Schumer sez it’s a good package.

I’ll show Schumer a “good package”…

Not content with the authority to buy everything in the United States, they want authority to buy everything in the world, with our money:

The Treasury Department said on Saturday that its financial rescue plan could permit it to buy assets beyond those backed by mortgages and potentially buy them from foreign holders.

A fact sheet issued by Treasury on legislative proposals it has before lawmakers said the intent was to buy residential and commercial mortgage-related assets, which may include mortgage-backed securities and whole loans, but added a significant proviso.

“The Secretary will have the discretion, in consultation with the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, to purchase other assets, as deemed necessary to effectively stabilize financial markets,” the fact sheet said.

egregious bold.

Digg

Fuck the fucking fuckers shit up!

My vodka induced coma is only one shot away.

(I like to keep it close, in case of emergency.)

As for costly West Wing vandalism, I wouldn’t be surprised in the least if the Bushies did some in advance of an arriving Obama administration. These guys are masters of projection, after all.

Don’t sugarcoat it, how do you really feel?

“debased polity”

Best use of the language on a blog this year (or maybe ever), giving due deference to swearing (my fave pastime).

Schumer

Mukasey!

(sorry, it’s become an involuntary response to seeing or hearing about “Schumer”)

Mukasey!

sorry again….

Is it wrong of me to care only about shackles and trials and the gallows?

Isn’t there an ancient Chinese curse that goes something like “may you live in times so interesting a David Mamet script wouldn’t have enough f-words in it if you tried to describe how fucked up they are”?

High praise; I am honored.

And pissed off.

No.

Digg this please.

If the last package we got from Schumer (Mukasey) hadn’t been so full of burning dogshit we would be in a better position now because at least of few of these felons would be in jail by now…

I am getting ever more outraged as I think about this whole sack of shit they are trying to ram down our throats. I am now at the point of insisting that all senior executives and board members be sacked with no parachutes of any sort and have to pay back all bonuses and extra compensation paid out in the last five years, strict regulation of all financial companies including capital reserve mandates, doubling or tripling the capital gains tax, confiscatory inheritance tax rates on estates over $5 million, and insistence that the tax payers be paid back before shareholders see so much as a penny as a bare minimum for any bailout.

Not at all, as long as there is a fair and impartial trial by a jury of my peers preceeded by rails, tar and feathers enroute the courthouse. Wasn’t that the customary treatment for scalliwags and scoundrels way back in those days the republicans get so sentimental about?

Yay! Bad words!

heh indeed.

No, gregory.

Isn’t there an ancient Chinese curse that goes something like “may you live in times so interesting a David Mamet script wouldn’t have enough f-words in it if you tried to describe how fucked up they are”?

I tried to have that tattooed on my back, in Chinese, but the guy ran out of – me.

If there is, we are living it.

Anybody care to speculate how much physical space would be required for $700 billion in actual currency? Denomination of your choice.

I’ve thought all along that America has to hit bottom….. that 1929-1940 would be child’s play….. it would be the only way to wake people up……

Well if you can see $9 Billion from space which just misappeared in Iraq…. just multiple the magnitude….

New monitor just added to shopping list…

It’s Iraq all over again, except on Wall Street. They scared Congress with something like “it’s just a matter of *days* to complete financial collapse”. Congress bought it.

And just like Iraq there is no accountability. I wonder who’ll be taking home suitcases of money this time?

But back then, people in government tried to solve the problems, rather than profit off them and leave the country bloodless and broken.

Not sure, but I’d bet it’s equivalent to the amount of space taken up by the collective butts of American taxpayers.

My vodka induced coma is only one shot away.

Be prepared.

And trustworthy, thrifty, brave, and reverent cynical as all fuckin’ get out….

I wonder who’ll be taking home suitcases of money this time?

Ummmm….everyone with the last name of Bush, Cheney or the title “Honorable” in front of their name.

Fucking. A.

Alaska?

The whole shit fucking blows, ya know?

Genius, Thers.

I think I saw Phil Gramm in that line, too. Carrying a basket – empty and waiting.

Thers,
Cheers dude.

Fucking bastards .

They give a whole new meaning to the charge of Grand Larceny.

The whole shit fucking blows, ya know?

That has begun to dawn on me, yes.

at the point of insisting that all senior executives and board members be sacked with no parachutes of any sort and have to pay back all bonuses and extra compensation paid out in the last five years

DrD,
you are too kind to these perps.
a functioning government would confiscate their homes, cars and yachts and sell their children to 3rd world slave traders.

And not in a good way.

Cynical? Done.

Thrifty? Sobiesky is one third the price of Stoli and I can’t tell the diff.

