | Sep 25, 2008 10:54:19 AM
Ok, just keep telling yourself that. Maybe if she gave more interviews we would find out more about her views and opinions. Hiding out is not a good sign.

We like to discuss actual facts here.
Do you have any to offer?
————————————
King P
I offered them in the beginning when I said she should NOT be in Washington today… Tb Those are facts. Fed vs. State. Learn how they work.

LOL @ LOL
Open mouth, insert foot. Ask Obama who Jon Favreau and his team are. The only things he doesn’t read straight from their speeches are the um’s and uh’s. Those are his own intellectually challenged insertions.

Bush throughout most of
this year said the economy
was in good shape. Now
he has declared it’s in
danger.
When he was giving us an
optimistic assessment, his
Republican appointees
in charge allowed crooked
and evil Wall Street firms
to slowly choke the life
out of the economy.

re:Post by: King, PA | Sep 25, 2008 10:55:25 AM
Why haven’t we heard of any “facts” from any Dem as to why they don’t believe Obama would actually be “helpful” in solving this problem?
How about the fact Obama has not had any experience in bringing bipartisan solutions or working in a bipartisan manner?
How about the fact Obama has yet to propose any plan but does well in attacking the plans others have?
Any other facts as to why Reid wants him to stay away?

All candidiates have speechwriters, but it is well known that Obama gets much more involved in the contents of his speeches and does write many parts to them.
McCain and Palin write NOTHING.

Why would McCain be concerned about how it would “appear” if Palin were to help him?
I thought he was a “maverick.”
Besides, the VP is the head of the Senate. Why not a little on the job training for the potential VP?

The McCain campaign has told all you msm types what Palin is to their campaign: a face. That’s all, just a baloon headed face. No way has she demonstrated any track record from which to form an opinion in any debate. Why I’m sure that left alone to come up with a thoughtful response to a considered question from a rewpected interviewer, she would be left with only wne response and that is yada yada yada McCain. does John McCain think we’re stupid enough to buy that line? Yes.

Oh I see I was in error about the deletion, my apology Jake.
At least I am honest when I am in error and have the ability to acknowledge such errors.
Oh and the person decrying Palin’s Bridge to Nowhere! perhaps Jake could inform his readers about that situation, it appears they need help.

Both McCain and Palin after
they both lose would be
invited to Washington to
work on a Bailout Plan to
Nowhere.

Jake – you called it right. Doesn’t matter how McCain’s team or supporters want to spin this — you are exactly right.
But Jake, she couldn’t help any because she knows nothing. Not sure if you saw her interview on Katie Couric yesterday but that alone explains why McCain felt the need to lie to Letterman and run over to do an interview with Katie Couric do do clean up yesterday.

Just who do you think that you are fooling? It isnt that you think that she has something to offer, it’s just you in a backhanded way trying to slam Palin. It’s slick but that kind of crap doesn’t work anymore.

It would not matter to MSM if Palin walked on water. The woman can do nothing right according to the media. I agree with the poster that said she would be critized to the hilt if she were up on the “Hill”
Where is the criticism of Biden (The intellectual that thinks FDR was on t.v. in 1929)? Maybe Joe is in remedial history classes.

Palin is a governor. She’s not involved in House / Senate issues.
Uneducated voters are the scourge of our Republic, and you sir, are one of them.

Sigh… Jake. Reaching my brother.
Now if she were a lobbyist from Countrywide, she would be there. I see from the slush fund they’ve thrown in (they never friggin’ learn), for ACORN and others (who were the first to cry racist, give folks who can’t afford it a home… and force the banks to lower standards you congress you), just like they threw money for these law breaking, criminal groups in the 300B Homeowners Rescue bill last July.
Um J, when are you going to report the 18 times legislation has been turned down along dem party lines since 2001?
You do know THOMAS. I’m sure you know CREW and Open Secrets as well… let’s see who’s stuffing their pockets while trying to convince us idiot taxpayers they work for us. They should be in jail.

Her job at the moment is a governor, not a senator. At this point Senators Obama, Biden and McCain are being paid by the American taxpayer to go to work for us as our elected represenatives and solve this issue. It is their job to take care of this matter. Now Senators Obama and McCain are going to washington to take care of this. Senator Biden is not. Shouldn’t the issue be to the people of Delaware that elected him and are paying him to represent them are now left holding the bag? This is just another attempt by the media to put Governor Palin in a bad light.

