Just Wonderings

Following the bailout plan and its status has been a difficult exercise but one thing is certain.

Last i looked Bush was a Republican and a conservative one at that.  How then is it that  this 700 billion bailout plan that Paulson and Bernanke recommended and Bush endorsed become such a liability for Democrats?

I should say here that i am more then a little skeptical of anything Bush says and when he addresses the nation to plead his case for a situation that he helped create i am not a supporter.

But, this was different.  This was not a Bush created fabrication to further some sinister goal.  This was a true, all out, calamity.  You could see it in his beady eyes as he used words that would surely panic anyone that had not yet been panicked.  My point is, that even for Bush with his terrible record, you have to give the President the benefit of the doubt that when he says the world is coming to an end unless you do what he asks and do it now. Then you do it and now.

To that end, the Democrats tried to take a bad plan and make it a little better, a little fairer, a little tighter and to their surprise found themselves once again made to play the fool, this time by house Republicans for supporting a bill put forward by a Republican President.  You can almost see them wondering how this happened when they were trying put America first.

It happened because once again they were played for doing the right thing, this time supporting the President no matter how distasteful it felt, in a time of real duress and being bi partisan and putting the country first and politics second.  Where did this get them?  In their familiar role of being portrayed as high tax, high regulation and big government for a mess and bailout created by a Republican President and until recently Republican congress.

Ah, the audacity. Republicans should be ashamed of themselves and we should hold them accountable. This is not the time for them to try and force the very issues that created this problem.  Or maybe their is something more happening here and they are creating issue to set up McCain to step in and save the day.