“Borrowing rates remained very high on Monday despite the passage of the Americanbailout plan, although proponents of that package argue that its longer-term benefits will take time to carry out. Still, some gauges of anxiety in the market again reached record highs as the week began, and a benchmark overnight borrowing rate, the Libor rate, moved higher. A measure of volatility, the VIX index, jumped to its highest intraday level ever.” [source: NYT]
Watch this clip about the Weather Underground. If you remember those days, let us know your thoughts — have they changed over time? Does it matter to YOU that Obama has used his connections to Ayers and other radicals to further his career? (thanks to NoQuarter for the video.)
DAILY UPDATE 10/6/08
1. Check out Puma PAC’s DAILY ALERT for today — all the links and info you need to get busy, HERE!
2. Call the Ohio Secretary of State’s office and register your concern about voter fraud being carried out by ACORN. Ask the Secretary of State’s office just how they plan to verify the validity of the hundreds of thousands of absentee ballots collected by the Obama-backing, scandal-plagued organization. Call and ask how you can SIGN UP TO BE A POLL MONITOR on Election Day — that’s the day all of the absentee ballots will be counted. We don’t all need to become poll monitors, but let’s harry the Secretary of State’s Office with requests, so that she is aware that WE ARE WATCHING. Call Secretary Jennifer Brunner’s Office now! 1-614-466-2585 and 1-614-462-6281 and 1-877-767-6446.
3. Make this video VIRAL. Send it to your mailing lists. Drop the url in comments at the blogs you frequent. Get it out there Puma PAC Ambassadors.
4. Write a letter to the editor of your local paper today. Tell them what you think of Obama’s connections to radical extremists. Post your letter here after you mail it. Use the handy, dandy guide in our ACTION CENTER for links and tips.
5. Join Puma PAC today and be a part of the largest, most organized Citizens Action Network in the Pumasphere. It’s Free, Easy, and Fun! You will receive all of our Super Secret PROWLS, and we NEVER EVER spam you, bug you for money, or share your information. Never, ever. Join us HERE!
6. Contribute if you can to Puma PAC, so we can keep the lights on. Donations accepted HERE, and THANK you!
Dow is down. You know what they say, Buy on the rumor, sell on the news.
DAILY UPDATE 10/3/08
1. Check out Puma PAC’s DAILY ALERT for today — all the links and info you need to get busy, HERE! (Have I mentioned today how utterly AWESOME dwp, tt, go, and bo are? They are AWESOME.
2. Join Puma PAC today and be a part of the largest, most organized Citizens Action Network in the Pumasphere. It’s Free, Easy, and Fun! You will receive all of our Super Secret PROWLS, and we NEVER EVER spam you, bug you for money, or share your information. Never, ever. Join us HERE!
3. Write a letter to the editor of your local paper today. Tell them what you thought of last night’s debate. Post your letter here after you mail it. Use the handy, dandy guide in our ACTION CENTER for links and tips.
4. Call Terri Lynn Land, the Michigan Secretary of State. Ask her if she is aware of THIS. Ask her what is she going to DO about ACORN’s voter fraud in Michigan. Quote Bill Clinton to her. Say, “Tell me how, and be specific.” Department of State Information Center toll-free number: (888) SOS-MICH; (888) 767-6424
5. Contribute if you can to Puma PAC, so we can keep the lights on. Donations accepted HERE, and THANK you!
The members of Puma PAC were FAR more likely on Tuesday to want Congress to LET IT CRASH! than the folks who responded to Gallup. Apparently, we Pumacrats tend to think of the jokers on Wall Street as Monkeys in Fancy Pants; and we think of our leaders across the board as Organ Grinders.
Most of Gallup’s respondents (57%) wanted Congress to go back to the Drawing Board and come up with a new plan, while only 35% of our members did. HERE’s what Gallup found. And here’s what their graph looks like:
And here’s what we found in our first Puma PAC Poll:
Answer Text
Votes
%
No Bailout for Billionairz. Period.
366
55%
Back to the Drawing Board!
233
35%
Patch it up quick and pass it ASAP!
66
10%
SO, 55% of us say NO WAY to any Bailout for Billionairz, and 35% of us want Congress to go back to the Drawing Board and stop telling us the sky is falling. The losing proposition: Patch it Up Quick and Pass It ASAP! appealed to only 10% of Puma PAC members. That seems to be what Congress is in fact about to do, so if I do my arithmetic correctly, roughly 90% of us must be pretty unhappy with Congress right about now! Which all adds up! Because Gallup also found that the approval rating for how Nancy and Harry’s Congress is handling the financial crisis is about 40% — sharply divided along partisan lines.
