Some wit and wisdom from John McCain (note google-friendly post heading)

http://freewayblogger.blogspot.com/2008/09/mccain-quotes.html

Will be doing the bay area today.

That's an eyeopener about McCain and Inhofe. Jesus it just gets worse and worse with McCain.

Limbaugh is STILL a lying sack of shit.

Geez, that's like saying that diarrhea stinks.

I like Krugmans take on Dodds initial counter. He said it is geometrically better than the one the entire Treasury team came up with.

Bloomberg: McCain Transition Head Lobbied for Freddie Mac Before Takeover

By Jonathan D. Salant and Timothy J. Burger

Sept. 23 (Bloomberg) -- The lobbying firm of the man Republicans say John McCain has chosen to begin planning a presidential transition earned more than a quarter of a million dollars this year representing Freddie Mac, one of the companies McCain blames for the nation's financial crisis.

Timmons & Co., whose founder and chairman emeritus is William Timmons Sr., was registered to lobby for Freddie Mac from 2000 through this month, when the federal government took over both Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.

Newly available congressional records show Timmons's firm received $260,000 this year before its lobbying activities were barred under terms of the government rescue of the failed mortgage giant. Timmons, 77, is listed as a lobbyist for Freddie Mac on the company's midyear financial-disclosure form.

While Republicans say Timmons is making plans for the transition if McCain wins in November, the campaign wouldn't confirm his role. Timmons didn't return a phone call seeking comment.

McCain has labeled Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae as prime culprits in creating the financial storm that has roiled Wall Street and Washington.

``At the center of the problem were the lobbyists, politicians, and bureaucrats who succeeded in persuading Congress and the administration to ignore the festering problems at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac,'' he said last week in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

``Using money and influence, they prevented reforms that would have curbed their power and limited their ability to damage our economy,'' he said. ``And now, as ever, the American taxpayers are left to pay the price for Washington's failure.''

`Cooked the Books'

McCain has criticized Democratic nominee Barack Obama in both television advertising and speeches for his ties to former Fannie Mae chief James Johnson.

``Fannie cooked the books and Johnson made millions,'' said a McCain ad, released Sept. 19. ``Then Obama asked him to pick his VP and raise thousands for his campaign.''

Johnson is listed on Obama's Web site as having raised between $200,000 and $500,000 for the campaign. He left Obama's vice presidential search committee June 11 after just a week, following reports that he received preferential mortgage rates from Countrywide Financial Corp., which suffered losses due to the collapse of the subprime-mortgage market and was bought by Bank of America Corp.

McCain's campaign also ran an advertisement that said Obama had received advice on housing issues from a more recent Fannie Mae chief executive officer, Franklin Raines.

Under Fire

Raines said he had only met Obama once, before Obama was sworn in as a senator in January 2005. ``I am not an adviser to Barack Obama, nor have I provided his campaign with advice on housing or economic matters,'' Raines said in a statement released last week by the campaign.

Campaign-finance reports show that Raines hasn't contributed money to the Obama presidential campaign either.

Timmons is a longtime power in the Washington lobbying industry whose clients include the American Petroleum Institute and Chrysler LLC. Visitors to the company's Web site are told that ``Timmons and Company pioneered the concept and the industry standard for Washington representation.''

He founded the company in 1975 after leaving the administration of President Gerald Ford, and has worked to elect every Republican presidential nominee since.

When asked about his role in the McCain campaign, spokesman Brian Rogers said: ``We're not discussing any aspect of the transition.'' An aide to Timmons who didn't give her name while taking a message at his lobbying firm said that only Timmons himself could discuss ``his work for Senator McCain.''

Times Flap

The McCain camp was also dealing with reports about the lobbying work of campaign manager Rick Davis.

The New York Times reported yesterday that Davis was paid almost $2 million in fees over five years by a group primarily funded by Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae that was intended to help stave off more stringent federal regulation of the housing companies.

McCain campaign spokesman Tucker Bounds said other members of the Homeownership Alliance included Habitat For Humanity and the National Council of La Raza, saying the group ``was focused strictly on promoting homeownership.''

McCain senior adviser Steve Schmidt accused the Times of being biased toward Obama. ``Whatever the New York Times once was, it is today not by any standard a journalistic organization,'' Schmidt said on a conference call with reporters. ``It is a pro-Obama advocacy organization.''

Limbaugh pushing the fear card? What do you expect from the Excrement In Broadcasting network?

I hear that Sarah Palin is a Mooselim.

theWalrus @ 11:

Limbaugh pushing the fear card? What do you expect from the Excrement In Broadcasting network?

I hear that Sarah Palin is a Mooselim.

I heard they wouldn't take her because she's too extreme for them.

Palin, afraid of the press, bans them from reporting. Her pushers will claim it's because the press is out to get her, but will the majority of Americans take that bait hooker, line, and sinker?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26853766/

Nicholas @ 14:

I remember during the Reagen era, a very prescient friend of mine saying '...and we (America) are going to end up standing on a street corner with a cup in our hands.' I thought he was being unnecessarily gloomy. Good thing we are still in touch so I can at least buy him a beer and say 'You were right!'

