Monday, July 14, 2008

Sunday, July 13, 2008

nothing can fail and all will be bailed out--no matter how egregious. ChimpCo's America

I can't help but to ask one last sarcastic question: is it contained now? Or, excuse the cliche, will another shoe drop?

Let them fucking fail.

Actually, Fannie and Freddie can be allowed to fail. Their shareholders can eat shit, and they can be reconstituted as a wholesale federal entities. There are zero reasons that I can think of that we should have shareholder owned entities which "probably but not necessarily" are going to get a government bailout every time they need it.

Both short and long term we might think that having such creatures exist to be mortgage backstops is a good idea. I probably agree with that. But there is no reason for them to be publicly traded companies.

America’s use of torture has betrayed not just American values but our national security, right to the present day.

In her telling, a major incentive for Mr. Cheney’s descent into the dark side was to cover up for the Bush White House’s failure to heed the Qaeda threat in 2001. Jack Cloonan, a special agent for the F.B.I.’s Osama bin Laden unit until 2002, told Ms. Mayer that Sept. 11 was “all preventable.” By March 2000, according to the C.I.A.’s inspector general, “50 or 60 individuals” in the agency knew that two Al Qaeda suspects — soon to be hijackers — were in America. But there was no urgency at the top. Thomas Pickard, the acting F.B.I. director that summer, told Ms. Mayer that when he expressed his fears about the Qaeda threat to Mr. Ashcroft, the attorney general snapped, “I don’t want to hear about that anymore!”

That’s why the Bush White House’s corruption in the end surpasses Nixon’s. We can no longer take cold comfort in the Watergate maxim that the cover-up was worse than the crime. This time the crime is worse than the cover-up, and the punishment could rain down on us all.

Whitey ain't never gonna let no negro do any prezidentin'

Whitey ain't never gonna let no negro do any prezidentin'


The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder

The former prosecutor stated that while right wing broadcasting media sources do not fear the left, the same does not apply in reverse. Bugliosi believes that the left broadcast media retains an abiding fear that the old McCarthy-Nixon retread of questioning patriotism and raising an accusation in the post-9/11 world of “giving aid and comfort to the enemy” causes their sources to back off.

Saturday, July 12, 2008

The interview with Coleman should go down on record as definitive proof of Bush's utter incompetence,

a priceless picture of a madman who had no business occupying the highest office of the land.

socialism vs capitalism

speaking ill of the wicked (dead)


The rude pundit:
God's Clearing the Deck:
Man, God must finally be pissed. Jesse Helms and Tony Snow in just over a week? With William F. Buckley bringing up the rear? It's as if God's saying, "You know what? You fuckin' Democrats will never do it, so I'll just take care of it myself. Fuck elections. It's smiting time. Let's get warmed up with the easy ones."


When George aWol Bush winds up in hell,
When Darth Cheney finally goes to hell,
When Carl Rove is revealed to BE Satan,

We will gladly go to their families and point out what horrid, ugly human being they truly were. I'll gladly point out the hate and pain they caused the planet. There is no redemption in death for their crimes. These despicable people need to be ridiculed, scorned and hated in perpetuity for the safety of the rest of the world. No one should ever be allowed the think what Tony Snow (et al) did was good, honest or admirable. If death stops these putrid souls from continuing, so much the better. They will NOT be missed. Should the families left behind be spared the testimony of their ill behavior?

Fuck no.

Tony Snow lying.

What a legacy.

So, has McCain gone too far pandering out his POW experience? Has he cheapened it so much that he needs to stop talking about it?

yes.

Carly Fiorina says robber baron and McBush economic adviser and surrogate Phil Gramm is the chief culprit in the mortgage meltdown.

(Okay, technically she implied it, but do these McBush people think before they speak? Doesn't seem so. And I hope that's standard operating procedure going forward to November.)