Obama Stole McCain’s Mortage Plan?

Some cries today from the McCaniacs! They say His Royal Highness, The Child Barack H. Obama‘s recently announced plan to buy up bad mortages in an attempt to stabalize the pyrotechnic economy was stolen from the Old Warrior himself. FoxNews has a write up detailing the controversy. McCain’s former economic guru – something called Douglas Holtz Eakin – says it looks an awful lot like what the Big Mac “campaigned for a long time” on. *Notably the article also contains McCain’s comment at the time of his proposal that he was following in the footsteps of Hillary Clinton… who in their right mind would want to claim such a thing*

But McCain didn’t campaign on it for a long time at all as alleged in the write up. He busted out the proposal in the second to last debate with The Child, and had Conservatives scratching their heads and wondering if the old warrior had finally lost it. This is particularly plausible given the fact that the plan of Democrat President Obama actually is cheaper than the one McCain proposed. Although, it hard to say by how much because it’s a cornucopia that could cost as “little” as 75 billion and as much as 275 billion. Aren’t these numbers just surreal at this point?

While the story rightly quotes McCain from during the campaign as declaring Obama and lefties all oer partially responsible for the whole shabang of the economic debacle by frantically pushing for the expansion and foolish policies of Freddy and Fanny, McCain’s idea to travel wholesale down the road of government intervention – litterally declaring he’d tell the treasury secretary to, “Immediately buy up the bad home loan mortgages in America and renegotiate at the new value of those homes…” seemed loony then. It even looks more loony know that we know he wanted to spend billions more than Obama. You really ought not try to outspend a Democrat. That battle is guaranteed to be a defeat.

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Did you know the French still have colonies in the Caribbean Sea?! Well they do! And apparently they’re mad about something! The French are sending in the troops. This, on the heels of last week’s episode of a French nuclear submarine bumping into one of its British counterparts might make you think that the French are looking bad these days. My sense though is that Paris is pleased just to be discussed at this point. Come on – when an opportunity to tease France is presented it cannot be turned away without accepting with glee!

Have a tremendous evening!