82% of Republican voters disapprove of the Dems in Congress, and 86% of Democratic voters disapprove of the Repubs. Interestingly, Independents are are disapproving of each party pretty evenly — 69% disapprove of the Dems, and 73% of Independents disapprove of the Repubs. WOW. Congress is REALLY unpopular with Independents, and EVERYONE knows that it’s the Independents who decide Presidential elections.
DAILY UPDATE 10/2/08
1. Check out Puma PAC’s DAILY ALERT for today — all the links and info you need to get busy, HERE!
2. Call your Senators and Reps today and tell them where you stand on the Bailout Bill. Click HERE for contact info.
3. Join Puma PAC today and be a part of the largest, most organized Citizens Action Network in the Pumasphere. It’s Free, Easy, and Fun! You will receive all of our Super Secret PROWLS, and we NEVER EVER spam you, bug you for money, or share your information. Never, ever. Join us HERE!
4. Make Heidi Li’s new Denver Group viral. Send it far and wide. Post links to it everywhere you go on the intertubes. Contribute a few bucks to it if you can. Click HERE to watch the ad and get the link.
5. Contribute if you can to Puma PAC, so we can keep the lights on. Donations accepted HERE, and THANK you!
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”
“Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.”
“People of Berlin – people of the world – this is our moment. This is our time.”
“It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.”
1. Check out Puma PAC’s DAILY ALERT for today — all the links and info you need to get busy, HERE!
2. Call your Senators and Reps today and tell them where you stand on the Bailout Bill. Click HERE for contact info.
3. Join Puma PAC today and be a part of the largest, most organized Citizens Action Network in the Pumasphere. It’s Free, Easy, and Fun! You will receive all of our Super Secret PROWLS, and we NEVER EVER spam you, bug you for money, or share your information. Never, ever. Join us HERE!
4. Make Heidi Li’s new Denver Group viral. Send it far and wide. Post links to it everywhere you go on the intertubes. Contribute a few bucks to it if you can. Click HERE to watch the ad and get the link.
5. Contribute if you can to Puma PAC, so we can keep the lights on. Donations accepted HERE, and THANK you!
6. Let PBS know how you feel about hopelessly biased Gwen Ifill moderating tomorrow night’s VP debate. Comment HERE (be sure to type www.blog.pumapac.org into your comment so they know we’re not republicans), and contact PBS, DEMANDING a replacement for Ifill.
Call PBS today: Michael Getler: 703-739-5290
Oh, and in case you might be wondering if Gwen Ifill is, in fact, biased against Sarah Palin, check this out (thanks to votermom at the Confluence)
“Top lawmakers said the Senate proposal, worked out after a day of behind the scenes maneuvering, would include tax breaks for businesses and alternative energy and higher government insurance for bank deposits.”
Pointing out that these changes help Big Shots. Higher government insurance for bank deposits sounds like a good idea for regular people who may have more than $100,000 in savings, but you have to look a little deeper. People with more than $100k to deposit have ALWAYS been able to have the full amount of their deposits insured (up to as much as $50million). The way it’s done is your financial services company spreads your big deposits around to more than one bank, $100k in each. What this provision will do is make it easier for individual banks to accept more money from individual depositors — in other words help CAPITALIZE banks that are starving for cash. SO, I’m not saying it’s a bad idea, in fact it sounds like a fairly painless way to ease the liquidity parch for banks. It also brings FDIC limits into the 21st Century in terms of inflation. BUT, let’s not get tricked into thinking this is any sort of concession for the PEOPLE.
SO, call your Senators, as antifish reminded us last night. CALL CALL CALL. EMAIL EMAIL EMAIL. Tell them what you want them to do. It is MUCH more difficult to influence Senators than it is Reps. The Senators do NOT live in mortal fear of their constituents — it is just TOO difficult to dislodge a sitting Senator, and so they are very safe, much the worse for us. But just the same, CALL CALL CALL. EMAIL EMAIL EMAIL.
USE OUR ACTION CENTER RESOURCES TO CONTACT YOUR SENATORS,HERE!
DAILY UPDATE 10/1/08
1. Check out Puma PAC’s DAILY ALERT for today — all the links and info you need to get busy, HERE!
2. Call your Senators and Reps today and tell them where you stand on the Bailout Bill. Click HERE for contact info.
3. Join Puma PAC today and be a part of the largest, most organized Citizens Action Network in the Pumasphere. It’s Free, Easy, and Fun! You will receive all of our Super Secret PROWLS, and we NEVER EVER spam you, bug you for money, or share your information. Never, ever. Join us HERE!
4. Make Heidi Li’s new Denver Group viral. Send it far and wide. Post links to it everywhere you go on the intertubes. Contribute a few bucks to it if you can. Click HERE to watch the ad and get the link.
