A Situation Tailor-Made for a Maverick

Moron.

No matter what happens, McStain will take credit.

He bullshits about suspending his campaign, parachutes in at second base -- or was it the fifty yard line? -- "calls a White house meeting" to bring everyone to the table -- a meeting where he says nothing and where nothing gets done -- leaves town and decides it's now safe to attend a debate he couldn't attend until a deal was done, then sits back and watches as the deal he made, at the meeting where he was silent, after he taped a couple of interviews suspended his campaign and called it back to life... Now wait... he walked on water and fed 5000 somewhere in there too...

Didn't he?

When a bill fails, it's because our mighty maverick called everyone to their senses, reached across the aisle, etc etc...

When a bill passes, it's because our mighty maverick called everyone to their senses, reached across the aisle, etc etc...

Never mind the FACT that he cannot attend any of the committee meetings where the WORK is getting done... he works behind the scenes... he's not it this for glory; he's in this for US!

You believe that, and I'll give you a "Free Market Solution" to this "Free Market Mess."

Anyone for Kumbaya? ???

OK, so before we all go our separate ways to get re-elected, let's work together to pass a piece of legislation we all hate, eh? So said... well nobody said that, but that's basically what the fuck has been happening. Who's writing this script? Seth Rogan? The Coen Brothers? Taretino? Do they really hate it? or do they just not want to own it? Just like no one wants to own the failure of the legislation, policies and philosophies that dismantled The New Deal, and led DIRECTLY to this mess.

Paul Krugman is all over the place, in terms of teevee, blogs. Ravi Batra is another economist, but one I only hear from when I listen to Thom Hartmann. He hates the bailout:

The current problem is not with banks and financial institutions, but in the housing market. So the remedy should be applied there and nowhere else. There should be a partial bailout of harried homeowners who cannot pay their mortgages. They should be penalized somewhat for their reckless borrowing but still rescued for the sake of the economy. If homeowners are able to make timely payments for their home loans, the banks will be paid and their loans will be secure. The banks will have a healthy balance sheet and will not need any rescue. The housing-market will also stabilize. If some banks still fail, then the FDIC will come to their rescue. The total cost of the home-owner bailout will be less than $500 billion, a fraction of what the government has promised to spend on its multifaceted bailouts—Bear Stearns, Freddie Mac, Fannie May, AIG and now the entire financial sector.

Whenever a crisis appears, Wall Street jumps to the front row to profit from it. America, wake up and say no to the worst plan yet devised for crisis profiteering.

I hate it too, because as Batra explains, it's aimed at the wrong problems/place. It's really simply more of the same thing: Trickle down.

The thing is this: We've been here before. Not literally we, but the country. If Nancy can't find the answers in her cleavage, she should look in one of her grand kids' history books. Under: Great Depression; Franklin D Roosevelt; New Deal.

Recovering from the continued rapings of the past 8 years -- 28 years actually -- is not going to be easy or pretty. Whatever bill finally gets passed is going to have to address bankruptcy re-reform, banking re-reform and keeping people in their homes. Pelosi's not to blame, as Boner and his minions claim, because her speech wasn't nice enough. She's to blame for once again, not sticking true to Progressive, Liberal, Democratic principals and putting together a bill for the PEOPLE of this country. She needs to learn that "the country" is not some nebulous idea that's the product of a good buzz. "The country" is its people.

Oh.... and Senator Morain, stop blaming Obama while you're telling us that this is not the time for blame. I sense a disconnect there. Like between brain and mouth.

Wowwee Kazowee...

Are you fucking kidding me...? Brokaw takes a fucking Refuckyoucan to school on the FACT that it's refuckyoucans who've been in charge and gotten us here. It's Schaffer, a refuck former rep from Colorado, trying to somehow argue that... it hasn't been Bush and Refucks that caused this? It's ALL happened in this last year? When the refucks in the Senate set filibuster records.. in half the time that the old record was set?

These assholes don't deserve to be called assholes. They aren't that god damned sensible.

Ohhh... and he wants to go back... as a Senator. Obviously to bring back fiscal sanity, like a balanced budget and a surplus.

LIKE WE HAD UNDER A DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT !!!!!

"How fucking dare you Dems not undo what MY party has done under MY party's president."

Just so you know... this does not make me a Brokaw fan. He's just another corporate tool.

Lies, Lies and More Fucking Lies

with a half-truth or two thrown in to try to look honest and keep the "Maverick Myth" alive.

I missed most of Stephalupugus's interview with McStain, but did catch his bullshit about it being Obama's fault that his own campaign is so nasty, because Obama's not doing things McBlame's way: Town hall meetings. Caught the lies about his lobbyists staffers getting their paychecks from... Why doesn't he just produce their canceled paychecks from his campaign? It's called proof, honesty; ever heard of those? It seems like he won his game of Chicken over the taking of public finance money, if you ignore how he stretched broke ...rewrote his own rules.

Roundtable: The Ultimate Unamerican Refuckyoucan Newt is complaining about the Un-Americanness of Paulson's bailout proposal. Amazing how fuckers like him are trying to become Democrats all of a sudden. Tough to admit that your underlying philosophy ain't worth a pisshole in the snow.

Robert Reich makes excellent points: NOTHING in this bill gives ANYTHING to we in the masses.

