Mavericky
Maverick count: Palin 6, Biden 9
Here’s Biden’s mention of maverick:
Look, the maverick — let’s talk about the maverick John McCain is. And, again, I love him. He’s been a maverick on some issues, but he has been no maverick on the things that matter to people’s lives.
He voted four out of five times for George Bush’s budget, which put us a half a trillion dollars in debt this year and over $3 trillion in debt since he’s got there.
He has not been a maverick in providing health care for people. He has voted against — he voted including another 3.6 million children in coverage of the existing health care plan, when he voted in the United States Senate.
He’s not been a maverick when it comes to education. He has not supported tax cuts and significant changes for people being able to send their kids to college.
He’s not been a maverick on the war. He’s not been a maverick on virtually anything that genuinely affects the things that people really talk about around their kitchen table.
Can we send — can we get Mom’s MRI? Can we send Mary back to school next semester? We can’t — we can’t make it. How are we going to heat the — heat the house this winter?
He voted against even providing for what they call LIHEAP, for assistance to people, with oil prices going through the roof in the winter.
Tags: 2008 Presidential, Joe Biden, Sarah Palin
Fact check on the last debate:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xG1aOORf8Pc&eurl=http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php?ref=logo
BTW, Biden hit the Biden Administration question out of the freaking park.
Joe rocked on that one.
My favorite part of the night was when Joe explained what the duties of a Vice President are and called Cheney dangerous.
And he was kind when he explained the duties to her…big points I agree!!!
When the Maverick facade is all you’ve got, you say Maverick as many times as you can.
Would have made a great drinking game. She says Maverick, you take a drink.
“Can we send — can we get Mom’s MRI? Can we send Mary back to school next semester? We can’t — we can’t make it. How are we going to heat the — heat the house this winter?”
FYI- these things are not the responsibities of the government. They are your responsibilities.
You want the government to do all of the things on your list but don’t want the government to stabilize financial markets?
Mr. Protack:
Is the Republican Party paying you to recite the stuff you write on the blogs? If not, they should be. On the other hand, if you are pretending to issue your own message you should be paying your party for using their talking points.
Joe was most excellent last evening. Miss Sara was improved. Putting all the clap trap aside, to me ,the most important point Senator Biden got across is Gov. Palin supports (and wants to expand) the Cheney concept of the ‘imperial president’. If that doesn’t get your rear to the polls on election day you deserve four more of Bush/Chaney and you’ll get it withMcCain/Palin.
Obama/Biden is the only hope we have left.
For an interesting insight go to:
The Delaware Way blog and scroll down to a post on Thursday. Oct. 2 “Rolling Stone.com” exerpt.
Again, if you have to keep telling people what you are or how you should be perceived, you’re probably not.
It’s like a braggart who tells everyone about how often he gets laid. In reality, he’s spending $20 a month on Jergen’s.
Mike the Repugnant:
Last I looked, schooling is a government responsibility even though I know that you repubs hate education.
MRI’s and heating – not directly gov’t responsibilities, but having an economy that works so that these things can be affordable is. Again, something that repubs like you have been shown to be utterly incompetent at achieving.
Mr. Protack…Wall Street is not OUR responsibility, it is the responsibility of the people who are raking in the multi-million dollar salaries, bonuses, and golden parachutes. But who is footing that bill? And we weren’t even kissed before we were screwed. How dare you criticize anyone in this economy who is asking for help and not receiving it. Wall Street whines and the government falls head over tea cups to help them out AND sweeten the deal to boot. How freaking DARE you say that to any hard working Delawarean who is struggling to make ends meet because we can’t get raises or we’ve been laid off because the greedy f#@#*ers have been screwing with the economy to the point it is crashing down around us. How dare you put the Wall Street asses first and foremost on your list and then expect anyone to vote for your sorry ass. Go crawl back under your rock.
Not touching MRIs or the house heat…but Mary’s next semester is an individual’s responsibility! College is to be prepared for financially from the day you bring a child in this world, or you make personal arrangements to work it out, when the time comes. I cringe when I see folks have their twice yearly vacation, latest car, fashion, and footwear, but cry poor and broke for tuition. College for most is a sacrifice..and requires delayed gratification, and planning for a future. No need to blame the government again for the lapse in responsibility many Americans choose.
