Bailout Splinters Bush & House & Senate Republicans.Good Move By Democrats Or Fickle Finger Of Fate?

[KittyWampus]

Poll question: Bailout Splinters Bush & House & Senate Republicans.Good Move By Democrats Or Fickle Finger Of Fate?

About Bipartisan Bailout Plan that Dodd/Frank presented-

it seems to have McCain siding with MOST Conservative Republicans in the House as he was desperate for some platform to make a dramatic "game-changing" scene from.

So the Bailout Plan seems to have helped break ranks in the Republican party.

Good move by Democrats or simply one of those things or combination of both?

[RichardRay]

1. Dems didn't create it, but when a big fat one floated over the middle

of the plate they didn't stand there with the bat on their shoulder, either.

[Plaid Adder]

2. It's not a trap or happenstance or strategy. It was inevitable.

The reason the conservative House republicans can't handle the bailout plan is that it is socialism.

It really is that simple. They know what we seem to have some trouble grasping, which is that when the government buys assets from private financial institutions--even when they are bad assets--that's public ownership of the supposedly private financial sector and that's socialism. It's fucked up corporate socialism, but it is socialism nonetheless.

It was totally forseeable that there would be a Republican revolt over that. If there's any great design involved here, it probably amounted to letting the Republicans hang themselves with their own ideological rope.

The Plaid Adder

[liberal1973]

3. Bingo

Bingo!

"it seems to have McCain siding with MOST Conservative Republicans in the House as he was desperate for some platform to make a dramatic "game-changing" scene from."

That's going to happen/is happening. It's to put Obama with Bush.