Awesome Brawling Lawmakers

You know what would make the Senate more interesting on a day to day basis? The potential for knock down, drag out fights to break out between the lawmakers. Why, oh, why can't our lawmakers do that? They don't seem to be doing much else. The least that they could do is be entertaining. My God, they're boring. But not in Taiwan! Nope, in Taiwan, they all seem to damn near want to kill each other. One guy pelted the other guy in the face with a clock! The video is below. It's awesome. Imagine if that had been Nancy Pelosi. That alone might have restored my faith in humanity. (OK...not all of my faith, but a little bit! It's better than nothing, which is what I have right now!)

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Your Elected Officials Hard At Work

Not that this will come as any huge shock to anyone, but from what I can tell, the daily powwows of the House of Representatives and of the Senate are just a big, fat waste of time, not to mention an atmosphere that (literally) is bursting with hot air which fuels an environment of the extremely self satisfied. Stuff that's important seems to take a backseat to stuff that just feels good. (And I realize that I just mentioned how both the House and the Senate were full of those who were "self satisfied", so I just wanted to clarify that it's not that kind of self satisfaction. Just so we're clear.) And sometimes stuff that just feels good takes a back seat to incoherent babbling.

The House of Representatives spend waaayyyyy more time than is necessary to honor, recognize, congratulation and commend. Do you really feel like you've received anything all so special after you've realized that it doesn't take much to get a nod from the House? Not having been honored, recognized, congratulated or commended by the House or the Senate, I can't say for sure, but I'm thinking it would lose a little bit of any luster that it may have had to start with. I know that for me, from now on whenever I see some sort of certificate or whatever in someone's house or shop or classroom or office that says they were given the ol' thumbs up by a bunch of Representatives, I'm probably going to think, "Yeah, you and everyone else. What else ya got for me?"

Not much. Let me show you what I mean. Let's pick a random day in the House and the Senate to look at. How about April 1st? April Fool's Day seems appropriate for this little exercise. Let's see what we have....

Well, the House met at 10am and adjourned for the day at 12:30pm, so we're only getting a whopping 2 1/2 hours here, but hopefully they won't disappoint us and continue to display complete ineptness even with the shortened time frame.

On April 1st, the House:

Honored:

• Nowruz (Yes, the holiday that marks the traditional Iranian new year, that is correct.)

Paid tribute to:

• Cesar Chavez,

Welcomed:

• Former Speaker Jim Wright

Had a moment of silence in remembrance of:

• The armed forces and their families

Announced:

• 'Cover the Uninsured Week' (Like with a blanket?)

And congratulated:

• Harry N. Mixon Elementary School,

• A one Sheriff Bill Pribil, (who, as far as I can tell, is just a friend of Mrs. Kirkpatrick, Representative from Arizona)

• And (wait for it) the on-premise sign industry.

Wait. What? The on-premi....huh?

Correct. The on-premise sign industry. The sign guys. The guys who make signs. Have you ever seen a sign? Was it on a premise? That's it! That's their sign!

In the Senate on the very same April Fool's Day, the Senators:

Congratulated:

• The University of Louisville Lady Cards,

• The Las Vegas Convention Center's 50th Year,

• The Kamehameha Schools--Hawaii Athletic Department

Paid tribute to:

Tessa Shumway (who seems to be a Red Cross coordinator in Montana)



Patrick J. Finneran, Jr. (who seems to be a VP at Boeing)

Remembered:

• Ron Silver (the actor)

Honored:

• Enchantment Wedding Services (wedding planners in Maine, that is correct),

Commemorated:

• 90 years of US-Poland diplomatic relations,

Celebrated:

• 60 years of NATO

Designated:

• June 1, 2009, as ``Collector Car Appreciation Day''

And urged:

• The government of Moldova to ensure a democratic election process.

They also agreed to allow the Rotunda to be used for a ceremony for commemoration of the days of remembrance of victims of the Holocaust.

