I agree with Craig. He is conservative and I’m liberal.  This bailout bill is a mess and a gift to Wall Street.  Now - today - the Senate version is loaded with gifts for all sorts of groups.  But the Senate did not even publish the bill until today and none of us know what really is in it. 

Senators Murray and Cantwell - vote NO on this.  I have emailed them.  I urge you to consider emailing or phoning their offices and urge they vote no. 

If we need a bailout, then we need a bill that does something for the economy and can stand up to scruitiny over a couple weeks.  Our Congress is being suckered by Wall Steeet into a gift.  This is a rush job and a mess.

Lets see - they tax us to buy the junk bonds so that Wall Street has new money to loan to us at high interest so we can buy homes and cars and such.  Looney.

This bailout will encourage more risky speculation and more bailouts. 

Tell Murray and Cantwell to vote NO.

Well you can email - but phone calling is a difficult thing.  I suspect the switchboards are overloaded.  According to news reports, Americans are urging a no vote with a majority of 90%. 

The DC phones do not answer. 

Cantwell’s Seattle number is 206-220-6400 - and a staff person took my message.

Murray’s Seattle office is 206-553-5545 and is closed.  You can leave a message after following a lot of automated instructions and pressing several numbers.  How sad - the most important issue in years and she closes shop.

Best is probably to google their names and email them via their online forms. 

How sad.  All the technology and money they could want - and they are hidden from their citizens.  Making a phone call is full of challenges.

Senator Maria Cantwell voted ‘NO’ to the bailout of Wall Street.  We should remember this.  Just my opinion, but I expect this bill be bogus when it is all over.  Just my opinion.  This citizen thanks her.

Senator Murray voted for the bailout.  By the time she runs for reelection in 2010 we will know how the bailout bill worked.  Let us not forget.

Rush jobs are rarely good solutions.  They hide the real reasons for the rush.  They avoid open discussion of the bill.  If this gets past the House then we will learn that most Senators did not read the bill and did not know what they were voting for.  Hey, wait a minute - that is the norm of most all legislation by the US Senate.  😊

Obama and McCain voted for this.  They obviously decided to take it out of the campaign process. 

I will be urging Rick Larsen to vote no - and urge you to consider doing the same.

Check out Sarah Palin’s position on the bailout at 0:52.  Of course there is more too…

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/221299.php

A couple of more things.  I read the bill a couple of days ago, before the first vote.  The bill was 110 pages and although I understood much of it, when it started referencing changes in other bills I could not track the changes.  The government websites were swamped with people trying to access the bill and get more information.  For the average american, they are not going to understand a 110 page bill (from what I have heard the bill is now 450 pages long).  If the bill cannot be written in less than five pages it should not be passed.  The faith in government is at an all-time low and here they are on the most important bill in the last 20 years and they come up with an unreadable, 450 page bill, no wonder people are ticked off.

Second, we learned a valuable lesson about both presidential candidates.  When things got tough, they went with the crowd.  Both of them knew about other options, either one of them could have stepped forward with a much better and clearer proposal, and neither of them did.  They both destroyed any message of change they were trying to convince us they had.  Both of them are trying to present themselves as leaders that can solve our current problems, but when they had the chance, both of them dissappeared into the crowd and choked.  Both McCain and Obama are going to be like every other politician, maintain the status quo and take the easy way out.

Craig - I have to mostly agree with you.  Yes, the bill was 450 pages - and it was $850B, not the $700B the Herald reported.

Yes, both prez candidates shrunk from this leadership opportunity - both going with the crowd.  However, McCain does not offer change - and he did not use that word until after Obama’s Iowa win based on that word. Obama really disappoints me in that he was handed an opportunity to show a difference - change - and he muffed it. 

We still have to choose one or the other and I’m playing the odds and going with Obama.

John,
you obviously don’t see the benefit of the pork barrel add-on for wooden arrow mfgs.
paulson is the guy running into a crowded theatre yelling “fire”.