“I say, `screw you,’” he said. “And you keep it there, the message is “screw you!’ The American people have spoken; they do not want a bailout. So there’s no way that this bailout should be supported! No version, no modification, no bailout! All they get, the best they get, is they get a legitimate proceeding in bankruptcy of all these bankrupt entities. And the American people didn’t cause this problem; it was the speculators! So, the speculators will have to eat shit, that’s all! Nothing new! It’s justice! That’s the point.

You don’t see any Corporations scrambling to privitize the Librarys.

No, because it’s socialist. Remember your memes!

Mr. Norquist? Your dream has come true.

The economy has been successfully shrunken to a size at which it may now be drowned in a bathtub.

We couldn’t have national health care because it was too expensive.

We cannot upgrade our schools and pay teachers decently because it’s too expensive.

We have crumbling roads and bridges that just have to stay that way till a bunch of people die somewhere (like in MN last year) because no one’s got the money to fix them.

There are SIX meat inspectors in the ENTIRE STATE of California because there just aren’t the funds and resources for adequate food inspection and protection from e. coli and mad cow;

The homeless have to wander around the streets because gosh, it’s just too darned expensive to make sure everyone has a decent place to live! And why reward people for their own failures anyhow?

But somehow this strapped nation is gonna come up with close to a TRILLION to bail out the most reckless gamblers in the entire economy and wipe their asses.

Oh, and of course, our ongoing task of killing brown people everywhere we go.

Okay. I get it now. Just a matter of getting my priorities straight, I guess.

henry lewis: Be careful out there.

It’s comforting to know we have a new Pres. and his name is Henry Paulson. Still, some things never change — Tom Baritone Brokaw is just as detestable as ever. And I keep checking out the color of the sage men’s ties on TV in an attempt to figure out what the secret messages are.

Wish me luck.

BUCKET.

Yeah. There’s only, like, eight of them spread out over the entire world. They all decided to have quiet time simultaneously?

Those Democrats who wish (or at least play publicly like they wish) that they hadn’t given into the rush to approve the Iraq war (OMG! WMD’s!) have a chance to avoid another AUMF.

I hate to say it, but the Iraq invasion & occupation had more justification to it than handing $700 billion in unmarked, untraceable, unquestionable bills to Bush Jr’s Treasury Secretary / former Wall St CEO to do with whatever he wants.