Now, I'm sure you have a few questions about some of these, so I'm just going to start with the most obvious. OK, so...where the hell is Moldova?

We're so doomed. We have the Speaker of the House claiming out loud and to the media and public that the CIA regularly lied and does regularly lie to her and to members of Congress. If the CIA is lying, that's a huge problem, wouldn't you agree? You wouldn't agree if you were a member of Congress, apparently, as no one seems to give a fat rat's ass about it. You know why? Because they all think/know that Nancy Pelosi was lying when she said that! Well, if the Speaker of the House of lying, that too is a huge problem! And what are the House and the Senate doing about it? Commemorating sports teams, honoring the new year in Iran, and trying to convince folks in Moldova to vote on things! And you know what else?! I still don't know where in the hell Moldova is!

After about an extra minute of thought, I've come up with this: If I thought for one second that these Reps actually believed in whatever cause, building, holiday or person that they were praising, then it would be different. But they're just saying stuff because they think it makes them look good. There's no feeling, no substance behind what they spit out. Sometimes, they don't even know what they're talking about. Take this screed from a one Rep. Jackson-Lee of Texas. She was trying to find some way to acknowledge the Houston Rockets (yes, of the NBA), but I'm not even sure that she knew what sport they played.
"There comes a time when you need to acknowledge the hometown team and thank them for their best effort (Not really. There might be a time to do that if they win something! Coming kinda close? Not so much really.). The Rockets wanted to win. They put their heart in it. They came back in game 6. They came back in other games. They were down 20 points or more in other games. (You're not really making them sound all that great by talking about the other games that they were down 20 or more points. You do realize that, don't you?) They lost by a large amount, but they came back. (Came back for what? To turn off the lights? You don't come back from losing by "a large amount". It's over. You lost!) And boy, did they give us a game in game 6." Wait! There's more!

"So you can see the faces of the Houston Rockets. And I'm cheering them on. Congratulations for getting into this part of the NBA, getting into what they have not done before, which is the playoffs. (Um, they've been to playoffs before. Many times before!) So I am grateful for the young team that they are. Some that don't have height, we are aware of the injuries of some of our teammates (Is not having height an injury? Did they lop someone's lower legs off mid-thigh or something?), but Houston is very proud. And we celebrated our Houston Rockets because they did a darn good job. (If all it takes these days to get commended on the floor of the House is to do "a darn good job", then we have really gone over the edge. I did "a darn good job" finishing off half of a pizza last night. Where's my commendation?) It is a good lesson for young people to know in the face of adversity, to keep on keeping on (What was their choice? It was a basketball game! You have to keep playing until the game is over, adversity or not!). That is what sports is all about. And that is what the message is when we tell our children to play, play fair, have good judgment, have integrity and keep on keeping on, and some day, you will be a winner. (Not today, but maybe someday.)
Winners never quit, and quitters never win."

And politicians never do anything.

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Since All Other Problems Are Solved....

Well, things in the financial industry seem to be running their course nicely, don't you think? The Dow-Jones was down again today, banks are hoarding their share of the $700+ billion that was "loaned" to them by the taxpayers (via a House vote and a bunch of wooden arrows), home prices are still dropping and/or unstable, foreclosures continue at a ridiculous rate (due to all of, you know, the ridiculous lending and ridiculous buying that went on when everyone was spending like a bunch of drunken sailors on crack), and executives of companies that received billions of dollars are off on partridge hunting jaunts over in jolly old England. But not to worry! Just as you would expect that they would be, your US Senators, the folks that were elected, ie chosen by the people to hold that position and serve us well through it, those US Senators of yours and mine are right on top of everything. And according to the folks at the Associated Press, that's why they have asked NFL commissioner Roger Goddell to have "more game day TV broadcasts available to local fans for free." Wait. What?

