[DB]

The sickest fast is it is the American public that are letting these fools do this.

There was a time they would have been driven out of congress in shame. Today we have no more shame.

[baa39]

This is the first thing I’ve read all day that makes any sense. And it’s quarter to midnight. Think I’ll end on this note of reason and honesty and go to bed. Thanks.

[Alia]

Thank you for the ping, jazusamo.

It was once upon a time in America we voted into office the "best" representative (we thought) of "WE, THE PEOPLE".

The American left thinks America is arrogant, brutish, and evil. And so, the people who think this of America have voted into office the people they think best represents this view of their own. And so it is. We have low-lifes with a gangster mentality sitting in elected office.

Some of the voters think this is GREAT! That now the uber "real" America is being represented to the world.

D-Frank and D-Dodd stridently, vigorously legislated for the confiscation of wealth by their constituents, and are now tribally hacking away at the very corporations the D's set-up to perform this confiscation of wealth. The D's are cutting out the middle-men, played as stooges by the D's.

This is Main Street Thuggery. And those of a low-level education and certain other cranial and spiritual limitations see this as a Victory for them. What they don't see? They are also considered usable, malleable blobs of worthless tissues by the very same "playahs".

the sheep look up. And Rev Wright et al applaud.

The American Congress is beginning to resemble Africa's turmoil.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Thanks for the ping to a fine article. You wouldn't think that there was anything left to say about this fiasco, but Sowell manages to provide a few nuggets:

Just as everyone seemed to be a military expert a couple of years ago, when it was chic to say that the "surge" in Iraq would not work, so today everyone seems to be an expert on executive pay.

The real point is to pander to envy and resentment against people who make a lot of money. Envy is always referred to by its political alias, "social justice." But to put the lives of the wives and children of executives at risk for the sake of Beltway grandstanding shows how low our political saviors have sunk.

Speaking of demagogues distracting people into mob action against arbitrarily chosen targets puts me in mind of the dystopian short story, The Lottery, by Shirley Jackson. Which I had to read in college half a century ago - and only in recent years ever connected to left wing politics. But then, Alinsky rule #12 amounts to that very thing.

[bert]

Who will bell the Queeah?

[arthurus]

We are not yet a banana republic,

Presently, we are only trying to imitate one. As the imitation becomes more practiced and intense it will become the real thing and we will know that we have "arrived."

[Sergio]

For me, this is the money line.

If members of Congress can't be bothered to read the laws they pass, then they have no basis for whipping up lynch mob outrage against people who did read the law and acted within the law.

It truly is a case of our country being great in spite of, and not because of, our elected officials.

[NJ_Tom]

I wonder if we might interpret the bonus "scandal" by making the following substitutions:

1. For "AIG Executive Bonuses" read "Reichstags fire."

2. For the bonus recipients, substitute "Marinus van der Lubbe" (the dutch communist framed for the arson)

3. For the busloads of Acorn activists being transported around to hold "boisterous" (i.e., borderline violent) demonstrations at AIG offices, substitute Sturmabteilung (aka the SA).

Any one see the resemblance?

BTW - If the analogy holds, Acorn members might want to read up on the events of June 30 to July 2, 1934 -- the period also known as The Night of the Long Knives.