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The real plan was for the Republicans to allow the bill to pass and then, immediately, hammer Obama. I have included link to the actual Republican advertisement at the bottom:
September 30, 2008
Categories: Republicans
RNC ad, was cut, sent out before package failed
The Republican National Committee's new advertisement critical of the the Wall Street "bailout" was produced and sent to television stations in key states before the package failed, officials at two stations said.
"Wall Street Squanders our money. And Washington is forced to bail them out with -- you guessed it -- our money. Can it get any worse?" asks the ad's narrator, as the words "BAILOUT WITH OUR MONEY" cross the screen. (The answer: Obama's plans would make it worse.)
The ad, however, seems to assume that it can safely attack a successful plan. And the reason may be the timing: Though it started airing this morning, the spot was released to stations yesterday morning, ad executives at stations in Michigan and Pennsylvania said.
Kae Buck of WLNS in Lansing said her station received the at at 7:55 a.m. Monday. Luanne Russell of Pittsburgh's WTAE said her station received it at 10:49 Monday morning.
The ad taps into deep resentment of the plan, but it comes at a time when the candidate it supports, John McCain, is urging its package, and asking that it not be referred to as a "bailout," but a "rescue."
Asked about the ad's relationship to the congressional legislation, the consultant heading up the RNC's expenditure, Brad Todd, responded in an email that Obama is its focus.
"This ad is about Barack Obama’s spending plan," he said. "Last Friday in the debate he struggled to name even one spending proposal he would responsibly trim in light of the economic crisis and any potential bailout plan. Senator Obama clings to his big spending approach even today and our ad campaign will focus attention on that irresponsible position.">>>
The advertisement:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9j_epTmr2c
It would have been brilliant politics, except the vote didn't pan out.

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Oh here is what your candidate
both sides are playing their briliant politics .. too bad everyone seems to have forgotten about the people.
did you see Dem. Lee's interview where she explained why she voted NO .. pointed out the flaws, said why it was a bad idea YET blased the repubs for not passing it?
Ummm ... why?
So when it doesn't work, she can say 'I voted no'?
Perhaps some of the GOP do not want Mccain to be POTUS.
This is
dablacksox
Cynic: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.---Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary.
Could be a small town value, maybe
I can't believe they're pushing videos from Rush Limbaugh. What's next, quoting Timothy Leary or Amy Winehouse?
dablacksox
Cynic: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.---Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary.
dablacksox
Cynic: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.---Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary.
I can't believe they're pushing videos from Rush Limbaugh. What's next, quoting Timothy Leary or Amy Winehouse?
The video is from C-SPAN, and it's on You Tube. The link is just through Limbaugh's site. It's pretty obvious that he has nothing to do with the content of the video.
>>yeah McCain put his name on a failed bill, very unimpressive <<
If he's trying to put his best foot forward and he's bragging about his 2005 or 2006 support of a failed bill, kinda says to me he's got nothin'.
Why do you think McCain supporters keep mentioning that failed bill?
I think
I don't know if it is forgetfulness or disingenuousness that none of this would have happened without potential Treasury Secretary Phil Gramm's, Gramm-Leach-Bliley Financial Services "Modernization" Act - LOL.
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