Correct. The AP reports that the NFL claims "...it provides free broadcasts in the home cities of competing teams." But the 13 Senators that are involved with this asshattery claim that "the NFL is too narrowly interpreting what is a home city." And I am claiming that the US is too broadly interpreting what is the job of a US freaking Senator, for cryin' out loud!

In a letter to Commissioner Goddell, the 13 Senators (who clearly have nothing better to do these days. You know, with all of the imminent financial collapse looming every day. What to do, what to do?) wrote that "The policy leaves behind NFL fans across the country simply because they live outside cities to which the NFL has granted franchises." Then the article goes on to give the example that the NFL does not consider Johnstown as a part of the Pittsburgh Steelers' home market. As if that is supposed to make us all understand why the Senators are wasting their time on this non-issue. (Oh, Johnstown? Really? It's NOT part of that market? My God! I can't believe it! I'm so glad that my publicly elected Senator is taking care of this unspeakable and unfathomable injustice taking place in our country! You'd think we were in Darfur or something!)

"The senators want quick action so fans in every market receive free TV access to games played by their closest team or the team it has been historically aligned to." That sounds like it must have been a veeerrryyy strongly worded letter they sent off there. Scathing, I'm sure. That must have been why the NFL did not immediately make a comment on Wednesday. (Either that or they were too busy laughing.)

You have got to be kidding me. They want quick action for the freaking NFL games?! Don't get me wrong, I LOVE football! Huge fan. 49ers. (It's really not polite to laugh like that. So they've struggled! For the past 10+ years. Hey, we just got a new QB! The Sean Hill era has begun!!) And I have been a fan when I lived in an area that was not a major market, so I know what it's like to miss games. But I'm pretty sure that even if this was something that a Senator (or thirteen) should be getting involved in (which it's not), I'm thinking it could wait until other, oh, say, more pressing matters are resolved. Where does it state that US Senators are obligated or even allowed to give a crap about how the NFL broadcasts its games?!

Yeah, this is pretty much unacceptable. I will guarantee that there are issues that are more relevant to the people which they could be focusing on instead of the NFL. Who are these morons? Glad you asked! Behold! Senators who think their job is to tell the NFL what to do!

• Arlen Specter, R-PA.

• Jack Reed, D-RI

• Pete Domenici, R-NM

• Mike Enzi, R-WY

• John Barrasso, R-WY

• Sheldon Whitehouse, D-RI (The guy's name is Whitehouse? And he's a Senator? That's like an ice cream man named Cone. Or a librarian named Bookman!

• Joe Lieberman, IND-CT

• Dick Durbin, D-IL

• Patrick Leahy, D-VT

• Ken Salazar, D-CO
  

• Bernie Sanders, IND-VT

• Wayne Allard, R-CO
  

• John Thune, R-SD
  

There you have it. Your 13 hardworking Senators hard at work to give every American access to the NFL games on TV. A Senator makes $169,300 a year (with an extremely sweet pension deal). I don't know about you, but I'm expecting a little more from these folks for that amount. This is why things economically suck right now. Because these clowns who are supposed to be NOT focusing on NFL games ARE focusing on NFL games. What's the saying? Fiddle while Rome burns? Play a tuba while Athens crumbles? Something like one of those. If it not, then it's definitely HUA Syndrome (Head Up Arse)

I just noticed that only four of those Senators are actually from a state that HAS an NFL team. Wouldn't you think it would be the states with an NFL team whose games they are missing that would be complaining? I would. But there's only four of them and two of them are from the same state!

What is the current approval rating of our fine, soft-headed, dense-brained Senate group these days? 10%? 11%? It's something ridiculously low like that. The accurate and well-deserved low approval rating and the latest revelation that our Senators are spending their time trying to tweak the TV schedule during football season only serves for me to continue to advocate my strongly worded suggestion that, come Election Day, we start over. Vote for every single challenger to the incumbent seat. You have to admit, it doesn't sound like a bad idea. Toss everyone out! Start over! What's the worst thing that could happen? They get an 8% approval rating? Come on, you know as well as I do that if you performed that way at your job, your boss never would have put up with it and you'd have been canned a long time ago. Your elected officials should be held to the same standards. Hell, they should be held to ANY standard. Out! GET OUT!

