Happy Rosh Hashanah!

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New poll shows public almost evenly divided on bailout bill rejected by House

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The ABC/Washington Post survey SHOWS that most Americans feel the bailout bill didn’t offer enough help for the general public.

Two-thirds of Obama backers are enthused while less than half of McCain supporters are

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The enthusiasm chart above tells the story at a glance.

The details are HERE.

John McCain on the economy

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Quit feeling sorry for Sarah Palin

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Rebecca Traister says she’s had it up to here with the Sarah Palin pity party.

Argues Traister: “Shaking our heads and wringing our hands in sympathy with Sarah Palin is a disservice to every woman who has ever been unfairly dismissed based on her gender, because this is an utterly fair dismissal, based on an utter lack of ability and readiness.”

Read the WHOLE THING.

One last look back at the debate through the prism of the right-wing blogosphere

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Roy Edroso does the honors in THIS PIECE from the Village Voice.

McCain to the rescue!

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John McCain SUGGESTED this morning that one of the problems with the Wall Street bailout is that it suffers from a bad label.

“Let’s not call it a bailout,” said McCain. “Let’s call it a rescue.”

Hey, why not call it the Flag, Motherhood and Apple Pie Act? And then nobody would vote against it – for fear that some political rival would use such opposition in an attack ad.

UPDATE: Fox News is begging McCain to suspend his campaign again to focus on the financial crisis, and he says he just might do that.

Yeah, why not? It worked so well the first time.

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Credit crisis kills conservative New York Sun

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It’s sad to see even a right-wing paper BITE THE DUST.

Who’s the leader of the Republican Party?

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Every so-called leader of the Republican Party – Bush, Cheney, McCain, McConnell, Boehner — is for the Wall Street bailout, but the measure got only 65 GOP votes in the House on Monday and went down to defeat.

So, who’s really running the GOP these days?

There was a time when the titled leaders of political parties held sufficient sway with the rank-and-file to get a job done in a time of crisis, even if the objective was only to put up a brave front in a lost cause  and show solidarity with the officers of the ship.

That didn’t happen in this case. Instead, it was a mutiny.

So, who’s in charge of the Grand Old Party right now?

Do I hear any nominations?

Boehner whines: Nancy hurt our feelings

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House Minority Leader John Boehner (above) said today that the bailout bill likely would have passed had not Speaker Nancy Pelosi made some partisan remarks earlier in the day. (See HERE and HERE.)

(Note: The photos of Boehner are from archives and were not snapped today. But I just couldn’t resist.)

UPDATE: Here’s a video of the speech that so upset some Republican lawmakers:

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