incompetence

Are you better off today than you were 8 years ago? Is America? The Bush administration has shown unprecedented incompetence in both foreign and domestic policy.

• Before Bush -- Dow: January 19, 2001: 10,587.59
• Now ---------- Dow: September 29, 2008: 10,365.45

Are you better off today than you were 8 years ago?  Is America?  The Bush administration has shown unprecedented incompetence in both  foreign and domestic policy.

Before Bush — Dow: January 19, 2001: 10,587.59
Now ———- Dow: September 29, 2008: 10,365.45

Before Bush - NASDAQ: Jan 19, 2001 = 2770.38

The Wall Street bailout bill was defeated in the U.S. House, with 40 percent of Democrats and two-thirds of Republicans voting against it - a reflection of nothing other than this: The vast majority of the American people are against it.

A friend (one a little politically squishy, I’d say) lamented/announced to me this morning that Palin had really messed up in her interview with Katie Couric and blahblahblah.

A friend (one a little politically squishy, I'd say) lamented/announced to me this morning that Palin had really messed up in her interview with Katie Couric and blahblahblah.

In Washington state, the Republican candidate for Governor Dino Rossi lists his party affiliation as "GOP Party." He avoids the word "Republican" on his website and doesn't want it on the ballot. He is ashamed of the affiliation.

• Last week: McCain said "the fundamentals of the economy are strong."

• Tuesday: McCain said he had not read Paulson's bailout plan which had been available since Friday.

• Wednes

"Financial Terrorism" - That is what a caller last night on Michael Savage named this bailout proposal. Another analogy would be Don Corleone who liked to "make an offer you can't refuse;" stuff some cotton balls in Hank Paulson's cheeks and I think you could get a dead-on impression.

Conservative columnist George Will offers the suggestion that Obama’s composure in the current financial crisis trumps McCain’s frantic call for the firing of Securities and Exchange Commission president Chris Cox.  While Obama showed calmness, McCain offered “incoherence&#822

It probably would be more appropriate to say here that Paulson "buries US in toxic debt", but regardless of how you look at it, a couple of simple realizations come about when considering this most historic financial meltdown since the Great