Biden & Palin

TAXES:

Biden: He portrayed John McCain as being tied to an unpopular President Bush. "He voted four out of five times for George Bush's budget, which put us a half-trillion dollars in debt and over $4 trillion in debt since he got here."

Palin: Of Barack Obama's tax policies, she noted Mr. Biden has said it would be "patriotic" for upper-income taxpayers to again pay the higher tax rates they did in the 1990s. "That's not patriotic," she said. What's patriotic is "saying, 'Government, you're not always the solution. Too often you're the problem.' "

HEALTH CARE:

Biden: He assailed the McCain health care plan, which would give families a $5,000 tax credit to help them buy insurance but would make employer-provided benefits taxable. "I call that the ultimate bridge to nowhere," Mr. Biden said, invoking the project in Alaska that Ms. Palin initially supported and then opposed.

Palin: She called the McCain plan the "smart thing to do" that "doesn't cost the government anything, as opposed to Barack Obama's plan to mandate health care coverage and have a universal, government-run program." Americans, she said, don't want their "health care being taken over by the feds."

IRAQ WAR

Biden: He said Mr. McCain has been "dead wrong on the fundamental issues relating to the conduct of the war." He said that Democrats want to shift responsibility to the Iraqis and that "we'll end this war. For John McCain, there's no end in sight to end this war." Palin: She noted that Mr. Biden once said Mr. Obama wasn't ready to be commander in chief and clashed with him over funding for U.S. troops. Of the Democrats' efforts to end the war, she said, "Your plan is a white flag of surrender in Iraq."

Michael Shure

"So, you're gonna hear Sarah Palin first and then we'll come back and talk about it just a little bit. Then you're gonna hear Joe Biden answer the same exact question..."

"McCain advisers have admitted that this interview was quote a disaster."

Michael Shure: "We weren't waiting for them to admit that. We didn't need their confirmation of disaster..."

Thomas Jefferson

They don't know that this secretive private bank controls America's entire economic system. The Federal Reserve is no more federal than Federal Express.

Created with no constitutional authority in 1913, the Fed prints money out of thin air and loans it to the U.S. treasury at interest. This can only lead to one outcome: debt.

Currently, the Federal Reserve is printing billions of dollars to bail out Wall Street while destroying the middle class and the dollar.

If our country wants a sound and transparent monetary system, we need to abolish the Federal Reserve and bring the power back to the American people.

John Culberson R-TX

House leaders on both sides strongly urged their colleagues to vote for the legislation. Republican leader John Boehner and Democratic leader Steny Hoyer said vote yes.

But the voice of the opposition From Both Parties was stronger. Rep. Scott Garrett (R-NJ): "Last night I came to the floor as said you should be alarmed about what Washington is doing because of lack of deliberation. Today I come a say: America, you should be outraged about what Washington is about to do because Washington is not listening to you." Rep. Carolyn Kilpartick (D-MI): "We can do better. The American people deserve more. And I urge a 'no' vote on this legislation." Rep. John Culberson (R-TX): "It is an unprecedented and unaffordable and unacceptable expansion of federal power that our kids cannot afford, that we have never seen in the history of this country." Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA): "It is essentially Mr. Paulsen's bill, to help his friends and I can't buy it." Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX): "Nobody seems to ask, 'Who is it that's gonna manage these assets?' I've been asking. And finally the answer I got was 'we're gonna have to outsource that. You're gonna outsource it to the very people who caused the problem! We're gonna give 'em billions for assets they've mismanaged and then we're gonna hire them to manage those assets. Please don't betray this nation's great history." Rep. Lloyd Doggett (R-TX): "Action or inaction today is a false choice. It is a matter of having never seriously considered any alternative in these negotiations to handing over 700 billion dollars to the same Bush administration that has done so much to create this crisis so little to prevent it, and for whom the vultures have now come home to roost." Rep. Jeff Flake (R-AZ): "Mr. Speaker, Thos who believe that they can control and direct the market's invisible hand will eventually be slapped by it." Rep. Peter DeFasio (D-OR): "There are less expensive, less risky targeted regulatory forms and programs that could work better. But bottom line, President George Bush and his treasury secretary Henry Paulsen urge a top down Wall Street bailout solution. It's sort of like the financial 'surge' strategy. And just like the surge in Iraq, as we go into it at the outset, we know it's not sustainable and we know it won't solve the underlying problem."