Boy that was close.. and Pelosi going onto the floor to switch votes over- PATHETIC. The news is all one sided now blaming people for why it didn't pass.. they're going to try to pass this again for sure..

I am celebrating our small victory here though- hold stead, this isn't over.

Back to the phones, got Congress aids to call and bitch at.. ABSOLUTELY NO BAILOUTS FOR WALLSTREET.

Needless to say, I was pleasantly surprised.

It's a HUGE success. Socialism was defeated in congress, for once.

Only reason I said small is because they're getting ready as quickly as possible to ram another version of the bailout through.. it's not over yet.. but a surprising success!! You better believe after all the calls the Congressmen have gotten they are scared to vote for it.. They should be..

Anyways, cookie party at my place tonite!! Woo whoo.

Thank you to tall the Congressmen who voted HELL NO to the bailout.. nice to see them doing their job for a change..

lol made my post in the wrong section, check out toke n' talk

all it takes is one look at the stock market today to see that the bailout is not solely about wall street. there are going to be lots of regular people who will lose their life savings and their jobs if there isn;t something done to remove the overhang of bad paper in our financial system.

imagine 10% unemployment and inflation. it could get really ugly. naked capitalism is not something this country is prepared for or has had for over 70 years. if you don;t let the socialists fix it now the fix will be much more onerous down the line.

be practical guys. this stuff really counts.

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Dude, you're 185 days too early......try again then.

Yea.. sure, inflation and making everyone's dollar worth less is going to fix this? LOL.. please.. it will only delay the problem and make it worse

Bad business decisions cause problems, yes, people will lose money, yes- but propping up bad business decisions by just printing more money is even worse..

guess i would be more willing to do that if my life savings weren't evaporating before my eyes. and if i didn't sincerely believe that any cure down the line will be even more socialistic in practice and tone. do you really want some lib pointing to a deep recession, stock market failure, housing meltdown, high inflation and unemployment and saying that in the interests of the country all strategic industries will be nationalized?

sometimes you need to fight a tactical battle to get what you eventually want. it is no time to promote free market principles when the general perception is that those principles got us in this situation. the time to make those arguments was earlier, showing that it was the free market perverted by government intervention that was causing the coming crisis. repubs lost the high ground by not making it a big issue and insisting that the economy was on solid ground.

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Those pieces of shyt! the Fed is pumping money into the global economy no matter what we say.. surprise surprise.. Our dollar value is going to keep skidding down hill at this rate of just printing fiat money..

Fed Pumps Further $630 Billion Into Financial System (Update3)
Bloomberg.com: Worldwide