Hi. This is famous pitcher and ESPN analyst Rick Sutcliffe. I want to talk to you about the $700 billion Wall Street bailout that is being finalized today. I'm not so sure that this thing won't be a success. I mean, look at Sen. Chris Dodd over there, he knows what he's doing. Barney Frank- smartest man in Washington. Treasury Secretary Paulson ran Goldman Sachs- he knows the marketplace, how to make a profit, how to fix it. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke was an Economics Professor at Princeton- you telling me he doesn't know about supply and demand?
Look, I know folks are worried. George Clooney, he's over there trying to fix Africa, that whole thing. We got some smart people working on our own problems. If we need Clooney, or Bono, we'll get 'em to help. My friend Bill Murray once made a movie called "Groundhog Day", where every day was the same and he got better and better at stuff so that he could get to tomorrow. That's what's going on here- our elected officials are getting closer and closer to a deal, so that tomorrow will be better than today.
Let's see if they can't fix Wall Street, so that Main Street won't fail.
UPDATE (9/26/08):
Uh oh, I'm not so sure this thing won't fail now. That old coot John McCain flew into DC as a bipartisan, bicameral deal was agreed to, and now he's gone and blown it all up. This looks like a political ploy to appear as if he saved the deal, and now it seems he busted it. Reminds me of what my daddy always told me- "Sut, you break it, you buy it." He better get on board, or else the train's going to leave the station without him.
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The Red Baron has that amazing ability of being able to take a complex problem and explaining it to the common man like myself. Quite incredible.
I'm not so sure that the taxpayers' money hasn't been well spent this morning
Check this theory out:
The deal is near complete, as both sides have agreed to a set of principles.
Then McCain comes in and says he's going to save the day, only for there to be a conservative alternative proposal that no one has heard of until the White House meeting.
So now everyone is unsure if the Paulson plan has enough Republican backers, and everyone who worked hard on this is pissed.
Then, miraculously, these conservative opponents jump on board and say that McCain is the one who convinced them to back it.
This thing is so tied into the McCain Campaign its disgusting.
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