[quote=justme]
Those who want people to vote Republican should just come out and say it. They should stop wrapping themselves in some single-issue flag which effectively means “you must vote republican because more democrats than republicans voted for the bailout bill”.[/quote]
I’m not sure how you can say that voting out the incumbants is a vote for Republicans. I’ve personally vowed, as a conservative, to vote against any incumbant REGARDLESS OF PARTY AFFILIATION. If my local representative is a Republican and voted for the bailout, I’m voting against them.
The fact that YOUR party (which is obviously Democrat) voted in higher numbers for the bailout than the Republicans is YOUR problem, not mine. It doesn’t sound like they have YOUR best interests in mind. I applaud the Republicans that rose up against Bush and this ill conceived bailout and tried to defeat it…twice. Unfortunately, some were weak and capitulated once the Democrats put some pork in the bill that appealed to them. The $700 billion bailout was closer to a trillion once you add up all the pork.
And, you’re goddamn right this is a single issue election. These people are criminally negligent for a) allowing this crash to happen due to lack of oversight and b) rewarding the architects of the crash with a cash bailout. In the old days, we’d storm the capital with pitch forks, torches and rope. Now we have just our vote.
