Monday Night News & Notes

The Eagles have a do or die game tonight against the Packers who are in a similar situation. Time for Wentz to come up big at home against a quality QB.

Here's what else is going on:

-It appears Soros picked a complete fucking idiot to mount his recount effort:

Jill Stein has everything she needs to launch a presidential recount. She's got the cash, the grassroots fervor and the spotlight of an adoring media. But there's one thing she needs to overturn Trump's victory: a calendar.Stein missed Pennsylvania's deadline to file for a voter-initiated recount. That blown deadline is a huge blow for Democrats who have pinned their hopes on recounts in the Keystone State, Michigan and Wisconsin. 

-When the hope and change president who ran as anti-war starts more wars than any other in recent history. I imagine the Nobel people will be asking for their peace prize back any day now.

-The Democrats are in disarray and still don't know it.

-Can we now just get rid of Andrea Mitchell? She's about two election cycles past her shelf life.

-The strategy of not calling a terror attack a terror attack don't really seem to be working well.

-CNN goes full CNN and gets their panties all bunched up because Trump is trying to use the death of Castro to bring more freedom to everyday Cubans. CNN would rather leave the people in the horrid situation they currently find themselves. Here's the headline:

Trump threatens to roll back US-Cuba relations

We were at a state of quasi war and Obama gave them concessions without receiving any. They continue to act as thugs and still allow a cop killer to live there. Roll back to what exactly? 

George Soros Helping Dems Craft Bailout Legislation

As if the GOP were not indignant enough about the Pelosi speech and the crappy bailout bill pushed by Paulson and Pres. Bush, now the Dems bring in the man Republicans hate more than anyone to help craft revised legislation:

The billionaire financier George Soros, a major Democratic financial backer, is floating his own rescue plan among Democratic lawmakers who are uncertain what to do in the wake of a surprise defeat of a proposed $700 billion rescue package proposed by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson.

Soros has outlined his plan in an opinion editorial in the Financial Times and circulated a concept paper among decision-makers.

But wait, it gets better (or worse):

...Soros has also contacted Sen. Barack Obama’s (D-Ill.) presidential campaign to share his views on the financial crisis and the best way to solve it.

Great. The Dems have to listen to this guy because he supplies them with a ton of cash but his policies as spelled out in the piece will not save the banking industry or appease Wall Street. As Robert Shaprio noted in the final paragraph:

He said that if the government bought stock in troubled firms, a problem would arise regarding how Uncle Sam would be represented as a shareholder.

“How does the government vote the shares?” he asked. “It puts them in a potential conflict of interest. Regulatory interests may hurt the bottom line.”

It leads us back to the problem many Conservatives have and that is that government has no right owning businesses. That was the main misgiving with the Paulson plan. Soros wants nationalization because he supports socialism and wants to see America move in that direction like Europe has. The Democrats are amenable to his ideas on the subject.

If the government owns stock and simultaneously regulates companies in which it has a stake, isn't it like the fox guarding the hen house?

I'm sure House Republicans will not approve a Soros-backed plan but the fact that he is advising Obama is what really raises my hackles. The GOP is pushing a revised option that includes business tax cuts and would be pro-growth while helping shore up banks and lending firms.