I'll be voting for every single challenger on November 4th. Join me, won't you? Afterwards, I'll sit back and play my tuba and wait for a football game to come on a TV channel near me.

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Pork, Anyone?

Time flies like an arrow (and fruit flies like a banana). That's why you might not remember what all of the news was about exactly one week ago. That's also why I'm here to explain the unexplainable. (Here's a hint on how it's going to go: It might start with "WTF" and it might end with "they're all idiots". But I'm not giving anything else up. That's all you're getting for right now.)

Last week at this time, we were being told by those in Washington that the country is on the brink of financial doom. We were being told that our financial infrastructure, our stock market, our banking industry, all were on the verge of collapsing. And from that collapse we could expect a world wide Depression that would make the Great Depression look like a day at Disneyland without lines. Pleasant, eh? They had us all digging holes in our backyards to serve as hiding places for our cash. They had us scanning the Internet for recipes on how to boil your belt and what goes best with shoe leather, as we were clearly going to be starving as well.

They made it clear that they had to act NOW in order to avoid the certain disaster that we would face by them doing nothing. The initial idea was to give the Treasury Secretary a blank check for $700 billion dollars (a figure that came out of simply needing "a big number") and allow him to dole it out as he saw fit to financial institutions that had run themselves into the ground through a series of fraudulent actions. That document that would have allowed that was 2 pages long and gave Henry Paulson all of the authority to do whatever he wanted and gave Congress no authority or say so on what he did. How do you think those power mongering weasels over there reacted to that? Correct. With shrieks and shrills that could be likened to that of fornicating banshees.

What happened next was the House got together (as much as they could, which is to say, barely at all) and redrafted the 2 page document to include things like having some oversight and not giving the entire $700 billion all at once and things like that. Now that sounds fairly reasonable. Controlling, but reasonable. That "reason" increased the length of the document from 2 pages to approximately 137. I am not kidding. 137 pages of stuff that is mostly definitions of other stuff that needs to be voted on so that the country isn't ruined and you and I don't end up wearing a barrel. (Because really, barrels have never helped anything. You don't need to be poor and destitute AND ugly.)

OK, fine, so we're saved, right? No. Wait. What? No? Right. No. See, they voted on it, and they voted no. Then do you know what they did? After they wrote 135 additional pages of crap, after they told us we were going to self implode, after they made it sound as if there was NO time left, and after they voted down what had been presented to the public as our only hope, do you know what they did then? Correct. They took two days off for Rosh Hashanah. Wait. Wait. WTF?

Correct. Rosh Hashanah. I was a bit confused too, as I didn't realize that there was such a high number of Jewish members of the House that it warranted a couple of days off right in the middle of Armageddon. Fortunately for me, I happen to know someone who is extremely bright and quick (and really hot) who did a quick calculation/estimate for me and came up with approximately 12 members of the House would be Jewish based on averages. Twelve. I see. And they took the freaking day off? Are they unaware of what the concept of "working on a holiday" is about? They might want to sit down when they learn this: Some people actually DO work on holidays! Yes! Can you believe it! AND those people that DO sometimes work on holidays? They do so when they are NOT in the middle of, as one House member put it, "a financial 9/11." But they took off for Rosh Hashanah. That is when I lost what little, if any, confidence I had in this whole ordeal and immediately went out shopping for a much bigger mattress which to store my life savings beneath.

So while the House was off Rosh Hashanah-ing, the Senate held a little powwow and took a vote on their revised version of the "Troubled Asset Relief Program" aka TARP. (They should have called it COAT - "Cover Our Asses Today.") Their revised version is not 2 pages long either. It's also not 137 pages long. No, this thing is now four hundred and fifty one pages long. 451!!! 22,500% more pages than the original 2. 451 pages. By the time I finish reading the damn thing, the economy will have collapsed AND fixed itself by then! Are you kidding me?!? What the hell is in those 451 pages?!? Actually, forget about that for a minute. How was Rosh Hashanah?

