Kellsey Grammer appeared on the Glenn Beck Program yesterday. Among other topics that include Sarah Palin and his new movie, “American Carol.” One of the more interesting topics is when Glenn asked Grammer where we are as a nation.

GLENN: Where do you think we are as a nation today? If we don’t wake up soon, we don’t turn our lives around, where do you think we are as nation?

GRAMMER: We’re in a crisis of a Civil War basically, just not a shooting one. That’s been my feeling for some time now. I was honestly, I said it years ago but I mean, the guy that did anything to really bring us together was Osama Bin Laden and that’s a pretty awful situation. And, you know, when people were going down in those planes, and I knew several people on board, they weren’t Republicans and Democrats. They were Americans. And I attended several memorials where actually they were used as opportunities to punch George Bush around and I thought, already? This is already happening? I mean, there’s a sickness. It’s like decay from the inside, and it scares the hell out of me. I mean, otherwise rational, you know, cordial human beings have lost their minds about — I recently spoke at one of these McCain campaign things and I said simply that in my community it has been impossible since George Bush was elected to have anything but a tortured and dysfunctional conversation. I mean, it’s as though we stand in completely different worlds and that does still make me nervous.

GLENN: But we do. You know, to kind of go off on your Civil War thing, I was, two weekends ago I met with a guy who was I believe the first person to say a global terror network. That was his phrase. And he said this is not — we’re treating this like a police action. This is not. This is a global terror network. And I said to him, I asked him, you know, where are we in our history, where do you think we are. And he said, people don’t understand. We’re in 1860.

GRAMMER: Oh, yeah. There you go.

GLENN: We’ve got to have a leader that steps to the plate that says united we stand, divided we fall, and can actually unite us.

You can read the full transcript of the interview on GlennBeck.com.

Insiders listen here.

I saw this posted over at FreeRepublic.com, an Examiner editorial written by Amos Wright.  of what McCain should do in the upcoming days and during Tuesday’s debate. It’s well worth the read and I hope John McCain and his staff are taking notes.

If McCain doesn’t start pointing out to the America public who Barack Obama is, and what he actually represents then we might be in serious trouble.

First, knock it off with the "corporations are evil" bit.

Stop it. Just stop it. That stuff is for Progressives and Populists like Bill O’Reilly.

I don’t know if you really believe it, or if you think it plays up to the middle, but it’s not helping the situation. Wall Street could not – would not – have done what it did if Congress had not first pursued bad policies and ideas that made the problem possible, then made it promising.

Knock it off with the bipartisan foolishness. Congress is the prime mover here. It created this mess.

The Media has been lying to you all these years. They don’t care about you, and they only care about bipartisanship when it gives Progressives cover for stupid policies. Nobody cares. You care, maybe. But absolutely nobody else. Moreover, your base – which you desperately need – is not amenable to hearing you trash Capitalism. Not at all.

If I wanted to hear a bunch of Mini-Me Communists rant about the evils of corporations, I’d go back to being a Progressive and I’d sign up for one of Bill Ayer’s classes. Too many of us left that swamp too long ago for us to want to wade through an acre of the decaying filth of discredited ideas to come vote for you on the other side.

So quit it.

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Now, I just read this article from U.S. News. If this is the case, and you’re doing it because it’s what your strategy team advises, keep them on board, hire new people and listen to the new ones. Because your old ones are wrong.

If this is your idea and it’s why James Pethokoukis says it is, get a coach to fix it. Because you are going to lose.

The article states that

1. this is too complicated a problem to inform people
2. there are racial components to the issue (or appear to be)
3. the campaign believes the time is better spent talking about taxes, energy and healthcare.

Every single one of these ideas is a mistake, and wrong to boot.

