The Fifth Element, more on Rick Davis...(oh boy) and of course a deal is at hand

Latest Breaking NEWS: THREE-FOURTH of the Nation wants the DEBATE to continue.

Survey USA, which did some snap polling yesterday finding big majorities think the debate and campaign should proceed, had another crack at it today, after news of McCain's campaign "suspension" had really sunken in.

Their finding? Huge majorities still want the debate and campaign to proceed:

* 3 of 4 Americans say the Friday debate should be held on Friday.

* 23% today Thursday say the debate should be postponed, up from 10% yesterday.

* 3 of 4 Americans say presidential campaigning should continue. (Of the three-fourths who say the campaign should continue, many say it should refocus, which doesn't really change the significance of the finding much.)

WASHINGTON POST: MCCAIN gets to DC after Deal outline set.

McCain's "Straight Talk Air" landed at National Airport just after noon, and McCain's motorcade sped toward the Senate. But by then, senior Democrats and Republicans were already announcing that a deal in principle had been reached.

That news appeared to be somewhat premature as House Republican leader John Boehner told his members that "no deal" had yet been reached. McCain arrived at 3:40 p.m. at the White House, where he and his rival, Sen. Barack Obama, were scheduled to meet with President Bush and congressional leaders at 4 p.m.

PALIN DOES CBS INTERVIEW WITH COURIC...more strangeness see the video ...
Basically it is indescribable-incoherent. That's not meant as snarkto be partisan snarky, just an attempt to describe the part where she explains why her experience as Alaska governor gives her foreign policy and national security credit---weird.

COURIC: Well, explain to me why that enhances your foreign policy credentials?

PALIN: Well, it certainly does because our next door neighbors are foreign countries. they're in the state that i am the executive of. And there in Russia --

COURIC: Have you ever been involved with any negotiations for example, with the Russians?

PALIN: We have trade missions back and forth. We do -- it's very important when you consider even national security issues with Russia -- as Putin rears his head and comes into the airspace of the United States of America, where do they go?

It's Alaska, It's right over the border. It is from Alaska, that we send those out to make sure an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia, because they are right there, they are right next to our state.

Earlier BREAKING NEWS: Sen. Shelby(R)-AL, and Cong. Mike Pence(R)-IN, says now there is no deal.

Hmmm....Looks like a GOP revolt (maverick or real) Republican Congress (minority or majority) are opposing Republican Paulsen, President Bush and Wall Street on a deal. McCain doesn't want to debate even though the country says they want him to.


Previous BREAKING NEWS: Reuters saying the deal is done

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chairman of the Senate Banking Committee said House of Representatives and Senate negotiators have reached "fundamental agreement" on a set of principles guiding a Wall Street bailout bill.

Sen. Christopher Dodd, a Connecticut Democrat, emerged from a morning-long meeting on Thursday with top House and Senate lawmakers to tell reporters that he thought Congress could act within the "next few days" to pass a bill.

Dodd did not provide details on the major areas of contention that have been under negotiation.

Let us start on this day where less than an hour after Senator McCain gave a speech personally in New York City at Bill Clinton's Global Initiative Conference, Nancy Pelosi has broke in the news that great progress has been made. Guess it was a threat of McCain and Obama coming to town that got it done behind the scenes. More to come as things forward today. This from the AP titled: Compromise Close on $700B Deal

Senior lawmakers and Bush administration officials have cleared away key obstacles to a deal on the unprecedented rescue, agreeing to include widely supported limits on pay packages for executives whose companies benefit.

They're still wrangling over major elements, including how to phase in the eye-popping cost — a measure demanded by Democrats and some Republicans who want stronger congressional control over the bailout — without spooking markets.

Barack Obama, speaking at the Clinton Global Initiative, offered a read on the politics of the bailout that was strikingly at odds with McCain read earlier this morning. From Obama's prepared remarks:

Congressional leaders have made progress in their negotiations, and appear close to a deal that would include these principles. President Bush addressed some of these issues last night, and I'm pleased that Senator McCain has decided to embrace them too. Now is a time to come together -- Democrats and Republicans -- in a spirit of cooperation on behalf of the American people. Later today, I'll be traveling to Washington to offer my help in getting this deal done. Then, I'll travel to Oxford on Friday for the first of our presidential debates.

All this of course reminds me of the movie "Fifth Element" a farce of a tale that my son watched at least a hundred times. In the film a meteor was headed to Earth (sometime in the future) and the World had a African American President. Naturally there was a supernatural being who was planted on the planet where she had to find secret ancient religious figures and get to some ancient ruins to activate the four natural elements and her power to destroy this disaster moments before impact----totally cheesy---kind of like McCain's daily campaign stunts. Well isn't this what McCain is attempting to do, come into Washington and save the Republic OR actually the "way of life" and economy?