Nah, he had Wendy in the line, he was too busy gaming the refs to get the bill passed.

I have actually thought about the possibilities of criminal fraud charges, since they fraudulently claimed to know what they were doing in order to profit quite handsomely.

In solidarity with the Women of Alaska, a man of Alaska doth protest at the cruise ship dock.

Here’s to the freeway blogger and the solo protestor and the Vets for Peace and the Women of Alaska Anti-Palin Rallyers and….

what can you and I do tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow and everyday thru Election Day….

Oh, no. Did he really? We are so fucked.

Less genius than dyspepsia, but thanx.

That may be just what our evil Chinese overlords will do…

The Bush administration…socializing risk, privatizing profit, and rubbing our fucking noses in it since 2001.

Divites este.

Bad words?

I’m in.

Hey, Dr. Fucking Dick

Left you a grammar fucking police alert down below

evening y’all!

Recent McCain video wherein he blames Obama for the financial meltdown (on account of Obamas lobbying ties, etc.) – has McCain railing against the bailout and severance pay for the Fanny Freddy dicks. Of course, McCain will be all for this new $7 billion deal.

Incidentally, the MSM (owned and operated by Republican Interests) spin on this is thus: $7 Billion is cheaper than the cost of the Iraq War to date.
That makes it a bargain! No wonder Schumer thinks the Democrats should jump on it post haste. /s

Never underestimate the creative powers of dyspepsia, it has fueled many a masterpiece.

Could we file a class action suit or get a judge to stay the implementation of this act?

Start stocking up on Beans and Rice and Asswipe.
the Mother of all Depressions is in the works.

again, you are too kind.
you said “profit” which implies honest work.
the word is theft.

You’d get change back from a trillion dollar bill. Of course, they only printed one of those and Monty Burns inadvertently gave it to Fidel Castro.

Yeah, I caught that after I had sent it to just about everybody I could think of. So damned pissed off I can’t even type.

Paulsen’s on every Sunday Talk show. We’ll know by noon tomorrow if the media is going to expose this or spin it.

I have absolutely no idea. jayt is the lawyer, I am just a humble anthropologist.

The American media? Motherfuckers will spin it, of course.

Been awhile since we’ve had a good FUCK thread.

And we are truely fucked.

I am a marxist – all profit is theft.

Media Spin is – bailout is cheaper than the Iraq War (not including Afghanistan) so obviously its a bargain. Let’s get two. /s

To give one man the unsupervised authority to disperse $700 Billion our money is insanity. To immunize him against legal challenge is downright crazy. To allow him three months of this authority before he must report is madness. The bill as written sells out our country to ‘friends of Paulson’ . It must not pass.
Kiwisam

Could we file a class action suit or get a judge to stay the implementation of this act?

gotta figure the ACLU has a Complaint already in the drafting process…

Incidentally, the title and picture for this post are really fucking clever and sophisticated and educated and shit. I was just noticing that.

Thankfully in the last three years I have stocked up on enough wine to keep me anesthetized until they haul me away to the poor farm….Anyone need a refill?

Thers for President!

Jo,
try telling walmart shoppers that china is evil.

another example of how “free markets” have screwed us.
you can buy all the cheap crap you want, but over time you can’t even afford cheap crap, cause you’re only making minimum wage. and it would be a HUGE burden on walmart and friends if they had to pay decently.

Outstanding none the less. My fax machine is coming out of hibernation first thing in the am and will be sending a variation of said letter to as many as I can think of.

Cheers (Oh – Fucking Cheers!!!!)

;~P

Yeah, you’d get better odds taking your $700 billion to the track and betting it all on a 3-legged greyhound named “Lucky.”

Erudite and learned and shit, too.

I actually only drink Diet Cherry Dyspepsia.

and no, you and I have no standing to file, or be a part of, any type of suit to stop this. That is because there is no specific harm done to you, me, and everybody else here that differs in nature from that being done to the American public in general.

and to tell ya the truth, I’ve never understood how the ACLU gets in the door….

Which is basically what has been proposed.

Divites este.

Yeah! Slogan: “You’re Fucked Already, Might as Well Get Dinner Too”

Need to get ALL Republicans on record and exposed in the media as opposing any effort to curtail golden parachutes.

Because:

Republicans are blocking all efforts to remove compensation payouts (to their crooked pals) from the bailout plan.

well i guess you’ll be quite comfortable with the “new” (paulson) socialism?
;-)

No, what has been proposed is to bet it all on a dead 3-legged greyhound named “Lucky.”

700 billion dollars, eh? I wonder of Paulson wants it delivered to his office by helicopter, stacked on shrink-wrapped pallets, in $1,000 denominations.

