Tip O’Neill Cocktails with Barack
01 August 2008 5:35 pm by Taylor Marsh
BY TAYLOR MARSH
We’re serving Whuppass Margaritas tonight.
We’re also raising our glasses to Barack. He
hit it out today. Get his man into a townhall with John McCain. We’ll see
who’s talking trash about celebrity this, empty suit that. He’s got game. We
saw it when the hecklers made one mistake today. Thinking Obama couldn’t take
them on.
Predatory lending? Check.
– Proposes $10 billion in aid to help prevent foreclosures.
– Recommends amending bankruptcy laws to protect people who have predatory
or misleading home loans.
– Calls for increased penalties on lenders who break home-loan laws.
– Supports legislation that would enable the federal government to insure
billions of dollars in loans for at-risk borrowers in exchange for homeowners
who owe more than their houses are worth.
– Proposes a tax credit for struggling homeowners that would cover 10% of
the interest on their mortgages annually.
– Calls for increased regulation, including new authority for the Federal
Reserve to regulate financial institutions.
– Has called McCain “out of touch” with people struggling to keep
their homes.
– Has said: “Families should not be forced to stick to the terms of a
home loan that was predatory and unfair. It’s time to close a loophole that
protects special interests while punishing working people.”
Jena 6? Check.
Sean Bell? Check.
Then Obama keeps engaging the man questioning him, without a hint of impatience
or disrespect.
Racial profiling work as a state senator? Check.
Along the way, he played an important role in drafting bipartisan ethics
legislation and health-care reform. He overcame law enforcement objections
to codify changes designed to curb racial profiling and to make capital punishment,
which he favors, more equitable.“When you come in, especially as a freshman, and work on something like
ethics reform, it’s not necessarily a way to endear yourself to some of the
veteran members of the Illinois General Assembly,” said state Sen. Kirk
W. Dillard, a Republican who became a friend. “And working on issues
like racial profiling was contentious, but Barack had a way both intellectually
and in demeanor that defused skeptics.”
Mandatory taping of interrogations? Check.
Reduced sentences for some regarding crack cocaine? Check.
Progressive or not? Here’s
the record, so you decide.
Don’t like his answers? Hey, run for office. Better yet, let’s come together,
all of us and solve this stuff.
So, we’re serving up the Whuppass Margaritas all night. I want one. The first toast goes to
Barack.
You all pick the music. Here are some of the selections from readers in the comments…
Oh, and almost forgot, Friday night open thread.