I don't know if I have the stomach for it all in one post. It might have to be divided into two. But let me just say this: Those 451 pages? They're not ALL about the giving financial assistance to the companies that loaned out money for mortgages to people who couldn't afford to pay them back. No, that's what it was supposed to be about. But since not enough of our fine, fine Representatives could come together and agree on passing the bill, they needed to come up with ways that might sway some to change their vote to yes. So they did that by throwing a bunch of other things into this bill as well that have absolutely nothing to do whatsoever with this bill nor with the outcome of the economy. They just figured that if they pandered to some people's desires, projects, and wants that they might be persuaded to vote yes the next time around. Hmmmmm......see, for those of us NOT currently serving in the House, there's a name for that. It's called bribery. You selfish, self serving, rat bastard, weaselly snakes.

Yeah, I was right. This has to be two posts. I need to go yak somewhere. But I am hereby formally advocating to just clean House (literally) and start over. All of the members of the House are up for re-election in November. (Just one of many reasons that some had for voting "no" the first time around for this TARP thing. ) I am formally advocating the voting for every challenger to every incumbent seat in the House. I don't care who they are. All of those who are currently in office over there need to go. Yesterday. Throw them all out and start over. I don't care who the challenger is either. Communist? I'll vote for 'em. Homeless dude? Sure. Your dog? Yes. All of them. I will be voting for every single challenger to House seats out there. If ANY of these bozos are re-elected, you have to wonder WHO the people are who voted for them AGAIN. It's like when I hear that Congress has an 11% approval rating. I don't immediately think, "Wow, they suck." But that's because I already know that. I immediately think, "Who in the hell are you 11% that think that they are doing a good job?! Who are YOU?!?!"

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For Cryin' Out Loud, Just PASS The Bill!

I'm sure that somewhere out there (most likely in Florida) a female teacher is having sex with her students, someone who is not wearing any pants is robbing some convenience store and a large snake or stray bull, steer and/or cow has escaped from it's home and is roaming about a major freeway. I'm sure these things are happening and are extremely mockable. However, there will be plenty of pantsless robbers for me to write about in the future after the US economy completely collapses and the entire country gets to experience the 2008 version of The Great Depression, live and in person. I hope you like dust.

If you've been living under a rock for the past few days and have no idea what I'm talking about, that's actually pretty good, as shortly there is going to be a huge run on rocks to live under and you already have yours staked out and will avoid the stampede. That's good. But if that scenario doesn't take place, then you're just another uninformed, under a rock, rock-dweller. While I can't do much about the rock-dwelling (hey, who am I to judge?), I can do a bit about the uninformed part. That is, to help the 'neath=rockers become more informed. But only, only if they read. They have to pull their share. Trying to get something for nothing is how this whole mess came to be in the first place.

See, you know all of that money that we've been putting into banks for the past, oh, I'd say....always? Yeah, that money. Well, see, the problem is that the banks? Yeah, they don't have it anymore. No, they gave it away. I know, I know, you think I made a mistake and I should have wrote that they "loaned it all out" and not "they gave it away". Nope, no mistake there. They gave it away. They might have thought they were loaning it out, but when you "loan" money to someone that you know can't pay you back? That's called "giving". Big difference. But that's what happened. The banks thought that it would be a really good idea to loan people money to buy a house that they couldn't afford. Yes, I know that sounds stupid. But let me finish. Maybe it won't sound so stupid then.

So they loaned all of this money to people who couldn't afford the houses that they were buying because the banks just figured that, since real estate prices kept going up, they would assume and act as if the real estate prices would always go up and that way they could lend money to people who could just sell the house when they couldn't pay for it anymore and the banks would get their money back that way. Now does it sound stupid? It does? Well, good. That's because it still is.

