The Little Congress That Cried Wolf, by Proxy...

 

UPDATE 10/7/08 - Why Paulson is Wrong Luigi Zingales Robert C. Mc Cormack Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance University of Chicago (listened to Mr. Zingales on Washington Journal CSPAN radio with Greta on the way to work Monday morning 10/6/08..."He makes sense out of the bail out scheme and I sure hope congress took notes when he testified yesterday.)

Oct 1, 2008 - -
EMERGENCY ECONOMIC STABILIZATION ACT OF 2008 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES—110th Cong., 2d Sess. H. R. 1424

Senator Bernie Sanders voted no.

"110th Congress BLAH - BLAAH - BLAH - bush - BLAH - blackmail - BLAH - cya - BLAH BLAH - voting you out!!!!"

"This Day of Infamy - US Congress Swamped Us Again and made the 'us against them' a miserable reality..."

Saturday October 4, 2008 CSPAN Washington Journal Callers spoke to America. Here are snippets of an American conversation...

"Who ADDED the PORK?"

"FIRE the Sec. of Treasury"

"Put them jail"

"Not Constitutionally right"

"Plutocracy"

"Largest robbery in history"

"Treason at its highest level"

"Why wasn't the unemployment extension included in the bill?"

"Didn’t give any consideration to the bottom class"

"FINE THE COMPANIES"
"Market to Market Accounting connected to ENRON failure"

"Where did the money go?"

"The mortgage companies lied and the poor people need someone to speak for them now"

"30 year republican will vote for Ralph Nader!"

"Very manipulative"

"Helping the little people on main street, I don't see it, I don't believe it"

"Fascism is when government and big business are fused....."

I still believe that the "GOOD" gals and guys always win, eventually.....from Balto- Good Guys Win




Even when things look their worst, when things seem their bleakest, when bad stuff feels never ending, I still believe that the "GOOD" gals and guys win, eventually!

We are the good guys ...

RIDERS IN THE SKY - Gene Autry - 1949 - Trailer


US Financial Crisis Triggers Global Concern By Robert Raffaele Washington VOA October 3, 2008

Essay: The Faces of the Financial Crisis
They on the other hand, are the bad guys....



Roll call staff writer steven dennis "congress got what they wanted all along"

FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 681



H R 1424 YEA-AND-NAY Oct 3, 2008

QUESTION: On Motion to Concur in Senate Amendments
BILL TITLE: Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008