No. That is what you might call National Socialism.

My mistake.

Vhen der Fuhrer says ve is der master race,
Ve “Heil! Heil!” right in der Fuhrer’s face…

My grocery store mismarked a 2-pk of rather large, thick, well marbled ribeyes. I ate good tonight for $2.64.

Eating well is the best revenge!

David Broder: Another bold, bipartisan act of courage, by the greatest President ever.
Kookie Roberts: I know I can make money from this too.
George Will: I am having a weenie party to celebrate.
David Gregory: I love weenies.
Charles in charge Gibson: I can just imagine those pathetic angry bloggers criticising the greatest president ever, spewing out hate against rich people.

Delivered on a flatbed truck at the Baghdad airport.

Hee hee

at least the uniforms are free.
everyone looks good in a nice brown shirt.
what do i need to do to get stripes?

A Paulson Haiku

Money as piss falls
When integrity fails them
Our loss is not felt

Speak Yiddish? Certainly Arabic, Farsi, or Urdu could do it for you. Depending on who is in charge, maybe Spanish as well.

Rather than supine would it be more appropriate for the nation to lean forward and raise it’s hind quarters? I believe the ethological term is “presenting.”

oh jesus h christ – somebody PLEASE, if I’m here in the morning, remind me, force me, restrain me, from watching the Sunday Talking Heads.

is it possible to OD on blood-pressure medication?

Is W*M also in the category of “Too Big To Fail?” Me fucking wonders….

Don’t forget the “tap-dancin’.”

That reminded me – we could all go to DC and moon the WH and Congress. That ought to get their attention.

The money party wins.

And 6 or 8 months from now, everyone wondering just where that money went. Oh, like you wanted us to keep track of where it was going?

Final and utter banckruptcy for American working people, brought to you by the party that is morally bankrupt.

Final and utter banckruptcy for American working people, brought to you by the party that is morally bankrupt.

And the Republicans, too.

That could mix badly with pepper spray….

I’m a little tapped out at the moment. Can’t afford to pay for my own forensic exam kit.

you accusing me of talkin’ like a furriner?
damn.

Okay. I’m officially scared now.

Either position, same result.

Add that to the list of “must dos” before a bailout package is approved – break up these giant financial (and other) corporations, so that nobody is too big to fail. That is part of why we have antitrust acts.

ratfood.

$1M in 100 dollar bills fits into a space of approximately one cubic foot.

So, do those clever chaps want to grant this power to Paulson *individually*, not to his office? For the sake of continuity don’t ja know—- and so the fucker can keep the files.

Always.

Is W*M also in the category of “Too Big To Fail?” Me fucking wonders….

need more information.

who does WaMu count among its “friends”?

To whom have they donated, and how much?

Any unpatriotic donations to Democrats?

where did the president/CEO go to school, and with whom did he graduate? (membership in secret societies would be good info as well).

You asked and I made a few suggestions.

Just imagine it though – millions of Americans – it would be newsworthy at least. Bet the MSM would even notice.

w*m failing would mean having to buy from my local, family owned stores!
oops. already do that.

it’s a shame that all the small towns that welcomed the monster with open arms have now been devoured.

Good one.

From what I read, it doesn’t matter. The whole $700 billion will be gone by election day.

$1M in 100 dollar bills fits into a space of approximately one cubic foot.

yeah, but how big a space does “real money” take up?

$1M? BWAHAHAHAA…

7 million cubic feet. I have no point of reference as to what would be that large.

So, do those clever chaps want to grant this power to Paulson *individually*, not to his office?

With $700B in his pocket, I think he can afford a little “protection”.

And most of South America, I’d wager….

So, if I’m not mistaken, it would tally up to 700,000 cubic feet. Shucks, that ain’t bad. Probably fit in the back of an El Camino (a real big one).

i’m having second thoughts about seeking the stripes.
is it too late to join another team?

I have no point of reference as to what would be that large.

*Ego’s* most likely wouldn’t be a proper unit of measurement there, huh?

Okay, but we need a catchy name. Million Moon March?

I suggest that you start on your meds now and try to taper off sometime tomorrow. (I would put a smile right here except the blog won’t let me for some reason)

Yep. NSA has been monitoring activity here for years.

“Hey, George, pray we didn’t eat chili first?”

Excellent. We need to do this before it snows, don’t you think?

In this case, those are a couple of orders of magnitude larger.

I prescribe vodka & Benadryl.

Yes, I am a doctor.

I’m bringing my 5 Alarm Okie Red (with beans!) just for the occasion. 8-)

Careful, we don’t want to ex-ass-erbate Global Warming.

