Posts from ‘September, 2008’

How exactly does one blow this question?

I swear I want to stop blogging about the train wreck that is Palin, but I can’t…stop…myself….must….look….away……

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/29/bailout.fallout/index.html
Complete and utter morons.  Despite the pleas and scrambling of their leadership and their president, the House Republicans voted 2 to 1 against the bailout bill, citing the need to maintain the free market economy.  You have to begin to wonder just how far out of touch these schmucks really are.  How much simpler can [...]

Trade missions?
So Governor Palin thinks that her state’s trade missions with Russia provide her with the foreign policy experience to be one 72 year old with a history of malignant melanoma’s heartbeat away from the Presidency.
From her interview (see the train wreck video below):
COURIC: Have you ever been involved with any negotiations, for example, with [...]

Once again, a great SNL opening. The truly frightening thing is that some of the Fey-Palin answers were better than the real Palin answers.

Apologies if the title of the post sounds like one of the conjugation drills from our high school Latin class, but I wanted to both chime in with a healthy “F&*K Yeah” (a la Team America) for the Tito Manifesto, and to offer a few additional observations (which, oddly enough, occurred to me as I [...]

I don’t think so.
We have had smart male politicians.
We have had stupid male politicians.
We have had smart female politicians.
And now…yikes.

She is actually trying to defend the idea that physical proximity to a foreign country gives her significant foreign policy experience. This is a farce. I mean, really, this must all be some kind [...]

How long does it take to fly 958 miles from DC to The University of Mississippi?
Did you know the University has it’s own airport?

$700,000,000,000.00.  Seven Hundred Billion Dollars.  Wow
But now come the next obvious question, Does the government ever do anything on budget?  Why $700 Billion?  Why not $690 Billion or $710 Billion?  Have they really had enough time to accurately judge how much money is needed?  Or will this turn into a typical bloated project that requires [...]

Here it is:
Read the bail out plan.
This problem seems to me a little too big to solve in a few days with a TON of money.  A plan this brief and nebulous also seems irresponsible.  I’m all for simplifying things but this is ridiculous.