The American people and their allies....

"Senator Obama and his allies in Congress infused unneccessary partisanship into the process." - Senator John McCain

"Now is not the time to fix the blame." - Senator John McCain

Pulsars have a hard time spinning faster than John McCain. (According to scientists, however, McCain still, try as he might, doesn't spin quite as fast.) These two statements were uttered within a 30 second span.

Point one. While it is true that McCain was obliquely referencing Nancy Pelosi's speech, and her fixing of the blame on George Bush's failed economic policies, on the House floor with the second quote, it seems rather a moot point considering he just tried to 'fix the blame' of why the bailout didn't pass with the first quote.

Point two. I cannot believe that the American people will let this guy get away with trying to blame Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi with injecting partisanship into the process when it was he, with his fake¹ "suspension" of the campaign, that injected partisanshop into the the process in the first place.²

I have a deep, sincere belief that Mike Judge's vision of the future in Idiocracy was, indeed, a vision of the future and not of the present. I love Jerry Springer and hate his show. Running a campaign like you run Jerry Springer's show is a poor way to do business. It may have been, or still be, a guilty pleasure for some but they aren't going to vote for the people on that show. Thinking otherwise shows who is really the idiot.

Comments welcome,

Pat McGovern

¹ - I live in Northeast Ohio. The commercials may have stopped for an hour or so in the 12am-6am time period on Friday. Beyond that, we here in Ohio noticed no "suspension".
² - Teachers, if you wish, you can use this as an example of a rambling run-on sentence. But only if the word rambling is used in conjunction with it.

It's got electoral votes. It's what politicians crave.

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The offending speech and some reactions

Here, via TPM, is Nancy Pelosi's full speech:


Here is what, presumably, is the offending portion of Nancy Pelosi's speech:



Here is Barney Frank and Rahm Emanuel responding to the Republicans:



You really can't describe it much better than Barney Frank did: "...and because somebody hurt their feelings they decided to punish the country."

Listen to the speech. Nancy Pelosi was probably a bit more partisan than she might have been but she was attacking Bush and the administration. Suddenly John Boehner, Roy Blunt, Eric Cantor and company are going to stand up for George W. Bush? You have to be kidding me!

Really?! How do you think this is going to play on Main St.? You really think that they aren't going to blame Bush for this crap happening too? You want to defend him? Guess who they will identify you with?

The Republicans should have thought this through a little more carefully. This could turn what was a bad election for them into a landslide. And since they threw the 'you are being partisan' crap first, it's now open season.

Maybe the House Republicans have "John McCain on the brain." This stunt has him written all over it. Country first, my a$$.

Hopefully, somewhere in the midst of all of this, we find a way to avoid Great Depression II.

Comments welcome,

Pat McGovern

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Wasn't our fault! It was the crazy lady!

Here is the guy who is responsible for the bailout failure trying to spin the blame:



Nice, huh? So you get to blame Nancy Pelosi for the fact that you guys:

• screwed everything up with your deregulation


• screwed everything up with your lack of oversight on the regulation that was left


• continue to screw everything up by prefering to let everything melt down than pass something that your administration says will help.

The Democrats are talking partisan. You, John Boehner, are acting partisan.

Assuming we don't get thrown back to the stone age, history will show that both sides did stupid stuff here but one party actually let everything go to complete hell because their feelings were hurt.

Oh, and buy the way, twelve more votes still wouldn't have given the eighty that you promised John, which was down from the 100 that the Democrats originally insisted on.

Finally, I don't think that it helped that Roy Blunt was back there smirking the entire time before he spoke. If he wasn't smirking, than I guess he is even more obnoxious looking than usual today.

Comments welcome,

Pat McGovern

It's got electoral votes. It's what politicians crave.

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"borderline illiterate"

Noah Millman at The American Scene:

There are lots and lots of reasons not to like this bill. But most of those reasons are Democratic talking points. The GOP alternative proposal was borderline illiterate.

I’m writing this in haste, without a lot of reflection. But the whole way this has played out has been something of a watershed moment for me. There is only one party in Congress that thinks we are in a financial crisis, only one party in Congress with a functioning leadership.

I simply cannot express it better myself.

Comments welcome,

Pat McGovern

It's got electoral votes. It's what politicians crave.

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