Naturally, what ended up happening is that after a while, say four or five years, the banks were still waiting to get their money back. What they apparently didn't anticipate was that the real estate market would eventually be glutted with overpriced houses that people couldn't afford to buy and that people couldn't afford to live in. And since the people that bought the houses that they couldn't afford weren't exactly financial wizards, they didn't put them up for sale themselves and instead let them go into foreclosure. The foreclosure process takes quite a while to complete to the point of having the home sold. So as a ton of houses are going into foreclosure, overpriced houses aren't selling (hey, I cannot buy a home AND a tank of gas at the same time! Who can?), people aren't buying because prices are too high and there aren't any homes left anyways, and the banks don't get their money back. Sheer genius, I tell you. On the part of everyone who was involved at any level with this. Sheer genius.

So now the banks don't have any money. And it's not like it's just one bank. No, moronic banks all across the country were behaving like this. (Why? How about if I said that those who sell the houses and those who broker the loans get a big, fat commission for each one that they do? Then would it become a bit clearer? I thought so.) Now banks can't lend money to each other or to small businesses or to people who want to buy a house that they can afford, or anything like that requires loaning money. They don't HAVE anymore.

Well, no sense in staying in business if you don't have any product to sell. It would be like if KFC ran out of chicken. Unless you wanted to change the name to KFB (Kentucky Fried Batter), you'd be shuttering the doors to the deep frying coop shortly. And banks did the same thing. Next thing you know, banks are going under, people are panicking, stocks are plunging and the whole thing is just cats and dogs, living together, mass hysteria. (My thoughts? I'm expecting a huge run on shovels, so that people can dig holes in the backyard to bury their money in, and I'm expecting a huge run on mattresses so that people can hide their money under them. So invest heavily in mattresses and shovels and you'll be fine. And after you do, come see me and check to see if I still have the Brooklyn Bridge for sale, because I could probably cut you a pretty good deal. You know, since we're friends and all.)

And here's where I start to get a little testy about the whole thing. What has to happen now is that the financial institutions (known as the banks run by greedy dimwits) need to get some money. So the Federal Government wants to, essentially, loan (or give. Some say give.) the banks the money. They want to buy up all of their mortgages that are outstanding (and by outstanding I mean that no one is paying for them. I do not mean all of the "great mortgages" when I say that.) and that way the banks will get their money back and it will be business as semi-usual. What? Oh, how much? Well, for the eight of you who actually read this, you'll remember that the other day I explained that they need $700 billion dollars. Not necessarily because they really need that much, but because they needed a really large number and that's the one they chose.

Sure, it's a buttload of money. It's several buttloads of money. (Because you could never fit all of that money in one butt.) But the US is a pretty rich country and with "rich" comes buttloads of money. But here's the thing: If the banks don't have any more money, they can't lend money. That means that people, like small businesses, etc., can't get money. If they can't get money, they close up shop. If they're closed, their employees get laid off. With people being laid off, the free spending of money as if someone had opened up a freaking spigot stops. When money spending stops, then the cycle continues to repeat itself until we're all wearing barrels or sandwich boards. (Actually, the only people who will be wearing the sandwich boards will be morons because they thought that they could eat it when the next food shortage came along.) For reals.

So all of the lawmakers congregate in Washington, DC to try and hammer out a deal. Originally, it was a 2 page document that gave the $700 billion to Henry Paulson to do with what he would without any oversight from anyone. Of course, the anal retentive, control freaks in Washington flipped out when they heard that and thus began two days of negotiation which turned the 2 page document into a 132 page document that was to be up for a vote on Monday. And remember, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, and many, many economists are all saying that if something isn't done soon, everything will fall apart. AND also remember that, just to show that they weren't kidding, Washington Mutual, which has been around since 1889 (which is almost as long as John McCain has been around) folded over the weekend while everyone was working on their "deal". Gone. The end.

