And the market continues to sink.
But John McCain says that he can take the bailout-that the greedy bastards on Wall Street don’t give thanks for-and use it for mortgages.
And then he thinks it’s ok to treat my health insurance from my employer as income. For that there are only two words:
BITE ME!
My company owes me that benefit. As does the US government-because I earned it.
But instead of a useful debate on that subject, we have to listen to him whine about how great the surge was -which was never a surge and oh by the way, did not buy us a ticket home from Iraq. And we have to listen to the shrew and her snide remarks. I just hate hearing her on TV. When I see her on the tube I just want to reach through the screen and shake her.
Because she is an incorrigible liar.
McCain erred gravely in putting her on the ticket. She runs a state that is demographically unlike any other state-and awash with federal pork. Some of which she went out to get. She is an ambitious woman who got lucky.
Sometimes I want Obama to win-just so she would lose, and then 2 years from now she loses the Governorship. That would be sweet.
However the problem with Obama is that you get Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi as part of the deal. And Pelosi is as big a jerk as Palin-probably more so. That brings me back to reality.
However I want this election to be about repudiating the last 8 years of misrule-and the market troubles are simply the latest example.
I’d love to ask Palin the question Tom Friedman asks:
Criticizing Sarah Palin is truly shooting fish in a barrel. But given the huge attention she is getting, you can’t just ignore what she has to say. And there was one thing she said in the debate with Joe Biden that really sticks in my craw. It was when she turned to Biden and declared: “You said recently that higher taxes or asking for higher taxes or paying higher taxes is patriotic. In the middle class of America, which is where Todd and I have been all of our lives, that’s not patriotic.”
What an awful statement. Palin defended the government’s $700 billion rescue plan. She defended the surge in Iraq, where her own son is now serving. She defended sending more troops to Afghanistan. And yet, at the same time, she declared that Americans who pay their fair share of taxes to support all those government-led endeavors should not be considered patriotic.
I only wish she had been asked: “Governor Palin, if paying taxes is not considered patriotic in your neighborhood, who is going to pay for the body armor that will protect your son in Iraq? Who is going to pay for the bailout you endorsed? If it isn’t from tax revenues, there are only two ways to pay for those big projects — printing more money or borrowing more money. Do you think borrowing money from China is more patriotic than raising it in taxes from Americans?” That is not putting America first. That is selling America first.
A pox on both of them.