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October 2008
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Ahnuld to Congress: Giff Us $7 Billion!
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Sat Oct 4, 2008
11:58 am
by McGehee
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California is continuing to jockey for a multibillion-dollar emergency federal loan despite Friday’s congressional approval of a rescue plan for the nation’s troubled credit market.
“We’re not out of the woods yet,” Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said.
The governor had sent a letter Thursday to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson warning that the state may be forced to turn to the federal treasury for help if it cannot quickly secure a short-term loan for up to $7 billion. »
State may tap feds for loan
McGehee to Ahnuld: Get stuffed.
The American taxpayer shouldn’t have to keep bailing out the Democrat Legislature that keeps spending your state into bankruptcy—apparently about every four years.
I thought the 2004 bailout was okay, but the idea was that you only get one visit to the well.
And thanks to the banking bailout, the well’s pretty much dry now anyway.
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September 2008
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Why the Bailout Bill Really Failed
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Tue Sep 30, 2008
1:43 pm
by McGehee
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Even the big-government Democrats knew it was going to be an albatross.
“All we needed was enough to potentially get us over the finish line, but we wanted the Republicans to be the ones to do it. This was not going to be a Democrat-passed bill if the Speaker had anything to say about it.”» Democrat Leaders Played to Lose
They could have passed it without a single Republican vote, but averting the end of the world as we knew it, took a back seat to the kind of bipartisanship these Democrats like to practice: that of shifting blame onto the other party.
Meanwhile, the sun still shines and the birds still sing. Is this crisis really as bad as the Mainstream Media have been telling us?
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Memo
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Tue Sep 30, 2008
11:14 am
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...to the Mainstream Media:
Be careful what you wish for.
Even more to the point, be careful what you risk your entire institutional reserve of credibility—such as it is—for.
I probably should have been sending you this warning long ago—like, starting in 1992 maybe.
Oh wait, I was. Along with a whole lot of other people. Well, how many times do you think you’ll be able to pull your own self-pwn3d arses out of the fire after another one of your magical Democrats self-combusts all over you? (I know what Bill Clinton did all over you wasn’t literally combustion, but combustibility was involved...)
You have to know that once this election campaign is over, you’ll be back on the sidewalk again, trying to figure out how to withhold a little bit of money for yourself without your pimp finding out and beating you up.
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The 48-Hour Rule (Update: It Only Took 24!) (Re-Update: More like 120!)
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Sun Sep 21, 2008
11:45 am
by McGehee
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Originally posted 9/15, re-updated and bumped.
I was interested in this when I saw it headlined on a well-known headline-aggregator’s website, but I held off because I figured if there was anything to it other, better-read blogs would cover it, and probably have a better handle on it than I’d be able to get. On the surface it looks perfectly like the alleged “October Surprise” from the 1980 campaign, which makes it both highly attractive, and highly suspect.
Two pieces I’ve seen so far are at Ace of Spades and Wizbang.
It’s entirely possible there is something to this, that mainstream voters need to hear about—but right now it doesn’t appear so.
UPDATE! Confirmed—by Obama. H/t: The Jawa Report.
‘NOTHER UPDATE!!!!!eleventy!! It took only 24 hours for the Obama campaign to confirm the allegation, and four whole days thereafter for Bush and Republicans to debunk it—because Obama couldn’t.
Most of a week passed before the truth came out, and it DIDN’T come from the guy who was there and who was negatively impacted by the story.
The guy who thinks he’s entitled to be our next president.
Yeah, he’s ready for prime time, all right. 
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Watch Your Step
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Sun Sep 21, 2008
11:21 am
by McGehee
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...that slope is slippery.
In a change from the original proposal sent to Capitol Hill, foreign-based banks with big U.S. operations could qualify for the Treasury Department’s mortgage bailout, according to the fine print of an administration statement Saturday night.
The theory, according to a participant in the negotiations, is that if the goal is to solve a liquidity crisis, it makes no sense to exclude banks that do a lot of lending in the United States.
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson confirmed the change on ABC’s “This Week,” telling George Stephanopoulos that coverage of foreign-based banks is “a distinction without a difference to the American people.” »
Foreign banks may get help
I beg to differ…
Leaving that aside, however: this is why getting the government into the bailout business is ALWAYS a bad idea. There is no logical stopping place. If the government can offer loan guarantees to Chrysler, why can’t it also bail out mortgage lenders? And if it can bail out American corporations, why not foreign ones as well? There will always be a good-sounding argument for taking it that one step further, and at what point does it finally become respectable to say, “Wait a minute, stop! That’s going a step too far!”
I submit that the “one step too far” was taken over 70 years ago. Maybe longer.
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That Would Be a Shame
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Fri Sep 12, 2008
11:51 pm
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Says here Hurricane Ike could complicate Barack Obama’s scheduled appearance on “Saturday Night Live.” I hope not.
I’m sure he would feel right at home with all the other Not Ready for Prime Time Players.
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