Silly me….I thought the “bullshit bunch” already allowed COLOMBIA to bring in drugs with BULLSHITS BLESSING…I figure he has LOTS OF GOOD BUDDIES down there since he has allowed so many jobs to leave this country.

Bravo, Alan MacDonald!  What a fun read that was.  Your sarcasm is Pythonesque in illuminating Bush’s crude falsehoods.

“America is center-right!” the Right began whining on November 5.  And now we add, “The horrible noise you hear is not the mythical free market crashing all around you.”

So no matter what evidence accrues, the myth remains the same: Ayn Rand is god, Greenspan did no wrong, and the way forward is to redouble our efforts along the path to disaster.

Naomi Klein nailed it on her appearance on The Colbert Report:

  Klein: “Yes. Here’s another example of disaster capitalism. After Hurricane Katrina, this is the classic example.”

  Colbert: “I remember it. I remember it. Yeah?”

  Klein: “I was in New Orleans. I was working on this book at the time. The city was still underwater. Richard Baker, the Republican congressman, says, ‘We couldn’t clean out the public housing projects, but God did.’ They used a horrible disaster to push through this preexisting agenda that hey had. They don’t believe in public housing. You know what they believe in?”

  Colbert: “My friend, they were just giving credit where credit is due.”

  Klein: “What they believe in is getting poor people into houses they can’t afford, so that their friends can speculate on the money, and then they can bail them out.”
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/10/3/headlines#11

I see feudalism, not democratic republicanism, in the every move of BushRoveCheneyCo.

That’s why I like Sirota’s article.  Like you, he’s pointing out a glaring ommision in Bush’s myth: if Bush was really as portrayed in the propaganda, he would’ve walked away by now.  He’s got his monkey fist clenched around our Common Weal, thrust way up inside our body politic, and he can’t begin to imagine letting go.

There will be no ‘walking away’ for this cult; disaster capitalism is what they do.

http://www.democracynow.org/2008/10/6/naomi_klein

In the 1950s, there was great concern at the State Department about the fact that Latin America, then as now… was moving to the left. There was concern about what they called the “pink economists,” the rise of developmentalism, import substitution, and, of course, socialism….

So, this plan was cooked up—it was between the head of USAID’s Chile office and the head of the University of Chicago’s Economics Department—to try to change the debate in Latin America, starting in Chile, because that’s where developmentalism had gained its deepest roots….

And so, the Chicago Boys were born. And it was considered a success, and the Ford Foundation got in on the funding. And hundreds and hundreds of Latin American students, on full scholarships, came to the University of Chicago in the 1950s and ’60s to study here to try to engage in what Juan Gabriel Valdes, Chile’s foreign minister after the dictatorship finally ended, described as a project of deliberate ideological transfer, taking these extreme-right ideas… and transplanting them to Latin America. That was his phrase—that is his phrase….” [End Klein]

“Feudalism in this sense is… based on the relation between lords and the peasants who worked their own land and that of the lord. The peasants owed labour service to the lords, who provided military protection and also had extensive police, judicial, and other rights over the peasants… Feudalism came to encompass all aspects of social organization and was characterized as a system that was both oppressive and hierarchical.” [Ency Brit 2008]

We all know bullshit is just trying to make up a new story[lie] that will make him look good….just like all the other stories[lies]he has put out there for us….Please-President OBAMA-when you take position of the GOVERNMENT-REVERSE AS MANY OF the bullshit decisions as you can…and do this as quick as you can….because I can’t see any thing bullshit has done that has any merit….

