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? MORE »