House Republicans today failed to pass the bailout bill that caused the Dow to plummet by over 700 points. Top republican leaders in the house said they didn’t vote for the bill because Nancy Pelosi made a partisan speech.

Really? A speech? That’s why you don’t vote for a bill? Not because of the terms of the agreement but because someone hurt your feelings? Give me a break.

My personal “conspiracy” theory on all this is that they let this bill fail today on purpose - knowing exactly what would happen. They knew the Dow would plummet and this will now allow all of their wealthy financial friends and backers to go on a massive shopping spree for the next few days at bargain basement prices. It’s like throwing a 70% off sale at Walmart or turning back the clock to early 2000 just after the dotcom crash.

Obviously the market will rebound eventually even if it’s likely to get worse before it gets better. Luckily I was smart enough to convert my 401K to cash back in January. But I think I’ll be snatching up some bargains myself tommorrow!

So in this case I guess I owe the republicans a big thanks!

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A new report scheduled to be release later this week will report that the Iraqi government has met absolutely none of the benchmarks that President Bush laid out 6 months ago during his address to the nation to support his surge policy.

That’s zero folks. They’ve accomplished nothing. And yet we’re staying the course.

Let’s face it… Bush simply wants to pass the mess on to the next president even if that means 100’s more soldiers will die. This man’s blind ignorance should really be criminal.

How is it that we continue to let him lead? Why is there no public outcry? Why don’t the families of these soldiers rush the White House and demand that the troops be brought home? We can’t wait until January 2009 for change…

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Although the vote was much closer than anyone expected, the immigration bill is still DEAD. Providing amnesty is simply not the answer. But rounding up 12 million illegals and shipping them home is also impossible. If we could round them up, we would have already. The only real solution is to place stiff and severe penalties on the employers of illegal immigrants. Without the prospect of a job, they won’t be as anxious to break the law to come here. It’s simple supply and demand.

A fence isn’t going to stop them.  More advanced intrusion detection technology might. But what about our northern border? Granted the Canadians don’t have nearly as much desire to come here illegally but it seems to me that any terrorist who wanted to walk into this country could do so in a heartbeat thru the canadian border. Why is this never discussed? Why don’t we have a plan to protect all of our borders? The foolishness just never ends…

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Who the hell does this guy think he is? Why aren’t we all outraged at the disgrace this man has brought to the office of the Vice President? The list of things this man has gotten away with the past seven years is completely absurd. And now he wants to claim that he’s not even part of the executive branch? That congressional subponeas mean nothing to him?

C’mon people…Get Pissed already!

This man took us into war so Halliburton could earn billions of dollars in re-construction contracts, he tampered with the justice system and now is flatly ignoring them, he hung Scooter Libby out to dry with no remorse, he conducted illegal wire-taps against YOU and ME, he even ignored Bush’s wishes and did an end around with congress to get legislation he wanted passed. Impeachment won’t cut it folks. This guy makes Nixon look like Dan Quayle.  He needs to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law that he thinks doesn’t apply to him. And with any luck he’ll end up right next to Scooter… who by then, will surely have made a few friends just itchin’ to kick Cheney’s ass…

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Ann Coulter appeared on Hardball with Chris Matthews last night and got a “surprise” phone call from Elizabeth Edwards. Mrs. Edwards expressed her disgrace Mrs. Coulters’s countless personal attacks against her husband John Edwards and other Democratic candidates. She was trying to plead with Coulter to stick to the issues using her best southern charm. But Coulter just whined like an 8 year old about how the Edwards campaign was capitalizing on her comments by using the attacks as the basis for their fundraising.

Frankly I feel it was a brilliant move. Coulter was put on the spot to defend her idiotic comments and the Edwards campaign got some much needed prime time publicity and a good portion of the next day’s news cycle as well, including another appearence on Hardball the next night by John Edwards himself. Whether Elizabeth did it because she was truly sick of this wench spitting off at the mouth or whether it was a planned tactic to create a controversy guaranteed to generate buzz… it worked. Given that Coulter was informed before the show that Mrs. Edwards would be calling in and agreed, almost makes you wish the campaign would put her on the payroll. Her attacks have certainly helped the Edwards campaign raise millions! Keep up the good work Ann!

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