Scoop Full Coverage: US Financial Bailout Bill I

Wednesday, 1 October 2008, 9:48 am
Article: Scoop Full Coverage

Gordon Campbell: Bailout Plan Meets Grizzly End

So the House has rejected the bailout plan – or more correctly, the House Republicans rejected the plan concocted by their own President and Treasury Secretary. Has any president ever been so humiliated as Bush? President Bush was treated like a plague carrier at his party’s convention this year. and is now being ignored by Republicans who have decided that their best chance in November is to run against their own President, and their own party’s prescription for saving the country’s financial system. More >>

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Gordon Campbell: On Palin’s Bad Week And The Bailout Plan

Luckily for Sarah Palin, the focus on the presidential debates and the $700 million bailout plan helped to bury a horrific series of news events for her last week. First, Palin kept stonewalling her way through the investigation into her role in the attempted... More >>

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