Rolling Stone Slams John McCain
 Wednesday, October 1st, 2008  by Connie T.

Senate Approves Bank Bailout Despite Public Outcry
 Wednesday, October 1st, 2008  by Connie T.

Has anyone noticed that the web pages for the Senate and the House of Representatives have been super slow to load these past few days? Well, we have, and we have no doubt that it's due to the thousands of people that have been contacting their Reps to complain about the threatened $700 billion banks and Wall Street bailout. A popular Visi Page that hosts an up-to-date database of Congress contact information has been hit with over 100 visits per minute of people looking for their Congressperson's e-mail address.

The bad news for the night is that the Senate emerged from their closed-door powwow tonight strongly endorsing the $700 billion + bailout package.

Both presidential candidates - John McCain and Barack Obama - showed up in support of the proposal, which has drawn heaps of angry skepticism from the American public.

The Senate voted 74 to 25 to pass the initiative. There is $150 billion of tax breaks for individuals and businesses now in the bill, but that's still at least $550 billion less than the bill taxpayers will be expected to foot.

The good news is that it isn't over yet. The proposed bailout (aka Financial "Rescue" Plan) will now move to the House on Friday to be voted upon.


1. Check this list to see how the Senators from your State voted on this bill. Then contact them and tell them thank you - or how could you? Obviously the Yea's indicate that the Sen.(s) voted Yes for the bailout; Nay = No.

2. Most importantly: contact your Rep in the House before Friday to let them know how you as a voter expect them to vote on this issue!!

We called our House Rep and e-mailed both of our Ohio Senators. They both - George Voinovich the Republican and Sherrod Brown the Democrat - voted yes on the bailout. They are now hearing from us again.

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