Is this the same secret plan as his one to get bin Laden, or a different one?

He knows how to win the war on terror also andhe's not telling anyone. He knows how to create more jobs and he's not telling anyone. He knows how to ensure everyone for health care and he's not telling anyone. Does he know any other mantra other than he knows how to fix everything but he's not telling anyone and we're just to accept his word that he knows these things and he's telling the truth. Oh yeah, he has a problem witht he truth but he's not telling anyone.

This would lead to two years of investigation and work which would be canceled when it is discovered that McCain's pack of lobbyist advisers (led by human slime Phil "Whiners" Gramm) were in the thick of it.

Just like he knows where Bin Laden is and how to get him. Is there nothing that McCain doesn't know how to do? Oops, maybe tell the truth.

To accurately apply his metaphor, he's asking for a commission while the South Tower is coming down.
First we've got the jumpers and the trapped firemen to save, John.

Why does McCain blaming an "old boys network:" minus any irony still elicit a raised eyebrow of disbelief.

Count this one for your "Chutzpah Alert", Mr. Benen.

Ooooo those dirty old Washington establishment types! I'll get em! Cuz I'm a maverick, durnit!

He appears to be the fourth Maverick brother: Bart, Bret, Beau, and Boner. Or maybe Batshit.

First we've got the jumpers and the trapped firemen to save, John.

pbg, McCain knows how to save the jumpers and firemen, too. All we have to do is elect him, my friend.

"And the old-boy network and the corruption in Washington is directly involved"

And how long has McCain been a part of this wretched hive of scum and villany?

BAM! McCain warned against this two years ago, huh? So why then was he not out hitting the pavement on behalf of the you can't pick lettuce in Yuma for $50 a day American workers, demanding a commission at that point in time?

If he does have the leadership and clout that 26 years in D.C. brings you, where was the action?

Rhetorical questions obviously.

I can see it now. With one hand he precariously balances the rifle on his shoulder, with the other he holds the mirror. After checking the wind by licking the forefinger on his third hand and holding it aloft he squeezes off the shot. First the round enters Bin Laden's skull, killing him instantly. Passing through the frontal temporal lobe it bounces off the weathervane atop the old barn, then richochets off the tractor wheel in the yard before striking Wall Street in their nether regions. Castrated and now impotent "The Street" (I'm up on the lingo!) prostrates itself before Mighty John, promising to never do anything like this ever again. The end.

And it will be headed by Gramm and Greenspan!

Real Change!

The only way that the McCain campaign reflects "change" is, that's all that'll be left in your pocket once you burn through your life savings and your meager healthcare.

This story reminds of my Republican U.S. senator from Georgia, Johnny Isakson, who was recently recommending a "commission" to find waste, fraud and abuse in the federal government. Apparently, he had never heard of the GAO (Government Accountability Office).

Mayor Quimby is also fond of fact-finding missions to sunny places. McCain should grab some sun screen and go find some facts on the Falkland Islands.

Steve-
You forgot the part where Sarah is bandaging his POW wounds with moose hide and lipstick.

McCain is in a unique position to understand the the current crisis in the credit and financial markets. One of his chief economic advisers is pretty much responsible for the whole thing.

"Just like he knows where Bin Laden is and how to get him. Is there nothing that McCain doesn't know how to do?"

I hear he also knows the Tylenol Terrorist's true identity.

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"And it will be headed by Gramm and Greenspan!"

And Todd Palin the Impaler!

No, he's not going to have to do better than that. Say it, and it becomes the truth, at least to voters on the left end of the bell curve. Take more than one sentence of ten words to debunk it, and it remains the truth.

Why the immediate followup question isn't "well, then, how do you fix it?" I have no idea.

How comes noone has challenged the McCain camp assertion that he can't use the internet because of POW injuries.

THe first google I did for "specialty keyboard for disability" came up with tons of keyboards eg:
Hands Free Mouse and Keyboard-
The Magic Wand Keyboard is a miniature keyboard and mouse that allows access to any computer using only the slightest head or hand movement.

Also, can he feed himself with a knife and fork?

Just show me one example Johhny boy I do hope someone calls him out on this like Campbell Brown did to Tucker bounds ONE EXAMPLE ONE QUOTE!

Wow, yet another thing he knows how solve, but coyly must stay mum about until he's elected.

Is McCain campaigning for President, or for host of "I've Got a Secret"?

I think McCain's Secret Plan to solve the Wall Street meltdown involves his Secret Plan to find bin Laudin.

McCain saw this coming two years ago (for which we're supposed to give him credit)

And he warned us, he says. When did THAT happen? When did Mr. Fundamentally Sound Straight Talk ever do anything but cheerleader for the fucking markets? Is thuis not the tool who wanted to prop up the dead Alan Greenspan in a chair and pretend Greenspan still lived?

max
['The Senator from Pathological is showing his sociopath streak.']

