The opposition to the Bailout Bill from voters/constituents keeps on growing. Forget the polls that show people are against the Bailout by a two to one margin–something else is even more significant than the polls.

The phones of Congressional Representatives and Senators are ringing off their hooks, with people complaining that either no one answers them or they are put on perpetual hold. The American public is overwhelmingly against the Bailout, and they feel that nobody is listening to them.

The number of phone calls has been unprecedented. So too has the volume of email. In fact, so many emails have been received that the Congressional system has had to have a block put in to electronically limit the number of emails allowed through because there are “too many” for the system to handle.

This didn’t even happen with 9/11. The Bailout is massively unpopular. And it should be. If someone with some clout sponsors a March on Washington…this could get very interesting.

Now, if John McCain would only stand on principle and the side of the people and oppose the Bailout, he might catch the current tidal wave of opposition and be able to craft some legislation that would actually fix the problems we face. If he does not, then we are going to end up simply following politics as usual and throwing money at a problem with no guarantee it will do any good.

John, listen to the voice of the people.

Dear John,

We haven’t heard a lot from you lately. Not a lot since last week, really, when you suspended your presidential campaign and announced that you were going back to D.C. to fix the economic crisis that Congress and the nation suddenly discovered it was in.

We know why we haven’t heard a lot from you. First, the news media doesn’t give you the same amount of coverage that it gives Sen. Obama, of course. But the coverage that you did get last week was overwhelmingly negative, and there was a loud drumbeat of criticism that you were just political grand-standing and did more harm than good while the Pelosi Bailout Bill was taking shape.

And then your numbers in the polls started heading south. Not just in the national polls, but your numbers started falling in the polls in swing states where it really matters electorially. So I imagine that many of your closest advisors jumped in to suggest that you have to be quiet, you have to go along to get along, and you have keep your eye on the ball and focused on the long term goal of winning the White House. The damage that an Obama presidency could do to the U.S. economy and national security are far greater than any short-term problems that this Bailout will cause…aren’t they?

Well, John, I don’t think that your advisors are right. And if your gut is telling you the same things, then I don’t think that your gut is right either. You are losing this election at the moment John, and you are losing it because you have stopped being the John McCain who surprised and shocked everyone by the bold, daring, non-politically-safe things you were doing just a few short weeks ago.

We need that bold, daring, shake-things-up John McCain to come back. We need him to come back now–before it is too late. Only that John McCain has a chance to win the White House and get us out of the messes that we are in.

And you really have nothing to lose by being bold, daring and outspoken. At least, nothing that isn’t lost already. (more after the jump)

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Nancy Pelosi failed to convince 94 Democrat members of the House of Representatives to vote for the $700 Billion Dollar Bailout Bill she and Harry Reid crafted. That should be the headline on the mainstream meadia news shows today.

Of course, it will not be what will be said. House Republicans, John McCain, and George Bush will be blamed. Count on it. After all, Nancy Pelosi made it clear that she wanted a minimum of 95 House Republicans to vote in favor of the Bailout Bill, and only 66 voted for it.

Take note of that. 66 Republicans voted in favor of Pelosi’s Bailout Bill, and 92 Democrats voted against Pelosi. And why did Speaker Pelosi want 95 Republicans onboard? For the simple and obvious reason that House Democrats (and “Blue Dog Democrats” in particular) need to cover their…ahh…votes and spread a thin veneer of bipartisanship over this vote so they don’t take the blame in the November elections.

About two-thirds of Americans in recent surveys did not want the Bailout to pass. Despite the comments that Republicans had to get on board or they would be responsible for the greatest financial collapse since the Great Depression…look carefully at those 94 Democrat “No” votes. Those are Dems in close races, in vulnerable Districts–many of which used to have Republican Representatives–and those Democrats knew that voting “yes” on this Bill was political suicide for them.

The truth of the matter is that with a Democrat majority in the House that could have passed the Bill on their own, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her cronies failed to convince enough members of her own party to vote for the Bailout and that is why the Bill failed. 94 Democrats said NO! to Nancy Pelosi and her bloated Bailout Bill.

And the Bill failed.

It is becoming increasingly obvious that Sen. Barack Obama should not be speaking in public without a teleprompter and a prepared speech.

Amie Parnes reports from Lebanon, VA:

Obama poked fun of McCain and Palin’s new “change” mantra.

“You can put lipstick on a pig,” he said as the crowd cheered. “It’s still a pig.”

“You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change. It’s still gonna stink.”

“We’ve had enough of the same old thing.”

The crowd apparently took the “lipstick” line as a reference to Palin, who described the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull in a single word: “lipstick.”

Despite immediate denials that Sen. Obama called Gov. Palin a “pig,” that seems to be exactly what he did.

Are we going to hear an outcry from prominent feminists and feminist organizations? Probably not. Are we going to continue to see Sen. Obama go down in the national and state polls? Probably we are.

Can you imagine what would have happened if a Republican had said this?

If I were connected to the McCain/Palin campaign, I think I’d be asking for a personal apology from Sen. Obama. And I’d be asking it in advertisements. In swing states.

In the midst of all of the rhetoric blowing heatedly from the Obama campaign, one question needs to be asked of Senator Obama. And asked forcefully.

Why is the fact that the death toll in Chicago this summer is about double the death toll of U.S. soldiers in Iraq not of concern to you, Senator?

Quoting from CBS news in Chicago: “**Information from wire service reports and the Chicago Police Major Incidents log indicated that 123 people were shot and killed throughout the city (of Chicago) between the start of Memorial Day weekend on May 26, and the end of Labor Day on Sept. 1.

According to the Defense Department, 65 soldiers were killed in combat in Iraq. About the same number were killed in Afghanistan over that same period.**”

More after the jump.

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Let me get this straight. Dan McLaughlin, in a story headlined here at RedState, has pointed out a hit-piece on the DNC website against potential McCain VP Eric Cantor that accuses him of being…Jewish?

Is the DNC actually admitting in print an anti-Semitic bias?

And has anyone asked for a comment on this from Democratic Independent Senator Joe Lieberman? More on this, and the new “marching orders” from the DNC for party loyalists, below the fold…

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Erick has pointed out the Rep. Heath Shuler situation, so I won’t duplicate the information here. I’ll simply say that first-term Democrat Congressman Shuler appears to have a scandal brewing at a very bad time…and I’d like to tell you a bit about his opponent.

Shuler is holding a seat that was in GOP hands for many years, and it has been considered safe for Democrats to hang onto in this election. That may change though if these allegations of malfeasance have legs. And the man running to unseat Shuler is a very rare sort of Republican these days. He is a committed, Conservative with firm principles.

If that sounds like an urban myth, then you might want to continue reading below the fold…

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