Nine important minutes about the Democratic-majority-led clusterfuck going on in DC over Democrat-mandated mortgages.

The debate was worth watching - much less structured than whatever other boring debate I watched last. Uhhhbama spoke better than I expected, but most of what he said was socialist bullshit, like windpower and solarpower and beanpower and boogerpower - pipe-dream crap you expect from a, yes, social-engineering Progressive. Except when he was agreeing with John McCain, which was a lot of the time.

His new gray hairs are gonna make the BarelyLegals run away in droves, too.

PS to the cable babbleheads - fuck the soundbite moments. Focus, please, on the respective messages, and not how well the verbals fit in the Inco machines, you assholes.

Uhhhbama

Say it with me — greatest derogatory nickname for the month - Uhhhbama.

Because, I’ve heard great speeches and great speakers in my lifetime — this guy ain’t one of ‘em. Not by a far cry. It’s just the Moron Media looking for a nice story to tell and the BarelyLegal college crowd who’ve never heard a great speech in their life that’s turned this shrimp into a modern-day Churchill. Idiocracy, in other words.

Thanks, Ace.

Sine Qua Non: The Bailout

Whatever form the bailout bill eventually takes, I’ll agree to it on one condition: that it include an amendment that every current member of Congress be prohibited from ever holding elected office again. I’m not asking for term limits, only that this current bunch of utterly detestable miscreants be thrown out of office in disgrace at the first opportunity. Normally, I’m opposed to term limits and the like since there are some good people it would be shame to lose but right now the balance is so out of whack on the side of bums and crooks that the only solution seems to be to throw out the babies with the bathwater. If the bailout bill includes another amendment requiring the tarring and feathering of Representative Frank and Senators Schumer and Dodd for their roles in creating this fiasco and standing firmly athwart reform yelling “Stop!” I promise not even to complain about the $70,000 or so of debt I will be asked to take on to pay for it.

I’m in…would that there was some way we could make it happen…not coming up with any ideas on how, though…these congressional dipsticks would rather send this country into a watery grave before giving up their precious status.

For some reason, this bright boy stops by one of the moldiest, dustiest corners of the internet. I’m thankful for that.

Cobb: The Smartest Money

BTW. I am in agreement with the most cynical folks. The taxpayers are the stupidest investors in all of this, and as disorganized and clueless as we are, we’re going to get fleeced by the smarter, more cynical investors. If anybody here is trusting political representatives to save our asses, you deserve nothing but ridicule. The average American is going to get wholly hosed. Our money is cheap, and since there is basically no way for us to get it back (unless McCain or Obama does something incredibly unprecedented and dramatic), you may as well kiss it goodbye, which of course we wouldn’t have to do IF WE WEREN’T SO STUPID WITH IT IN THE FIRST PLACE.

Yeah, pretty much.

The thing that makes me mad is that there are millions in this country who aren’t clueless and disorganized — they’re just organized and clueful for them and their families and their communities, but not the shiftless bums who bought McMansions on a 125% loan. It never occurred to any of us that we’d have to bail out that asshole, and certainly not the MBS GSE LMNOP socialistic Great Society Affordable Housing jagoffs running berserk through the bank vaults.

But screw it…it’s what capitalists do…we’ll make more money, naysayers be damned. Someday soon, though, the Eloi are going to have to bend a knee to us Morlocks.