Wonkette
John McCain pissed off about a million Republican businessmen (and especially George Will) when he angrily pretended to fire Securities & Exchange Commission chairman Christopher Cox. Then the maverick idiot announced he wanted New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo — a famous Democrat who was even married to a Kennedy, once — to take over the SEC. Obviously, Cuomo directly caused the entire American economic collapse: “Andrew Cuomo, the youngest Housing and Urban Development secretary in history, made a series of decisions between 1997 and 2001 that gave birth to the country’s current crisis.” [Village Voice]
Suck on this John McCain.
It’s just him being a MAVERICK. The person who best knows how the economy can be saved is the person who is directly responsible for destroying it in the first place. Haven’t we seen this movie before?
Well, if he caused it maybe he actually understands it, which is more than McCain can say.
Someone wake us up from the long national nightmare that is the McCain campaign.
Crisis? What crisis? Everything’s fine. Got my canned food, ammo, and guns.
Ye gods, that pic is frightening. You can almost smell the embalming fluid.
Senator Obama simply doesn’t understand that to fix this financial crisis you need the economy and job creations oversighted by the people that were originally involved.
How many layers is he wearing??? Sheesh.
So the Republicans were right! It’s all Clinton’s fault!
sanantonerose: I think he’s blowing a patriotic grandpa deuce to get that essential metamucil constituency.
As a financial analyst (and I reached this exalted position by analyzing my finances and concluding that I was out of cash) I believe the way out of our problems is for the government to give me a suitcase full of money. Trust me, I saw Bugs Bunny do this once.
sanantonerose: Well, you know the oldsters have to stay warm or hypothermia sets in.
sanantonerose: sweater (or worse sweater vest) under jacket and over button down and tie=you simply may not be permitted to win this election. FAIL
The fault ultimately lies with the native Americans who sold NY to the white man.
Doglessliberal: We’re a long way from Reagan refusing to wear a coat to make the Rooskies look like pussies.
Well, Grampy keeps referencing Teddy Roosevelt, so I presume he’s somehow mixed up in this thing, too.
Oh, and Gramps? Younger voters just think referencing Teddy Roosevelt makes you look really, really old. Or that you must have been lovahs, back in the day, because you refuse to shut up about him already.
Senator Maverick, Sir, I call shenanigans!
Completely sidebar, but that fugly pic would make a kickass backdrop during the inaugural ceremony in January … when they put McCain in the urfs to sleep.
sanantonerose: Well, there’s the orthopedic truss, the wife-beater, the gartered socks, maybe some nylons for the circulation in the legs, a layer of pancake on the face, the — oh, was that a rhetorical question? Sorry.
run_said_ran: get yer brooms!
sanantonerose: I was going to say that I thought that that was one of his better looks. Because so much is covered, maybe?
I liked McCain’s idea for a “League of Democracies” better the first time, when Woodrow Wilson proposed it.
In 1919.
During McCain’s first term in Congress.
I think Barrett can make a case that Cuomo’s tenure at HUD instituted lots of bad rules.
What he doesn’t do is actually tie him to the current crisis.
It seems like what you’d expect from a New York-centric publication convinced that whatever happens from their local enemies is automatically played out across the nation.
I thought the tides caused the financial crisis. I have no $&^&%#@ idea what’s going on.
AnnieGetYourFun: Except his WALNUTS. He needs a burkkha for those.
Andrew Cuomo? That guy who’s trying to pry Seneca reservation cigarettes from my cold dead hand, even before I’m cold or dead???
I’ve saved so much on the REZ cigarettes that my second son is paying CASH for his CCNY tuition.
No worries, unless Andrew wins his lawsuit against the Senecas.
No worries, if he takes the McCain promotion and forgets about Upstate New York and the money
grubbing tribes that occupy our hinterland.
I’m worried, nevertheless.
He needs to make decisions, then do the opposite. Then he’d be the Best President Ever!!
shortsshortsshorts: No burkha can contain those motherfuckers.
If ever a web journal needed a “quick read” option, it’s definately The Voice. In depth and verbose at the same time.
And I hated Cuomo before I read the piece.
I wonder if Andrew Cuomo found out about this at the same time we did…on 60 Minutes when he just blurted out some random Democrat name who didn’t have a prayer of getting nominated or confirmed in a Jamakane administration. Why not “my friend Ted Kennedy” or “someone like Max Cleland the legless veteran from Georgia”…
Rebel Countess: Hi, Rebel Countess. Will Andrew tax this winter’s snow snake competitions? Run Bucky Run!
I’m deeply disappointed that he didn’t swear to follow Cox into the gates of hell. Gate of hell? Mouth of hell? Hell, anyway.
Is Charles Keating available?
He thought he was firing Archibald Cox. Ooops, I crapped my pants!
Well of course you put the guy who caused the problem in charge of solving it. Who would know better about the details of the problem than the guy who brought it into existence in the first place? Who would know more about the human factors and who was to blame? Who is more of an expert on screwing up than the screw-up himself?
This is a basic principle of business and government that I have seen implemented time after time all my life. It’s just amazing in its self-defeatingness.
Can someone explain the psychology here?
Jamakane is thinking “I’d like to pop my floppy up Barry’s poo box and give all that rich loamy mulch left over from those hundred dollar luncheons a stir, and while I did that, I’d get Joe Liebercunt to cut an old-man grumbler in his face. Now Joe looks pretty healthy, but his insides are sicker than Ted Kennedy’s after he ate a dozen ex-lax and a case of metamucil”
Did I say Andrew Cuomo? I meant Smith, Andrew…no…Adam Smith…Paine…Thomas Paine for Treasury…what? Dammit where’s my So You Want to Be a NeoCon handbook? Christ…wait…that’s it: Jesus Christ for head of the SEC! Does that please you? Please say yes.
Look at that picture, it looks like they’ve already stuffed and mounted Johnny-Mac!
Dang, I really expected Todd and Sarah to wait until AFTER the election to work their big-game hunter magic on the senior senator from Arizona.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjomYMe6t_U
I’d say that pretty much sums it up.
(Full disclosure: I made it, but that doesn’t mean you won’t enjoy it.)