• February 15, 2012

Whoopsy!Poor George Bush, he has had to Address the Nation two days in a row, that is how awful this financial crisis has gotten. He is walking out onto his nice patio surrounded by all the people who John McCain will fire once he’s president: the chairman of the SEC, our old pal Henry Paulson, and Ben Bernanke. Let’s hear how bad our individual tax bills will be once we’ve socialized every large business in the US. Will we have to eat our housepets? Will there be condiments still?

10:46 AM — George W. Bush has aged 20 years in the past two weeks. He’s even losing his hair! One of the sadder aspects of this whole meltdown dealy has been watching various politicians who never cared about economics, only war, being forced to talk about economics. He looks equal parts bored and worried.
10:47 AM — Please please please let him take questions afterward, and please let somebody ask him if he believes the fundamentals of our economy are strong.
10:48 AM — Oh right! Now money market funds are getting insured, because even they — once considered about as stable as putting your money under your mattress — are now looking a little shaky.
10:49 AM — Greasing the gears. Liquidity. This sounds like an Olestra ad.
10:50 AM — “Anyone engaging in illegal financial transactions will be caught and persecuted.” THAT IS WHAT HE SAID. Four more years!
10:51 AM — The government is purchasing pretty much everything in America that isn’t nailed down. Everything must go. Mortgages, banks, insurers, cats, kittens…
10:52 AM — Please everyone NO BANK RUNS do NOT go to the bank and take out all your munnies, says President Bush. He is so disgruntled and distressed that his nose looks different…pointier…bitterer. It is his mother’s nose: angry, dumb and vindictive.
10:53 AM — And now for the happy part, where he reviews all of the awful things that have happened in the past eight years. This is the latest of a tragic long list of “challenges” that America has “weathered.” Bush vows bipartisanship and getting back on the path of long-term growth.
10:54 AM — You know how the wives of philandering politicians always have to stand up at the podium while their husbands admit to the public that they fucked some hooker once? George W. Bush has three wives standing by him as he admits to the public that we are all going to have to take it up the ass, for America.

{ 153 comments }

Sussemilch September 19, 2008 at 10:47 am

“I’ve talked to Gov. Palin and we’ve just agreed to sell Alaska to China to pay off the national debt.”

Terry September 19, 2008 at 10:48 am

Well, at least this won’t affect George’s legacy of fiscal responsibility and good business practices.

Rush September 19, 2008 at 10:50 am

I purchased a $1b short-sell, deritative equity swap on whether or not he says “nu-cu-ler”

NoWireHangers September 19, 2008 at 10:50 am

Oh, so now you fuckers are for oversight and regulation and not selling the country to the highest bidder? Eat a bag of dicks, W.

facehead September 19, 2008 at 10:50 am

I’m putting all my money in whore diamonds.

Cape Clod September 19, 2008 at 10:51 am

I’m waiting for him to pull the same speech that Baptista uses near the end of Godfather II, where he says, essentially, “We’re Fucked. I’m Outta Here. Good Luck, Suckers.”

Rush September 19, 2008 at 10:51 am

[re=101474]Sussemilch[/re]:

In what respect Charlie?

NoWireHangers September 19, 2008 at 10:51 am

I don’t have finances, just mounds of debt. Viva the apocalypse!

Cogito Ergo Bibo September 19, 2008 at 10:51 am

“This action will put a significant amount of taxpayer’s dollars on the line.” I just LOVE hearing all about “risk” too. This guy’s a laugh riot. If by “laugh” you mean “drinking and crying uncontrollably.”

sweetits September 19, 2008 at 10:51 am

did bushie just say persecuted rather than prosecuted? typical…

Strictly for the Tardcore September 19, 2008 at 10:52 am

I have no sympathy for this fucking asshole. May he burn in the fires of a thousand Hells.

As a sidenote, his face is exactly that of a schoolchild who completely forgot to write that physics presentation for the class, and he’s going to fail because of it. He doesn’t understand what he’s saying, and he knows he’s dicking it up.

SayItWithWookies September 19, 2008 at 10:52 am

“the federal government continues to enforce laws protecting your money.”

Uh — why did he need to reassure us of that? BRB — going to the bank.

Cogito Ergo Bibo September 19, 2008 at 10:52 am

“In the long run, Americans have the right to feel confident about our country.” Is he smoking da weed?

dano September 19, 2008 at 10:53 am

I’m surprised he didn’t walk out in his boxer shorts holding a bottle of Jack Daniels.