Yeas Nays PRES NV
Democratic 172 63
Republican 91 108
Independent
TOTALS 263 171

---- YEAS 263 ---

Abercrombie
Ackerman
Alexander
Allen
Andrews
Arcuri
Baca
Bachus
Baird
Baldwin
Barrett (SC)
Bean
Berkley
Berman
Berry
Biggert
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (NY)
Blunt
Boehner
Bonner
Bono Mack
Boozman
Boren
Boswell
Boucher
Boustany
Boyd (FL)
Brady (PA)
Brady (TX)
Braley (IA)
Brown (SC)
Brown, Corrine
Buchanan
Calvert
Camp (MI)
Campbell (CA)
Cannon
Cantor
Capps
Capuano
Cardoza
Carnahan
Carson
Castle
Clarke
Cleaver
Clyburn
Coble
Cohen
Cole (OK)
Conaway
Cooper
Costa
Cramer
Crenshaw
Crowley
Cubin
Cuellar
Cummings
Davis (AL)
Davis (CA)
Davis (IL)
Davis, Tom
DeGette
DeLauro
Dent
Dicks
Dingell
Donnelly
Doyle
Dreier
Edwards (MD)
Edwards (TX)
Ehlers
Ellison
Ellsworth
Emanuel
Emerson
Engel
Eshoo
Etheridge
Everett
Fallin
Farr
Fattah
Ferguson
Fossella
Foster
Frank (MA)
Frelinghuysen
Gerlach
Giffords
Gilchrest
Gonzalez
Gordon
Granger
Green, Al
Gutierrez
Hall (NY)
Hare
Harman
Hastings (FL)
Herger
Higgins
Hinojosa
Hirono
Hobson
Hoekstra
Holt
Honda
Hooley
Hoyer
Inglis (SC)
Israel
Jackson (IL)
Jackson-Lee (TX)
Johnson, E. B.
Kanjorski
Kennedy
Kildee
Kilpatrick
Kind
King (NY)
Kirk
Klein (FL)
Kline (MN)
Knollenberg
Kuhl (NY)
LaHood
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Lee
Levin
Lewis (CA)
Lewis (GA)
Lewis (KY)
Loebsack
Lofgren, Zoe
Lowey
Lungren, Daniel E.
Mahoney (FL)
Maloney (NY)
Markey
Marshall
Matsui
McCarthy (NY)
McCollum (MN)
McCrery
McGovern
McHugh
McKeon
McNerney
McNulty
Meek (FL)
Meeks (NY)
Melancon
Miller (NC)
Miller, Gary
Miller, George
Mitchell
Mollohan
Moore (KS)
Moore (WI)
Moran (VA)
Murphy (CT)
Murphy, Patrick
Murtha
Myrick
Nadler
Neal (MA)
Oberstar
Obey
Olver
Ortiz
Pallone
Pascrell
Pastor
Pelosi
Perlmutter
Peterson (PA)
Pickering
Pomeroy
Porter
Price (NC)
Pryce (OH)
Putnam
Radanovich
Rahall
Ramstad
Rangel
Regula
Reyes
Reynolds
Richardson
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Ros-Lehtinen
Ross
Ruppersberger
Rush
Ryan (OH)
Ryan (WI)
Sarbanes
Saxton
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schmidt
Schwartz
Scott (GA)
Sessions
Sestak
Shadegg
Shays
Shuster
Simpson
Sires
Skelton
Slaughter
Smith (TX)
Smith (WA)
Snyder
Solis
Souder
Space
Speier
Spratt
Sullivan
Sutton
Tancredo
Tanner
Tauscher
Terry
Thompson (CA)
Thornberry
Tiberi
Tierney
Towns
Tsongas
Upton
Van Hollen
Velázquez
Walden (OR)
Walsh (NY)
Wamp
Wasserman Schultz
Waters
Watson
Watt
Waxman
Weiner
Welch (VT)
Weldon (FL)
Weller
Wexler
Wilson (NM)
Wilson (OH)
Wilson (SC)
Wolf
Woolsey
Wu
Yarmuth


---- NAYS 171 ---

Aderholt
Akin
Altmire
Bachmann
Barrow
Bartlett (MD)
Barton (TX)
Becerra
Bilbray
Bilirakis
Bishop (UT)
Blackburn
Blumenauer
Boyda (KS)
Broun (GA)
Brown-Waite, Ginny
Burgess
Burton (IN)
Butterfield
Buyer
Capito
Carney
Carter
Castor
Cazayoux
Chabot
Chandler
Childers
Clay
Conyers
Costello
Courtney
Culberson
Davis (KY)
Davis, David
Davis, Lincoln
Deal (GA)
DeFazio
Delahunt
Diaz-Balart, L.
Diaz-Balart, M.
Doggett
Doolittle
Drake
Duncan
English (PA)
Feeney
Filner
Flake
Forbes
Fortenberry
Foxx
Franks (AZ)
Gallegly
Garrett (NJ)
Gillibrand
Gingrey
Gohmert
Goode
Goodlatte
Graves
Green, Gene
Grijalva
Hall (TX)
Hastings (WA)
Hayes
Heller
Hensarling
Herseth Sandlin
Hill
Hinchey
Hodes
Holden
Hulshof
Hunter
Inslee
Issa
Jefferson
Johnson (GA)
Johnson (IL)
Johnson, Sam
Jones (NC)
Jordan
Kagen
Kaptur
Keller
King (IA)
Kingston
Kucinich
Lamborn
Lampson
Latham
LaTourette
Latta
Linder
Lipinski
LoBiondo
Lucas
Lynch
Mack
Manzullo
Marchant
Matheson
McCarthy (CA)
McCaul (TX)
McCotter
McDermott
McHenry
McIntyre
McMorris Rodgers
Mica
Michaud
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Moran (KS)
Murphy, Tim
Musgrave
Napolitano
Neugebauer
Nunes
Paul
Payne
Pearce
Pence
Peterson (MN)
Petri
Pitts
Platts
Poe
Price (GA)
Rehberg
Reichert
Renzi
Rodriguez
Rogers (MI)
Rohrabacher
Roskam
Rothman
Roybal-Allard
Royce
Salazar
Sali
Sánchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Scalise
Scott (VA)
Sensenbrenner
Serrano
Shea-Porter
Sherman
Shimkus
Shuler
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Stark
Stearns
Stupak
Taylor
Thompson (MS)
Tiahrt
Turner
Udall (CO)
Udall (NM)
Visclosky
Walberg
Walz (MN)
Westmoreland
Whitfield (KY)
Wittman (VA)
Young (AK)
Young (FL)


Pondering these things daily….

