"There's your manufactured crisis. Coming right out the mouth of your own candidate."

Levin didn't say THIS was a 'manufactured' crisis. He did say liberals use real and manufactured crises to advance their socialist-based causes.

Neil Cavuto was dead on the mark today:

"Someone, anyone, who can help us figure out why stocks went down, even though the Senate gave a gotta-have rescue package the thumbs up?

Please, Regis. Help!

Lifeline, any line, now!

We've run out of answers, and politicians, excuses for a package they assumed would calm the beast.

But it hasn't. It didn't.

And let me tell you something, it won't.

And here's why.

Catering to a beast just invites more beastly behavior.

And the more you cater, the more beastly the behavior.

The markets have behaved like petulant children: screaming, and stomping their selling feet every time they don't get their way.

The House rejects what amounts to a bail out, they sell off.

So the Senate scrambles to get them what they want, and they still sell off.

And everyone, everyone is scared to death!

What do they want? What have we done wrong? How can we calm them? How can we make them happy?

Well here's a newsflash, Washington, and consider this a free lifeline, no need to call a friend.

Learn a new word. A word a lot of parents know well, but apparently you forgot.

That word is "no."

No, we're not going to give in to your ridiculous tantrums.

No, we're not going to pay you off, desperately hoping you'll stop selling off.

And no, we're not going to write a check for your screw-ups, praying you don't have one of your infamous meltdowns.

Trust me, Washington, they'll not like your sudden backbone, but we, the folks who pay you, will certainly appreciate it.

Because let me tell you something: Politicians led by the nose invariably get knocked in the ass.

So quit being asses.

Wall Street's got your tune.

And sadly Main Street's got your number.

Stand up for something.

Instead of looking like you could be rolled for anything.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,432001,00.html

"Seth probably still considers the guy to be a great president!"

You are correct.

"How bad does the national meltdown have to be before the true believers abandon their Cowboy Messiah?"

Of course, Bush, er, "Hitler" caused it, promoted it, fill in the blank. How silly of me not to know it's all Bush's fault! Gee, what an deep thinker you are MLJ!

"But we used to have presidents who accepted responsibility. Real leaders. Remember "The Buck Stops Here"?"

Really? Like Clinton for Monica? Like Carter for the Iran mess we have today? Like Barney Frank for the financial mess we have today?

"With Bush and his worshipers the buck never stops in the Oval Office"

Bush has been an extraordinary leader: he took on al Qaeda and radical Islam after 9/11. He took on Social Security entitlements, but the feckless Democrats cheered when they killed it. And you wonder why they have an 11% approval rating. Bush took on this financial crisis: I can only imagine what the outcry of the bloodthirsty Left would be if he had a laissez-faire attitude toward this crisis!

Instead the Left says we NEED Obama and all the experience and knowledge he brings to the world. As I've said many times, Liberalism is a cult, not a worldview. Obama's rise is the ultimate proof that the Left is bereft of ideas, oh, except for socialism, of course.

"It's as though Bush hasn't even been president at all, because he has nothing to do with any of it."

Like Truman, who left office with a low approval rating, Bush will be seen of one of the great presidents in our country's history, no doubt. He took on radical Islam while the Left waved the white flag. Do you need a link to Harry Reid's surrender BEFORE the Surge?

"Poor Seth. Truman Left the country in much better shape than the wrecking crew of Bush's administration."

Truman wasn't given the next to impossible mission of keeping Americans safe on their homeland. Bush was and gets and A +++ for the policies that prevented attacks against us.

"He has been extraordinary!"

I agree!

" Shy of starting a nuclear conflagration, he could not have been much worse. His policies, his legacies, almost all are crap!"

I see "Bush Derangement Syndrome" is alive and well!

"A wrecked economy"

Blame your boy, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd and others for that: Bush had 53 straight months of growth. Any president would take that and you know it. Under Bush there's been low inflation, low interest rates, low taxes. This current crisis --not of Bush's making -- he's been handling quite well, despite the bitching from both sides.

"two failed wars in the middle east."

Failed? Nope. I dare you to say to people we've "failed" in Iraq. Ask a soldier who has been there over the past 6 months whether we 'failed', as the Left prayed we did (so that they could get power, for the sake of it!).

"Huge tax cuts for the wealthy coupled with huge deficits..."

Look everyone: It's LEV Obama!

"Enormous expansion of executive power..."

Here it comes (it always does): "Because the rich are getting richer while the poor are getting poorer." Big FAT yawn.

"and a trampling of civil rights. He makes Harding look good."

You know anyone who has been spied on and arrested? Ever read about an arrest. Or is our Gestapo, THAT good?

'FYI, it has been the alliance with the Sunni militias that has led to the current tenuous peace in Iraq -- we are paying them not to fight. Surge smurge.'

OF COURSE, the very relative calm in Iraq isn't because of our soldiers! Of course, it has nothing to do with the Surge Plan, denigrated by everyone, except the president, John Mccain and Republicans.

"If the Sunni's and Shiites go at it again, all bets are off or if the Sunni's decide to fight the US again."

