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10.1.08 @ 12:01AM

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Sunday House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said, "Democrats will act responsibly to insulate Main Street from Wall Street." What she really is saying is, "Democrats will act in any way necessary to insulate Obama from defeat." She has crafted the perfect storm to achieve this end. She and her cabal like Barney Frank, Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer and Richard Durbin and their Democrat predecessors with their compliant media lapdogs, are bringing off the supreme hat trick: in one fell swoop covering their role in creating this crisis by having passed the Community Reinvestment Act in 1977, abolishing redlining and coercing banks to make loans to people incapable of repaying them. Instead of reaping blame and shame for this sham legislation, they are turning it to their candidate's favor, using the CRA's destruction of prudent lending practices by banks to create the crisis whose solution is the socialization of banking in the US on their opponent's watch. Easy then to link the crisis to McCain. Ergo, Obama wins the election.

This is their strategy, and -- because they control Congress -- there isn't a damn thing the Republicans nor McCain can do about it. Unless, that is, this shameful scheme is exposed for what it is NOW! There still is time to reveal this monstrous coup d'etat in the making.

Of course, a lot of us already knew the Dems wanted the Republicans to pass this bill for them, Prowler. It was that obvious. This whole "Chicken Little" financial fiasco, from the push by the Clinton administration to get the lenders to make the politically correct loans in the first place, to the Fannie/Freddie bailout, and all the 'derivatives' failures, just shows you how sick these people really are, especially "Blarney" Frank. Anything -- anything -- for power! And hey, if it brings down Western Civilization, so what? After all, you can always blame the Republicans. When, I say, when, are the Republicans going to learn? Never mind, I already know!
-- Mike Showalter
Austin, Texas

TOOLS OF THE TRADE
Re: Jeffrey Lord's Paradigms Lost:

Jeffery Lord had me until this sentence: "Never again will the media be able to pronounce judgment on others while conveniently avoiding a similar self-examination." The media has been so successful in being able to pronounce judgment on others that Americans know virtually nothing about the Community Reinvestment Act, Barack Obama's extensive relationship with ACORN, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, or Barney Frank and Chris Dodd's overwhelming incompetence and corruption.

When Nancy Pelosi can say Republicans "killed the bailout" despite the fact that 95 members of her own party voted against it, it's because she has absolute confidence that the media will perpetrate that lie until it becomes the "truth."

Never lose track of what all of these media machinations are about: getting Barack Obama elected--period.
-- Arnold Ahlert
Boca Raton, Florida

Distort, ignore, conceal, fabricate -- four skills essential to journalists (and, not coincidentally, lawyers).

Since media messengers now fancy themselves the message, Americans are fortunate to have access to the flood of disintermediated news available on the Internet (which, not coincidentally, was developed by the very people charged with protecting us Americans: the Department of Defense).

Good news, indeed.
-- David Govett
Davis, California

DON'T STOP WITH HAWAII
Re: Joseph Lawler's Trouble in Paradise:

So Hawaii has a separatist movement. Well, I have a dream. How about California volunteering to succeed from the union or, better yet, being outright kicked out? Then California can have its green, multi-cultural, multi-lingual, high tax, high regulation, left wing lunatic society and not be able to send me the bill. I guess we can throw in Hawaii to sweeten the deal. Perhaps in an orgy of liberal compassion and white guilt, California can surrender to Mexico.

Then again after McCain loses his polite, suck up to the left, inept, tepid, and typical Gelding Old Party play within the rules style campaign, perhaps Sarah Palin can make the rumors of an Alaska separatist movement come true and a place of refuge for those of us who believe in freedom, low taxes, cheap plentiful energy with ANWR drilling, and logic based thinking and policies.
-- Eric Stessman
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES
Re: Robert Stacy McCain's Libertarian Populism:

The unintended consequence of the failure of the bailout deal is that we might finally have a comprehensive immigration bill. The illegals will soon be heading back to their own third world country!
-- Jack Hughes
Chicago, Illinois

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