Wot Digby Sez

[lsanderson]

I'm listening to John Harwood right now on MSNBC express shock that Obama is refusing to drop all plans to reform the health care system or invest in the future in light of this crisis. Isn't that special? The new consensus is that after the hideously expensive Bush era fuck-ups, the only "responsible" thing to do is devote the country to paying back their debt. Again.

Bush has been the most successful president for the aristocracy in American history. He opened up the federal treasury to his rich friends, and they looted it like a Bagdad museum for nearly eight long years. Now that it's been stripped bare to the point that its going to cost trillions to even stabilize the thing, the Village has decided it's time to sober up and stop all this profligate spending. How convenient. More