--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Friends, > > Everyone said the bill would pass. The masters of the universe were > already making celebratory dinner reservations at Manhattan's finest > restaurants. Personal shoppers in Dallas and Atlanta were dispatched to > do the early Christmas gifting. Mad Men of Chicago and Miami were > popping corks and toasting each other long before the morning latte run. > > But what they didn't know was that hundreds of thousands of Americans > woke up yesterday morning and decided it was time for revolt. The > politicians never saw it coming. Millions of phone calls and emails hit > Congress so hard it was as if Marshall Dillon, Elliot Ness and Dog the > Bounty Hunter had descended on D.C. to stop the looting and arrest the > thieves. > > The Corporate Crime of the Century was halted by a vote of 228 to 205.
I know! All those corporate lackies who voted for it got their due: Waxman, Waters, Berman, Frank -- all those right wing nuts in the hip pocket of Wall St. > It was rare and historic; no one could remember a time when a bill > supported by the president and the leadership of both parties went down > in defeat. That just never happens. > > A lot of people are wondering why the right wing of the Republican Party > joined with the left wing of the Democratic Party in voting down the > thievery. Forty percent of Democrats and two-thirds of Republicans voted > against the bill. > > Here's what happened: > > The presidential race may still be close in the polls, but the > Congressional races are pointing toward a landslide for the Democrats. > Few dispute the prediction that the Republicans are in for a whoopin' on > November 4th. Up to 30 Republican House seats could be lost in what > would be a stunning repudiation of their agenda. > > The Republican reps are so scared of losing their seats, when this > "financial crisis" reared its head two weeks ago, they realized they had > just been handed their one and only chance to separate themselves from > Bush before the election, while doing something that would make them > look like they were on the side of "the people." > > Watching C-Span yesterday morning was one of the best comedy shows I'd > seen in ages. There they were, one Republican after another who had > backed the war and sunk the country into record debt, who had voted to > kill every regulation that would have kept Wall Street in check -- there > they were, now crying foul and standing up for the little guy! One after > another, they stood at the microphone on the House floor and threw Bush > under the bus, under the train (even though they had voted to kill off > our nation's trains, too), heck, they would've thrown him under the > rising waters of the Lower Ninth Ward if they could've conjured up > another hurricane. You know how your dog acts when sprayed by a skunk? > He howls and runs around trying to shake it off, rubbing and rolling > himself on every piece of your carpet, trying to get rid of the stench. > That's what it looked like on the Republican side of the aisle > yesterday, and it was a sight to behold. > > The 95 brave Dems who broke with Barney Frank and Chris Dodd were the > real heroes, just like those few who stood up and voted against the war > in October of 2002. Watch the remarks from yesterday of Reps. Marcy > Kaptur ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S27yitK32ds ), Sheila Jackson > Lee ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwysnA7ZmE8 ) and Dennis Kucinich ( > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaF_MZVWM3E ). They spoke the truth. > > The Dems who voted for the giveaway did so mostly because they were > scared by the threats of Wall Street, that if the rich didn't get their > handout, the market would go nuts and then it's bye-bye stock-based > pension and retirement funds. > > And guess what? That's exactly what Wall Street did! The largest, > single-day drop in the Dow in the history of the New York Stock > exchange. The news anchors last night screamed it out: Americans just > lost 1.2 trillion dollars in the stock market!! It's a financial Pearl > Harbor! The sky is falling! Bird flu! Killer Bees! > > Of course, sane people know that nobody "lost" anything yesterday, that > stocks go up and down and this too shall pass because the rich will now > buy low, hold, then sell off, then buy low again. > > But for now, Wall Street and its propaganda arm (the networks and media > it owns) will continue to try and scare the bejesus out of you. It will > be harder to get a loan. Some people will lose their jobs. A weak nation > of wimps won't last long under this torture. Or will we? Is this our > line in the sand? > > Here's my guess: The Democratic leadership in the House secretly hoped > all along that this lousy bill would go down. With Bush's proposals > shredded, the Dems knew they could then write their own bill that favors > the average American, not the upper 10% who were hoping for another > kegger of gold. > > So the ball is in the Democrats' hands. The gun from Wall Street remains > at their head. Before they make their next move, let me tell you what > the media kept silent about while this bill was being debated: > > 1. The bailout bill had NO enforcement provisions for the so-called > oversight group that was going to monitor Wall Street's spending of the > $700 billion; > > 2. It had NO penalties, fines or imprisonment for any executive who > might steal any of the people's money; > > 3. It did NOTHING to force banks and lenders to rewrite people's > mortgages to avoid foreclosures -- this bill would not have stopped ONE > foreclosure!; > > 4. It had NO teeth anywhere in the entire piece of legislation, using > words like "suggested" when referring to the government being paid back > for the bailout; > > 5. Over 200 economists ( > http://faculty.chicagogsb.edu/john.cochrane/research/Papers/mortgage_protest.htm > ) wrote to Congress and said this bill might actually WORSEN the > "financial crisis" and cause even MORE of a meltdown. > > Put a fork in this slab of pork. It's over. Now it is time for our side > to state very clearly the laws WE want passed. I will send you my > proposals later today. We've bought ourselves less than 72 hours. > > Yours, > Michael Moore > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.michaelmoore.com/ > > > > Join Mike's Mailing List ( > http://www.michaelmoore.com/mikesmailinglist/index.php ) | Join Mike's > Facebook Group ( > http://www.new.facebook.com/pages/Michael-Moore/24674986856 ) | Become > Mike's MySpace Friend ( http://www.myspace.com/mmflint ) > > --- > You are currently subscribed to michaelmoore as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe click here: > http://go.netatlantic.com/u?id=59985887.f7dbd0a9e0243d83eec18bfaa8d9cdaf&n=T&l=michaelmoore&o=15305084 > or send a blank email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --- > Email delivered by http://www.netatlantic.com/ >
