Posts Tagged ‘bailout failure’

The Morning After

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

Oil — you’ll recall this commodity from that time before yesterday when we all owned cars and houses, yes? — is just $96 a barrel. [Reuters]
Instead of getting started on revising the bailout plan, Congressional leaders keep blaming each other, but mostly Nancy Pelosi, for their terrible failures. [Washington Post]
In response to America’s fuck-up, the Germans have turned to quoting Nietzsche, which, oh god, do you remember the last time someone gave a German a copy of Beyond Good and Evil? [Der Spiegel]
Even the Big Business lobbyists couldn’t persuade their friends the House Republicans to vote for the bailout. [The Hill]
Thanks mostly to the rejection of the bailout, Asian markets are suffering too. [AP]
Some poison milk found its way into some Cadbury bars in Asia, and now chocolate is ruined forever. [Times Online]

Monday, September 29th, 2008

When McCain said he was dropping out of the race to fix the economy, he was really having a filthy swingers orgy, in public, with Joe and Hadassah. [Ben Smith]
Simulate the retarded, child-like speech patterns of national idiot Sarah Palin, with this fun word-generating internet machine! [Andrew Sullivan]
Bill Kristol wants McCain to suspend his campaign once more, to go fix the economy all over again. [Weekly Standard]
Pun abuser Maureen Dowd is BANNED from McCain’s Straight Talk Air. [Howard Kurtz]
You know what’s also on the verge of collapse? Pakistan. Pakistan has become too big and too expensive for the taxpayers. [Matthew Yglesias]
Maybe instead of “bailout” this thing should have been called “Economic Stability Plan” or “Hey Let’s Nuke Iran” and then more Republicans would have gotten behind it. [Politico]