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Obama owns defeat. Can’t even unite 218 Democrats, much less America

Paulson called. Obama came. 95 Democrat Judases fled.

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  September 29th, 2008 at 02:35 PM  | 

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Barack Obama owns the defeat of the Wall Street bail-out bill today, more so than Speaker Pelosi, President Bush or anyone else.

Obama has held himself out for over a year as The One we have been waiting for to change old politics and unify us. When the crisis broke out over ten days ago, he scoffed at McCain’s flight to D.C. to return to his Day job amidst the crisis.

The previously thought omnipresent one advised that if he was needed, he could be reached by telephone. How very 19th Century of him.

The Treasury Secretary of the United States called The One.


Obama came to Washington since Washington wouldn’t come to him.

Pelosi and Reid designated Obama as the sole, lone, sufficient, omniscient spokesman, er ah, I mean spokesperson, for ALL DEMOCRATS in the huge pow wow in the cabinet Room at the White (man’s? see Rev. Wright) House with the President, Vice President and even Barney Frank, to try and bring all parties Democrat (House and Senate) and Republicans (Senate and even House and whatever Bush-Paulson have become).

Pelosi and Reid did not speak in the meeting.

Obama, alone, spoke for the Party of the JackAss.

But un-miraculously, no worlds came into being; no firmaments firmented; no seas were parted; no oceans lowered; and no republicans licked his boots (save for Paulson – is he a Repub anyway?).

But being a Messiah, his words were not without effect.

Hours later 95 of his own, i.e. Democrats, now known as Judas Iscariots, abandoned him and joined the Pelosi designated unpatriotic Republicans.

And to think, we waited over 232 years for this. We don’t yet own him, thank God, and I doubt we ever will because

Barack Hussein Obama owns:

A Felon Rezko’s house bought with Saddam’s money

A 20-year pew parked butt at Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s Hate Whitey America Church

A fallen soldier’s name bracelet that he won’t shut up about despite the cries of the mother and father; and

the defeat of this socialism bill due to his failure to unite even his own party while yelling Great Depression-like consequences.

And we are supposed to fear this cat why?

You say Gallup? that same organization that elected Presidents Mondale, Dukakis, and Kerry in all months but November?

Phooey!

Could it be that Obama is not the Messiah? Could it be that he plays another biblical role more like the One that tempted the real One with the whole world and that McCain’s meekness somehow saved the day? Saved America from a socialism huge big step?

I think so.

But Obama does say “middle class” at lot, if that floats your boat…

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  • StephC

    No wonder Pelosi wanted 100 Reps. She needed them for cover. I guess they work either way this way. The bill failed, blame the Republicans, had the bill passed and it’s the crapshoot they knew it was, blame the Republicans.

    Haven’t I always said Democrats never admit they’re wrong about anything and they never apologize. We saw that just a few minutes ago, didn’t we?

  • Oz

    I feel the icy hand of death upon me (Monte Python quote) …

    To me, a lot will come down to Palin.

  • ZootSuit

    The public perception — and reality — is that McCain put himself more on the line than Obama to get the bailout passed. It was McCain who “wanted to go to Washington to get this done” while Obama wanted to debate. I agree that John McCain should leadership while Barack Obama did not. But the downside of leadership is that you get the blame when something fails and, for better or for worse, the bailout bill failed.

    Unfortunately, politically, I think Barack Obama comes out as the winner on this.

    As for the failure of the bailout plan itself, I am personally ambivalent. I think the idea of the government essentially purchasing over $700,000,000,000 in private securities and bad debt to be repugnant and a long term debacle. I have consistently argued that the real solution to this problem is to loosen the capital markets by eliminating capital gains taxes; although the injecting $630,000,000,000 in the market is a good step, it also potentially weakens the already (IMHO) too weak dollar. But, unfortunately, my solution was not on the table.

    The one very good thing passing the bailout bill would have “reassured” capital markets. Sometimes government “action” has a positive effect, even though the government action itself is not “positive”: the sort of political equivalent of the Hawthorne effect.

    So while in the long-term, economically, I think it is a good thing that the bailout plan failed, short-term I think the economy losses.

    Obama gains, capitalism and the economy loses. And it’s a Monday. Not a good day.

    But fortunately, the election is still 36 days away.

  • Skanderbeg

    (Hey, I can sorta cross-post a comment. Right?)

    It’s the same old leftist office politics on steroids.

    This is like the situation with the Russian invasion of Georgia. Whether or not that was a “shrewd move” or a “stupid mistake” depends on the reaction and countermoves over a multi-month period of time.

    She clearly let things get to this point with the notion of a chance to play a seemingly no-lose game.

    Basically, her tenor was that “All this mess is the fault of President Bush and Congressional Republicans, and by voting for this bill you are agreeing to that contention and confessing your sins.”

    So what follows? One of two things:

    1) Congressional Republicans go along for the good of the situation and then get hammered for the next x weeks/months by Neutron Nancy and her dance troupe shouting “SEEEEEEEE!! They confess their sins!!”

