Wonkette
- Washington Mutual failed, and the Wall Street bailout failed. But McCain flew to Washington! [Politico/WSJ]
- Everybody will try again this morning — “everybody,” meaning, “no Congressional Republicans.” [Wall Street Journal]
- But McCain does have some oft-forgotten experience with Washington and failed financial institutions. [LA Times]
- Wow, so Sarah Palin needed notes for that embarrassing CBS interview? [New Republic/Gawker]
- McCain conveniently skipped another debate when he was losing — against George W. Bush, during the 2000 primary. [SFGate]
- Governor Palin will send some of that dirty crook money she took to some charity. [Associated Press]
- At least the Federal Government has announced a bailout deal for the six-toed cats who roam the grounds of Ernest Hemingway’s old house in Key West. Now that’s ch-change we can believe in. [CNN]
Today has an ominous feel, no?
wonketties, less hear it fer the six-toed kitties, all four dozen of ‘em, and all the ships at sea. less see, the gummint and the moozeum spent enough money on diss cat fight to support me the rest of my natural, carefully invested. a matter that sorta snowballed, eh? dat cat hepped papa write “to have and have not” and “for whom the bell tolls”? go, kitty! and required readin fer dese our dismal dark days, if only fer their titles, which we can console oursells wit by readin over and over as we slip out o’consciousness. where’s my lipstick, i can’t find it nowhere…
Re: Palin & the “Interview” - I don’t think she was reading notes - she was praying, then speaking in tongues! ^..^
Sarah Roseannadanna: …and after creating jobs and shimming up the shimshammers, we’ll need to shake up the NAFTAs so we’re not scared of free trade anymore…
Katie Couric: uh… the question was about the bailout plan…
Sarah Roseannadanna: Oh…never mind!
columnv: It’s all the republicans praying for a terrorist attack to divert attention from
the earmarks they’re writing into the bailout plan…
If Barry gets to be the Christian Right’s anti-Christ, Walnuts gets to be my atheistic self’s anti-Christ.
About the only thing nice I can say about the Repubs is that this idiot generation is more than willing to go down with the ship they made. It’s too bad that they forced the rest of the world onto it by gunpoint.
At least Jay Carney of TIME referenced “Red Dawn” this morning when discussing the Couric/Palin interview. That got me out of bed.
McCain is trying desperately to look all leader-y and banks are starting to fail. That’s what you call putting country first. Meanwhile, his chosen running mate Caribou Barbie/Rapture Barbie/Alaska Disasta/Bible Spice (take your pick) can’t form a complete sentence when throughly coached and allowed to carry a cheat sheet to the interview.
The more I see of the Couric interview, the more it becomes clear that Sarah Palin is so hopelessly out of her depth, so unprepared (and not in any endearing way), that McCain’s “masterstroke” is now confirmed as a random shot in the dark.
I wonder if today will be the day when the McCain campaign finally crashes and burns for good.
Oh and the whole business of the Rupublicans in Congress wanting to dodge responsibility for the bailout has got to have a side-effect of convincing some Republican voters that the GOP wants nothing to do with the reigns of power this year in any election.
I’ll make a joke later if I can think of one.
Silly Wonkettiers. Those weren’t notes. It was a recipe for word salad.
This shit is so NOT FUNNY, and yet I cannot keep from laughing, because if I stop laughing, I won’t be able to stop crying.
WTF is wrong with you people? What is the major malfunction that has led to this, and yet hasn’t been recognized as a major malfunction?
I’ve lived long enough to see the USofA do stupid stuff, over and over again. But for the first time, I really feel like yelling at 300 million people, “Don’t eat the paste. Don’t stick your fingers in the electrical socket. Don’t run with scissors.”
Today, you are ALL Trig Van Palin.
columnv: Yes, kind of like free-fall right before hitting the ground.
Canuckledragger:
Be nice, eh. Trig was born into that condition.
The majority of Repubs, many of the indies (I see you Vigilante) and more than a few Demrats had to work extra hard to be that retarded.
Canuckledragger’s right, the sky is falling, the whole world’s coming to an end. That said, Yay for six-toed cats! Yay!
Wow, so Sarah Palin needed notes for that embarrassing CBS interview?
She’s actually quite bright and articulate. The McCain advisors spent hours and hours getting Palin to sound like an ignorant dumbshit so that the GOP base would remain enamored of her. And yes, part of that training included “stage notes” such as “Make funny face, act like you can’t think of the word ‘mocked’ when saying: ‘It’s funny that a comment like that was kinda made to… car… ah.. I dunno.”
Cape Clod:
Word salad, that’s it! She tossed random words together and served ‘em up. Let’s hope next time she can stick to one subject or theme, sort of like a word caesar salad or a word waldorf salad. That would be an improvement.
seems wamu depositors are ok w/o 700B.
let’s face it this isn’t as important as stains on a blue dress but i think it can work itself out. let the dying, die in peace.