Or is something else, like the old excuse that you had to go to some funeral or were in the hospital and couldn't take that college final or the dog ate your homework or as Belushi once told Carrie Fischer the Mystery Fiance that had a flat tire? Whatever it is, it appears that a deal will be done and the debates will go on but will McCain be there? Maybe we should Dan Ackroyd?

Serious stuff: The press is all over Rick Davis, McCain's Campaign CEO and as public records come forward it appears he flat out lied and tried to pull the rug over everyone's eyes about his relationship with Freddie Mac. Corporate filing papers looked into by NEWSWEEK clearly showed he was the Treasurer and Director, (there were only two Directors and only a CEO/President) list on the Davis Manafort Consulting Company registered in Virginia. He was the friggin Treasurer so, I am certain he can tell America what the arrangement was for the monthly $15,000 retainer Freddie Mac paid to his firm until August, 32 months or $465,000. This one has legs, in fact, four legs and will run around dogging the campaign.

Let us talk Palin and witchcraft. Can you believe it they got pictures, no a grainy video of her being exponged of any witches spell by a visiting African visitor in 2005 when she was running for Governor. What a weirdo to say the least. Then there is this: She is willing to cooperate with the investigation called TrooperGate but only with those who are her own employees and not the legislature that she said earlier she would. Oh here is why----Cheney's lawyers are there advising her. Either way this is really weird.

Then there is the nefarous efforts to suppress the votes in Colorado Springs and Colorado. It seems our esteemed and unqualified County Clerk sent a letter to Colorado College students that it would be unlawful for them to register to vote in Colorado:

The Clerk and Recorder's Office, which runs local elections, told the college that students whose parents claim them as dependents for tax purposes in another state were not eligible to vote in Colorado. Clerk and Recorder Bob Balink late Tuesday acknowledged his office had incorrectly interpreted state law and said his office works to ensure everyone who's eligible will have a chance to vote.

But now this on the same day. He has hired three temps to go over 21,000 recent voter applications to look for fraud while there is a backlog of voter registrations and says that it is the problem of liberal radical groups. Right Balink----that is why your waste of money last year looking for fraud came up zilch.....Well now this from the Secretary of State, from now on they are going to strictly review every application and if there is a slight mistake like putting down both your drivers license and social security number the application is void. Not that is fraud or nefarous information but not the strict instructions. Can you guess lawsuits---oh yes---Colorado is not on the margins this year and the Obama and Democrats are poised to bring in the calvary....watch for this. This on the heels that mail in ballot advantage by the Republicans has evaperorated in the state.

Colorado Republicans have nearly a 30,000-voter edge in requests for mail-in ballots, but strategists on both sides of the aisle say that may not be enough to overcome the Democrats' historically strong get-out-the-vote efforts on Election Day. The GOP, whose overall voter-registration advantage over Democrats has plummeted 60 percent since the last presidential election, usually excels at racking up early votes. That effort counterbalances the Democrats' Election Day mobilization and the unpredictability of those registered as unaffiliated — a third of the electorate. But Republican strategist Sean Tonner said he was "disconcerted" by the latest ballot request tally because the GOP usually has a bigger edge going into Election Day. Additionally, he said he was concerned that the Republicans in El Paso County trail Democrats in Denver County by 7,500 ballot requests since the two counties tend to cancel each other out.

Okay I am going to sum this all up. McCain and all his men and all his horses, and basically most of the political operatives of the Republican Party, you are left with game tactics and not substance. I used to recall how they bragged they were a "Party of Ideas" and now they are nothing but tactics---political empty game-show antics. Trick plays and no offensive or defensive lines like in football. McCain's latest stunt is evaporating in front of his own eyes because it possesses no substance for McCain is not part of any economic deal making or didn't even read the proposals until Tuesday. The same for trying to call out the NY Times as they were zeroing in on Rick Davis, or the Palin pick, or statement that their tenor or lying would not have taken place if Obama had received McCain's invitation. Tactics, nothing else but empty Russian Dolls. Just remember a stunt he pulled a month ago, suspending the RNC Convention for day, so that GW Bush couldn't make it and then not mention him for the rest of the convention. Furthermore McCain had thoughts of being in Houston during the hurricane and do what----sit with security in the dark----stunts---like pilot acrobatic stunts----stories. That's it---the GOP is about selling stories like the Iraq threat, WMD's in the hands of Saddam giving them to terrorists or forged papers of uranium purchases or Bin Ladin the impossible to find. Yeah stories and no substance.