Ben Bernanke and Hank Paulson go to Capitol Hill today to argue on behalf of Paulson's Goldman Sachs economic rescue plan (and his own unlimited power grab...)
Team McCain is breathing a sigh of relief that Friday's debate will be on foreign, rather than domestic and economic, policy. The reason: Mac has become a veritable economic gaffe machine as he tilts at the windmills of Wall Street in search of an escape from his own policy past.
Of course, he hasn't been going great guns on foreign policy, either, telling "60 Minutes" this weekend that he essentially endorses Sarah Palin's dangerously dimwitted view that the U.S. could well wind up at war with Russia over a NATO'd Georgia (not to mention saying she's "absolutely" ready to be president...)
Meanwhile, more bad news for the GOP. Voters in new polling blame them, surprise surprise, for the economic meltdown and the Wall Street bailout, including voters in the crucial swing state of Nevada. A new Suffolk University poll finds:
The poll shows that the toss-up state of Nevada remains just that, with Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama statistically tied at 46 percent and 45 percent, respectively.
When likely voters were asked who they figure is responsible for the current financial state on Wall Street, 41 percent blamed the Republicans, 16 percent tagged the Democrats, 27 percent said neither, and 16 percent couldn't decide who to blame.
And a new CNN poll finds voters across the U.S. tagging the GOP with the blame for the present crisis by a 2 to 1 margin.
By the way, did you hear the one about the McCain campaign manager who was paid $30,000 a month to lobby on behalf of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac against stepped up regulation? Guess who Rick Davis was lobbying? John McCain!
And finally, when even George Will won't play the hack for you anymore ... you know you're in trouble, John McCain.
Labels: 2008 election, economic crisis, John McCain, presidential candidates, the McCain-Bush economy, Wall Street |