SayItWithWookies September 19, 2008 at 10:53 am

Oh, he’s giving us his resume — collapse, terror, mayhem.

NoWireHangers September 19, 2008 at 10:53 am

“Buy things again, America. Go get a giant Cinnabon. Get that double latte. Everything’s gonna be fine. We’ve invested in crap loans with your tax money; there’s nothing to be scurred of.”

Cogito Ergo Bibo September 19, 2008 at 10:54 am

Dubya ran away again. No questions. Just duck and run when he was finished.

rambone September 19, 2008 at 10:54 am

[re=101475]Terry[/re]: Lucky for me, despondency is all I require to thrive.

Strictly for the Tardcore September 19, 2008 at 10:54 am

[re=101494]NoWireHangers[/re]: Bwahahahahaha!!!!!

Yes, it’s very safe to invest in America. Just like two years ago.

dougbob September 19, 2008 at 10:55 am

i got bad news (or not, i suppose)…china just repo’d alaska & they refused to take palin as part of the deal.

4tehlulz September 19, 2008 at 10:55 am

>.“the federal government continues to enforce laws protecting your money.”

And by “your” he means Goldman Sachs.

tonashideska September 19, 2008 at 10:55 am

I feel so much better now that Chimpy has spoken

Cogito Ergo Bibo September 19, 2008 at 10:55 am

[re=101493]SayItWithWookies[/re]: It really was quite a list of his greatest hits. Natural disasters. The dot com bust. Quite the walk down memory lane!

professor.cj September 19, 2008 at 10:55 am

As we’ve all learned recently, most our nation’s resources are in Alaska. Mooseburgers will inevitably feed the nation during the coming dustbowl, at one silver dollar a piece (paper money no longer being accepted, natch).

Elitist Republican Tard September 19, 2008 at 10:55 am

Who is this guy?

dano September 19, 2008 at 10:56 am

I’m telling you W. is going to use the last wish he has on his monkey’s paw and get us out of this mess!

ManchuCandidate September 19, 2008 at 10:56 am

Shouldn’t he be used to causing financial ruin by now?

LittlePig September 19, 2008 at 10:56 am

“Aw, those Social Security funds were just a-lying there doin’ nothing anyway”

SayItWithWookies September 19, 2008 at 10:56 am

He shows up, dutifully follows a script, and dashes away without conveying any sense that he knows what he’s doing. Now I know how Laura must feel.

WWJGD September 19, 2008 at 10:56 am

“Shit sucks”
Thanks for the uplifting address! I better start looking for a refrigerator box and a polka dot bag to tie to my stick that I bought with my wheelbarrow of cash.

Rush September 19, 2008 at 10:57 am

Anyone see this one yet?

In his economic speech today, when referring to his call to fire SEC Chairman Chris Cox, McCain mistakenly said: “The chairman of the FEC should resign and leave office and be replaced.”

McGahn is chairman of the Federal Election Commission.

NoStyleHere September 19, 2008 at 10:57 am

Wait, are W and Paulson wearing father-and-son lookalike ties? Will the tie make the decider know about the monies?

longjohnson September 19, 2008 at 10:58 am

Hey, when capitalism fails there is nothing like a good ole’ shot of Soviet style business to get things back on track.

George Bushdevonavich

Jovn Macainanoff

Rush September 19, 2008 at 10:59 am

10:54 AM — You know how the wives of philandering politicians always have to stand up at the podium while their husbands admit to the public that they fucked some hooker once? George W. Bush has three wives standing by him as he admits to the public that we are all going to have to take it up the ass

Not that there is anything wrong with that….

longjohnson September 19, 2008 at 10:59 am

Greed is good (as long as someone else pays for it).

Gordon Gecko -

4tehlulz September 19, 2008 at 11:00 am

In Soviet America, Ass fucks YOU!

WWJGD September 19, 2008 at 11:02 am

[re=101513]longjohnson[/re]: Da, Comrade! McCainanoff/Palinovich 08! We’ll show those capitalist pig-dogs how to run a country.

Strictly for the Tardcore September 19, 2008 at 11:03 am

[re=101505]dano[/re]: Dumbfuck already used his wishes to A) Get elected, B) Sell the Iraq War without anybody actually looking at it except for Barry and civilian Dems not holding office, and C) Get elected. This crisis is the consequence of those stupid fucking wishes.

