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Erick Erickson and Red State are targeting Blue Dogs who vote for the IMF bailout:
It is bad enough that we’re bailing out domestic banks. Barack Obama now wants to bail out European banks via funding for the International Monetary Fund (”IMF”).
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The Blue Dog Democrats are being forced to vote for it by Rahm Emanuel and Nancy Pelosi, but the pressure is only just mounting. If we mount pressure now by calling them and pinning them down, they’ll most likely change their mind and side with the GOP. There are enough of them to kill it.
Blue Dogs don’t generally care what liberals think. It will be interesting to see if they care about Republicans in their own districts, who stand to reap the benefits of their votes. As Howie Klein notes, it was wholesale slaughter in the European elections for parties that supported the bank bailouts yesterday — extreme conservatives scored huge victories against them.
The Blue Dogs are especially vulnerable to this dynamic. By forcing them to heel on this bill, Rahm is writing their 2010 GOP attack ads — "Voted for $100 billion bailout of European Banks." That ought to go over well.
It will take 39 Democrats to defeat the bill, and 12 have already committed to vote "no."
Your move, Rahm.
Background:
- Maxine Waters Will Vote “No” on the Supplemental — 12 Down, 27 To GoThe Next Big Taxpayer Bailout?
- IMF Could Get Hundreds of Billions for European Banks Kucinich to Vote Against Supplemental — 11 Down, 28 to Go
- Nadler Won’t Vote for the Supplemental: 10 Down, 29 to Go
- Let’s Get Ready to Rumble – Supplemental Take Down!
- Is Rahm Emanuel Demanding That Walt Minnick, Bobby Bright, and Parker Griffith Commit Political Suicide?
- Nine Democrats “Just Say No” to Graham-Lieberman
- Stop the Supplemental: To the Phones!
- Nine Democrats “Just Say No” to Graham-Lieberman
- Stop the Supplemental: To the Phones!
- Now They’re LOSING Votes: Jim Moran Will Vote Against the Supplemental
- Eric Massa Won’t Vote for Supplemental
- Rahm’s Whipping on the Afghanistan War Supplemental — Will You?
- 33 House Democrats Express Concern Over IMF Funds in Supplemental
- Interview With Barney Frank: Why He’s Switching His Vote on the Supplemental
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Since Rahmbo loves the Blue Dogs so, why is he doing this? Doesn’t he know he is writing their political obituary?
Bwaaahahaha.. Good luck trying to get a Blue Dog to listen to ya if you are not rich.
Though I would suggest you lie if necessary… be sure and identify yourself as a Christian member of the Chamber of commerce first.
To be such “smart” and “astute” politicians, the WH crew is slow understand what to do and insensitive to reality.
They are playing chess on a Ouija board… we just can’t understand. /s
In the last season of The Real Housewives of New York City (yes, I do watch other programs in addition to politics!), Jill was interviewed by the BBC in her swanky high rise apartment and was asked by the reporter if she felt guilty about the financial crisis since it was her fault (meaning greedy wealthy American’s fault). She basically said no and then said one should never spend more money than they make and that goes for the US government too (a slam to Obama apparently!).
What Wall Street and the Big Players did effected all the markets across the planet with Europe being one of the biggest beneficiaries of this greed as far as I’m concerned. We have to do something to make it right, don’t we? The other alternative last year would have been to allow the whole entire house of cards to collapse, but I’m not too sure I would have liked that, because the consequences would have been worse.
As noted on Think Progress last night by Ralph the Wonder Llama/Locust…”And of course they conveniently forget that the reason the “socialism” of the bank bailout was seen as necessary was because of the utter failure of their free market fundamentalist ideas.”. Makes sense to me!
Does it frighten anyone else that we’re in agreement with redstate?
Boxturtle (Not gonna look out my window. Don’t wanna see flying pigs)
The Bush administration already bailed out the Swiss bank UBS. Yes UBS is the bank that Phil Graham represents.
It was done by a Federal Reserve currency injection with the Swiss Central Bank. The Swiss bank then used the US dollars to bail out UBS.
The deal was done in the middle of the US financial meltdown, and since it was the Fed acting in private, it did not get much media attention.
What ever UBS was paying Phil, he earned his money several times over.