I thought I was in Bizarro World yesterday when I turned on the TV and saw John McCain calling for MORE REGULATION of Wall Street in response to the news that Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy and Merrill Lynch was getting sold.
It sounds to me like McCain’s call for more regulation goes against one of the basic beliefs of the GOP: free markets solve all problems i.e. less regulation is better.
Government interference in the markets exacerbates problems in the marketplace and causes the free market to take longer to correct itself. We believe in the free market as the best tool to sustained prosperity and opportunity for all.
As soon as I heard him say that I immediately thought: Bob Barr better get his anti-regulation, libertarian ass in gear and hit McCain on this hard.
Politicians in Washington have spent decades creating the mess that we are currently in. More regulation or government intervention with taxpayer bailouts will only serve to compound the problem or create new ones.
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Americans need to know that our government is incapable of solving our financial crisis as our government caused our financial crisis.
Instead, McCain and Obama ask for more government regulation. Talk about putting lipstick on a pig!
Ohio must include the Libertarian Party’s nominees on its ballot in November, a court has ruled, complicating Senator John McCain’s effort to win conservative votes in a hotly contested state rich in electoral votes.
But as I was reading the article, I decided to google Mr. Wayne Allyn Root, the vice presidential candidate on this Libertarian ticket. Assuming the facts on Wikipedia are correct, he is a:
* business mogul,
* television celebrity,
* TV producer,
* best-selling author, and
* professional sports handicapper (I didn’t know this was a job title!).
His initials spell ‘WAR’.
He has a star on the Las Vegas Walk of Stars – whatever that is.
And, Root is the author of several books, including The Zen of Gambling, The Joy of Failure!, “The King of Vegas’ Guide to Gambling”, and Millionaire Republican. He should have some interesting ideas for how to pay off the national debt.
In this 1 minute interview I count John McCain blinking over 90 times!
According to Wikipedia: “excessive blinking may help to indicate the onset of Tourette syndrome, strokes or disorders of the nervous system” or it maybe just be anxiety.
Do you think John McCain really wants to “welcome” Bob Barr to the race? (I wonder if he’ll invite Mr. Barr to the debates/town halls.)
I’m quite sure McCain is at least a little anxious about Barr stealing 6 points from me in the latest national polls.
Though I’m not ready to rule out Tourette’s just yet.