John,
Why didn’t McCain make a point of showing bi-partisan soldiarity by encouraging Obama to go with him rather than hanging up the phone and grabbing publicity?
How is that going to help anything when he goes back to D.C. other than be a whip for his own party?
What does that have to do with the political situation on the Democratic side of the aisle?
Do the issues matter or justthe appearances?

The smell of desperation emanating from the McCain / Palin campaign and by extension conservatives is overwhelming. McCain should start his effort to help by apologizing for his unwavering knee j erk support of deregulation and for turning his campaign over to sleazy lobbyists and consultants like Rick “I’m selling access to the future president” Davis.

This is an issue for the *current* Congress and *current* President…of which Gov. Palin in neither.
Here’s an idea: Wouldn’t it be fun to try to be unbiased?

JS you beat me to the comment.
Conservatives do not want this anyhow, it is a prelude to Socialism!!

Honestly, Jake, a post like this reeks of desperation for dirt. She’s not a member of Congress or the Administration.
Besides, Harry Reid say he didn’t want McCain — a Senator — working on it for fear it would politicize the negotiations. And you’re suggesting he respond by bringing his VP candidate with him?
Lame, Jake. Very lame.

For everyone asking, “Why hasn’t Obama been questioned on this or that”
Obviously the conservative right does not watch interviews with Obama, read articles about Obama, research much of anything about Obama. If they did then they would know where and how Obama plans to fix the economy.
I read all I can about McCain and Palin, I want to know where they stand on the issues that matter to the economic future of this country. I don’t really care if the conservative right doesn’t want to learn about Obama, luckily there are more people who care about the issues and who are going to vot Obama than not.
3 weeks ago Obama was hammering the campaign trail about what he was going to do about the declining economy. Guess what folks, his ‘hammering’ is paying dividends now. Obama has consistantly stayed above the fray, and it shows. The minor pimple in polls the republicans got from selecting Palin is gone.
She clearly cannot open her mouth and say much of anything with any substance in it. I hear things like She has heart! and She’s a fighter!
Well maybe so, but she knows nothing about presiding over the Congress [which would be one of her duties as VP in case you didn't know] And has no clue about foreign policy.
Sorry GOPers, this year is ripe for a democrat to take office.

Jake, why don’t you get the problem. Republicans are the issue. Bush pleaded to McCain to help him get support from house republicans. The democrats have a plan that they have put forth and Bush/Paulson have agreed to their demand. The issue is the repiblicans. Mccain meanwhile has not even read the original 3-page Paulson plan let alone the new plan.

Posted by: The Undisputed Truth
“Wrong Ed, you are a liar.
Keep flailing.”
McCain was a star player in creating the problem.”
Um, sorry, but McCain did NOTHING in his 26 years to increase regulation.
The makes him part of the problem.
Prove me wrong, you are the liar.
Give a single example of how John McCain showed leadership in Congress by proposing increases to legislation.
You can’t….keep failing.

In Bill Clinton’s interview today he blames Democrats, “they fought against me when I wanted to reform Freddie and Fannie”
Bill speaks the truth!
He also said Obama was already offered 10 debates from McCain and Obama declined.
Go Bill!
McCain 2008
Hillary 2012

Uh, Jake, you are aware that Palin isn’t a member of either body, has no standing under either House or Senate rules to be involved, and would very likely need to register as a lobbyist, seeing as she has no personal involvement with the deal and would be lobbying on another’s behalf, right?

She’s not in DC because she hasn’t been elected to serve. Yet.

“What’s he gonna contribute?”
Ask Harry Reid. He told John McCain that he had to sign off on the bail-out agreement before the dems would agree to it. Reid didn’t want the responsibility.
Then he changed his mind when McCain said he was returning to the Senate, because Reid saw the importance he had imputed to MCains presence, while not bothering to care if Obama (call me if you need me) was there or not.
As for the premise of this article, it’s ridiculous on its face. Governor Palin has no standing to work in the US Senate.

Life isn’t fair….for any of us right now…she CHOSE to run for VP, it was a choice ..this is not the prom, or a hockey game it’s politics….what I feel is UNFAIR is McCains incredibly poor choice as VP as she may end up as president…Now that is unfair! Charging for rape kits…please.

Oh, your precious Obama isn’t looking like a leader, so you want to knife Palin (who isn’t, after all, a Senator or member of Congress).

Jake
In update#3 can you please explain why Palin needs to be in Washington but Obama does not?

