Congress scheduled to work through weekend

[Divernan]

Source: Congressman Jason Altmire's office

I just got off the phone with a staff member at Congressman Jason Altmire's office. Dem leadership just notified all members to plan to work through the weekend on the bailout issue.

No link yet.

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So now there's plenty of time for McCain to debate and THEN head to DC for the weekend.

[Connie_Corleone]

1. But McCain said he wasn't attending the debate UNTIL the bailout is reached.

So, I guess Obama will be debating an empty chair.

[glowing]

2. Good, I work every weekend. think they should as well.

[gingersnaps1]

3. Possibly, but John McCain doesn't lik eto work on weekends.

Come on people, work with the Senator. The nice days are waning, he needs to get in as much barbecuing as possible before it's too cold.

[TooBigaTent]

4. Putting in the extra hours to totally screw the public on the orders of their owners.

Nader may not have been completely correct, but the two parties sure act a lot alike.

Especially on these economic issues.

Fuck them all.

[nolabels]

5. This is just a ploy in effort to lull the public to sleep

The heat from the public doesn't seem to be letting up much though. The effort to use and push the story about debate / no debate is also part of an effort to throw people off the path. I wouldn't trust any of it if it comes from M$M

[katty]

6. another 'weekend' decision...behind closed doors

[defendandprotect]

7. This is BS-Rush to whisk past tax-payers, without necessary reporting to

public and discussion --

[whistle]

8. The message ought to be loud and clear, "NO BAILOUT for Wall Street's

...mistakes".

Wall Street moves on average 300 million to 450 million shares per day. Why not set an immediate surtax on all shares traded of between 1.5% to 3.0% to create a dedicated fund from which a bailout of Wall Street's toxic target assets could be paid-off, thus making the bailout request pay for itself directly from the source? The treasury could also recover the $350 billion Paulson/Bush bailout just in the past two weeks as well, taking the American taxpayer off the hook completely.

Then congress could take the $1.1 trillion and earmark that for the next presidency to begin massive recovery of the U.S. economy.

[Divernan]

9. Excellent suggestion. Send it to various politicians' offices and KO/Rachel

[whistle]

12. How do I contact KO and Rachel Maddow? Their web sites don't

...seem to have email links :shrug:

[defendandprotect]

10. Wonderful solution, probably too obvious for Senate/Wall St --

they want a gravey train and tap into US Treasury -- not responsible solutions --

PLUS ... I don't see any new restrictions on them...

REMEDIES to ensure this doesn't happen again --- ?????

[classysassy]

11. Scam artist,con men and women

working hard to rip off the citizens.Those crooked bums don't work for us,they are tools of wall street.