On The Republicans
Wow. Shit week for McCain/Palin, huh? McCain suspends his campaign to go save the world from bad loans, leaving everyone else in America standing there saying — and I quote — “WTF, mate?” Seriously. I’ve been kicking this idea around in my head for days now, and I can’t figure out exactly what this was supposed to accomplish for McCain.
Sure, in theory, McCain could have said, “Omigawd, this is so important, I have to go vote on this, I have to go debate this in the Senate! I need a week off! BRB!” But then, shouldn’t his VP pick have stepped in to manage the campaign, fill his interview slots, etc? Shouldn’t Palin have been running things while McCain was busy saving the world? It seems the logical step to me.
Unless, of course, Palin can’t step in to do the campaigning while McCain’s busy, because, oh, I don’t know, she’s a babbling fucking idiot.
Of course, I’ve heard that McCain was trying to delay the debates, a theory which leaves me puzzled as well. Was McCain afraid to debate Obama? I missed the first debate myself, as I was working, and the cursed customers wouldn’t leave me alone long enough to watch them at work. The bits I did catch weren’t very interesting. A couple of friends who caught the debates told me that Obama outclassed McCain, but the media is calling the debate a tie, apparently, so I guess that didn’t go off too badly.
So, all in all, we’ve gotten a very strange week from McCain/Palin. If I were a Republican, I’d be getting pretty damn nervous about now. You’ve got a very elderly statesman running for president, who’s making some shaky calls and decisions on his campaign (so, what’ll he do in office, if this is how he [mis]manages his campaign?), and who has selected a very pretty retard as his VP, who can’t even campaign for a week by herself while McCain flies off to save the world. I mean, these people can’t keep David Letterman happy. Do we really want them fussing around with the leaders of the world? Just a thought.
Meanwhile, the 700 billion dollar bail-out deal just got passed. I’m not sure I’m cool with this. Granted, I don’t know a damn thing about the economy. I know just enough to look at the current situation and go, “Ooooo, this ain’t good, guys. Y’all need to do something about this.” I don’t have the first idea what one might do to fix the problem. So I really don’t know if this bail-out is a good thing or a bad thing, other than the basic common sense thought that, hey, we don’t have 700 billion dollars! We spent all our money on the Iraq war, remember? How, exactly, is going a shit-ton deeper in debt supposed to fix bad loans, again? Isn’t that like robbing Peter to pay Paul? I mean, if I’m in debt and behind on my bills, and I pay them all off on a credit card to get the creditors off my back, that’s not exactly a good thing. Didn’t we just do that on a national scale? Or am I wrong, here?
My other big gripe is that the government won’t “socialize” health care, but we will, basically, socialize the banking system. Tell me that isn’t what we just did, and make it good, because I’m not buying cheap. I read a post by someone last week that suggested we all just stop paying our medical bills until the health industry collapses and the government has to step in to bail it out, and — Bam! — socialized health care.
And, on that note, I have to go get ready for work. Try to run up a big medical bill while I’m out, and don’t pay it. I’m part of the millions of uninsured Americans at the moment, and I could use some health care.
September 29th, 2008 at 8:30 pm
I’m sure by now you know the bailout did NOT pass. We got a lot of calls at the bank today from people wondering if their money was safe. We are solvent but I do not know what will happen now. If it passed as it was, all taxpayers were going to foot the bill (which I’m sure will still happen). I just don’t know. So, I’ll see you Thursday. I’ll give you a call at work on Wednesday night.
Love ya lots,
MOM
JavaElemental Reply:
September 29th, 2008 at 11:24 pm
Yeah — I arrived at work to discover everyone in a red hot panic. “OMG GREAT DEPRESSION!!” I spent much of my day telling people to relax, don’t panic, it’ll be okay, breathe, etc. *LOL*
Yes — call me Wednesday night, so I know when I have to be up on Thursday!
September 30th, 2008 at 2:31 am
I had a coworker grumbling about the economic depression.
“Okay, so we’re in another great depression. Gas is a fortune, bread and milk cost too much, and people can’t get loans. So what? Worst case scenario, things don’t get better, right?”
I pointed out that the Great Depression in the thirties wasn’t a collapse. It was just a depression. We’re in danger of a collapse. “What does that mean?” she asked.
“Who conquered the Soviet Union?” I asked.
She didn’t know.
“Nobody,” I said. “It just collapsed. Now we have the Ukraine, Russia, Georgia… all new nations that rose after the Soviet Union went ‘Piff.’”
Then she looked a little pale. “You mean the Confederacy might rise again? (She’s from Atlanta.) Fucking Bush.”
I laughed a lot at that. Felt good.
Too bad she’s right.
JavaElemental Reply:
September 30th, 2008 at 3:19 am
Welcome to the Glorious People’s Republic of Michigan! Or something to that general effect.
Which, in the long run, might not actually be that bad a thing. Although I’m not sure I want to be stuck in Michigan while we turn into a teeny country. How do you think the immigration laws for Oregon will play out?