I was listening to CNN radio in my car, and DiFi's office admitted it had received 93,000 calls.....

[marmar]

.... about the bailout, of which about 86,000 were in opposition.

Clearly, the Senate could give less than a damn what the public thinks. But I would imagine that the phone lines of US reps have been burning up as well. I wonder if they'll cave to the pressure from the Senate, or to pressure from the public in their next vote? The voice of the American people - for the first time in a long time - is very loud on this one.


:think:

[lostnotforgotten]

1. I've Called My Representatives Three Times On This Issue - Not No, Hell No!

eom

[marshall]

2. This is going to have a HUGE impact on the election

Heads will roll

[Eric J in MN]

4. Who will lose because of the vote? NT

NT

[girl gone mad]

6. It might.

I've already gotten e-mails with the list of nay's. Not only is the majority opposed, their passion is through the roof and the election is not far off.

[radfringe]

22. who would you vote for?

Obama, Biden, McCain all voted for it. The only one on the "big" tickets that didn't was Palin - and she has no vote in the senate.

Ralph Nader?
Bob Barr?
Ron Paul?

too late to vote out rep/senate for party nominations. go green/other 3rd party for house/senate seats, but blue for president?

I'm thinking the impact is going to hit repubs more than dems - no matter how the repubs voted because the "deregulators-anything goes" repubs are the reason wall street fat cats were allowed to go wild

[BuyingThyme]

3. Admitted. Yes.

A confession.

[seafan]

5. I'm seeing red right now.

The Senate bailout bill stinks even worse than the House bailout bill because of the tax breaks for businesses and other "sweeteners" (pork) added to coax House Republicans to vote for it. Damn them for giving Bush everything he wants, yet AGAIN.


And Harry Reid also cut Senator Bernie Sanders off at the knees after Sanders presented his proposal to impose a 10% surtax on the wealthy to pay for this bailout; Reid called for a voice vote on Sanders' amendment instead of getting these bastards on record opposing it.



Instead of working on a brand new bill, aimed at financial support from the bottom up, i.e. THE PEOPLE, Reid pushed through more pork and giveaways to the perpetrators, including the pirates on Wall Street and certain members sitting in plush seats in the House, licking Bush's boots for the past 8 years.


We the people mean NOTHING to this Congress. With very few exceptions, this Congress is OF Big Business, BY Big Business and FOR Big Business.


But, hallelujah, my senator, Bill Nelson of Florida voted NO. I simply CANNOT believe my eyes. And he's not even up for re-election until 2013.


I will never understand why these Congresspeople fall all over themselves to bail Bush out over and over and over and over, when he has ripped their guts out and left them stinking on the side of the road for the past eight years.



Here is the link to the Senate vote tonight.

[cui bono]

10. And did you see them afterwards? A sickening mutual admiration society.

:puke:

[crickets]

7. I called my rep Monday morning

and had a very frustrating and uninformative conversation with a staffer whose main line was, "I don't know." He couldn't (or wouldn't) tell me how Jim Marshall was planning to vote, what his preliminary views were on the situation or the bill itself, etc. He couldn't give me a ballpark figure on the number of calls received. The only straight answer I got was an estimate of the prevailing opinion of callers: roughly 100 to 1 against.

Marshall voted aye.

[EFerrari]

8. Feinstein and Pelosi's offices don't even pretend to care any more. n/t

[SoCalDem]

9. They ALL have dirty hands..

That's why they are all so polite to each other.. everyone knows where the bodies are buried..on both sides :grr:

If we ever get some progressives without dirty hands, they could clean house

[cui bono]

11. DiFi is useless. I'll never vote for her again. I told her that a long time ago.

[EFerrari]

12. I wonder how many of us call her office with that message?

No wonder her staff is so grumpy - they know we all hate her.

It would be nice to have a liberal Democrat or even a Democrat in that seat.

[cui bono]

13. Yes, it would. She's getting up there, wonder if she'll run again.

I'm not sure when she's up for re-election... ?

[EFerrari]

14. 2012? I saw Gavin on a panel that Bill Clinton put together

over the weekend. Looks like he's fixing to run for governor and looks like the Clinton's have taken him back up again.

[cui bono]

17. Sorry, who's Gavin?

I think Feinstein is considering running for Gov.

[EFerrari]

18. Newsom, the mayor of San Francisco. He's going for it, imho. n/t

[cui bono]

19. Oh! Well that's a disappointment.

I thought maybe we were going to get the Captain of the Love Boat! ;)

How do you think he'll do?

[EFerrari]

20. Well, it looks like he's got the Clintons in his corner.

He might do all right. He's appealing to business types and is good at messaging.

I can't stand him but he doesn't need my vote. :)

[MsLeopard]

21. Me too

Years ago when she supported the big pharma health care bill and then the big banking/credit card industry bankruptcy bill (wonder how she thinks that's working out for We the Peasants?) - I called and said I'd never vote for her again and I haven't. I hope she doesn't run next time, she's got to be as old as McGrumpy.

[TxBlue]

15. everyone is hopping mad

People that never normally bring up anything political are initiating this topic and
ARE MAD!

7 out of 10 customers today brought the bailout up and are fuming mad. Everyone is against it.

[dailykoff]

16. Yes, they'll cave.

I hope they don't, but I suspect they will. Reps have a low price tag.