Obama screwed it up yesterday at the White House, says Rush Limbaugh. All four Democrat leaders handed him the ball at meeting start, and he took off after the House Republicans in quite obstreperous manner. That’s when meeting blew up.
More later . . .
Later: Rush cited American Spectator, which is so busy a site it was hard to get to it. It has this:
When Sen. Barack Obama was given the floor to speak during White House negotiations, according to White House aides, he did so raising concerns about a House Republican alternative to the Paulson/Bernanke $700 billion bailout. But those concerns weren’t necessarily his, as he was not aware of the GOP plan before reviewing notes provided him by Paulson loyalists in Treasury prior to entering the meeting.
How else does AmSpec (it’s Prowler blog) know this?
According to an Obama campaign source, the notes were passed to Obama via senior aides traveling with him, who had been emailed the document via a current Goldman Sachs employee and Wall Street fundraiser for the Obama campaign. “It was made clear that the memo was from ‘friends’ and was reliable,” says the campaign source.
And what the effect of this impromptu blast across the aisle?
The memo allowed Obama and his fellow Democrats to box in Republican attendees and essentially took what President Bush had billed as a negotiating meeting off the rails.
And where does Paulson come in?
“Paulson and his team have not acted in good faith for this President or the administration for which they serve,” says a House Republican leader who was not present at the White House meeting, but who instead is part of the team hammering out the House GOP alternative.
He suspects skullduggery:
“We keep hearing about how Secretary Paulson is working with Democrats on this or that, yet he never seems to consider working with the party that essentially hired him. Perhaps he’s auditioning for a Democratic administration job. Our proposal didn’t just spring forth fully formed; we’ve been working on this for several days, and Treasury staff has known about it.”
And O. had a chance to do away with politics as usual. This be what he does without a TelePrompter?
Other points by Rush:
* Dems have votes for this but want House Repubs to repudiate their principles and want cover if it doesn’t work out. (Pelosi has specified the need for 100 Repubs in favor of this bill.)
* Dems including O. have known where House Repubs stand but act surprised and indignant.
Blithe Spirit 
Thanks for the report. My aol news first headlined the meeting yesterday as Dems blindsided, angry.
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I also heard Rush Limbaugh’s account today of what really happened at the White House meeting yesterday. At this point I am angry and frustrated. It is reprehensible that Republicans are not responding and denouncing the lies the public is being fed by Democratic leaders and the mainstream media. The very party leaders on the Democratic side of the aisle who used politics as a civil rights issue so poor people could own homes they couldn’t afford are now the ones who are claiming they are going to help the Bush Administration fix the problem which they created. Shame on Republicans for permitting themselves to be used as punching bags when the facts are on their side! I am disappointed with my own 10th District congressman, Mark Kirk. His way is to work with Democrats in a bi-partisan way in crafting proposals for the $700 billion bailout financial plan, even though Democrats are coming on strong to replace him with Dan Seals, a clone of Barack Obama.
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Rush has 22 million listeners, the TV has the vast audience of voters. What chance does the truth have in competing with Democrat lies trumpeted by the MSM?
I have begun saying a rosary for our country and this election almost every day. Only God can have mercy on us as we are trapped in a web of lies that will lead to the election of a Marxist fraud and the bankrupting of our country, the ruin of our economy, and worst of all, the destruction of our freedoms.
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