Tonight On The Randi Rhodes Show

TRILLION

It wasn’t that long ago that using the number ‘one trillion’ truly was like saying ‘a gagillion bazillion’. Well it’s time we learn how many zeroes are involved in that number. It’s 12. We have a Trillion Dollars to offer and The Bankers want it. Who knew?

Do NOT make that deal. NO NO NO NO NO.

The unchecked right wing Free Market, No Regulations, No Oversight, No Adult Supervision ORGY of spending and lending over the past 8 years is OVER. Of course it failed because it had to. You can’t take money out of people’s pockets and steal their assets. We are the Economy. Doh.

But the pain of ignoring or worse, agreeing with the solution cooked up by the people who robbed us is ridiculous.

We have a “money shortage”. The only question is how do we put money back INTO the credit market. We get people paying for their homes again and give them a little extra cash to spend. That’s how.

Today On The Ron Reagan Show

Are we teetering on the brink of a global economic death spiral?

I’ll ask Michael Ettlinger, Vice President for Economic Policy at American Progress
And John R. Talbott, Former investment banker for Goldman Sachs and author of 5 books on economic theory, his latest: “Obamanomics: How Bottom-Up Economic Prosperity Will Replace Trickle-Down Economics” (Seven Stories Press – August 2008), “Sell Now!: The End of the Housing Bubble” (Feb 2006) and “The Coming Crash in the Housing Market : 10 Things You Can Do Now to Protect Your Most Valuable Investment” (April 2003) what they think.

And, as always I’ll be taking your calls.

Today On The Rachel Maddow Show

Matt Yglesias, Senior Editor at the Center for American Progress Action Fund, joins Rachel today to talk about the politics of the bail out bill. What do Republicans really want? Is the GOP as disorganized and fractured as it seems? Are Republicans just trying to hang this albatross around Democrats’ collective neck?

Also, Paul Rieckhoff, executive director of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, talks to Rachel about efforts to make it easier for veterans to vote and why there wasn’t a single question about veterens’ benefits at last week’s debate.

Today On The Ed Schultz Show

Linda Douglas, advisor to Barack Obama, who is traveling with the Presidential Candidate joins us in the 1st hour of Today’s show.

Norman Goldman, our Senior Legal Analyst joins the 1st hour of Today’s show to discuss the legal side of the $700 billion bailout.

Howard Kurtz of CNN Reliable Sources and the Washington Post joins the 3rd hour of Today’s show.

ED SAYS:
I find it interesting the Republicans are playing the blame game after failing to address the problem their party philosophy created. In the arena of no regulation and overriding theory that the free market can fix anything, it’s all Nancy Pelosi and her partisan comments that shoulder the blame. This is an admission by the conservatives they feel her words are stronger than John McCain’s leadership on the issue.

Today On The Thom Hartmann Show

Hour One – Ralph Reed www.ralphreed.com Topic: Thom and Ralph debate Republican campaign strategy; and, should we be worried about John McCain’s gambling habit?

Hour Two – Barbara Comstock www.savetheelection.com Topic: Thom and Barbara debate the Employee Free Choice Act…why do Republicans want to kill it?

Hour Three – Robert Baer www.crownpublishing.com Topic: his book “THE DEVIL WE KNOW: Dealing with the New Iranian Superpower”

This Morning On The Stephanie Miller Show

Bill Maher, host of “Real Time with Bill Maher” on HBO, calls in at 6:20am to talk about his new documentary, Religulous, which opens this weekend.

Dems and GOP on Capitol Hill immediately blamed each other for the failure of a $700 billion bailout package in the house on Monday. The package, which was backed by both the Dem and GOP Congressional leadership as well as President Bush, failed in the house by a vote of 228-205.

Investors continued to dump shares this morning after U.S. lawmakers unexpectedly rejected a Wall Street bailout plan, triggering the largest point drop in U.S. market history. Stocks in Europe opened sharply lower – after big losses yesterday – while many Asian markets fell near the end of the trading day. The U.S. stock market was down 777 points at closing yesterday.

Barack Obama blasted Congress for not passing a financial rescue package yesterday, while John McCain’s campaign accused Obama and the Dems of putting “politics ahead of country.”

John McCain launched a blistering attack against Barack Obama yesterday, saying that Obama’s tax-and-spend policies “will deepen our recession.”

The Vice Presidential candidates are taking some time off the trail this week to prepare for their highly anticipated debate Thursday. Appearing with John McCain yesterday, Sarah Palin said she was looking forward to debating Joe Biden.

Tonight On The Randi Rhodes Show

MCCAIN FOR DRAMA QUEEN
OBAMA FOR PRESIDENT

The first Presidential debate Friday was a contrast in substance and style. Obama brought both. McCain was a nasty lying troll with no solutions.
Obama was thoughtful and prepared. Addressing mistakes that were made and presenting his vision for the future, calmly and decisively. McCain was a nasty lying troll who saw no future without war. Who advocates for the continuation of the massive redistribution of wealth that has marked the past 8 years.

Obama was consensus builder who agreed with what he could and then peeled off to point out that McCain and Bush consistently chose the wrong path. Obama had clean reasoning and sound solutions for moving out of these policies.

McCain lied often and cowardly avoided looking Obama in the eye. McCain’s belligerent tone belied his “belief” in the American “worker”.

Obama showed you who he is. A man of principal, judgment and intellect with a steady calm hand in the face of anything. A man who came from nothing and went all the way.

McCain showed you who he is. A knee jerk decision maker with poor judgment in need of a swift kick in the pants. A spoiled brat.

Today On The Rachel Maddow Show

The bail out bill has failed. Why did it fail? Well, according to Republicans it’s because their feelings were hurt by that big ol’ mean Democrat, Nancy Pelosi. So on today’s show Rachel will be talking to economist Dean Baker about why he thinks the crisis doesn’t warrant a bail out of this magnitude. And then David Bender stops by to talk about the McCain-Obama debate last week and the upcoming Palin-Biden debate on Thursday.

Economic Stimulus for Main Street by AM1090 Listener Kellye

According the US Census Bureau there are 305,290,868 people living in the US.  Imagine the type of stimulus the economy would get if every person living in the US were to receive $200,000.00?  That’s only $611,581,7636.00, much less than $700 billion. 
 
People could keep their homes, pay off their mortgages, put kids through college, buy groceries, gas, clothing, cars, heat, vacations, furniture, tools etc…., save for retirement, buy homes, get off of welfare, kids could save for college, then first homes,
 
I can go on and on.  I am not sure why nobody has proposed this?  Imagine how popular either Obama or McCain would be if they got this to go through?
 
This is really a stimulus plan that makes sense, and would stimulate a very stagnant economy, credit market….  
 
Wallstreet and banks would get the majority of the money, while at the same time really helping the American people.
 
Imagine keeping your home, or paying off a big chunk of your mortgage? 
 
Imagine having no credit card debt? 
 
Imagine saving for retirement, and not having to work until your 80 just to make ends meet.
 
Am I missing something?  Why couldn’t this be done?
 
I think that this idea would spread like wildfire….

Today On The Ed Schultz Show

Sen. Bob Casey, D-PA, joins the 1st hour of Today’s show.

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-MD, joins the 2nd hour of Today’s show.

Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-ND, joins the 3rd hour of Today’s show.

The House votes on the financial rescue plan. We’ll bring you the latest.