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Roll Call here http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2008/roll674.xml
NYTimes reports new vote soon. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/30/business/30bailout.html?hp

Plus, here is a great piece from Joseph Stigliz (Nobel Prize in Economics, ’01) in the Nation Magazine. http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081013/stiglitz

Best quote, “The administration is once again holding a gun at our head, saying, “My way or the highway.” We have been bamboozled before by this tactic. We should not let it happen to us again. There are alternatives.”

In the world wide web this is considered an oldie already (from last Friday) but it’s a goody and deserves a repost here in light of today’s events. Which is generally the case with Barbara Ehrenreich.
http://www.alternet.org/workplace/100396/_how_positive_thinking_wrecked_the_economy_/

MSNBC’s David Gregory just said “FAILout” and then corrected himself, “uh, Bailout, rather.”

Oh and here is the Nation’s Peter Rothberg on activism and the economic crisis- http://www.thenation.com/blogs/actnow/365990/bailout_stalled_activism_surging

Plus an announcement that “This Wednesday, Oct 1st, Jobs with Justice is calling for a national day of action against the bailout. Look for the closest office of your Congressperson or Senator. Organize your family, friends, group, whomever to do a picket, hand out literature, flood the office with phone calls–whatever. The imperative is to act now. For more information, go to bailoutmainstreet.com”

However the link to the action calendar isn’t working at the moment, so try here- http://truemajority.wiredforchange.com/event/distributedEventCalendar.jsp

Of course it doesn’t look good. But the previous post on this blog glibly criticized the very efforts that failed. It is single-mindedness that is defeating this effort. Everyone either wants perfect or to use this historical moment to point a finger.

When we’re all in the breadline will we still point fingers and motivate mass attacks on former Wall Street individuals? I’m serious. You play with fire to be criticizing this bailout.