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Telly Savalas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-03-08 10:52 PM
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Did I oversleep and miss the October surprise?
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Tangerine LaBamba Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-03-08 10:54 PM
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1. Nope
$150,000 for Yapper Palin's wardrobe and $13,000 for her makeup.

Go back to sleep. We'll get you tomorrow night.
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begin_within Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-03-08 10:54 PM
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2. There was only the
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Art_from_Ark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-03-08 11:00 PM
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3. The October Surprise was the bailout
A $750,000,000,000 surprise gift to fat-cats from the US taxpayer
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Telly Savalas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-03-08 11:22 PM
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4. Most October Surprise theories posit the surprise would benefit the GOP's election chances.
I'm not seeing how the bailout achieves this.
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Art_from_Ark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-03-08 11:28 PM
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6. Perhaps my cynicism did not shine through
in all its glory.

At any rate, I believe that the GOP realized that they couldn't pull this one out of the fire, so they just grabbed as much loot as they could on their way out. It might not have helped their election chances, but it certainly benefited a lot of fat-cats with close GOP ties.
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-03-08 11:23 PM
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5. Hoof Hearted?
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chollybocker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-03-08 11:31 PM
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7. Yes, you must have overslept. We all had pie.
But we saved you a slice.
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