The idea of establishing a commission to fully understand what went wrong and why isn't ridiculous. It's that McCain is proposing to do this, when he's given no indications he'd listen to what the commission has to say and actually make changes to the system. I don't know if he knows how to fix the crisis, but it doesn't particularly matter. It's that he doesn't want to fix the crisis, because he doesn't get what went wrong.

Or as Obama said, "It's not that John McCain doesn't care. It's that John McCain doesn't get it."

Seriously, didn't farce get left in the goddamned dust way back there somewhere and we're traveling hyperdrive in the Tragedy Zone now? Even Lenny Bruce would be at a loss for words at this point.

It seems like McCain's campaign is based on the following:

(1) I was a POW;
(2) Sarah Palin is cute; and
(3) "Trust me"

What else does he have? I'm sure I'm overlooking something.

McCain wants a commission

When I saw this my first thought was, "For what? Selling bullshit?"

McCain can't tell you how to solve the financial crisis because Phil Gramm won't admit his mistakes.

The one thing I have noticed is that this election John McCain is nothing more than an empty vessel filled with crap every morning by his advisers. He makes no decisions on his own. He doesn't deviate from ideology.

Call and write your friends in Ohio. Tell them that it's ok to vote for a smart black man over a dumb old white dude.

"I know how to fix it."

Wait, wait, don't tell me. ...with Social Security money, right?

Great and hilarious posts!!!

I think we need a copy of the Wassila YearBook (The Fighting Beavers ?) to see possible members of this prestigious body which I am sure will be chaired by the Vice President

Maybe Mrs. Harriet Sherbundy can be the co-chair, after all she did a whizz bang job of watching the pennies for the Wassila Hockey Travel League.

And of course, Sarah's math teacher in high school, who also was her basketball coach. Ya know, there was nobody smarter at balancing the checkbook in my Home Econ course.

my first thought was of Bush's first year and his National Research Council commission to study the UN assessment of global warming. They came back and said UN is right. Bush response was "never mind".

I gotcher commission right here: Convene a bunch of people--just pull 'em in off the street, doesn't matter. One of them says, "Re-regulate the swaps market." All in favor? Aye. Someone else says, "Hold both investment firms and banks to strict lending and transparency standards." All in favor? Aye. Adjourned!! Shortest. Commission. Ever.

Isn't that the classic republican response to anything they don't want to deal with or have no fucking clue about.

Yeah, let's appoint a commission and study it for a few years while it destroys our economy. Just like we studied global warming for 8 years, even though 99% of the scientific community had already weighed in on the subject.

It seems like every policy position of McCain's involves forming a commission to study the issue because he has no fucking clue.

Sorry, John, we no longer have that luxury.

Actually the press will have to do better than this and immediately ask him to support those statements with some facts. I expect this from McCain, but I expect much better from the press.

Wasn't McCain involved with Charles Keating, the man who was a key figure in the Savings and loan collapse some years ago. Seems like McCain is in full support of the reverse Robin Hood philosophy, ie: steal from the poor and give to the rich.

Note that this will be like the 9/11 commission:

* Explicitly promise not to investigate who is to blame, for fear of partisanship. That will be investigated in phase II after the election (or the next one...or never).
* Release a set of recommendations that will be ignored, except for the worst ones. They will be made worse, then implemented.

"He's going to have to do better than this."

No, he'll still get most of those Bush voters. The installation of John McCain is the only way to achieve the cover up of Bush's crimes. Who cares about the country? Not John McCain as evidenced by his VP pick.

The DOW Jones Industrials is just below ten thousand, with what was said for a long time that a looming recession is likely to happen? Even Greenspan suggested and warned this a year ago. What we hear now is some saying and admitting the recession is here, the recession is upon us. Then others rant that by definition America is not in a recession yet…

Now what really is the kicker is a long list of economist now rave about the out dated economic system. The rules need to be changed, funny no over sight, poor regulations. McCain himself claiming to be the one to get the job done. For me It is alarming to hear McCain say “WE WILL NEVER PUT AMERICA IN THIS POSITION AGAIN� heck McCain here is admitting about the Republicans in charge have brought us to this point. Amazing the audience are a bunch of freakazoids to cheer to this rally talk.

America, the electorate is not stupid, especially Democrats, and everyone is waiting with anticipation to the release of powerful connections and corruption all linked to the Bush administration. Is that going to happen? Is Bush going to be accountable? Not while McCain is in control, all the possible secrecy that can be done will be done. If anything every single penny that can be swindled will via the Federal Reserve and Bush and Company be done and is currently taking place right before your eyes.

