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It seems like Mr. Obama has heeded the call of President Bush. WASHINGTON (AP) — With extraordinary stakes on the line, President Bush has invited both presidential candidates and the leaders of the House and Senate to the White House on Thursday in hopes of securing a bill to rescue the economy. Bush took the…

Harry Reid yesterday said McCain’s help with the financial crisis was essential. According to a McCain adviser: “Yesterday, Harry Reid said that consensus couldn’t be achieved without John McCain’s leadership. John stepped up and is providing that leadership. Today the Senator from Nevada changed his tune. A Democrat tells ABC News that, in a phone…

John McCain suspends campaign asks Obama to do the same. U.S. Republican presidential candidate John McCain will suspended his campaign tomorrow to work on the U.S. economy. He has also requested a postponement of this Friday’s presidential debate. In addition, McCain has asked Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama to join him in setting aside campaigning…

There were a couple of things that came up in comments that I thought bear repeating in a separate post. One is this: check out the view of an economist I’ve been reading for a long time and whom I trust, Arnold Kling. Bottom line: The risks of enacting the plan are far worse than…

Our financial troubles are caused by people treating the government as if it was their own piggy bank. And it is quite evident that our current troubles are a case of hogs gone wild. In the past couple of weeks, as the financial crisis has intensified, a new talking point has emerged from the Democrats…

It looks like Sarah Palin has more value as a vote getter than as a fund raiser. John McCain’s campaign is scrapping, rescheduling or offering surrogates for nearly every one of the fundraisers Sarah Palin was to hold this month, instead having her campaign jointly with McCain, prepare for her sole debate next month and…

George Will thinks that in the near-hysteria over how to control the current economic stampede, people are forgetting the big picture: An enormous range of complex judgments will have to be made about who will decide — and by what criteria — to whom money will be directed, and how to value and price the…

How many Eagletons do we need in this election? I mean, no sooner was Sarah Palin’s nomination announced than the liberals went ballistic with Palin/ Eagleton comparisons and predictions. Which went nowhere. It was just a lame attempt to rattle the McCain campaign. So, when I read that poor Tom Eagleton’s political corpse had been…

That’s how the Guardian describes the New York Times revelation that a lobbying firm owned by John McCain’s campaign manager Rick Davis “was being paid $15,000 a month by Freddie Mac until last month.”: The story is this. The lobbying firm of Rick Davis, the manager, was being paid $15,000 a month by Freddie Mac…

From Team Obama: White privilege is being able to claim your experience as a POW has anything at all to do with your fitness for president, while being black and experiencing racism is, as Sarah Palin has referred to it, a “light” burden. And finally, white privilege is the only thing that could possibly allow…

Want to understand what happened? Ace has a very terse and cogent explanation: If the federal government were guaranteeing a trillion new dollars for no-money down car purchases with no credit checks or proof of employment or income, what do you think would happen to the price of cars? They’d triple. For a while. Housing…

Is education still an issue? Anyone who thinks it is, or who wants to learn more about Barack Obama’s background in the field should read “Obama and Ayers Pushed Radicalism On Schools“: Despite having authored two autobiographies, Barack Obama has never written about his most important executive experience. From 1995 to 1999, he led an…

Regular readers know that I am a Life Member of the NRA and a staunch supporter of the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. I’ve said that I could never vote for Barack Obama because of his socialistic background. (The ACORN connection especially worries me.) But aside from being one of the most…

According to Matthew Rothschild, “the race boils down to racism”: With Election Day approaching, McCain surrogates or supporters may not be able to resist the temptation to fan the flames of racism. Expect the snippets of the Reverend Jeremiah Wright to resurface. Expect video of Michelle Obama sounding militant. Expect disgusting ads about Obama’s admitted…

Things look pretty bad for McCain right now. The left has been pushing the McCain=Bush meme for so long that a lot of people have come to accept it through osmosis. And now that there’s been an “economic meldown,” there’s a huge “rescue plan” being pushed by Bush. The Democrats are jumping all over each…

H/T Uppity Woman

H/T The Patriot Room Welcome Instapundit readers. Here is something else that needs investigating. Crony Capitalism. Since the cronies are in Congress and include all of the Democrats (the Black Caucus is especially strong in that area) and many Republicans the investigation will need to be done by the people. Throw the bums out. BTW…

If one were to read Hugh Muir’s politics diary at the Guardian UK, one might get the impression that Condoleezza Rice were slyly passing judgment on Sarah Palin or hints to herself by manipulating the Great Seal (cf. Barack Obama’s glossy Seal 2.0, whose Latin phrase sounds whiny to me: “Really, we can!”): Is Condoleezza…

Astroturfing by the Obama campaign? Say it isn’t true! M. Simon posted about it last night, and the pieces are now all falling into place. The evidence is overwhelming. More here. Michelle Malkin has posted one of the videos they’ve been desperately trying to pull. YouTube accounts are being closed left and right. It appears…