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An Early October Surprise
- Filed under: Congress, President Bush, Presidential
- Date: Sep 30,2008
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. -Winston Churchill
Our side has been dealt a bad hand at a bad time. I tried to think of a poker analogy. I can't. It is just bad. The Democratic Dow went up 777 points Monday. There is no use to sit around and complain and moan about it like I did earlier today or yesterday, however you want to look at it. That gets our party nowhere. Looking forward can be the only option after what transpired the last few days. Anyone who knows me in real life knows I can be a pessimist with the best of them. When it comes to politics the opposite is true. That said….
….we got played. Democrats lied and said they had a deal for a bill last week. This was said so McCain could not come in and take credit. There was no deal. Nancy Pelosi yesterday calls a vote that I think she has to know will go down to defeat, unless she is the dumbest person in the House (concession - this is possible). Republicans can be blamed. Yet George W. Bush can sit at his stupid cabinet meeting and talk about bi-partisanship and all that. After almost 8 years, he still can't figure out that the Democrats hate him - hate him - and don't want to work with him. They are in the business of winning elections and he is still in the business of trying to foster in the "new tone;" everything - everything - is politics with them. Bush's thinking should have gone out the window May 24, 2001 when the Democrats stole back the Senate, coaxing Jim Jeffords with a chairmanship. I guess that hint wasn't big enough for him. His refusal to ever fight back just kills me. Now the House won't even convene tomorrow or Wednesday because of the Jewish holiday. So what? If today were Christmas or Easter I would expect our elected representatives to get to work this morning. That isn't unreasonable. It is what they are paid for. Only the entire country and much of the world depends on what they do or don't do next. Being out of session until Thursday is outrageous even if they can't come to an agreement of some sort. McCain needs to pound this point home again and again and again.
Anyways, the candidate that gets ahead of this wins the issue. Even the candidate that explains why it is important could win. McCain has to come out fighting like hell, otherwise what is the point of having two parties? Why not let the MSM/Democrats run everything for eternity? Most of us don't even know what is going on financially, including me. We know the basics and that is it. Before McCain went to DC last week, there were only four Republicans on record supporting the language in the bill as it was. Four. McCain went back to Washington and their input in the bill for Monday's vote got around 60 more Republicans to commit for it. The Democratic majority either still couldn't pass it or didn't want to. McCain needs a resolution more than Obama. He couldn't have done something to get any of the 40% of his party who voted no? You can be the judge why the vote and events went why they did.
Funny (not really to me, actually) how a little more than two weeks ago Democrats were the ones worried. Two weeks later everything flips. All polls, state and national, taken before today are meaningless. Dynamics have changed. It can happen again, and there is no reason why McCain can't turn this into a winner for him. The situation doesn't have to remain a net negative for the GOP because the media and Obama/Axelrod say so. Someone has to take the lead. Congress has an abysmal approval rating that is sure to sink even more. Everyone hates this current Congress, and rightfully so. They have done next to nothing. President Bush is an unpopular lame duck. There are really only two people who can lead now and one of them has shown no inclination to do so. McCain has a huge leadership opportunity here (this is where the optimist part comes in). For him to have a chance to win a massive credit failure has to be avoided at all costs (and of course this helps all Americans and the average family would be grateful). That is the problem - not the stock market, based on my basic understanding. If such a failure happens, people will vote for whoever tells them what they want to hear. And only that same one candidate is really good at that. We’ll find out one way or another very shortly. But not until at least Thursday of course. Enjoy your two days of recess, Congress!!!!
