The Foreclosure Bill is Toast

A bit of good news at last.

The Senate has decided it’s not going to upend investor confidence in our real estate industry and killed the Forclosure bill, which would have allowed what they’re calling the “cram-down” of mortgage debt.  That means those who made bad decisions to buy more house than they could afford won’t be interfering in our economic recovery or picking the pockets of responsible home buyers.  I don’t know how the Senate managed to grow this much sense, but I’m glad it happened, even if only this once.

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Senate Rejects Foreclosure Bill (Fox News)

McCain and More Republican Bunk

The Master Maverick is back!  Joy, happiness, and rapture!

This time, he’s involved in an organization called the National Council for a New America.  It’s a group of Republicans holding town hall meetings and forums to “discuss issues” and help repair the GOP image the Master Maverick helped to damage.  Of course, the public will believe every word of it, and the result will almost certainly be that all of his Democrat ideas will float to the top as the next New Conservatism.

You just have to love this sort of brilliance.  He joins this “discussion”, and no one pays attention to the fact that when Republicans were in the majority and proposing solutions, he was giving them the maverick for his well-deserved puff press.  Furthermore, he gets the chance to interpret these “discussions” so he can turn the Republicans into his fellow Democrats and maverick them some more.

And you wonder why this guy is my hero?  The GOP will have so many maverick supporters by 2010, they’ll be shaking hands with the Whigs in political oblivion.  Such commitment to principle!  Such mavericky goodness!  And they might even get some donations out of it.  Goodness knows they need some.

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Republican Leaders to Launch Outreach Initiative to Revive Party Image (Fox News)

Now Introducing Senator H…

The trolls are out in force about Senator Specter’s making his true party affiliation official, and it’s the usual stuff:

You can’t live without moderates, you losers!

You need people like Specter!

The Republicans are extremists, and they’re chasing all the reasonable people away!

It got on my nerves until I reconsidered, and then I thought:  This looks like fun.  I can do this too!  And so, I present to you my latest taunt as a liberal blog troll…

Now Introducing Senator Hemorrhoid!

AHAHAHA!  You Republican fools!  You’ve driven away the greatest Senator you’ve ever had next to McCain!  You extremist nutcases will never win another election again!  You’re over!  Finished!  Losers!

And just to taunt you with how big you losers are losers, because you’re like, losers, we’re going to give Arlen Specter his new honorific:  Senator Hemorrhoid!  You will never hear the end of this.  He will be on your comments!  He will be in the news!  We will never let you forget the day Senator Hemorrhoid switched sides, and became a permanent pain in your rear ends!

Wear your new title with pride, Arlen Specter.  You deserve it.

And to all you conservative fools:  AHAHAHAHAHA!

I love this whole troll thing.  I should do it more often.

I Hope Obama Didn’t Sprain Himself Noticing the Tea Parties

Apparently, Obama finally noticed the tea parties at his 100th town hall meeting.  I hope he didn’t sprain himself.  I mean, having to keep up with all that day to day news, even with dedicated staff, might cause him some harm.  He could sprain his neck looking away from his teleprompter, after all.

As far as having a national conversation about problems his party may or may not have manufactured out of whole cloth, like that health care thing?  I suppose once he’s ruined it, he’ll be saying something along the lines of “at least we did something” as though that means anything.  I guarantee that when it comes to liberal “solutions”, doing nothing is a far best choice if it’s the only other one available. 

How can that be?  Well, let’s start with an example.  Say one day, I decide I don’t like something, so I paint myself purple and streak through rush hour traffic screaming “I’m a hippo!  I’m a hippo!”.  At that point, two things will be true:

  1. I’m most assuredly doing something, and
  2. It’s not going to end well for me.

This sums up the worth of liberal solutions, which are generally as effective but not nearly as humorous.  Hence my lack of regard for Obama and his dismissive attitude about tea parties and not spending.  Oh, the Democrats have done a lot, and none of it has been good.  As for Obama, his attempts to enact legislation can be summed up under one of three things:

  1. Pandering to future voters
  2. Payoffs to current supporters
  3. Powergrabs for himself or his party.

So, take your condescention and pretense of solving problems and discuss it with your telepropter.  It will give you far more regard than I do.