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Socialism. It’s what’s for breakfast.

“I’ll get mine.”

Higher taxes? Check.
Massive new spending? Check.
Military cuts? Check.
Stimulus czar? Check.
Expanded government role in health care? Checkity-check-check-check.
And just in time for another global stock slide.
Welcome to Barney Frank’s America:
After the November election, Democrats will push for a second economic stimulus package that includes money for the states’ stalled infrastructure projects, along with help paying for healthcare [...]

Tinseltown tax break.

Craptastic.

Bailout Sleuth is on the case.
Meanwhile, AIG wants a third turn at the public trough.
And get this: Ten Percent Of $700 Billion Bailout Could Go To Bonuses

American Dream.

Just walk away.

Cha-ching.

Killing capitalism to “rescue” it.

Dude, where’s my bailout?

The Dow Jones Industrial average has plunged about 2,000 points since the House of Representatives passed bailout legislation on October 3rd. The market’s back up this morning, but the feds should resist patting themselves on the backs. Yale law professor Jonathan Macey argues that officials at the Federal Reserve, Securities and Exchange Commission and Treasury [...]

Here’s a Friday evening financial open thread. How are you all dealing with the market roller coaster? I’m keeping my cool and holding on.
Are you buying, selling, freaking out, putting everything in shoeboxes?
Feel free to share your thoughts, recommendations, etc.

The Treasury Department is telling us to be patient and not to panic.
After screaming that the sky was falling the past two weeks and holding a gun to our heads and peddling scare stores of martial law, they’re telling us to be patient and not to panic.
8.9 on the LMAO Richter Scale.
The usual suspects [...]

Home and garden.

There’s a lot of blog buzz over Barack Obama’s membership in the socialist New Party. You can read about it here, here, and here.
A year ago, I might have gotten as worked up about this as everyone else seems to be.
But after watching a GOP White House and Republican collaborationists fork over billions upon billions [...]

Who’s next?

Order up.

Excellent questions from Amanda Carpenter about John McCain’s Crap Sandwich 3.0:
2. Why does your plan empower the Treasury Secretary to buy up these failed mortgages and renegotiate them? Shouldn’t that power be given to an existing housing agency, like FHA or HUD?
3. How does the program decide which mortgage holders to help? About [...]

Dude, where’s your bailout?

Owned.

The fix is in.

Now, you see it. Now, you don’t. Now, you do.

Scroll down for updates…still no response from NBC/SNL…the vid clip is currently up on YouTube…watch below before it goes down…10/7 5:20pm Eastern…SNL is editing the skit…

Over the weekend, I watched a hilarious, dead-on, and surprisingly honest skit on Saturday Night Live about the craptastic bailout and its Democrat roots. The skit called out Fannie/Freddie and [...]

What’s in a name.

Gloves off.

HAW. HAW. HAW.
I am going to break 8.0 on the LMAO Richter Scale.
President Bush just gave a brief statement on the Dow and had the nerve to say this:
As global markets plunged, President Bush on Monday said “it’s going to take awhile” for the government’s $700 billion financial rescue plan to bolster the troubled [...]

Shhhhhhhhhh.

Bok bok.

Taste the Crap Sandwich.