Man, at the very least, Dubya could at least pretend to be commanding back in the day. Now can’t even look into the camera because his notecards are all screwy.

Bud1 September 19, 2008 at 11:03 am

Maybe he really does intend to “persecute” naked short sellers. Force feeding, brutal beatings…

Strictly for the Tardcore September 19, 2008 at 11:04 am

[re=101518]4tehlulz[/re]: Well, THERE’S an image. *shudder*

Doglessliberal September 19, 2008 at 11:05 am

I am pretty worried, actually, because President Idiot’s idea of stimulating the economy seems to be starting wars to gin up defense contracting and getting people off the unemployment rolls by sending them off to fight.

Watch your back, Iran.

freakishlystrong September 19, 2008 at 11:06 am

We are all Joads now…

Hunter Gathers September 19, 2008 at 11:07 am

Hey George……No one cares what you have to say anymore. Go back to Crawford and fight the ‘War on Brush’ you lackwit shirkaday!

ManchuCandidate September 19, 2008 at 11:07 am

Would have been better if W just said, “More Cowbell.”

Botswana Meat Commission FC September 19, 2008 at 11:08 am

Has anyone check in with the Paultards lately? They can’t be taking these bailouts well…

freakishlystrong September 19, 2008 at 11:10 am

And you know what? Tonight, I will go to my boyfriend’s bar, and his bloviating ass of a right wing nutjob friend, (we all have them, we just hide them), will be there;
a.)Crowing about North of Bumfuck lady and
b.)How democrats suck at the economy
..and I will again have to try not and bash his skull in with beer mug…grrrrrrrrrrrrrr…

dano September 19, 2008 at 11:10 am

Thank goodness that idiot didn’t do his drunken tap dancing again.

Strictly for the Tardcore September 19, 2008 at 11:10 am

Ah, fuck. I just saw where WALNUTS! is blaming this thing on the evil Washington establishment that didn’t stop corporate corruption.

Hey, Fuckhead!! Those were the REPUBLICANS!!!!

TGY September 19, 2008 at 11:11 am

I applaud address of General Secretary Georgi Georgiich Bushinkov and welcome our new centralized command economy. Now is time for black bread, pickles, and vodka. With pelmanee and pirozhki!

wtf_files September 19, 2008 at 11:11 am

If we’re going to be a socialist state, could we also have the free healthcare and post-secondary education? Please?

Dientes September 19, 2008 at 11:12 am

All we really need to shore up the economy is some more lovely dancing by George. Like an economic rain dance, or something. Yeah, that would do the trick.

freakishlystrong September 19, 2008 at 11:12 am

[re=101529]freakishlystrong[/re]: Today, we are all Joads, shit, y’all knew what I meant..just enraged is all…

gjdodger September 19, 2008 at 11:13 am

Economy, you’re doing a heckuva job.

WagTehGod September 19, 2008 at 11:13 am

Look everyone, I’m really sick of all this negativity. Five days ago my financial outlook was terrible, I had no assets or investments and I was going to be living off my %572 per month in social security when I retire (if I ever do). Five days later, I am now a co-owner of a major insurance company and I co-own MILLIONS of homes thanks to our awesome president who helped use my taxpayer money to buy all this stuff. I now have assets!

I really hope Boeing goes under so we can buy them too, because a portfolio like mine demands my own jet.

InKnockYouUs September 19, 2008 at 11:13 am

Did Bush say anything about naked shorting? I understand everyone is all concerned with it right now.

Here is something about the brokers who were all into naked shorting (ans some tin foil stuff as well):

http://bigpicture.typepad.com/

Dientes September 19, 2008 at 11:14 am

[re=101537]dano[/re]: darn you with your brain wave stealing

Sweetfoot September 19, 2008 at 11:14 am

I love the ownership society. I’m also trying to get support for my partisan poster project. You can own these for free! Cheaper than AIG. Download, print and post. Link to this blog.

http://www.democratbydesign.typepad.com

Gopherit v2.0 September 19, 2008 at 11:15 am

The only challenge we’ve had to weather the last 8 years is YOU, Dubya. My sole consolation is the look of fear and despair in his eyes. Yes, Dubya, this is all your doing, and your name will be a joke for generations to come. This knowledge, along with a fifth of cheap whiskey, will keep me warm this winter when there’s no money to keep my utilities going.

Condiments-Only Diet September 19, 2008 at 11:15 am

Please tell me there will be condiments still!!!