Preferably.

NSA has been monitoring activity here for years

we are all SO screwed.
nice knowin’ y’all.

I suggest that you start on your meds now and try to taper off sometime tomorrow.

Well, I enjoy a good righteous rage as much as the next guy – but I haven’t tested the pop-off valve for a while.

So – maybe a good idea. *g*

An El Camino the size of a city block and three stories tall.

Yes, I am a doctor.

well all right then – I’d best get started before any silly notions about ’second opinions’ creep in and foul things up. *g*

Personally I have been doubling down on my blood pressure meds lately, just to be safe. 8-)

I am also a doctor and I second that prescription.

See if this fits:

May a camel die in W’s bathtub.

Thanks. I’ll call ya in the morning… if I can get up. *g*

Our little community used to be populated with working class families sacrificing to make ends meet so they could raise their children in a healthy environment.[ well, except for the Shell and Texaco refineries]
Then the wealthy discovered us and began to build mansions in an area known to have salt water intrusion problems with the ground water. The rich had never heard of water problems so it didn’t impact their 7 bedroom,6 bathroom ,swimming pool designs. With enough money you can always buy water,right?
If the shit hits the fan and we are forced to eat the rich, we’re fucking STOCKED!! If we can hold out until summer. Apparently the rich don’t do nasty scary weather.

As Chimpy’s minions fan out to hoist up a ‘don’t play the blame-game’ smokescreen tomorrow…
Can.Not.Watch.

I’m out, night all.

P.S. in a probably pointless effort to preserve my single remaining tattered shred of sanity I will attempt to leave the TV off in the morning. I’ll keep my straitjacket nearby just in case.

They really fucked up the price of fajita meat, too.

Is there anything we can do?

Dave
Viet Vet

‘nite, ratfood. Sounds like a good plan.

Now there is a thought. They rich also “discovered” our sleepy little college town in the northern Rockies and have mercilessly driven real estate prices through the roof. Average house costs $220K. Average income is about $35K per year.

May I suggest a chaser?

If the shit hits the fan and we are forced to eat the rich, we’re fucking STOCKED

yeah, but what if they taste really bad?

Night. At the very least keep the sound off.

Nite ratfood, I’m not watching those shows either.

If I can eat possum, I can eat anything.

Going for another glass of wine…. tonight’s is a semi-sweet red from Hungary…. anyone want some?

See if this fits:

May a camel die in W’s bathtub.

thanks, but nothing else will fit now. I’m all out of back.

Do you have any idea how many tattooed Chinese characters it takes to get through “may you live in times so interesting a David Mamet script wouldn’t have enough f-words in”

umm, right there was where I ran out of back space….

nite, rf

He’ll be in office for life. Impossible to confirm a successor.

May I suggest a chaser?

Sure. “That which does not kill me only makes….”

Wait a minute. That preface *is* applicable, right?

Yes, please.

Thank you, ma’am!

you’ll survive longer than I will.
I draw the line at Cheney.

FYI, Krugman says no deal.

indeed.

‘ere

nite

To Strength

We’ll need it

Well, even I draw the line at the obviously toxic.

He’ll be in office for life. Impossible to confirm a successor.

Paulson’s to-do list:

1. Buy Blackwater.

2. Have breakfast.

3. go to closest bank, find a pleading, desperate mortgage-holder trying to hold off foreclosure – have him held down and shit on him.

4. tennis.

Well then, it’s settled.

I can sleep better now.

Not

I’ve eaten possum. And muskrat. And antelope. And feral hog. And sewer frog’s legs.

I’ll starve before I eat Cheney.

ha!
meet you in the soup line.
next week?

OK — night, guys.

thanks thers. sleep well

Night Thers.

Niters, Thers. And thanks!

have a fuckin’ good nights sleep, Thers.
your posts are much appreciated.

ha!
meet you in the soup line.
next week?

After you, foxman! Looking forward to the road-kill chili.

Made with only the freshest armadillo!

BYO Tabasco.

I prefer Melinda’s, myself.

Think I will head out as well. Take care and enjoy the snark.

elitist!

Hate to be a “Debbie Downer” but our home prices went from 90 thousand to 695 thousand in 7 years. Now we have a few 5 million $$$ “homes”.
Which aren’t selling real well.And may are up for sale. Us locals have a joke about wearing uniforms and being service professionals driving golf carts from mansion to mansion. Oh well. Maybe when the prices come down to 200 thousand we can buy a couple for old folks homes to keep our oldtimers in the community.
I’m thinking the rich probably taste like chicken…

Thers, we will be AS outraged AS the WATBs of our nation were about the missing “w’s”!