I find it amusing how the media keep trying to spin it in favor of the bail out.  When the plan originally got defeated and the market jumped we were told it was because the market assumed that some plan was still probably going to go through.  Now that has to be the dumbest thing I have ever heard.  In other words the market reacted favorably to what was supposed to be viewed as negative news because they are expecting good news (bailout) down the road.  Now it passes and the market goes down and we are told that it will take time for the positive results of the bailout to be felt.  So the market is no longer reacting to news or the possibillity of future good news but is firmly entrenched now in the reality of the whole situation.  You really must have to sell your soul to get paid to give out information like that.

I’ve been thinking the same think all day M. Nucci.

Indeed, and it was Henry “The Horse’s Rear End” Paulson who, as chairman of Goldman Sachs, in the spring of 2004 hoodwinked the SEC into granting exemption for investment banks to maintain reserves to cover losses for investments.  Now the fox has been given the right to raid the hen house in order to cover the collective six of his best good friends on Wall Street.  What sort of reaction would such malfeasance have met with two hundred and thirty-two years ago?

I should like to say that Nancy Pelosi is that rare combination of stupidity and arrogance, but she is, rather, the poster child for everything wrong in government.  Not coincidentally, one need look no further than the “Upper Chamber”, the World’s Most Pitiful Deliberative Body, in order to find her equal in physical stature and craveness, the glib, diminutive Lindsey Graham, R-SC, whose very existence ought to be hateful to anyone who truly loves this nation.
To borrow from former Secretary of the Navy, James Forrestal, uncommon fecklessness was a common vice.
Let us not even get started with the Cognitive Dissonant in Chief, Crown Prince Pudding and Pie.
In addition to the Gadsden Flag, it is time to unfurl “An Appeal to Heaven”.

Here are a few suggestions that would prevent such anti-populist legislation from passing in the future:
(1) Eliminate all PACs (political action committees). Prosecute all corporations and special-interest groups that attempt to use professional lobbyists to sway congressional votes.
(2) Make all congressmen stay home in their own states, communicating and voting online. This will discourage them from voting against the will of their constituents. Current technology makes this a real and valid alternative to isolating our reps in Washington. 
(3) No pork bills. No exceptions.
(4) Eliminate the electoral college. Let the People elect their reps through direct vote and simple majority.
(5) Make balancing the national budget a top priority.
These simple suggestions will stop the Washington power-broking machine dead in its tracks, making our legislators more transparent and more responsible to their constituents. Of course these policies have a snowball’s chance in hell of ever being implemented. Corporate America simply has too much power.

Eliminating all PACs would violate the Constitutional right to petition.

Eliminating the electoral college would probably end up tearing this country apart, due to the disparity of population density across the country. I’ve heard that over 50% of Americans live within 500 miles of Cleavland. If you are outside of that range, representation is going to be a very hard thing to obtain. Which will ultimately lead to civil war.

Eliminating the Fed and repealing the federal income tax is a much more effective step toward limiting the government. They can’t do much if they don’t have money.

Well said, beautifully done.

Well said, Mr. Hunter.  I’m glad I’m not the only good Southerner left.  My battle flag is flapping gloriously in the breeze.  I’m going to go out and salute it in your honor.

Excellent commentary Jack. Don’t forget about the Senators that rolled this thing in pork. They are just as guilty, though admittedly harder to vote out of office. This is government at its worst… I just hope that enough people are brave enough to vote these whores out of a job.

Personally, as I walk about Washington, I bemoan the barrenness of the hundreds of lampposts, which would be much more attractive if adorned with about 537 low-hanging fruit at the end of a rope.

(535 from one end of Pennsylvania Avenue, and two from the other end.)

After some months, the stench of corruption, both moral and physical, would have lifted from this lovely city, and we could once again breathe the sweet airs of freedom, as so touchingly described by Thomas Paine.

Well done, Jack! There was a cadence to the way you narrated that.