Serolf Divad September 19, 2008 at 11:15 am

[re=101474]Sussemilch[/re]:

Wait… can we scrap the Alaska idea and go with Texas?

AngryBlakGuy September 19, 2008 at 11:15 am

[re=101492]dano[/re]: …I have a feeling he is getting shit-faced as we speak!

S.Luggo September 19, 2008 at 11:15 am

[re=101488]SayItWithWookies[/re]: I believe that Bush means that the Capitol Police have been ordered to surrounded the Bureau of Engraving with drug sniffing dogs.

Strictly for the Tardcore September 19, 2008 at 11:16 am

[re=101536]freakishlystrong[/re]: It’s your boyfriend’s bar? Fuck it. Break a beer bottle over his head. Then just tell the cops he fell.

magic titty September 19, 2008 at 11:16 am

[re=101487]Strictly for the Tardcore[/re]: That’s his regular face. He’s so far gone from reality these days. There’s this doomed glaze of “what the fuck?” perpetually shining from his eyes. It’s so disturbing.

His dad was the only recent Republican president who didn’t look completely deranged at the conclusion of his term(s). Prior to that, the last one who seemed coherent and ‘decent’ by the end of days was Eisenhower.

They’re like punched-out boxers when they leave. But I guess an entire adult life devoted menacing treachery will do that to a person.

4tehlulz September 19, 2008 at 11:16 am

[re=101547]WagTehGod[/re]: You won’t get that, but you’ll most likely own a U.S. car company by the end of the year.

regisgoat September 19, 2008 at 11:16 am

A great performance by our bestest president ever. I almost feel sorry for the poor runt. The man thrived on popular acclaim, and now every press conference is a new walk of shame for him. Especially worth watching, the point where he runs up a list of the defeats during his administration–”we’ve weathered these” (like we weathered 1929); finally, the defeated trudge off-stage, with no one even giving a monkey’s butt about yelling a question at him for him to ignore as he waddles away on his lame web foot.

HuskyMescan September 19, 2008 at 11:17 am
magic titty September 19, 2008 at 11:20 am

[re=101511]Rush[/re]: Not only was it factually incorrect, it was piss-poor sentence construction.
This man should not be let near anything important.

It’s like when you can no longer trust Granddad to turn off the stove – so you just tell him he can not use it anymore.

grendel September 19, 2008 at 11:20 am

[re=101474]Sussemilch[/re]: That’s a Win-Win!

magic titty September 19, 2008 at 11:22 am

So did anyone hear how after Bush walked away, ‘Nowhere To Run’ by Martha and the Vandellas cranked on?

grendel September 19, 2008 at 11:24 am

Today we are all Socialists.

Strictly for the Tardcore September 19, 2008 at 11:24 am

[re=101557]magic titty[/re]: Truthery.

[re=101560]regisgoat[/re]: Dubya’s always lived by the screed that “History will be his judge.” I think, over the last six months or so, he’s realized exactly how history’s going to judge him.

Cape Clod September 19, 2008 at 11:26 am

I’m disappointed that he didn’t observe that it is National Talk Like A Pirate Day and throw a few “ARRRRRH!”s into that speech.

http://www.talklikeapirate.com/

Miller September 19, 2008 at 11:26 am

You should all be grateful. This speech where Bush promises that it’s all going to be OK combined with his photo-op meeting are seriously cutting into his Rock Band 2 time. He and Cheney were ripping through all the hard songs, but put it on pause……for you.

http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/

facehead September 19, 2008 at 11:26 am

You can put Bush on teevee, but it’s still Bush.

Servo September 19, 2008 at 11:27 am

Nothing says legacy like getting a proctological from the silver back gorilla in a Brooks Brothers suit that is the GOP.

WagTehGod September 19, 2008 at 11:27 am

[re=101558]4tehlulz[/re]: Awesome, I’m tired of riding the bus like a poor loser!

Strictly for the Tardcore September 19, 2008 at 11:27 am

[re=101569]grendel[/re]: To (heavily) paraphrase Garth Ennis: “Socialism. It’s one of the most feared words in their language. Not even half of them can tell you what it means.”

jodyleek September 19, 2008 at 11:28 am

[re=101552]Condiments-Only Diet[/re]: Yes, lots of condiments…and the trickle downers especially love ketchup (it’s a vegetable doncha know!)

