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A new NEW Economic Plan

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate John McCain is considering rolling out a new comprehensive economic package to tackle the U.S. financial crisis, one of his closest supporters said on Sunday.

"I think it goes along the lines that now is the time to lower tax rates for investors, capital gains tax, dividend tax rates, to make sure that we can get the economy jump-started," said Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina.

that should help Joe and Jill Mainstreet, McDonald workers, day laborers, and field hands.

not much for the core problem - getting banks to trust each other and restart inter-bank lending. Ya know unblock the frozen pipes.

Well, "You can't vote for war and disown the results"

Bazooka-vomiting himself into low earth orbit.

Ooooh, we gotta love this. Hilzoy at Political Animal has the details -

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Watch the Video! at 3:36 before the end.

"Krugman: This is not just about McCain and what he did. The fact of the matter is, for a long time we have had a substantial fraction of the Republican base that just does not regard the idea of Democrats governing as legitimate. Remember the Clinton years. It was craziness, right? They were murderers, they were drug smugglers, and the imminent prospect of what looks like a big Democratic victory would drive a lot of these people crazy even if Sarah Palin wasn't saying these inflammatory things. It's going to be very ugly after the election.

Roberts: On both sides that's true. I think that you've also had a huge number of Democrats who think that the Republicans are illegitimate, and that was particularly true after the 2000 election, and to some degree after 2004. And so you really do have at the core of each party people who are not ready to accept the verdict of the election.

Krugman: I reject the equivalence."

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Cokie Roberts doesn't have a truthful bone in her.


Well, "You can't vote for war and disown the results"

[creepy ominous music, black and white grainy images of screaming fliers fans] "If this is what obama's supporters do to a VP candidate's daughter...
[cut to Palin saying "how dare they boo Piper!!"]
... IMAGINE WHAT THEY'D DO TO YOURS"

Don't let your daughter get violated by Obama and his radical leftist supporters. McCain-Palin 2008

ugh. i think I just made myself sick...

John Mccain Called his wife WHAT??

A bunch of mumbo/jumbo to avoid the true economic issues of today.

I don't want a tax cut, I want a job.

over and over again

McCain wants to turn America's attention away from the economy and away from various peccadillos.  Maybe he can even get more attention than Mrs. Palin for a day or two.  It is time to wave the shiny object and pray that Dr. Mesmer's trick still works.  

Obama is looking more and more Presidential.  Obama is going to get on TV and have a half-hour "chat" with the public on the 29th.  Obama can be generous with time and money and appearances... he has the energy and the support of huge crowds like a wave under his surfboard.  Obama looks and acts healthy, and rather sexy.  McCain looks as shriveled as his manhood.  Anything majestic by McCain after the 29th will appear to be me-too-ism.  Thin and wasted and late.

He is running out of time.  The Republicans say that he can turn this momentum around in 30 days.  He has 23.

So, the debate is Wednesday, after his nap.  Thursday is Letterman, and he probably ought not weasel out again.  (I bet that Letterman already has the scripts written for another week of needling.)  But he might move it up to Tuesday.

That frees Thursday for flying somewhere exotic and dangerous... like the war zone!  He could waltz into Switzerland and stand in front of some crumpled ediface whispering that the Gnomes of Zurich are not only real, but they've stolen our wealth. He'll next go to Russia and stare down Putin!  (He'll growl at the new tiger kitten and suggest turning her into gloves for his running mate.)  Onward to some place with phallic missiles threatening the sky (he'll talk about preemption and support for our allies).  Maybe a base with a host of C-130s (Angels of Death) streaming rapturous fire.  Finally, a nice dramatic photo-op could be posed in Georgia along an oil pipeline with the suggestion that wealth is something we pump out of the ground and consume... and that we must be prepared to fight and die for our oil, no matter what country currently sits on top of it.  The long shot of a gushing pipeline right behind his crotch won't be subtle.  Neither was Commander Codpiece's stuffed flight suit.

If he times it right, he can distract from Obama's speech and be back for the following Sunday's talking heads.  And Chris Matthews can be wargasmic again.