Bad! Bad! Nancy Pelosi! Making all them Rpugs squirm like that!

Madam Speaker, when was the last time someone asked you for $700bn?

It is a number that is staggering, but tells us only the costs of the Bush administration's failed economic policies: policies built on budgetary recklessness, on an anything-goes mentality, with no regulation, no supervision, and no discipline in the system.
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O! No! Not St. John McSame!

McCain at dead end as House rejects bailout plan
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: September 30, 2008

Filed at 6:21 a.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican John McCain has maneuvered himself into a political dead end and has five weeks to find his way out.

Last Wednesday, McCain suspended his presidential campaign to insert himself into a $700 billion effort to rescue America's crumbling financial structure. In so doing, he tied himself far more tightly to the bill than did his Democratic opponent, Barack Obama. More

What is this world coming to when even the AP turns to bite the hand that feeds it BBQ?

Firedrill

Bailout?

The $850 billion bailout

Iceland has just bailed out Glitnir Bank, with the government putting in 600 million euros — $859 million — in return for a 75% stake.

Iceland has only a bit more than 300,000 people, about 1/1000th the population of the United States. So this was, per capita, the equivalent of an $850 billion bailout here.

Notice, by the way, that it was an equity injection rather than a purchase of bad debt; I approve.

Stolen Shamelessly From Krugman

Krugman, More Krugman!

People Krugman Agrees With Part I People Krugman Agrees With Part II

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St. John McSame Tells It Like It Is!

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Riding that white horse in to save the day!

Say, does that make Sarah Barbie Tonto?

How It All Goes Away

Lesson From a Crisis: When Trust Vanishes, Worry
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