Let’s start from the top. The people will be informed one way or the other. They can be lied to – which is the intention of your opponent and his Mainstream Media arm – or they can be told the truth. But you’re going to have to do it. The truth does not win out unless you make it win out. So, here it is; internalize it:

THE ECONOMIC PROBLEM IN 5 EASY STEPS

1. For various reasons, including buying votes from groups like ACORN, Congress wanted to wildly expand home ownership to the poor. So it passed laws that distorted the market, causing problems to build up over time. Bad regulation was piled on top of bad regulation in a Dr. Seussian junk tower of half-baked legislative ideas.
2. People including Bill Clinton, Congressional Republicans and Yourself warned about this growing problem as early as a decade ago and all the way up until the crisis.
3. Lenders and borrowers thought they were protected, so they overleveraged. Homebuyers seeing a brand new market thought prices would always go up, so they borrowed more than they should have.
4. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, empowered and protected by Democrats who were on the take, including one of the worst offenders of all – Barack Obama – pushed the problem out of control.
5. The whole house of cards came down because it was unsustainable, and now we all have to pay.

That’s it. That’s the whole story in a nutshell. I wrote that in 3 minutes off the top of my head. You can memorize it in 15. It’s the structural framework of everything. Everything else is just a detail. Try it. Find a detail and you can almost always find a place in that structure to hang it on. And you can tell the American public to go online and look it up for themselves. They don’t know. They don’t even know to look because the Media is concealing it as best it can, and your opponent is flat-out, bald-faced lying about it.

And I don’t use the word "lie" lightly.

Lesson: the problem wasn’t deregulation, it was the wrong kind of regulation. The Democrats in their role of Philosopher Kings – built this golem. They nurtured it and coddled it and now that it’s gone loose all over the countryside, they want to blame it on the rest of us. No. Do not let them do this or you will lose. And you will deserve to lose.

THERE IS A RACIAL COMPONENT TO THIS ISSUE

Who cares? There’s a racial component to this entire election. And you are not going to fix it, change it or alter it. It’s there and you can do nothing about it. Nothing. You lost that hill the moment the Democrats went from Hillary to Hopey-Changiness. Go right around it. Americans are already being called racists for not supporting a man who chose race for himself, so there is no tangible evidence you will lose anything by telling the truth. The people who were already preferring race over substance and the facts already cast their vote months ago. You are not ever going to get them back. Ever.

You want a military analogy? Here: Island-hop. Don’t fight battles you can’t win. Go right around them and starve them for resources.

The simple fact: this is not about race, it’s about fooling the poor into over-extending themselves, then taking pay-offs in Congress in political support and actual currency to keep the whole putrid affair running. Congress let them down, and it doesn’t help anyone to pretend otherwise. If Obama wants to call this a race issue, call him on making it one – loudly and clearly, so that everyone else can hear it – and get back to the fact that it hurts poor people of every stripe: Caucasians, Blacks, Latinos, Asians, Women… Everyone.

YOU THINK IT’S MORE IMPORTANT TO TALK ABOUT TAXES, ENERGY AND HEALTHCARE

No. It’s not. Because if the economy goes south, the rest of this doesn’t matter. If we let a Democrat control the White House and the Democrats control Congress, America will be on a spending Bacchanalia the likes of which it has never seen. The institutional problems at the heart of our economic unrest will not be fixed and this will happen again, likely as not when the bill for Social Security comes due, another foolish Progressive pyramid scheme nobody has the guts to face.

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Now, if you think the economic crisis is hard to explain, then you haven’t looked at the tax code lately. Moreover, if Obama and you go back and forth on his, nobody will know the difference. Nobody knows all the differences. Taxing, tariffs and the economic effects of bad legislation are such byzantine issues you cannot inform anyone of anything. They think the only taxes are income and corporate taxes. They don’t realize that shifting interest rates and costs from one group of people to another or increasing inflation are also taxes. And you aren’t going to educate them.

Here are your talking points on taxes.

"As a rule, the Republican party has always been for reduced taxes and reduced spending. We lost our way under Bush. But the thing to remember is that this is the Democrat’s way. They love to take money out of people’s purses and spend it. It’s what they do.

Traditionally, they were tax-and-spend. Even if you can believe that net balance of all taxes under Obama will fall – not just income taxes as he is trying to lead you to believe, but the net balance of all your taxes – Democrats will only have changed to less-tax-and-more-spend. Their complaints about Bush are that we are in a deficit. They have no complaints about the taxing or spending other than that we’re not doing enough of it. That’s not the Change America has been Hoping for or needs."