Which foreign country is going to kick us while we’re down?
Israel hits Iran? Russia, China? Step right up. These are dangerous
times. Nothing funny about today. Except Sarah Palin, of course.
Terry:
More like Palin tossed her own salad. Sorry, I’m going to throw up my own breakfast.
Terry: Wait, what? Sarah tossed Katie’s salad? I didn’t watch the interview, maybe I should….
Crashed and burned like so many seaman in an F4II fire aboard the USS Forrestal.
So WaMu failed, it was sold, it’s depositors will get all their money, and yet, somehow, taxpayers didn’t have to put up 700 billion dollars. There’s a message here somewhere. Can’t quite figure it out…
ManchuCandidate: PICS OR GTFO
Inflation really has become a problem. Last time McCain stabbed the economy in the balls with the S&L scandal in the 80’s it only cost us $160 billion.
Terry: Cape Clod: I hate doing this… I just hate it.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=xeuUWBRnQRU
Terry: Some one used that term elswhere, I’ve become very enamored of it.
Given the coming Great Depression II, I’ve been reviewing the previous economic collapse to see who made out well in those difficult times. Therefore, I’ve decided to become a movie star and make screwball comedies. Any spirited, unconventional, attractive ladies with a gift for singing to Leopards care to join me?
4tehlulz:
Here you go.
http://peggynature.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/simmons-nude-in-salad.jpg
Ken, Seriously, I cannot look at WALNUTS! face any longer. Please just replace it with “the talking walnut” from Bad Santa, or something. For reals.
Baby Jeebus on cracked wheat with a word salad, aren’t we all just fucking exhausted by all this bewlshit?
Canuckledragger: Any room for us wonkateers?
Cape Clod:
I’d say yes, but I’ve aged into a middle aged grumpy woman. May I still have a part in your film? I can be the matronly type who is the “straight man” for your leopard singing babe.
ManchuCandidate: I guess I’ll be washing lettuce extra carefully from now on.
Some details of the conservative bailout plan are emerging: “tax incentives for the most productive members of our society” and war on Norway, which hates us for our freedoms.
Canuckledragger:
2008: I laughed, I cried, I died.
Now close your eyes and go to sleep. Go to sleep.
The butthole is going to speak at 9:35am. And no, I don’t mean McCain.
So while we wait, why don’t we check this out???
http://www.batterblaster.com/
God I’m in love with Sarah Silverman
Delicious: Marlo Stanfield: Close your eyes, Joe. It won’t hurt none.
Hedley Lamar: Point. I picture Putin-esca spinning a Wheel of Fortune-like device to determine what formerly occupied land can “liberate” next.
CNN live feed is supposed to stream Dubya’s “OMG save my legacy!” speech in a few. I’m presuming there will be a very amusing/depressing liveblog here. Load up on coffee folks. And sedatives.
graceless: ow! ow! that hurt! she’s purdy n’everthang, but god-damn, that hurt! got my tail up tween my legs and my ears flat back. ow! i’ll be good, i promise, jess pleez doan do that to me again, pleez.
If I slap the piss out of Monica Crowley will I get arrested?
Secondly, can all of this be this fucking hard? Geez, balance the mother-fucking checkbook much?
slavojzizek: njdon: Uh, FDIC isn’t your magical fairy godmother. Yeah, it can handle a few bank failures, but not a system-wide collapse. That’s the lesson learned here: one bank failure is not equivalent to a financial meltdown. That tells us absolutely nothing about the broader credit crisis.
Shit, I don’t want to bail out the clowns, but if you’d rather have a feel good, hands-off, “fuck you” than a plan that averts a crisis (albeit by rewarding some people who don’t deserve it), you should join the House GOP.
Penis joke, etc.
I saw the six-toed cat story in the WaPo today, and it (and the cutie cat picture) were the only thing that kept me from wanting to get back in bed and hide. Yay for weirdo cats.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/25/AR2008092504362.html
Canuckledragger: Heyyy, Canuck old buddy - are you currently married? If not, how do you feel about marrying an American on November 5 if this whole election thing doesn’t work out quite right? I have money! …well, in dollars, so not actually *that* much, but still!
RE: Palin. According to Kos, there is even worse CBS footage they didn’t air. Example: she was asked what is the worst thing Cheney ever did & Bible Spice answered “shooting some friend in the face.” I’d give a million dollars to see the rest of the footage that didn’t get aired (oopps, except my money is now ALL GONE!).
Funny Kos link about how the mock debate & mock press conference have Walnuts campaign shitting bricks right now.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/26/81617/1783/155/611072
“Governor Palin will send some of that dirty crook money she took to some charity.”
I’m 100% sure she’ll take the tax deduction.
Why is it that every time one of these companies go down, I love going to the ‘careers’ section of their site?
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