5. Contribute if you can to Puma PAC, so we can keep the lights on. Donations accepted HERE, and THANK you!
6. Let PBS know how you feel about hopelessly biased Gwen Ifill moderating tomorrow night’s VP debate. Comment HERE (be sure to type www.blog.pumapac.org into your comment so they know we’re not republicans), and contact PBS, DEMANDING a replacement for Ifill.
I need to ask you to support an urgent and important business relationship with a transfer of funds of great magnitude.
I am Ministry of Treasury of the Republic of America. My country has had a crisis that has caused the need for a large transfer of funds of $700 billion dollars US. If you would assist me in this transfer, it would be most profitable to you.
I am working with renowned Mr. Phil Gram, lobbyist for UBS, who will be my replacement as Ministry of Treasury in January. As a Senator of my blelegeaured and beautiful country, you may know him as the dear leader of the American banking deregulation movement of 1990s. This transactin is 100% safe.
This is a matter of great urgency. All you must does is send a blank check. We will be receiving the funds as quickly as possible. We cannot directly transfer these funds in the names of our close friends because we are constantly under surveillance. My family lawyer advised me that I should look for reliable and trustworthy person who will act as a next of kin so the funds can be transferred.
Please reply with all of your bank account, IRA and college fund account numbers and those of your children and grandchildren to wallstreetbailout@treasury.gov so that we transfer your commission for this transaction. After I receive you’re information, I will respond with detailed information about safeguards that will be used to protect the funds.
Wonderful salutations to you cherish friend from Republic of America.
Yours Faithfully,
Minister of Treasury Paulson
Don’t forget to vote in the Puma PAC Poll! Click HERE!
The failure of a proposed Wall Street bailout Monday underscored that America is suffering not just from a financial crisis, but also from a crisis of political leadership.
“This has been a bad day for Washington and a bad day for American politics,” said Harold Ford, a former Democratic congressman from Tennessee. “What happened today was an embarrassment for the country.”
None of the country’s political leaders, Republican or Democrat, has proved able to navigate the treacherous politics of the moment and secure an agreement to bail out the country’s financial system and restore confidence in the marketplace.
President Bush is a largely discredited lame duck. He’s not trusted by his own party and was unable to bend the Congress to his will even as he warned of a catastrophe if lawmakers rebelled.
Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama and his party’s congressional leaders control the Congress and agreed with Bush’s urgency, but they couldn’t deliver a majority, either.
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When Obama, the party’s new leader, learned of the plan’s rejection, he spoke about Washington almost as if he weren’t a member of Congress.
“Democrats and Republicans in Washington have a responsibility to make sure that an emergency rescue package is put forward that can at least stop the immediate problems we have so we can begin to plan for the future,” he said.
He didn’t say how he might lead or what role he’d play. “Step up to the plate,” he told Congress. “Get it done.”
Meanwhile, NICE Prowling today Puma PAC! We stood up to the creeping Police State tactics of the Obama Movement and FORCED A RETRACTION. They BACKED OFF! This is what it’s all about Folks! Nicely done.
Here’s a quote from our new friend, Sheriff Glenn Boyer of Jefferson County, Missouri. I give him credit for being a straight talker, and pretty witty too:
Jefferson County Sheriff Oliver “Glenn” Boyer, who was also named Gov. Blunt’s statement, told WND that not only had he never agreed to join the “Truth Squad,” but also that it “infuriated” him that anyone would think he’d use his office to squash others’ freedom of speech.
“I’m a small, Democratic sheriff in rural Missouri,” Boyer told WND. “I haven’t even seen the original interview with Jennifer Joyce and Bob McCulloch. … All I know is, I came into my office on Monday morning unaware of any of this. I had a fundraiser Saturday, when all this started, of my own. I came into my office Monday morning, and I’ve got 500 emails and 19 nasty phone calls calling me a communist pig! I think, ‘Man, I thought it was a pretty good fundraiser.’”
Y’all are a bunch of racist, disgusting, despicable morons.
McCain is a senile douch who has picked a running mate that charged women for rape kits. You think Hillary is happy about that?! McBush is tanking, Obama 08!!!
Although Nitwit doesn’t know how to spell “douche,” I have a feeling he knows EXACTLY what it means and savors using it to degrade people. Isn’t the liberal underbelly pretty?
In other news, the Billionaires’ Bailout heads to the House this morning. GWB was up EARLY this morning talking to reporters and warning the Congress and the country to wake up and smell the $80-dollar a pound coffee. Heckuva job, Bushie!
Watch this ONE MINUTE SMACK-DOWN in the House! woo-hoo! (thanks to Jawbone at Corrente)
Krugman gives Obama tepid support for NOT GETTING IN THE WAY (inspired yet?), and hammers McCain for being reckless and misguided. The next 24-48 hours will be VERY interesting — watch for both sides to be scrambling to both claim credit for AND reject the plan. Obama called the current plan “an outrage, an outrage” and then said he’d vote for it on Wednesday. Huh? McCain is regrouping. Which means he’s losing ground. It’s the Independents who matter to the candidates this week. The basic question for them is:
Who do you trust more to rescue and grow the economy? Barack Obama or John McCain?