NoWireHangers September 19, 2008 at 11:31 am

When you think about it though…
In recent decades the America economy has become increasingly credit based and we’ve bought more cheap Chinese-made crap and saved less. It’s the “look-what-I-bought”, “buy your own home”, “keeping up with the Jones”, Super Sweet Sixteen Capitalist nightmare. Acting on this message, which was beaten into the American people by Bush, the media, and pop culture at large, people racked up debt and lived beyond their means. Now that the shit hit the fan, NO ONE will acknowledge the root issue: save money, conserve resources, the difference between a need and a want, how inflation/interest/credit works, basic economic competence, etc. INSTEAD they want you to keep shopping. KEEP SHOPPING! YOU EARNED IT, GIRL. BUY THOSE SHOES! BUY THAT BOAT! BUY YOUR CHILDREN’S LOVE! BUY SHIT BUY SHIT BUY SHIT! ALL IS WELLLLLLLLLLLL!

Cogito Ergo Bibo September 19, 2008 at 11:31 am

[re=101572]Cape Clod[/re]: He could have at least dressed for the occasion. http://www.bloggerheads.com/images/bush_pirate.jpg

grendel September 19, 2008 at 11:31 am

[re=101551]Gopherit v2.0[/re]: You already got your Vodka ration? Where’s the line? Is it that one next to the bread line?

oy vey September 19, 2008 at 11:32 am

wasn’t their Jeebus supposed to save them?

Hamster September 19, 2008 at 11:32 am

What is the stock index initials for Ball Mason Jars, I smell an opportunity here. Pickled okra anyone?

Viva la Cynthia September 19, 2008 at 11:34 am

Thank god I’m at work and can’t watch this live.

facehead September 19, 2008 at 11:36 am

I don’t want to offend the advertisers who support Wonkette, but wtf is this “I’m a constitution voter” crap? So far I’ve seen a dog, a cat, some cute whores, an old person, and even the statue of liberty claiming to be a constitution voter. What the shit? I’d click on the link to find out, but I don’t want my computer to get AIDS.

magic titty September 19, 2008 at 11:37 am

[re=101587]oy vey[/re]: He was too busy drafting Constitutional amendments to ban abortion and gay marriage.

[re=101584]NoWireHangers[/re]: Thank you for this.

magic titty September 19, 2008 at 11:39 am

Off the subject – Anyone know what happened to Jeff Goldblum? That guy was a bit of a snark folk hero for me, up there with the Botswana Meat Commission FC.

Vanity Smurf September 19, 2008 at 11:42 am

Just put the bodies under the TARP.

Meanwhile, liquidate into the dead cat bounce in progress.

Capital Flight now cleared for takeoff on runway 43R.

lilblackcorvette September 19, 2008 at 11:42 am

[re=101530]Hunter Gathers[/re]: lackwit shirkaday, joads…. obscure lit references….. haarder , harder, mmmmm…. yes, baby right there mmm don’t stop … Ennis reference… YESSS, YESSS!!!

time for a smoke break.

WadISay September 19, 2008 at 11:43 am

If you divide $1 trillion among 300 million Americans, it comes out to about $300 bucks apiece. In other words, your rebate check (excluding any of it you’ve already sent to China for a flat screen or Saudi Arabia for gas).

obfuscator September 19, 2008 at 11:44 am

[re=101591]Viva la Cynthia[/re]: I can’t watch it either, but a bird did shit on my shoulder when I went out to get coffee, so I bet that feeling of fear turning into disgust and contempt was similar to watching this announcment.

NoWireHangers September 19, 2008 at 11:46 am

[re=101598]WadISay[/re]: Mine went to Bank of America; it’s kind of like the image of the snake eating it’s tail.

Johnny Zhivago September 19, 2008 at 11:47 am

[re=101598]WadISay[/re]: I just did that – I get $3333.00 which is no chump change. That’s enough to buy some serious fungible commodities.

agentstinky September 19, 2008 at 11:47 am

[re=101491]Cogito Ergo Bibo[/re]: No, cause if he was, it would’ve taken him about 8 more minutes to get out that same thought.

Doglessliberal September 19, 2008 at 11:48 am

[re=101589]Hamster[/re]: Dow Jones just took AIG off its list and added Kraft Foods. I noted to my husband that this is a baaaad sign, because everyone knows that boxed Kraft mac and cheese is what gets eaten when the economy is down the tubes.

If Dow adds the makers of Top Ramen, head for the hills.

capitol hillbilly September 19, 2008 at 11:48 am

i love yew, mur’ca

S.Luggo September 19, 2008 at 11:49 am

[re=101584]NoWireHangers[/re]: You speak, we obey. Walmart same store sales are up an average 3.5% for May thru August.

