Day: August 11, 2009

2009 Anal-Ocity

OMG!  Yet another Repub idiot speaks….and more idiotic people listen.

This time it is from the former Governor of Alaska, one Sarah Palin….this time she has jumped on the lunatic fringe talking points.  She has echoed the BS of someone being put to death by the Obama health care plan.

The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s “death panel” so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their “level of productivity in society,” whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.

She will convince too many in ther middle that she is a good candidate for anything but a guest spot on a UFC show.

But if I am not mistaken, the “death panels” that she is so concerned about are already operating within the insurance companies, who basically are deciding who dies and who gets what treatment when.

Do these Repubs ever take the time to read what they write?

Transparency? That Is A Good One!

May I see a show of hands of everyone that remembers the Obama transparency plank in his campaign?  Just as I thought just about everyone remembers and liked the idea of Washington doings being transparent and available to the public.  Sad to say. it is a bit slow on the uptake.

Writing for the LA Times, Tom Hamburger and Peter Nicholas:

As the watchdog of the government’s massive bailout of the financial sector, Neil M. Barofsky had a simple question: What had the nation’s banks done with all their bailout money?

Can’t be answered, said the Treasury Department, because of the way banks move money internally. The department declined to put the question to the banks.

So basically what they are saying is that the banks are refusing to say where the taxpayer’s money is going and what it is being used for or why is it being used for that.

Once again, as I have been saying all along, Wall Street is making the rules and Main Street has to live with them.  Your money is being used to help make money for these banks and they do not feel you have the right to ask them to be accountable.

Good work if you can get it……and this very place and time in history will be visited again.