David Sirota has a good primer on why the plan stinks, HERE (thanks to Lambert at Corrente). Obama loses this one politically if he appears to be out of his league and/or uninterested (he is both). McCain loses this one politically if he appears short-fused and blustery.
Bottom line for us: HARRY THE DEMOCRATS! We need to call, call, call our reps in Congress and tell them to STOP THE BAILOUT!! Call Obama’s Campaign and insist that he impose safeguards for homeowners.
Our job is to try to force Obama’s lofty hand. It’s not that we don’t want him to pull another FISA on us. In fact, we want to force him to pull another FISA. He must stand up and lead or step OUT OF THE WAY.
Read the full text of the Billionairz’ Bailout bill HERE (The Sunlight Foundation from our lovely ACTION Center). Call Congress now! Repeatedly!
Call one of these Toll Free Capitol Hill switchboard #’s:
Are you a woman considering a career in politics? Are you a woman with ambition? Would you like to participate in government or other forums for the powerful and influential? Well, Girls — be prepared! The Democratic Underbelly sees you like this:
Dear Puma PAC,
This is the first of today’s PROWLS. It’s not exactly hush-hush, as you can see, but I want this one to reach far and wide. Today we are talking back to the Mainstream Media and the Democratic Underbelly.
Here is an excerpt from Matt Taibbi’s article in the latest Rolling Stone:
Sarah Palin is a symbol of everything that is wrong with the modern United States. As a representative of our political system, she’s a new low in reptilian villainy, the ultimate cynical masterwork of puppeteers like Karl Rove. But more than that, she is a horrifying symbol of how little we ask for in return for the total surrender of our political power. Not only is Sarah Palin a fraud, she’s the tawdriest, most half-assed fraud imaginable, 20 floors below the lowest common denominator, a character too dumb even for daytime TV — and this country is going to eat her up, cheering her every step of the way. All because most Americans no longer have the base energy to do anything but lie back and allow ourselves to be jacked off by the calculating thieves who run this grasping consumer paradise we call a nation.
–snip –
She appeared to be completely without shame and utterly full of shit, awing a room full of hardened reporters with her sickly-sweet line about the high-school-flame-turned-hubby who “five children later,” is “still my guy.” It was like watching Gidget address the Reichstag.
Here’s the PROWL:
1. Send an email to rgscustserv@cdsfulfillment.com and tell them what you think of political discourse that uses sexist stereotypes to belittle women candidates. Give them an earful.
2. Call the Rolling Stones office today and demand an apology from Matt Taibbi and his “editors.” Telephone: (212) 484-1616. Give them an earful.
3. Blog the Democratic Underbelly. Let them know what real Democrats look like, think like, and talk like. Click on this link and post your comments. Let’s take this fight back to where it started so we can nip this ugliness in the bud every chance we get. Blog the Puma message HERE. Give them an earful.
Here is today’s Second PROWL. First, read Riverdaughter’s excellent take-down of the condescending Obots who desperately, though ignorantly, in classic concern troll fashion want to teach us about “what the Democratic Party really stands for” and why it is so crucial that we submit to their superior understanding. Then read THIS heartfelt post on the Democratic Underbelly by a woman who really wants to get it right. I don’t blame her — she did her best (though why in the HELL she is blogging at the Democratic Underbelly when she is clearly an intelligent and subtle thinker I’ll never know . . .). The point of this BLOG PROWL is not to confront the author, but the madness she provoked in her Underbelly readers. If the author hasn’t been PUMATIZED by the reaction of her supposed allies to her post, then she is likely beyond help. This is an Open Invitation to NikkiStone! Join Puma PAC and become part of the solution you so clearly and sincerely wish to facilitate. For the rest of us, get over there and COMMENT! Take the fight back to their Swamp! Give them an earful.
Morning Folks, this is an Open Thread. Be sure to check out your state (we’re updating the list today, so sit tight if yours isn’t there yet) on the Puma PAC Slate of Each and Every State! and let us know if you think it should be changed in any way.
This weekend we start canvassing and handing out flyers for November. Do you have a Puma buddy to join you? Reach out here on the blog — partner up and plan to print out 50-100 flyers and cards this weekend.
We have 53 Days to stop the DONC.
Thank you to everyone who contributed to Sheila Jackson Lee yesterday. I will post the final tally later this morning.
We will be mounting a weekend Fundraiser starting later today to raise funds for Canvassing and Outreach for our Protest of the Election. Get a jump now and donate this morning if you can, and THANK you! You can Contribute HERE!
