Where Would We Be Without Irony?

And all this happened at the end of eight straight years that America devoted to frantically chasing the shadow of a terrorist threat to no avail, eight years spent stopping every citizen at every airport to search every purse, bag, crotch and briefcase for juice boxes and explosive tubes of toothpaste.

  Rolling Stone

Ah, yes. I think we are still doing that.

Yet in the end, our government had no mechanism for searching the balance sheets of companies that held life-or-death power over our society and was unable to spot holes in the national economy the size of Libya (whose entire GDP last year was smaller than AIG's 2008 losses).

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The mistake most people make in looking at the financial crisis is thinking of it in terms of money, a habit that might lead you to look at the unfolding mess as a huge bonus-killing downer for the Wall Street class. But if you look at it in purely Machiavellian terms, what you see is a colossal power grab that threatens to turn the federal government into a kind of giant Enron — a huge, impenetrable black box filled with self-dealing insiders whose scheme is the securing of individual profits at the expense of an ocean of unwitting involuntary shareholders, previously known as taxpayers.

Ooops. Already there.

Obama claims he knew nothing of the bonus money, yet he signed the stimulas package. "When I become president I will read line by line every bill that comes accross my desk". Anouther caimpaign promise broken.

  Comment (exactly as written) at Rolling Stone

Hmm. Yeah. What about that?

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.