Me, I’m investing in grain alcohol and Sterno futures.

obfuscator September 19, 2008 at 11:53 am

[re=101605]Doglessliberal[/re]:

I won’t worry until the Dow adds United Ketchup Packets and the Day Old Dumpster Bread Corporation.

JadedDIssonance September 19, 2008 at 11:55 am

Now that we own AIG, can we sit in on the board/investor meetings? I have a few things I’d like to say…/bring…

BigBrainOnBrad September 19, 2008 at 11:55 am

[re=101571]Strictly for the Tardcore wrote “Dubya’s always lived by the screed that ‘History will be his judge.’ I think, over the last six months or so, he’s realized exactly how history’s going to judge him.
[/re]:

Remiinds me of a headline from The Onion a few years ago-”Bush: History Cannot Judge Me Harshly if I End It”.

Cape Clod September 19, 2008 at 11:56 am

On the plus side, Jonah Goldberg’s parents will probably kick his ass out of their basement in order to make room for a paying renter.

Special Agent Jack Mehoff September 19, 2008 at 11:57 am

In what regard are you failing, Economy?

Monkey September 19, 2008 at 12:00 pm

Please don’t take meh kitties!

Platypus September 19, 2008 at 12:05 pm

After reading about that morale booster of a jive and dash, I’m totally rolling-over my IRA into guns, ammunition, booze, a milch cow, two goats, a few chickens, some MRE’s, a power generator, and plenty of high yield high risk short term paper (lottery tickets).

See you folks on the other side of the apocalypse!

dano September 19, 2008 at 12:08 pm

[re=101626]Platypus[/re]: Good man. Planning ahead is important. After all this is over the only real currency will be food, shelter, weapons, and women of breeding age.

natteringnaybob September 19, 2008 at 12:10 pm

Worst. Comrade. Ever.

Pass the vodka.

Kev-O-Tron September 19, 2008 at 12:13 pm

“now I’m changing back into my jammies and I’m gonna go watch more cartoons until that stupid Judge Joe Brown show comes on.”

bago September 19, 2008 at 12:13 pm

Strictly for the Tardcore: Into MSI?

Strictly for the Tardcore September 19, 2008 at 12:14 pm

[re=101632]dano[/re]: You forgot gasoline, with which to fuel our motorcycle gangs, and spiked football pads, with which to protect ourselves from mutant attacks.

dano September 19, 2008 at 12:19 pm

[re=101646]Strictly for the Tardcore[/re]: I did not forget gasoline. When the collapse comes you’ll either be on foot or use horseflesh to get around. Suddenly the Amish won’t look so stupid after all.

gurukalehuru September 19, 2008 at 12:22 pm

[re=101511]Rush[/re]: FEC, SEC, Shia, Sunni, Putin, Merkl, Europe, South America…what’s the big diff?
My nightmare: McCain totally melts down during the debate, stares into the camera for 30 seconds, asks for the question to be repeated, then calls the moderator a cunt and storms off the set. The next day it is announced that he is stepping down as a candidate due to health reasons.
The MSM, bless their hearts, immediately pounce on the fact that now this election has become truly historic, because we can choose either the nations’ 1st black president or the nations’ first female president. Guess which way the bitters go?
In a move of cross-party reconciliation, Sarah Palin announces that Bob Barr will be her running mate.
Sometime in early February of 2009, WWIII begins.
Everybody dies.

dougbob September 19, 2008 at 12:23 pm

[re=101553]Serolf Divad[/re]: sorry, the chinese don’t want texas. too many mexicans and the sooperhiway to canada scared them off

MarieDeGournay September 19, 2008 at 12:23 pm

So, let’s all spend billions of taxes on companies that run themselve into the ground chasing phantom profits, meanwhile a poor kid in downtown New Haven can’t get treatment for diabetes, and one of my students has to work full-time to pay for one class in hopes of getting a degree in 8-10 years. *cries*

Britain, can you take us back? All is forgiven, all I want is your primo healthcare and education system. Hell, I’ll take accent lessons.

TGY September 19, 2008 at 12:23 pm

[re=101653]dano[/re]: Bicycles. The Amish still look stupid. Party like it’s 1699!