Money managers that just plain goofed want your money even more than before. These big money managers have been swindling tax dollars away from the electorate for decades. Here, hundreds of billions of tax dollars now reaching trillions are needed to “Correct the Market�? So, these money managers belly up to the Federal Reserve Board window hold their hand out and simply get the money. When the electorate want something done for common ordinary needs we have to deal with endless debate on the floor of the Congress and Senate and likely get rejected by the president, this is the huge contrast in this scenario. Where America are the debates and public investigations especially now here we have a crisis that is considered worse than ever. And all the media says is gee whiz this is bad stuffs. Sure we hear Olbermann listing those worst persons on the placebo of some thing being done, Olberman’s psycho ward wall of corruption that wall off shame though no one is cuffed and sent to the slammer.

And the Media, gee folks this is bad stuff huh? What amazes me is that the Mainstream Media should be throwing McCain over board. It is far too obvious McCain and the Bush Company put us here, worse the electorate will likely not be able to buy into those commercials products. Revenues slide when advertising slumps and Media monster starts to loose money, uh hoo, Obama starts to look like a pretty good candidate to weave our way out of this mess.

It’s the media stupid.

One does not give a "commission" to an individual who cannot bother showing up for work. John McBlood-Sucking-Leech is just such an individual.

Pass the Borax, please. America is suffering from a criminally-incoherent, politically-corrupt buffoon "leech" infestation....

Titanic Captain: "I am calling for the formation of a Blue Ribbon commission to review the reasons why this ship is sinking. Once the review is completed, they will make recommendations for corrective action."

BIG QUESTION:
Did McCain vote for his buddy Phil Gramm's dismantling of the Smoot-Hawley Act, a move that allowed commercial banks to act like investment banks and get in this mess?

Everyone knows exactly what caused this financial mess. The thing is, do Republicans really want to put all their golfing buddies in front of a commission and have them all talk about how incompetent they are? And then they can explain to the commission how they fucked up yet still walked away with hundreds of millions of dollars each while all the shareholders are broke.

Hmm, now that I think about it, this commission could be worthwhile...

I have a sneaking suspicion that the commission will come back with the fix being:

1) Lower taxes, according to Larry Kudlow it will
increase tax revenues
2) Less regulation
3) Increased Offshore Drilling

He's going to have to do better than this.

What a sexist thing to say! Don't you know his running mate is a woman....?!?

corruption in Washington is directly involved and one of the causes of this financial crisis that we're in today. And I know how to fix it and I know how to get things done.

Well, since he admits to being an economics ignoramus, I don't know how he can claim that he knows how to fix it, but I'll believe that he's perfectly aware of corruption in Washington, having been one of the people involved the last time this movie played.

che che, I'll see your Jamie Gorelick and raise you Phil Gramm, Alan Greenspan, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condi Rice, Michael Brown, Michael Chertoff, George W. Bush and your boy McCain. Your feeble finger-pointing doesn't even begin to distract from the mendacity, incompetence and corruption of the Republican Party you support.

Jackass.

che che, I'll see your Jamie Gorelick and raise you Phil Gramm, Alan Greenspan, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condi Rice, Michael Brown, Michael Chertoff, George W. Bush and your boy McCain. Your feeble finger-pointing doesn't even begin to distract from the mendacity, incompetence and corruption of the Republican Party you support.

Jackass.

Well, the 9/11 commision is done with 9/11! Let's bring them all back to get their two bits in about the economy! They can study it for six months after the fact all over again. What a brilliant idea Senator McSame! Sarah Palin should be able handle the coffee and catering!

So, John McCain can look at just about any situation and then fix it, because he "knows how to."

Are we talking about McCain or McGuyver?

McCain wants a commission

When I saw this my first thought was, "For what? Selling bullshit?" -- MissMudd, @12:04

No, no, dear; for inventing the Blackberry (at least, that was *my* first thought when I saw the title of this posting)

Dear America,

You might note that John McCain---once upon a time---had a commission. He proceeded to use that commission to (a) obliterate numerous airplanes that were the property of the United States Navy (including 5 of which he was the assigned pilot), (b) attempt to burn down an aircraft carrier (also the property of the aforementioned United States Navy), and (c) single-handedly lose the Vietnam War.

And now he wants me to give him another commission? I'd rather kick his worthless hide back to Hanoi, and wash my hands of him forever!

Sincerely,

Uncle Sam

[ a commission John McCain proposes to study the Wall Street meltdown ] will be headed by Gramm and Greenspan!

Real Change!"

Posted by: pessullivan on September 16, 2008
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I believe you've got it!

John McCain says he saw the Wall Street problems coming two years ago and now he is asking for a high-level commission to investigate and find out what happened?

John McCain still isn't offering any solutions to the problems Americans face.

John McCain isn't the person Americans wants to be President in 2009.

It's weird, that tic McCain has, of saying "I know (FILL IN THE BLANK) and that's why you should elect me." He says it with a certain amount of impatience and stubbornness. I know Washington, so I'm the best person to fix corruption. I know the situation in Iraq, so I can lead the way to success. He always knows these secret solutions to problems, but he seems quite unwilling to share them - at least until after he's elected.