Bailout
Bailout Pork (150b) – if its so important
Bailout

Why not use the FDIC (regulated and with oversight) to save credit markets?

Executive Compensation is a sham. There are no limits.
It only gets rid of tax deduction (Corp wont pay anyway), and loopholes you could drive a brinks truck through.

More bailout money needed after elections just the beginning.

How are we to pay for bailout?

Giving odds would be great!
Maybe McNerny will be like those 1994 GOP freshman that got beat in 1996.

Well “that is why they play the games.”

Great points! Maybe we should start giving odds and holding bets? I’m willing to take a chance with Andal pulling the upset win over the liberal! I may sound like a big risk-taker, but there’s always that “bail-out” option… Right?

Thanks for the thoughtful response. If you want to spend your time contacting Democrats and trying to convice them to vote like conservatives, then go ahead.
I don’t think that is a good use of time but you go man.

As for Andal what else is he going to tell you. “Gee Walter I want your and I promise you I will raise taxes?” Please… He like all pols will say what it takes to get elected. What you should ask him is what will he do about earmarks? Will he let the fact that he is letting the Republican Congressional leadership (check todays fund raiser)from DC influence him. Don’t you think they will call in their chits when they need a vote on a bill. Do you really think that freshman Andal can stand up to the pressure they will put on him any more than 7 term Richard Pombo did? I wish we would have had a competitave primary and we could have sent a pitbull instead of John Boehner’s poodle to take on McNerny.

You point about the Andal getting more votes is interesting. Rememeber that McNerny was running without opposition. Or any real opposition. And he also won in 2006 with a lot of crossover Republicans and decline to states who can’t vote in a Democrat primary. So you have to wonder what Republicans are going to defect. My guess is the conservatives via the Sarah Palin effect will come home. But are there enough of them to make a difference. The registration is even less favorable than in 2006. With the GOP stock so low I would guess it is the moderate Republicans who will not want to send the ultra conservative Andal to DC. The other question is what about the growing number of Decline to state voters. I would think they are not excited to send another verson of baker/pombo to replace McNerny. The anger to replace him just is not there like it was in 2006 against Pombo.

And finally is Andal going to raise any money? I saw where he finally got 800k cash on hand. McNerny must have close to 2 million cash on hand. Plus his party has the money and is willing spend what it takes. While the congressional republican campaign comittee is cash starved.

It will be very exciting to see how it all works out!

Although Tauscher is a liberal gun-grabber and McNerney is an open-border advocate, and they both support socialist bail-outs at the expense of the tax-payers, it’s still worth a call in my opinion.

When Dianne Feinstein reports that out of 95,000 calls, letters and emails from California voters (in the past few days) 85,000 are strongly against the proposed bail-out, yet she still votes for it – I can understand your point. That doesn’t mean that we just give up though.

I send letters and emails to these people all the time. For the most part, I find it worth my time. Plus, these people need to hear from, “We the People” as much as possible.

I respectfully disagree with you on the Dean Andal/ Jerry McNerney race. Andal received more votes than McNerney in the Primary and we all know Republicans always have poor turn-out in Primary Elections. This one will be close. Dean Andal has told me personally that he will, “never cast a vote to raise our taxes.” For that reason, I would think he would be against the bail-out.

The Wilson/Buchanan race will be close too and the November 4th General Election will be interesting, that’s for sure.