So a company that had been around for 119 years couldn't wait TWO days until this Financial Assistance package was completed and had to go out of business and sell off it's $31 billion dollars in assets to JP Morgan for $1.8 billion. And that's without a coupon! Naturally, that would persuade some of the lawmakers to just pass the thing, whatever it is, just pass it so that our economy, which is now starting to resemble a Jenga tower towards the end of the game, doesn't collapse into shambles, right? Oh, please.

They thought it was done. They thought it would pass. It didn't. And what do you think happened? Exactly. The Dow plunged 777 points, the largest one day drop EVER. Nice job, Reps. Nice job. What in the hell is wrong with you people? (Mark my words, if they do not agree on this thing on Tuesday, the drop will be twice as much.) And here's where I go ballistic.

Do you know how many freaking committees there are to regulate and supervise the very departments and sectors of the financial systems of this country? Let me list a few. We have:

• The governors of the Federal Reserve System
• The Board of Directors of the FDIC
• The Securities and Exchange Commission
• The Federal Advisory Committee
• The Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs
• The Committee on the Budget
• The Committee on the Finance of the Senate
• The Committee on Financial Services
• The Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives
• The Federal Housing Finance Agency

The various members of these various committees and boards (and I've just listed TEN of them. There ARE more.) are made up of members of the House of Representatives! These committees and boards are supposed to oversee the financial system of the country and regulate it so that disaster doesn't strike. Well what in the hell have they been doing the past four or five years?! And NOW they're all concerned that something might be done without their oversight? Are you kidding me? You're already supposed to be overseeing things? What have you people been doing??!

Clearly, people weren't doing their jobs. That's nothing new when it comes to elected officials. But what burns my toast is that these people have the freaking nerve to, once again, act all concerned about the situation and what they can do to save it when they were the ones that created the mess in the first place by doing NOTHING! Don't show up NOW and tell me that YOU want oversight. That's what you should have been doing, you morons, you! AND on top of that, those who know their economic stuff are telling you that it is going to be financially disastrous if the now 100+ bill doesn't pass and something isn't done. So what do you do? Do you pass the bill? Hell, no! Instead, you make it so the bill does NOT pass and the stock market drops like the rocks that must in your heads.

So when all of the fraud was going on in the real estate and mortgage lending game, you didn't want to listen then. When you're on these committees to oversee the industry and you learn about these things, you didn't want to listen then. And then after you're told that not giving Federal help to these banks will significantly damage the economy, you still don't listen and don't pass the bill because NOW, suddenly, YOU want to start doing your job? Screw you and don't let the door hit you in your cowardly ass on the way out. (The cowardly ass, by the way, was originally slated to be one of the three characters that accompanied Dorothy on her magical journey to Oz and then was unceremoniously replaced by that lion fellow.) Once again, you showed that you only care about yourselves, being as how a whole lot of you are up for re-election in November and you saw a "yes" vote as being not as politically productive for you as a "no" vote.

Come November on Election Day, I've decided to simply vote for whoever the challenger is to any seat in the House of Representatives that is up for grabs. I don't care if it's a goat rapist running against the incumbent, I'm voting for the goat rapist! And I encourage everyone else to vote against the incumbents as well. Don't worry about what your party affiliation is; just always vote for the goat rapist! I want all of them booted out and I want to just start over. What a bunch of jackasses! If you people wanted to do your damn job so badly, why didn't you?! What was stopping you?!! Oh, that's right, because you're jackasses! Once again, I remind those folks that their JOB was to make sure that NONE of this could HAPPEN! And they're worried about votes? Grand.

Stay tuned and see if either a) the House passes the bill tomorrow, or b) if I have a coronary if they don't. Either one, a fair to partly cloudy possibility. (In the interim, I'd like to apologize to all of the goats out there that I may have offended or frightened by participating in and encouraging the electing of public officials prone to fornicating with members of your species. Sorry 'bout that.)

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