That's why we need our troops there, something the Marxist prophet you are desperate to elect, doesn't want. If he's elected, he wants the U.S. to be weaker. That will help gives good self-esteem to other 'lesser' countries than us --the not-exceptional ones. And we all know, the Left seeks to diminish America as a way of lifting up lesser nations. They seek to flatten individualism right out. the world gets a ton less safe if the Prophet Obama is elected.

"(Obama's) a moderate Democrat who , as I've said before, has political views a lot closer to yours than to any real marxist. "

"Redistributing the wealth", is YOURS and Obama's political view. Not mine.

"You know, I never suggest that Bush is a fascist, or any such claptrap. However, he clearly has used executive power to open up the possibility of things like concentration camps, etc."

Of course, how dumb of me --concentration camps are right around the corner, in Bush's master plan. Will people be taken to be killed by trains? Who will be killed?

"But I suppose you regard the detainees as not really human, so whatever happens to them is of no concern."

No, I think of them as people who have a high probability of wanting to kill Americans. I'll let you and the ACLU "defend their rights".

From Investor's Business Daily. This makes sense:

Investors' Real Fear: A Socialist Tsunami

By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
| Posted Friday, October 10, 2008 4:20 PM PT

The Crash: "Why has the market dropped so much?" everyone asks. What is it about the specter of our first socialist president and the end of capitalism as we know it that they don't understand?

The freeze-up of the financial system -- and government's seeming inability to thaw it out -- are a main concern, no doubt. But more people are also starting to look across the valley, as they say, at what's in store once this crisis passes.

And right now it looks like the U.S., which built the mightiest, most prosperous economy the world has ever known, is about to turn its back on the free-enterprise system that made it all possible.

It isn't only that the most anti-capitalist politician ever nominated by a major party is favored to take the White House. It's that he'll also have a filibuster-proof Congress led by politicians who are almost as liberal.

Throw in a media establishment dedicated to the implementation of a liberal agenda, and the smothering of dissent wherever it arises, and it's no wonder panic has set in.

What is that agenda? It starts with a tax system right out of Marx: A massive redistribution of income -- from each according to his ability, to each according to his need -- all in the name of "neighborliness," "patriotism," "fairness" and "justice."

It continues with a call for a new world order that turns its back on free trade, has no problem with government controlling the means of production, imposes global taxes to support continents where our interests are negligible, signs on to climate treaties that will sap billions more in U.S. productivity and wealth, and institutes an authoritarian health care system that will strip Americans' freedoms and run up costs.

All the while, it ensures that nothing -- absolutely nothing -- will be done to secure a sufficient, terror-proof supply of our economic lifeblood -- oil -- a resource we'll need much more of in the years ahead.

The businesses that create jobs and generate wealth are already discounting the future based on what they know about Obama's plans to raise income, capital gains, dividend and payroll taxes, and his various other economy-crippling policies. Which helps explain why world stock markets have been so topsy-turvy.

But don't take our word for it. One hundred economists, five Nobel winners among them, have signed a letter noting just that:

"The prospect of such tax-rate increases in 2010 is already a drag on the economy," they wrote, noting that the potential of higher taxes in the next year or two is reducing hiring and investment.

It was "misguided tax hikes and protectionism, enacted when the U.S. economy was weak in the early 1930s," the economists remind us, that "greatly increased the severity of the Great Depression."

We can't afford to repeat these grave errors.

Yet much of the electorate is determined to vote for the candidate most likely to make them. If he wins, what we consider to be a crisis in today's economy will be a routine affair in tomorrow's.

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=308530365266606

"Socialism, Marxism, does not mean a tax-the-rich program. It means EXPROPRIATING the bourgeoisie -- doing away with private ownership of the means of production (factories, transportation systems, banks)."

"Next phase, new wave, dance craze, anyways, it's still rock 'n roll to me."
-- Billy Joel

In short, nothing but Capitalism works. People shouldn't be capped by how rich they want to get. We need rich people: they make jobs. It's worked for 240 years, but the Prophet Obama is determined to "spread the wealth". He's a socialist and that is, by definition, anti-American.

"The one thing McCain didn't count on was "Joe the Voter"."

Did you think of that all by yourself? McCain is a Republican, the out-party this year. A tsunami is occurring on Wall Street.The current president has low approval numbers. And yet, in some prominent polls McCain is down less than 2. In others, it's a 5-7 point deficit. To be this close is amazing. There is an outside shot McCain could win. He beat the odds in Vietnam. His campaign for the Republican nomination was over in July, 2007. Yet, he won. As I say, the odds are long, but there is a chance.

Still, if Obama is elected, we get to relive Jimmy Carter, truly the worst president in this countries history. And we'll have brain-dead, "hope" and "change" liberal idiots to thank for it --and their media helpers as well.

"It must hurt seeing your mighty republican party having the crap kicked out of it by a SOCIALIST!"

I see a much closer race than you. Quite possibly a McCain win. Wouldn't that be sweet. Where would you house the Greek columns and the faux "O" presidential seal?

"Seth--Why is the socialist, Marxist residistributionist Obama doing so well in the polls? You'd think Americans would denounce and reject a socialist, wouldn't they?"

Real Americans are.

"When your party loses this coming Tuesday, who are you going to blame?"

The media.