He was wrong.

We can't afford the cup. ; 0 )

is this a great country or what? it was only a few months ago people on here were boasting about mccains ass being handed to him and he was carrying his own luggage from the airport terminal to the plane and he had no one carrying his political water for him, i head hes washed up, finnished , history, jesus werent you dead wrong? now this jerks got you scared and for good reason , hes got the religous freaks behind him, the corporations lick on his shriveled up cods, hes picked a nobody nonothing bitch for vp, they have the next perfect stooges to run america for the corporations, goodby to any reasons for expecting anything but what we had for allmost eight yrs, the nov elections allready been decided and guess what ? you didnt win, as a famous repig once said you can vote all you want to but its not who votes its who counts the votes! and this cou55suker said we count the votes! right then the revolution should have begun!

Something to listen to while having really nasty sex:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG2hGSL345I

Bailout, shamailout.

STOP THE BUSHCO TREASURY HEIST!!

cobsjo @ 9:

Bloomberg: McCain Transition Head Lobbied for Freddie Mac Before Takeover

By Jonathan D. Salant and Timothy J. Burger

Sept. 23 (Bloomberg) -- The lobbying firm of the man Republicans say John McCain has chosen to begin planning a presidential transition earned more than a quarter of a million dollars this year representing Freddie Mac, one of the companies McCain blames for the nation's financial crisis.

Timmons & Co., whose founder and chairman emeritus is William Timmons Sr., was registered to lobby for Freddie Mac from 2000 through this month, when the federal government took over both Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.

Newly available congressional records show Timmons's firm received $260,000 this year before its lobbying activities were barred under terms of the government rescue of the failed mortgage giant. Timmons, 77, is listed as a lobbyist for Freddie Mac on the company's midyear financial-disclosure form.

While Republicans say Timmons is making plans for the transition if McCain wins in November, the campaign wouldn't confirm his role. Timmons didn't return a phone call seeking comment.

McCain has labeled Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae as prime culprits in creating the financial storm that has roiled Wall Street and Washington.

``At the center of the problem were the lobbyists, politicians, and bureaucrats who succeeded in persuading Congress and the administration to ignore the festering problems at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac,'' he said last week in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

``Using money and influence, they prevented reforms that would have curbed their power and limited their ability to damage our economy,'' he said. ``And now, as ever, the American taxpayers are left to pay the price for Washington's failure.''

`Cooked the Books'

McCain has criticized Democratic nominee Barack Obama in both television advertising and speeches for his ties to former Fannie Mae chief James Johnson.

``Fannie cooked the books and Johnson made millions,'' said a McCain ad, released Sept. 19. ``Then Obama asked him to pick his VP and raise thousands for his campaign.''

Johnson is listed on Obama's Web site as having raised between $200,000 and $500,000 for the campaign. He left Obama's vice presidential search committee June 11 after just a week, following reports that he received preferential mortgage rates from Countrywide Financial Corp., which suffered losses due to the collapse of the subprime-mortgage market and was bought by Bank of America Corp.

McCain's campaign also ran an advertisement that said Obama had received advice on housing issues from a more recent Fannie Mae chief executive officer, Franklin Raines.

Under Fire

Raines said he had only met Obama once, before Obama was sworn in as a senator in January 2005. ``I am not an adviser to Barack Obama, nor have I provided his campaign with advice on housing or economic matters,'' Raines said in a statement released last week by the campaign.

Campaign-finance reports show that Raines hasn't contributed money to the Obama presidential campaign either.

Timmons is a longtime power in the Washington lobbying industry whose clients include the American Petroleum Institute and Chrysler LLC. Visitors to the company's Web site are told that ``Timmons and Company pioneered the concept and the industry standard for Washington representation.''

He founded the company in 1975 after leaving the administration of President Gerald Ford, and has worked to elect every Republican presidential nominee since.

When asked about his role in the McCain campaign, spokesman Brian Rogers said: ``We're not discussing any aspect of the transition.'' An aide to Timmons who didn't give her name while taking a message at his lobbying firm said that only Timmons himself could discuss ``his work for Senator McCain.''

Times Flap

The McCain camp was also dealing with reports about the lobbying work of campaign manager Rick Davis.

The New York Times reported yesterday that Davis was paid almost $2 million in fees over five years by a group primarily funded by Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae that was intended to help stave off more stringent federal regulation of the housing companies.

McCain campaign spokesman Tucker Bounds said other members of the Homeownership Alliance included Habitat For Humanity and the National Council of La Raza, saying the group ``was focused strictly on promoting homeownership.''

McCain senior adviser Steve Schmidt accused the Times of being biased toward Obama. ``Whatever the New York Times once was, it is today not by any standard a journalistic organization,'' Schmidt said on a conference call with reporters. ``It is a pro-Obama advocacy organization.''

That was in MBRU yesterday