by The Puppet Mistress | Man, this cheered me up. Even as "bipartisan support" for the Brave New Plan emerges, thinking voters everywhere are asking, "What fresh hell have they wrought?"
Then, in a piece entitled "Yes, There Are Deeply Angry Democratic Members of Congress, Matt Stoller published one deeply angry legislator's email. In pertinent part, it says:
Paulsen and congressional Republicans, or the few that will actually vote for this (most will be unwilling to take responsibility for the consequences of their policies), have said that there can't be any "add ons," or addition provisions. Fuck that. I don't really want to trigger a world wide depression (that's not hyperbole, that's a distinct possibility), but I'm not voting for a blank check for $700 billion for those mother fuckers.
Nancy said she wanted to include the second "stimulus" package that the Bush Administration and congressional Republicans have blocked. I don't want to trade a $700 billion dollar giveaway to the most unsympathetic human beings on the planet for a few fucking bridges. I want reforms of the industry, and I want it to be as punitive as possible...
...I am looking for volunteers who want to hold the sons of bitches so I can beat the crap out of them. (Open Left)
John Cole said:
I don’t know what lawmaker wrote this, but I want to move there so I can vote for him/her.
Also via Balloon Juice, this choice quote from a piece entitled "The Fall of the Gilded Age."
"The whole era of conspicuous consumption and free spending and luxury ended as of this week," said Robert Frank, Wall Street Journal reporter and author of "Richistan," a book about America's super-rich.
As New York investment bankers, once called the masters of the universe, were sent packing, the super-elite tone set by multi-million dollar charity balls, birthday parties and bar mitzvahs too is threatened.
"It was almost like they had created a whole separate world," said Frank. "They were a parallel country of the rich."
"A lot of those people will have to sell their homes, they're going to cut back on the private jets and the vacations. They may even have to take their kids out of private school," said Frank. "It's a total reworking of their lifestyle."
He added that it's going to be no easy task.
"It's going to be very hard psychologically for these people," Frank said. "I talked to one guy who had to give up his private jet recently. And he said of all the trials in his life, giving that up was the hardest thing he's ever done."(ABC News)
I am a gentle soul, not normally given to repeatedly head-slapping others. But if the anonymous email writer cited above really does need volunteers, he (or she) has my email address.
PS. From DWT:
Last night Orlando Democrat Alan Grayson looked at what the failed and crooked corporate "leaders" and their allies in the Bush Regime were demanding and his response was a well-reasoned "String 'em up!."
As we've repeatedly said, GRAYSON FOR CONGRESS!
For more on the Big Plan (complete with protest music), see :The Apocalypse of Banks Cont'd: The Economic Rescue Plan Rolls On as Skeptics Rise Up to Question the Road Map
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