    2) Enough are taken aback by this office politics sneak attack that they pull out their support and the bill fails – in which she is counting on being able to make the mess by intent herself yet fix the blame elsewhere.

    We need to come up with effective countermeasures to make sure that she regrets this stunt – painfully.

    Here’s a place to start. Over half of American households own equities directly – and if you add in the indirect ownership (mutual funds, 401-k’s, pension plans, etc.), methinks that number goes north of 70%.

    A huge chunk of the citizenry thus took a very big financial hit today because of Neutron Nancy. Let’s make sure everyone understands that.

  • gamecock

    and given that the repubs have the leverage now with 95 dems voting against the Obama-Pelosi bill and with McCain having associated himself with the House Repubs principles, he can win “this” overall.

    Obama loses a bit more credibility of the notion that he can unite anything other than and er and an ah.

  • gamecock

    and Bush has checked his power in east eur

  • Skanderbeg

    I was using the metaphor here for today’s mess – that carefully calibrating counter-plans is what eventually makes someone else’s move a “good one” or a “dumb one.”

    But since you brought up one of my favorite topics :-) , there’s a general perception in Georgia that the Russians were ready to roll on into Tbilisi until President Bush and Senator McCain told them behind-the-scenes to knock it off.

    Of course, what’s scary is that if by some fluke The One should ascend, Georgia as an independent state is probably history, and Ukraine will be sliced up next (watch events in Crimea) – since Putin knows that The One lacks the spine to lift a finger to stop him.

    I’ll be in Ukraine again later in October. That should be interesting….

  • gamecock

    that sent the message and actually put American military bodies on the path Russia would have had to clear to take Tbilisi.

    more later

  • deltar

    and I can’t get my bearings.

    You want to put all the “blame” for defeat of a socialist incursion by our federal government into the banking system on Obama?!?

    Wouldn’t this be a bill you would want defeated — essentially a Nationalization of several Banks? A camel’s nose of more government control under the Wall Street tent?

    The public opposes this bailout. And you want Obama to bear responsibility, so I guess you actually want Obama to get credit and more public support for opposing a bad bill.

    Certainly I can read your disdain for Obama so I really can’t figure why you want him blamed for killing a crappy bill.

  • gamecock

    His party owned the majority and joined with Paulson in saying it had to be passed immediatley to avoid Armeggedon. Paulson called Obama and summoned him to the cause. Obama went and then supported the bill. Dems fled him.

    does that help?

    I am glad Obama failed to impose socialism; failed to get the votes to lose the Iraq war; and that he failed to get enough votes to defeat Roberts and Alito.

    I love his unleadership.

  • Jack_Serious

    His nature is that of a divider (to conquer–review his past) not a uniter. When he tries to unite something, anything, he’s fighting his instincts (bad bad leadership flaw), and that, mixed with his unflappable desire to remain vague and only decide which way he stands on an issue after the fact, made a mess of the Dems movement in the bailout–their farce of trying to be political (with presidential politics too) while not looking political hasn’t helped the process.

  • gamecock

    he never called any republicans to try and get them to vote for the bill. Said he wasn’t very good with republicans.

  • obamaosama4ever

    is very dangerous for America. He is destroying the economy in order to make the U.S. more dependent on the Saudis.

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  • Moe_Lane

    Blam.

  • WOSG

    The $700 billion bill…
    Democrats are falling over themselves to credit Obama for getting them to switch votes.

    Some Democrats are touting calls from Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) as an explanation for why they are switching their votes to support the financial recovery package the House will consider Friday.

    The announcements by at least seven Democrats that said Obama had helped sway them suggest the bill could pass without significant additional Republican support.

    The Democrats ? most of them freshmen ? held a press conference during the floor debate on the $700 billion Wall Street bailout to announce that they were switching their ?no? votes to yes.

    Each gave a different rationale for now being supportive of the bill they voted against on Monday, including billions in individual and business tax cuts, disaster assistance aid and even a swing in constituent reaction.

    But all emphasized that they were buoyed by assurances from Obama that Congress will be a full partner in climbing out from the larger economic crisis if the Democrat is elected president.

    Freshman Rep. Betty Sutton (D-Ohio) said she organized a conference call with Obama on Thursday, in which a number of freshman Democrats laid out their concerns to the Illinois senator.

    And what they heard in return was enough to secure their votes for the bill, Sutton and others said.

    Sutton said that ?commitments made by Obama and the Democratic leadership that an economic stimulus bill will be a top priority? convinced her to support a bill she still disagrees with. She was joined by freshman Democratic Reps. Bruce Braley (Iowa), Mazie Hirono (Hawaii), Donna Edwards (Md.) and John Yarmuth (Ky.).

    Obama secured this bill’s passage with an assurance that more dangerous and destructive policies are sure to follow.

  • JSobieski

    and Obama did what was necessary to fix it.

    Now pass the popcorn and watch your MTV.

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  • speciallist

    n/p

  • gamecock

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