Is this how bush ran things in Texas?

Why does Gov. Palin sound Minnesotan?

Do racist people actually get a thrill from making things up about Sen. Obama and his wife?

Do paranoid people get a thrill out of making things up about Sen. Obama?

A third party could enforce the U.S. Constitution's separation of church and state.

Nader Warns Against Mammoth BailoutWednesday, September 24, 2008

When it was critically apparent for the House and Senate to exercise rational behavior, fiscal common sense, simple humanitarianism and sound practicality; the 110th Congress could not, would not and will not help their country men and women. The “bill” that finally passed the House, feels like treason. At the heart of the mess that Congress made, yes they did, is a big black cut out where the American citizen should be beating. The heart of this land, the American citizen is forced into Code Blue. DOA. My knee jerk reaction when Secretary of Treasury Paulson threatened complete annihilation of our system, was to be against his recommendation of a $700B infusion into the financial market. It smelled funny (not ha-ha) and it sounded bad. When bush took to the airwaves, I became vehemently against the bill. Bush has been bad for the US in every way possibly imagined and unfortunately unimagined, for an entire 8 long grueling years. McCain was completely wiped off my radar as a consideration for president. I don't like his politics, but then again I don't like the politics of the other guy either. McCain showed me something that I absolutely detest in any politician, he showed me a twisted maneuver of his own selfishness. Instead of coming to the people truthfully to explain the situation, he caused public confusion over his sudden “I'm suspending my campaign and won't do the scheduled debate with Sen. Obama” power wrestle. Weird, just plain weird! He caused a lot of grief for the people who worked tirelessly to put that debate together and caused many of us to scratch our head in disbelief. Airplanes Sen. McCain, we have airplanes that get us from A to B in a matter of minutes to a few hours around the nation!?! What was McCain thinking? Whatever it was, I don't want any of it in my next president. No way, No how, No McCain. Gov. Palin showed her face when she saw nothing wrong with VP Cheney’s self proclaimed mini kingdom of presidential and congressional power mongering. He probably has done much worse, but we won’t know all of the details until some truly brave patriots put Impeachment into the halls of Justice. When Governor Palin said she saw nothing to oppose, nothing about this two term VP who has adorned himself with the power of a co-presidency, It was at that moment she emerged as the NeoCon thoroughbred in the race. Dangerous to the frayed fibers of our US democracy after eight years of a bush reign. I agree with Sen. Biden that Cheney is the most dangerous VP in known history. Palin more than McCain strengthened the connection between McCain and the Bush administration...wink -- wink! Palin is the creation of the NeoCon’s that created the bush administration. We need a third party, and maybe a fourth party. The democrats have failed to listen to the majority, so maybe Ralph Nader will move quickly to the fore front of this presidential race, now. The one thing of many about Ralph Nader, is he is honest. He Is honest. Wow, imagine the concept of staffing the 111th Congress with honest, common sensed, hard working, democracy loving - We the people - kind of elected officials? Just imagine? The debate brought me to the place of thinking about Ralph Nader and Cynthia McKinney. Who would’ve guessed. Biden got me with his raw emotion and Palin got me with her smart ass remark. Between each one of their answers I was thinking “Writing in Hillary” and “where is Ralph Nader?” Where is Ralph Nader in the Presidential debates? McCain and Obama are why I want Hillary for my President. I looked up the word “Plutocracy” yesterday, after a CSPAN caller used the word to describe the “BAIL OUT.” Last year I had to look up the word Oligarchy. What ever the word is to really describe the condition of our country, the seeds of the disease seems to be coming from a most powerful place. Every time some mouth piece comes out to publicly defend the undoing of one of our founding fathers foundational fences, I think…hmm--hmm, their being paid to say that. One thing I am smart enough to discern about the last eight years of a NeoCon government, is that they are all about “SHAMING” the American people in to a deep dark hole. I would like to hold my head up in pride again. I would like to have my country back and I would like my government to be about the people again. A Third Party may be the only way to get there now….Pride in America depends on who our next President will be. The leader of the free world must be a sound role model for "all" Americans. The leader of the free world must have integrity, be truthful and equally as important, be honest with us and for us....a President Nader (on the ticket) or a President Clinton (write in). You decide on America's pride.

Poor Little Misfit Congress Christmas Story Sunday, December 16, 2007