Johnny Zhivago September 19, 2008 at 12:24 pm

Bush looked like he was up until 8pm last night working on this….

gurukalehuru September 19, 2008 at 12:25 pm

He spoke for 8 minutes, without vomiting or falling over. Fox will say it was a great success.

TeddyS September 19, 2008 at 12:27 pm

“Republicans are the party of small government and less spending.” And they keep saying it with a straight face. Are you better off now than you were four hours ago?

Babs Hula September 19, 2008 at 12:27 pm

I always feel so much better when Czar Daddy
speaks.

CNBC guy. “The New York Times is eating our dust.”

Oh my god.

njdon September 19, 2008 at 12:27 pm

[re=101495]Cogito Ergo Bibo[/re]: did he see his shadow?

JadedDIssonance September 19, 2008 at 12:31 pm

[re=101664]TGY[/re]: Yes! Bikes! And the Chain Lube Holder will be King! If I take my seat-post out, it makes a pretty fearsome cudgel and my quick release chain links mean a quick scourge! Plus, I’ve been training for years now, never owned a car…my dodge and pedal skills are primo. Lance Armstrong for President King!

[re=101666]Johnny Zhivago[/re]: The ovaltine made him sleepy.

njdon September 19, 2008 at 12:32 pm

sara: we’ll have to fall on the grenade like cagney in the, fighting 69th. sorry, movie analogies are all i know.

TeddyS September 19, 2008 at 12:33 pm

One bright lining … Paul Krugman actually understands this crap. Make him the money czar.

Mistrez_Mish September 19, 2008 at 12:34 pm

[re=101481]facehead[/re]: Whore diamonds are a very sound investment nowadays.

Babs Hula September 19, 2008 at 12:34 pm

Fox News: 3 to 4 o’clock today will be a very very crucial time.

CivicHoliday September 19, 2008 at 12:36 pm

I am NOT going to eat my cats. I heart them too damn much. So…sorry, hubby, but I bet you’d taste pretty good with smokey-sweet BBQ sauce…and you’ll last a heck of a lot longer in the coming cold cold winter…

tunamelt September 19, 2008 at 12:39 pm

There will be gin making in my bathtub tonight.

DoctorCulturae September 19, 2008 at 12:39 pm

[re=101685]Babs Hula[/re]: Twill be the sell festival.

On the bright side, how do I look in my new suit?

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Babs Hula September 19, 2008 at 12:42 pm
tonehedge September 19, 2008 at 12:44 pm

Ah Harrr mateys! Now ya own AIG, what more booty can ya come up wid?

natteringnaybob September 19, 2008 at 12:45 pm

[re=101653]dano[/re]: Don’t forget the Pop Tarts.

DoctorCulturae September 19, 2008 at 12:48 pm

Excuse me. Mr. [re=101660]gurukalehuru[/re]. Ron Howard on line 2.

madtowngooner September 19, 2008 at 12:51 pm

[re=101536]freakishlystrong[/re]: Why try? Hit the fucker. It’s Lord of the Flies time

TGY September 19, 2008 at 1:04 pm

[re=101676]JadedDIssonance[/re]: It’s Mad Max: Beyond the Tour de France! Also, you can squirt people in the face with the sipping-water-bottle things and use the baseball cards in the spokes as ninja throwing stars. With suitably sharpened edges, of course.

slomojoe September 19, 2008 at 1:07 pm

This perfectly follows the arch of every other GW Bush business enterprise: guy goes in like a cocky bastard, runs things like a clueless moron, drives the joint to the ground, is bailed out at the last minute before disaster by deep-pocketed friends (in this case, us), and finally gets out of town leaving it to others to clean-up the mess. What’s new?

lumpenprole September 19, 2008 at 1:20 pm

I didn’t mind living in Terry Gilliam’s “Brazil” so much. Not sure how happy I’m gonna be in the Soylent Green world.

Itsjustme September 19, 2008 at 1:21 pm

[re=101493]SayItWithWookies[/re]: incest

sati demise September 19, 2008 at 1:23 pm

[re=101746]slomojoe[/re]: Exactly. We knew he was a snake when the rednecks and Christianists voted in enough numbers for them to blatantly steal the elections without getting caught…

TGY September 19, 2008 at 1:28 pm

[re=101493]SayItWithWookies[/re]: Violence, death, destruction, rah! Violence, death, destruction, rah!

nietzscheprojectile September 19, 2008 at 1:29 pm

[re=101556]Strictly for the Tardcore[/re]: Or ate a pretzel and fell.

sati demise September 19, 2008 at 1:29 pm

[re=101664]TGY[/re]: At least you can eat your horse if worse comes to worse.

sanantonerose September 19, 2008 at 1:33 pm

[re=101492]dano[/re]: If he did, I have the feeling that folks would crazily demand a third term.

donner_froh September 19, 2008 at 1:44 pm

Let’s see if I have this right: First, those who have already shown they have no idea how the economy works or even what the acronyms for financial derivatives mean will put together a plan to save the economy.

