Bits and pieces of the political flotsam floating around out there:
The Economic stimulus package was hammered out yesterday. Apparently the economy is like a giant clitoris; just tweak it occasional and wonderful things happen. Suffice it to say that nobody with any credentials believes that this is anything other than a “hey, we had to do something!” move that simply will shift money from one part of the economy into another. Or did you think that the federal government simply has bags of money sitting around in a warehouse waiting to be dispersed? And since virtually nothing is actually made in America these days, who’s economy will really be the recipient of this income? Likely the Chinese and the other hellhole slave labor encampments that crank out the consumer goods we just can’t get enough of. Another interesting thing about this legislation is that, because it has the taint of Bush all over it, Wall Street is reacting to it like you would to the Holloween apple with the embedded razor blade.
Another measure intended to avert a recession are the massive prime interest cuts announced recently by the fed, rewarding those wise Americans who’ve rolled up massive credit card debt while punishing the idiots who thought that saving money in an interest bearing account was a prudent idea. Silly fools.
Meanwhile the “Who is the biggest corporate whore” battle is still raging between Hillary and Barack in a series of he said/she said ads that make the Alec Baldwin-Kim Bassinger divorce look like a day at Knott’s Berry Farm. Even a scant understanding of each candidate shows clearly that neither candidate is particularly pure when it comes to their obeisance to Wall Street perogatives, but clearly Hillary is the one in the miniskirt, fishnets, and go-go boots loitering at the intersection of Wall and Broad. Her approach to NAFTA is similar to her approach to the invasion of Iraq: they were both swell ideas that just haven’t turned out the way we expected. And since her husband’s and the DLC’s shift from trade unions to Wall Street for campaign contributions, is it any wonder that the once-great health care crusader is now recieving more $$$ from Big Pharm and the Insurance industry that the other candidates combined.
Oh yeah: and a big F-You to All the Democratic senators and presidential candidates (Hillary, Barack, Dodd, and Biden) who decided to sit out the Senate vote on the trade agreement with Peru. Wouldn’t want to go on record as short sheeting the American worker during an election year, would we? And besides, billions of U.S. dollars are already flowing into Peru annually in exchange for their # 1 export, cocaine. How come untaxed drug money is not added to our trade deficit?
Meanwhile Mitt, Huck, McCain, and Guilani on a daily basis demonstrate how bereft they are of any ideas that can’t fit on a bumper sticker. More about them the next time.
Yes Spike this is a shame that it is boiling down to the lesser of two Wall Street corporate whores.
OBTW: Nice second sentence..;-)
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Comment by SHRED — Saturday, January 26, 2008 @ 9:22 am
I think it is funnier then shit these republican assholes have fucked up the economy and seven years into this nightmare people are waking up. Go prey to Jesus Christ he was the one that started this fucking mess directing all you mindless assholes what a bunch of jerks.
Comment by Jesse east county — Saturday, January 26, 2008 @ 4:45 pm
The only thing the bush administration can do effectively is fabricate lies and get their mindless supporters to believe the lies and repeat the lies… That alone to a rational person would be frightening enough it appears that the United States has crossed that delusional threshold can I get an Amen.
Is it possible to take an actual look at the failures of the “Republican Party and the Democratic Party” the so called fiscal conservatives from the moment the Supreme Court set precedence by choosing George W Bush in December of 2000? From that point up until the 2006 election the republicans had complete control over the United States government. Look at the complete mismanagement by that group; yet something that is never raised and should be is first to evaluate if they were true fiscal conservatives. Did they optimize their (technical all the American taxpayers) return on investment with the resources the had available? Answers are a deafening NO. In economics the greatest lost or the one you can not ever get back, recover from, or truly quantify is lost opportunity cost.
Enron was the blue print for what was to come by the Bush administrations entire policy the Enron illusions from start to finish is the George W Bush administrations model. From the media enabling Ken Lay and company to create something out of nothing and please remember who paid at the end when the Enron house of cards collapsed. Just like the demise of the United States of America at the hands of the same individuals. The only thing the bush administration can do effectively is fabricate lies and get their mindless supporters to believe the lies and repeat the lies…
Was invading Iraq the best actions America could have done under all the circumstances? The only thing the bush administration can do effectively is fabricate lies and get their mindless supporters to believe the lies and repeat the lies…
You will have to be the judge. I know what would have been the smartest response at that times in American history the required paramount actions by the United States government to benefit all Americans not just all the multi national and global corporations. The only patriotic actions would have been a comprehensive plan of a reduction of all foreign sourced energy to ZERO. That would have ended any further possible threats by all terrorist throughout the world. The only honest response to 9/11 would have been to level Saudi Arabia with all the might of the United States military; that they could deliver with in minutes of the 9/11 attacks; Saudi Arabia is the source of all terrorist activity.
Today January 27, 2008 politics in the United States has been reduced to window shopping for your favorite corporate whore. The only real leader judged solely on his decisions and actions that is following the directions set forth within the United States Constitution is Dennis Kucinich end of story the corporate media has eliminated him also. The only thing the Democratic Party and the Republican Party can do effectively is fabricate lies and get their mindless supporters to believe the lies and repeat the lies… The United States of America has surrendered to all corporate influences and is no longer the dreams of our brave founding fathers the dreams they set into motion and cast out into the universe.
Comment by Jesse east county — Sunday, January 27, 2008 @ 11:17 am
Hey Stacy love the new time slot show so far, it makes my work day go faster. Here’s my election wrap up:
Stick a fork in Giuliani, he’s done. Even the Bubba voting block of Florida is smart enough to get sick of hearing about 9/11.
Huckabee to his credit is by far the most entertaining Republican but he really doesn’t play outside of the homeschooling bible zombie bunch of cretins.
And so it comes down to the Wall Street hooker and a war mongering loon who wants to bomb everyone who looks at us funny back to the stone age. These people scare me frankly.
As for Ron Paul, stop dreaming…
I’m for Barack. I’ll take someone who is perhaps inexperienced yet an amazing speaker and already respected around the world over this bunch of goons any day. I respect Hillary as a senator but she has really turned into a slime queen in all this and Bill shoots off his mouth like a drunk in a trailer park on Cops. Their campaign has turned so ugly sometimes I wonder if they have that pasty gremlin Karl Rove on the payroll…
Just my two cents,
Justin
Comment by Justin — Monday, January 28, 2008 @ 10:55 pm
AMEN JESSE!!
Stacy, when you say “…neither candidate is particularly pure when it comes to their obeisance to Wall Street prerogatives…” etc, I have to say that the Democrats are 99.9% pure when compared to any of the Repuglican candidates, who are a bunch of corporate toadies unabashedly proud of the fact they are bought and paid for by the corporations you decry.
Lets see more bashing of the Repugs, who deserve it 1000 times more than the Democrats. After all, there’s a whole evil horde of righties on the airwaves, TV, etc. etc. already bashing Democrats.
By the way, Paul Krugman’s recent “Lessons of 1992″ column (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/28/opinion/28krugman.html) has more very insightful things to say about the supposed “big fight” between Clinton and Obama.
Comment by goodguy — Tuesday, January 29, 2008 @ 11:15 am