Deal

Filed in National by on September 25, 2008

Apparently done.

Apparently bipartisan altho another report I read had some hedging language from a Republican negotiator. Read it and tell us what you think.

And done and announced before the White House meeting.

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  1. Steve Newton says:
    September 25, 2008 at 3:09 pm

    Simple answer (not about the campaign but about the bill): what we’ve feared is true. Our elected officials have pretty brazenly socialized loss while privatizing gain. We’ll never see this money again (except in our tax bills), and it won’t prevent a recession.

    However, the article is right about one thing: today marks the day when the US reign as the financial center of the world officially ended.

    Whether that’s good news or bad news I simply don’t know.

  2. Sarah Palin says:
    September 25, 2008 at 3:11 pm

    Reducing taxes has to be accompanied by tax reductions.

  3. Unstable Isotope says:
    September 25, 2008 at 3:39 pm

    The negotiators are denying McCain credit for the deal, since he’s not even in Washington. I think he’s going to use this as an excuse to vote no on the deal. Democrats are expecting some kind of backstabbing.

  4. feces throwing monkey says:
    September 25, 2008 at 3:39 pm

    From kos 1) Democrats capitulate on bankruptcy protections and this gift to Wall Street at the expense of Main Street is finalized, or 2) Democrats hold firm on the bankruptcy stuff and the whole thing falls apart.

    I guess the Dems caved on bankruptcy protections. Typical.

  5. Pandora says:
    September 25, 2008 at 4:03 pm

    *sigh* Everyone was always going to cave. The really sad thing is that most Americans think that the 700 billion fixed everything.

  6. DavidV says:
    September 25, 2008 at 4:20 pm

    No fix here. This will do nothing but delay the inevitable…make it someone else’s problem. In four years the Repubs will be pointing there fingers and taking congressional seats.

    Hold on to your seats kiddies…its going to be a rough ride.

  7. edisonkitty says:
    September 25, 2008 at 4:24 pm

    Now I understand what Bush meant about the “ownership society”. We all own everything, yet have nothing. Welcome, comrade to the Peoples Republik of Amerika!

  8. DavidV says:
    September 25, 2008 at 4:52 pm

    “Whenever a Great Bipartisan Consensus is announced, and a compliant media assures everyone that the wondrous actions of our wise leaders are being taken for our own good, you can know with absolute certainty that disaster is about to strike.”

    Sad but true

  9. DavidV says:
    September 25, 2008 at 5:59 pm

    Sounds like the deal is in the shitter. Maybe there is hope after all.

  10. Pandora says:
    September 25, 2008 at 6:10 pm

    Don’t hold your breath, David. The point of today was for McCain to get credit for “the plan”. Oops, he didn’t show up in time!

    Unless, you think McCain is going to say “No bailout for Wall St. – let them fail”.

  11. Jason O'Neill says:
    September 25, 2008 at 7:54 pm

    No Deal (so far)

    CNBC: Deal up in air, may be dead:
    http://www.cnbc.com/id/26885273

  12. Unstable Isotope says:
    September 25, 2008 at 8:06 pm

    So, no McCain at the debate now?

  13. pandora says:
    September 25, 2008 at 8:11 pm

    He hasn’t committed either way.

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