Second, the testosterone soaked greedheads who created the mess that the first guys can’t figure out will line up to get as many bushel baskets full of million dollar bills as they want.

Third, those who have been hurt the most already, home buyers who stretched too far when they signed up for their mortgages, will continue to be driven from their homes. Those who aren’t left to die in the gutter will be shipped to the People’s Republic of China to work in tainted milk processing facilities or as unofficial organ donors for the doddering old (and young) fools who created all this.

The GOP I have always known is back.

DoctorCulturae September 19, 2008 at 1:52 pm

[re=101798]donner_froh[/re]: yeah? Yeah? YEAH? Well at least they’re honest! [slits wrists]

Servo September 19, 2008 at 1:58 pm

[re=101798]donner_froh[/re]:
…and the rescue effort is being wrought in secrecy.

Gopherit v2.0 September 19, 2008 at 1:59 pm

[re=101569]grendel[/re]: You joke, but the Big Three are filling out their apps for corporate welfare THe airlines can’t be far behind. Zaporozhets and Ilyushins all around!

lawrenceofthedesert September 19, 2008 at 2:02 pm

I said all along that Shrubbie was Nixon Without Brains. Look how Felon Nixon-like he appears these days, drinking more and hiding out surrounded by a small coterie who are there as much to watch him as support him. It’s pathetic, and really creepy when you think about the weapons he has access to. The next step is something unconstitutional against the Dem’s to stem the tide; I hope the next Woodward ain’t asleep at the switch, but the surfeit of fascist journalists doesn’t bode well.

Speaking of the Constitution, could someone point out where the basis is for all these Old Boy bailouts?

freakishlystrong September 19, 2008 at 2:09 pm

[re=101708]madtowngooner[/re]: He’s Piggy..

PioBaroja September 19, 2008 at 2:10 pm

Cashing out my life savings and buying seventy-five hundred pair of truck nutz doesn’t seem like such a rash decision after all. Where’s your messiah now?

TaxWallStreet September 19, 2008 at 2:12 pm

Seriously, if we are going to bail out all these spoiled arrogant rich twits, we need to put a specail tax on them.

Not everyone who works for these bailed out firms, just that every peson who makes more than 300k and works for a bailed out firm, has to pay and extra 20k a year until the bailouts are paid back.

They also need to shut down the in house cafeterias in Fannie Mae and Sallie Mae, because I pay taxes and I don’t get a guy at a waffle station in the morning, a guy at the wok station at lunch, and pay less than 3 bucks for lunch.

If you work at a bailed out firm and have more than one home, second home is GONE—now for free stays in the Hamptons for injured veterans.

Have more than one car per person living in your primary residence? Gone! Now used for injured vets and the edlderly to be ferried to the VA or the Dialysis of wherever.

If you work at a firm bailed out by my tax money, and have more than two weeks a year vacation, that vacation is GONE!!!! But you can spend the three extra weeks of your five weeks vacation ayear cleaning bedpans at the VA or deleivering food to the homless.

You are NOT masters of the universe any more, you’re a welfare taker, a net drain on society.

iwillsavethispatient September 19, 2008 at 2:13 pm

I missed this “live”, as I’m lazy and live on the West coast, but now I’ve read it, I just wanted to say that this was the Best. Liveblog. Evar. Kudos, SKS, kudos!

DoctorCulturae September 19, 2008 at 3:03 pm

LawrenceofArabia: Naw. Tricky Dick never left us. He lives in another Dick, Ole Dead-eye Darth, who’s probably sitting near his Maryland forest lair kicking back with a couple brewskis by the fire slamming down pulled pork sandwiches: “Hah! Last one standing will be me & Halliburton! Soon I’ll be living on my secret island just off the Fiji coast. If I want I’ll have Bernanke come paint my toenails.”

Texas2Step September 20, 2008 at 9:39 pm

[re=101524]Bud1[/re]: and waterboarding. Don’t forget waterboarding as part of the persecution.

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