Bob, You missed a couple of important facts. Phil Gramm wrote some bills. Remember Phil Gramm? McCain’s co-chair? The one who said that the economic problem were “mental.” Well, he wrote a deregulation bill in 1999 and then followed that one up with another one in December 2000 called the “Commodity Futures MODERNIZATION Act,” which made all of those credit default swaps possible. There is no one and I mean no one – who bears more responsiblity for this mess than Phil Gramm, John McCain’s chief economic advisor. I do not think the Democrats are blameless at all – they were certainly responsible for some of the mess. But if you think Democrats are at the lead on deregulation – I have a bridge to sell you in Alaska.

What is Palin going to do?
Nothing, she cant vote for or against the bill….she is a governor not a senator….that means she has 1/50th the voting power and experience of a senator
her only insight was to tell us that this could lead to a depression if we dont do something….thanks for the update genius, did your communications degree tell you that…..

John McCain and Joe Biden are senior members of the U.S. Senate, and should clearly be involved first hand in any decisions or discussions as relates to the currently economic crisis.
Barack Hussein Obama should probabaly be there, too, since he’s supposed to be representing his state is the U.S. Senate. But he’s only shown up 143 days total, so it’s would be unusual to have him actually showing up for work in the U.S. Senate. It’d be even more unusual if he did something when he did show up!
Gov. Sarah Palin was not elected to the U.S. Senate, and she does not currently have a role in formal discussions. This is no different than any other governor, whether it be Jimmy Carter or Michael Dukakis.
Btw, exactly what foreign policy experience did Dukakis have when the Democrats nominated him for President? None. Bill Clinton’s foreign policy experience prior to being President? Was it visiting the USSR as a college student? And Obama claims foreign policy awareness by virtue of having lived in the world’s most populous Islamic nation, Indonesia? It’s true, and it’s even on his official Barack Hussein Obama website.

Barb, contrary to what the Liberal blogs have posted Gov. Palin did NOT want the victims to pay for their own rape kits. The policy in Wasilla used to be that the hospitals would bill the victims’ insurance companies for the rape kits. Former Wasilla Police Chief, Charlie Fannon, in an interview in 2000, said: “I just don’t want to see any more burden on the taxpayer.” He ALSO said, but apparently this was omitted or ignored by the bloggers: “I’d like to see the courts make these people (criminals) pay restitution for these things.” So he wanted the criminal to be held responsible for the costs of the rape kits NOT THE VICTIMS. Then somehow the comments of the Wasilla Police Chief were attributed as being Gov. Palin’s views.

A better question is, WHy isn’t Barry O helping out!
Maybe he is helping by just keeping out of it all because he is a complete idiot when it comes to really doing Something or ANYTHING!
Just keep talking off that Tele prompter
It’s about the only thing “The One” can do at this point.
Oh, he can vote present too!
Face it, the Dems are wishing for another Depression. They love when the people are in a big hurt. That way they can blame it on the Repubs and press for more Government in everyones life. It is what SOCIALIST do.
Just look at all the Dems that helped get this to the point it is. Barney Franks, Chris Dodds, Chuck Schumer, Clinton, Carter, Jim Johnson, Franklin Raines!

Conservative Not NeoCon, the history books will one day prove you totally wrong. President Bush’s economic policies are what has gotten us, so far, through all of the hits that our economy has taken during his two terms.
The 2001 Bush tax cuts turned around the 2000-01 recession. The combination of the 2001 and 2003 Bush tax cuts greatly diminished the effect that 9/11 and the corporate scandals had on our economy. Then we actually had 52 consecutive months of job growth (September 2003 through December 2007). It was the effects of the triple whammy of the slumping housing market, the subprime mortgage crisis and skyrocketing energy prices that caused the downturn in the economy. YET in spite of these latest hits to the economy, GDP actually grew the first two quarters of 2008: 0.9% growth in the 1st quarter and 3.3% growth in the 2nd quarter.
And had the Democratics in Congress heeded President Bush’s and Sen. McCain’s warnings and calls for oversight over the past several years, instead of blocking the attempts to implement oversight, we might have avoided the current economic crisis.

Gov. Palin’s Alaska State does not need any bailout. She ran the state well. Being faithful in little (Alaska) she will be faithful to serve in much (USA).
As she is not a representative nor Senator, she was not invited.
To get Gov Palin to clean up washington and Wall Street,
Vote McCain-Palin 08 in on November 4.
Obama is no good for the economy. He is just a “protestor” and “whinner” his whole life. Such a person cannot be good for the economy. Obama isn’t he a CEO of a large company or head of a city or a state.
There is no evidence that show that he can manage anything.