That’s it. That’s all you need to say about taxes. If you want to provide details, send them to the website or give up a detail. Stick to the narrative and move on to more important problems.

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Here are your talking points on energy.

"Let’s face it. Like all Progressives, Barack Obama has an ideological dislike for the Petroleum Industry. (Did you get that? Petroleum Industry. NOT oil.) He even said once that he has no problem with the kind of high gas prices that disproportionately hurt the poor and working Americans. He’d rather have China, Russia and other less-than-ideal partners supply us with oil than have America produce more. And that’s dangerous.

I, John McCain, am all for alternative energies, and my plan supports them. All of them. Oil, gas, coal, hydroelectric, solar, wind, tide, nuclear. But unlike my opponent, I want to make sure that we don’t crowd out new technologies. Government isn’t as smart as my opponent thinks he and it is. So we want to make sure that innovations we haven’t thought about have room to grow."

Learn it.

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On healthcare. The simple fact is that you cannot out socialize Barack Obama. He’s to the left of Congress’ only Socialist. So if they zig, you’re going to need to zag. You need to differentiate in the public’s mind, and counter with a proposition that sells to both their worries and their values.

Here are your talking points on healthcare.

"The biggest cause of the economic meltdown wasn’t the market. It was the government. Now they want to take control of your health. The free market brought us tens of thousands of new drugs that save lives. It brought us the MRI. It brought so many innovations that the rest of the world – including Europe and Canada relies on us to do most of it’s R + D. Right now people from Canada and Europe flock to America for treatments.

Socializing healthcare – which is what the Democrats and Mr. Obama want – will ensure that the system stagnates. Again, the problems we have aren’t from deregulation. They’re from bad regulation. You all know that government rarely solves one problem without creating at least one new one.

Our problems are mostly financial. Our solutions should deal with finding smart market solutions to rising costs for Americans today, while keeping innovation alive in America so that our children don’t just have healthcare, they have better healthcare than we could have imagined at lower cost. That’s what America does. And that’s why the world depends on us to make healthcare and healthcare innovations available to it."

Attack. Attack, attack, attack. But do us all a favor. Point the gun at them, not us. We’re tired of friendly fire, Mr. McCain. We’re sick of having our own party shoot us in the foot.

Well looks like there is nothing the American People can do about the bailout bill now. It just crossed the wires that President Bush has officially signed the bill after both houses of Congress passed it.

The Bailout bill gives the Treasury Department $700,000,000,000 of monopoly money to use in hopes of buying up bad credit loans and freeing up the financial markets of all this bad credit. Our financial system just lost it’s ability to fail. In my opinion not having the option of failing will mean more bad decisions in the future. Five , ten, or twenty years from now we will look back at this day and realize that it was a HUGE MISTAKE.

HOTAIR: Breaking: Bailout vote underway; Update: 218; Update: 263-171

Update: Sugary Senate pork made the medicine go down: 263-171 as the gavel comes down, with some 90 Republicans voting yes. The Dow has suddenly dropped by 80 points or so, but I think I know why – it’s pessimists like me unloading their portfolios to capitalize on the post-bailout spike ahead of what they expect will be another downturn next week. (I didn’t unload, but thought about it.)

The Dow is bouncing. It has gone negative, now it’s back in the positive.

You can read the entire text of the H.R. 1424, which is U.S. Senate’s version of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, the Energy Improvement and Extension Act of 2008, and Tax Extenders and Alternative Minimum Tax Relief Act of 2008. The 451-page bill is a part of a proposed bailout of United States financial system

Update: Now that economic bailout plan has been finally passed in both houses, and sign into law what kind of impact will this have on the Presidential election and the many congressional contests around the country. One of the reasons congressmen voted No on a similar bill on Monday was because they feared that they would lose the support of their constituents. Is one month long enough time for the voters to forget about this debacle of a bill?