I've heard Newt has a high, albeit misused IQ. He's doing a pretty good job of pointing out how the Refuckyoucan Deregulation i.e. Reaganomics has been an abject failure as he calls for solutions to problems he's spent his life helping create.

More big words from George W... F Will... ::yawn::

Drill Here Drill Now... Newt plugs his books/movies... and his idiotic ideas... the idiotic ideas that got us here. Too late to bitch Now Newt. It won't make you right.

BINGO !!!!! Reich calls Newt out on becoming a liberal.

Who's the fucker to Steffie's left? Bob something... He can't see that the economy has been nothing but a house of (credit) cards. And more bitching from Newt about "Bushleague" economic policies: The Walmart/China Stimulae.

More refuckyoucan/conservative jokes from Will about rebuilding infrastructure: building bridges to nowhere. Why is he always on this show? Seems like his hands are always on top of the table, so....? I mean it can't be because of his ideas. Unless Snuffles expects us to listen and see their fallacy.

Reich has it right on several points: This is a repeat of the 1928 economy in that so few have so much (1% has 20% of national income) and so many have too little to spend which means money's not flowing in a healthy way. Today's economy IS the refuckyoucan ideal: Borrow and spend. Not work, earn and spend, as Liberals would like to see. <== far left nonsense... as they said up to now.

Who Wants to be a VPILF?

I think the 3Mers (Morons for McCain and the Milf) wish people would take her seriously, as in that she can actually do something... you know... good for the country. But then along comes a satirist, who happens to be smarter and hotter than the "real" thing... when she's SATIRIZING... Oh fuck, just watch. (Sorry about the add, but it was the first I could find)



OH SHIT... which answer is real? ?????



I meant to put this one there...



...or did I?

Now try to tell me, with a straight face, that we will not be truly and totally fucked with that crazy assed broad in DC. Palin I mean; not Tina Fey (or Miss Teen SC).

And while we're on the topic of bailing out banks: How is it that buying bad mortgages... I mean they're bad, right? So... they'll get better once they're sold? To us? Taxpayers? Like sending them to bed with a hot water bottle after some home made chicken soup from Gramma..? Like cutting taxes to decrease the deficit; OK. Now I... ... I... Must be stupid. I still don't get it.

Oddly, ironically, crazily enough, it seems the Refuckyoucans are the ones holding things up on this and it may actually be that for the first time since Reagan that they're doing something good for the country in the process. I know. I have a hard time believing that myself. If I wrote for SNL...

I just may have to do the unthinkable and go visit a Refuckyoucan congressional website like John Boner's or Lav Man Larry's or Diaper Dave's. Where else can you go to get the straight story.

Let's Kick Some Tires

or inflate them or something.

Bernie Sanders, Independent Senator from Vermont, has a petition at his website. Bernie's no Lieberman; he's actually a Socialist.

If Vermont wasn't so frozen in the winter, I think I'd like to live there.

Go fill it out and send it to Paulson. It may do no good, but doing nothing does nothing either. I mean.... you know what I mean.

Deja Vu and not the One with the Hot Chicks

The Iraq war, if you didn't already know, has/had nothing to do with weapons, terrorists, spreading democracy... it's simply a vehicle to funnel wealth to private industries and Bush cronies. There are so many books out, explaining falsified reasons for starting the damn thing and the corruption that's gone on since, that I'm not going to belabor the point. Anyone who hasn't already read a few, never will. I wonder: The folks at Fucks News love to go on and on about how their far left can't see the success that's there, so how many books have been written to show the evidence of those claims?

A few years later, Dubya had the brillyunt plan to privatize Social Security. FORCE people to invest money for retirement with Wall Street. Lucky for us all, his plan never worked. I know with my own pension through the Boilermakers' Union, I won't get the retirement payments that I would have back before 2000. They've been reduced/adjusted twice since then. I know lots of people's 401-ks have taken big hits also. Aside from knowing that Bush's plan was a disaster simply because it was Bush's, we now have empirical evidence that it was/is a disaster. There was a problem (in Bush's view) that remained though: Wall Street never got their billions.

So now we have a meltdown, a credit crunch, a banking disaster, a depression to stave off, etc, and what's the answer? $700 billion in the hands of Henry Paulson whose decisions as to what to do with it would be final and god-like: no review; no oversight; no reins. All the grandstanding and hoopla aside, it's merely a vehicle for funneling cash to another segment of the private sector and more Bush cronies.

JUST LIKE IRAQ

I'm not going to say that there are no problems in the whole banking/credit/investment sector, but I will say that the problems are not random or accidental. They were created be the refuckyoucans for the refuckyoucans, or rather for a small segment of the refuckyoucans. That the unwashed masses and christopaths who support these schmucks don't see this is unimportant. That they will be left in the cold, destitute, with all of us who oppose their thievery and corruption is unimportant as well.

The super-rich wing of the refuckyoucan party does not care one wit about anything or anyone, except themselves and the amassing of more wealth. Eventually, they won't even need votes. Makes me absolutely sick that there are still so many otherwise smart people out there who just can't fucking see through the refuck bullshit. Oh....

I almost forgot: How are Pelosi and Reid going to spin it when they roll over and give in to the Refuckyoucan demands that the keys to the treasury be handed over. I already hear rumblings to freeze out labor representatives. I'm sure all the CEO bunuses will be protected too. What else will get fucked up is anyone's guess I suppose.