Pornstash-
You don’t see the irony in not providing heating assistance to the needy but the need to bail out banks? It’s like a joke when you say it that way…
I am 100% free market, but there are social issues that require government intervention because the alternative is more costly to the government.
People not being able to afford heating oil may well be their fault, but it might not. It will be costlier to treat them in a hospital or pay their social services when they can not put food on their table or gas in their car to work. We could all debate the merits of that issue, but it is obvious where you stand…
So where in your mind do you resolve the conflict between that stance an stealing money (via taxes, buying power, or government services that will be scaled back) to provide $2,500 worth of money per man, woman, or child to bail out banks? So it is not OK to help the weak, but it OK for one of the designers of the collapse to offer only one policy alternative, which is to bail out his peers (whom he allied with to eliminate the regulation of investment bank investment SPECIFICALLY to flood money into Mortgage Backed Securities)?
Glad you love the ponzi scheme they pulled on us… I wonder how much it would cost to help people with their oil this year? Bet it is less than a Billion…
For anyone who wants a little additional insight into Paulson’s role in starting the crisis go here.
An excerpt…
They wanted an exemption for their brokerage units from an old regulation that limited the amount of debt they could take on. The exemption would unshackle billions of dollars held in reserve as a cushion against losses on their investments. Those funds could then flow up to the parent company, enabling it to invest in the fast-growing but opaque world of mortgage-backed securities; credit derivatives, a form of insurance for bond holders; and other exotic instruments.
The five investment banks led the charge, including Goldman Sachs, which was headed by Henry M. Paulson Jr. Two years later, he left to become Treasury secretary.
To the various comments, most of which are uninformed.
One by one- Educati0n is not a Federal Issue, it is to be accomplished by the states. Too many states whine about NCLB but they line up at the trough to get the dollars. States would be much better off without federal intervention. All four of my grandparents were illiterate, my Dad was a high school drop out. My wife and I value education and it has worked for our sons. One is a Medical Doctor at Yale and the youngest is on partial scholarship as a Physics major.
To the person who said he is “100 free market but wants the government to handle some social issues.” You can’t be 100% free market and want the government to handle anything.
What most of you fail to understand there is nothing the government can or has done with any sort of accomplishment in my lifetime. Social Security is broke and the Medicare Trust fund is six times the obligation of Social Security. We continue to spend billions more than we have and ignore it as if it doesn’t matter.
Save the lectures about no raises and layoffs. I work in an industry which is now on 1985 wage rates and with pensions stolen by corporate greed and condoned by the federal government. We lost 29% of our jobs since 9/11.
The supposed ‘bailout’ you all hate so much would hurt the people you say you want to help so much. It isn’t about Wall Street, it is about liquidity and solvency.
Mikey –
Do you believe free marketers do not want fire men and police?
You are a walking stereotype. You are that head up his ass dipshit lifestyle partisan Republican who wears it like a badge – you are proud to be proud – reality be dammned.
You are morally bankrupt.
You are a fool.
You also work in an industry that gets a fair share of its government subsidies, so stop the whining about the “free market”.
Given that you just learned the business about liquidity and solvency from your latest talking points, you should be careful who you call uninformed. We’ve been talking about the same issues in relation to this bailout for awhile — your contribution was the tired business about Freddie and Fannie.
Fool, is right. And one who I suspect has given up thinking about another elected office. What gets posted just here is plenty of ammunition for a savvy opponent.
Joanne – Joe said “school”, not college.
Mike the Repub:
“50-Year Record on Sept. 22. $10 Trillion on Sept. 30, 2008”
“Bush did three things to skyrocket the debt from $5.7 trillion to $10 trillion:
1. He lowered taxes on the rich (by far the biggest item).
2. He invade Iraq instead of winning in Afghan-Pakistan (another $600 B).
3. He did not regulate an out-of-control Wall Street.”
From: http://zfacts.com/p/461.html
Mike, you and your repubs have zero (0) credibility when it comes to good governing. We could have had national health insurance AND long term social security solvency with the $4.7 trillion dollars you repubs pissed away in the last 4 years.
You should be ashamed to express your heartless vapid views in light of the utter failure of your political party and governing philosophies. As far as your personal situation and the situation of your industry, it is pathetic that you can’t see that the politics and politicians that you champion have been working against you, stealing your money, and laughing at what rubes you are.
By the way, congratulations on your kids, sincerely. It ain’t easy!