It wouldn’t be the Democrats we all know if that shameful party didn’t spend the first days of their new return to the White House in an initial fit of posturing. Just as Republican elites need the votes of religious fundamentalists and throw them a policy bone every so often, so Democrats rely on union votes in part, and likewise offer a policy crumb on occassion. Even though Obama and Biden are both staunch supporters of the draconic Plan Columbia which has caused so much havoc in that country, they have joined with most other Democrats in congress in making a token display of opposition to a free-trade agreement that, while harmful enough in its own way, is not nearly so damaging to Columbian society as the ostensible drug eradication program that has provided over $5 billion in American military aid to Columbia since its inception by the last Democratic president, Clinton. Just as Clinton took over Bush I’s NAFTA folly and pushed it through willingly - without needing much pressure from big business (but getting a lot of encouragement from Sen. Biden who supported it from the start even under Bush) so Bush II, in a role reversal, later took over Plan Columbia from Clinton. And broad-minded Biden has again been unwavering in his support, along with most of his fellow Democrats, before and after the White House regime change, despite the well-known human toll among Columbian campesinos and unionists. Biden and Obama between them already possess considerable experience in ‘reaching across the aisle’ to form bipartisan consensus in support of legislation inimical to working class interests. So it perhaps may not seem so bizarre that Democrats should be willing to put up a front in opposing a “tiny little trade deal” since it won’t cost the Democrat’s corporate donors very much and it might help to rekindle their ‘progressive’ image among a gullible party base. And anyway, the Democrat-conceived Plan Columbia has already rewarded “a right-wing Colombian regime under investigation for links to paramilitary gangs, drug cartels and anti-union brutality.” As with NAFTA, any Democratic populists can expect to be humiliated by “their own party standard bearers” such as corporate waterboy, Joe Biden. “But amid all the conflicting opinions he’s hearing” Obama Copacabana who sometimes boasts of his own poker “gambling greatness” might make a counter-offer to his drugstore cowboy predecessor. If Bush withdraws his support for the predatory, tiny Columbia free-trade deal, Obama will withdraw his own support for the equally suspect, massive corporate bailout boondoggle. “Knowing ‘when to walk away’” might be a good habit to get into.

I assumed, wrongly, that two of the people most responsible for our economic abyss, Bush and Greenspan,  might have a final ‘Casablanca moment’ and walk-off in the fog, agreeing that serving (drinks or duty) in a ‘Vichy’ government was getting old—- and strike out together with a new view of political economic democracy.

But this famous ending scene was not to be.

Greenspan at least said he was, “shocked, shocked” that his very faith in the sanctity of the free market had been privately strangled by a ‘corporatist Empire’ gaming the well-known ‘market FLAW’ of ‘negative externality cost dumping’ with ‘debt bombs’.

But as others have famously said,  “Poor, George, he doesn’t even know ....”. 

In this case, and for this second ‘poor George’, even though his father bought him a Harvard MBA education, young George never learned about the well-known ‘market failure’ of gaming ‘negative externality costs’ to create faux-profits—- and even though he was the ‘useful idiot’ through whom the biggest Ponzi scheme in the world was executed—- the dumb bastard still has the lunacy to say, just this week, as our country’s whole economy is dying of pre-meditated and intentionally inflicted wounds, “These problems are not the fault of free-market capitalism”.

With this big an arse, one wonders how there’s even room for the hole——but there is!

WATCH the End of Term “PARDONS”. They are the KEY to the GOLDEN DOOR!!

Regarding gambling and the maintaining of Democratic Party unity, when I was a Las Vegas craps dealer, we used to advise players that the family that plays together stays together.

By and large, in spite of all the talk, the rich don’t believe in capitalism or the so-called free market, either.  These concepts are trotted out and retired according to their interests of the moment.

The real problem is; if we support bad business, it will drag us all down to a certain level of mediocrity.  A sure sign of our demise on all fronts.  RIP America.

Well, here’s how I see it; starting with Clinton (maybe before), every economic decision made by the government has been fatally flawed.  NAFTA, GAT, FTA’s, and foreign aid has been used for the good of the corporations and the rest of the world’s bad.
In the early 70’s it was apparent to anybody with an average I.Q. that energy was going to get expensive.  GM, Ford, and Chrysler completely ignored that clarion call;  so too our lovely government.  We’ve wasted 38 years on bullshit and corporate profits.
And here we are: Now, why should we bail out greed, STUPIDITY, and just plain apathy?  When businesses make stupid and wrong decisions; they should go down.  It’s time to pay the piper.  GM doesn’t deserve to live; nor does any business that is run so stupidly.