95 Democrats Vote Against Bailout! Dow, International Markets Plunge!

Even a great number of Democrats couldn’t support the bailout:

The bill aimed to open up clogged credit lines for financial markets that had come to a near collapse. Sellers continued to shed stocks as the market teetered down more than 500 points after the vote ended.

Representatives worked throughout the weekend to make a bill palatable. Republicans had insisted on a mortgage securities insurance paid by firms who had invested in bad housing loans. That was included in the bill voted on Monday.

But many lawmakers continued to oppose the plan for a variety of reasons, including the massive price tag that would expand the national debt, and GOP members said their constituents were calling 10-1 in opposition to the bill, which had been described as too much government intervention. Of 235 Democrats, 140 supported the legislation. Of 199 Republicans, 133 opposed it.

President Bush was to meet with his economic team, including Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, to determine the next steps, and White House officials said they will meet and then contact congressional leaders.

“The crisis we are facing remains,” said White House Deputy Spokesman Tony Fratto, who added, “We’re obviously disappointed.”

Fratto said that he thinks many Americans were mistaken by believing that the bill was a “bailout of Wall Street.” Instead, he said the bill was to prevent a large economic crisis.

95 Dems against the bailout, and it was a Democrat friendly bill. As of now the Dow is down almost 570 points and European markets are tumbling.

Gateway Pundit and Hot Air are all over this.

John Murtha Being Sued by Haditha Marines

All but one of the marines was cleared of all charges, and the last is awaiting a trial that will likely end with him being declared innocent. Murtha spent months telling people they murdered innocent civilians in cold blood even though he knew they likely didn’t. Note to teen raping pervert Tom Madison, this is an legitimate lawsuit:

PITTSBURGH (AP) – A Marine Corps lance corporal from Pennsylvania has sued U.S. Rep. John Murtha, saying the Democrat lawmaker slandered him by saying he and other marines killed 24 Iraqis in Haditha in “cold blood.”

Justin Sharratt has filed the suit in federal court in Pittsburgh. In the lawsuit, Sharratt claims the comments Murtha made in 2006 about the Haditha killings also violated the Marine’s constitutional rights to due process and presumption of innocence.

Sharratt, who is from Canonsburg, was exonerated after a full investigation and hearing after being charged with three counts of premeditated murder in Military Court in the November 2005 killings. Only one of the seven others charged is awaiting trial; another Marine was acquitted and charges were dropped against the others.

Gateway Pundit has background on the case and links to this video of the man seeking to unseat the disgusting Democrat this November:

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Support William Russell in his attempt to unseat the dishonorable Murtha for the sake of all our fighting men and women.

Good News! Teen Raping Pervert Tom Madison Not Suing Red Alerts for “Slander”

About a week ago Tom Madison, a filthy degenerate who got a light sentence for raping a teenager yet still has the temerity to claim being on a sex offender registry is unfair, had emailed me threatening to sue me for libel and slander. After blogging about the threat I responded to this fiend in a measured and temperate email:

You’re retarded. Look up what libel means moron, then look up the rules governing public figures. You’re a public figure and ridiculing you for your nonsensical views is protected by the First Amendment.

But feel free to have your lawyer contact me, I have enough money to keep you in court for years. I’ll bury you in briefs and bankrupt you in court and you’ll be in a nursing home before the cases are over. And the entire time I’ll put your face on my every blog I have access to. You will rue the day you threatened me with your juvenile legal threats Madison, and I’ll be posting this email as part of a piece about you and your disgusting abuse of a teen girl.

And detail what part of an analysis of you acting like a dick to rape survivors on video constitutes slander. By the gods man did you go to college?

Rob Taylor

It should be noted, for future reference to my more litigious readers, that with minor detail changes this is pretty much my response to any threat of a lawsuit. After not hearing from Tom I inquired, quite nicely as you can imagine, why I had yet to be contacted by his lawyer. Here’s his response:

Mr. Taylor,

When I initially emailed you, I thought I was dealing with a general blog owner(?!?) who had received some whacked out, one-sided blog from some anonymous extremist against the kind people who I represent (former sex offenders who are endlessly persecuted for crimes committed years and decades ago). But your last email to me (before tonight) told me all I want to know about you. You are an arrogant, one-sided bigot who seems to only believe that former sex offenders deserve a life sentence — irregardless of the kind of sex offense that was committed, irregardless of the specific circumstances, irregardless of how long ago it occurred. I would think of you as more at home with the Nazis than with what used to be a liberty minded American that valued our Constitution.

I will not seek a legal action against you. You would be a complete waste of my time. I will continue working with the mass media, the courts and with getting other former sex offenders together to build a national team where even more things can get done.

So blog away Mr. Robert Taylor (if that is your real name).

Oh, and please do not waste your time in an e-mail reply as it will be automatically rejected. I have much more important business to take care of than corresponding with people like you.

Enjoy your evening.

Tom Madison

By people like me he means of course men who don’t sexually abuse teenage girls. While it is some small satisfaction to have this blowhard admit, in his own way, that calling a person who sexually abuses teens a pervert isn’t libel or slander I don’t feel that Madison is rueing the day yet.

But that’s easily remedied. Anyone who has been been contacted by Madison knows he’s very fond of throwing around his pro-pedophile organization’s 501(c) status around. To keep 501(c) status a group must not engage in political activity and may not commit substantial resources to lobbying. That’s why groups like MoveOn.org and the NRA are 501(c)(4) organizations, which do not have the same status as other 501(c) groups.

SoClear media is clearly a lobbying group trying to change existing public policy so they are misrepresenting their status to the IRS as a “educational” organization. I urge everyone who agrees with me to contact the Internal Revenue Service and report Madison’s group for suspected tax fraud. Together we can shut down this vile font of perversion.

Crisis

The new McCain ad has arrived just in time as Wall Street fixture Lehman Brothers files bankruptcy and the Dow is plunging, as of this writing it’s dropped more than 300 points. The Democrat prescription for the greed driven mortgage crisis is to punish those of us who saved and lived within our means with higher taxes while bailing out defaulters and the big companies who profit from them.

McCain has a different solution:

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Vote McCain/Palin!