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What?! This guy's a genius. His ideas for trimming big government are spot-on! Here's a sample of wasteful spending Jindal has already targeted for elimination:

I really miss that sumbitch. That "my friends..." bit was pure gold. Bobby Jindal's just no fun. Where's Cindy?

I can imagine that being tarred and feathered is also better than your community (Tenino) being cooked alive by hot mud or lava during a volcanic eruption that wasn't adequately monitored because of budget cuts. Or having your child die from tainted food products because some fucking Republican shitheel thought his buddy that owned the factory would benefit from less oversight and was able to sell his constituents a load of manure about the self-regulating market. Yeah, I can think of a lot of things that being tarred and feathered is better than. Thanks.

That's weird...

Todd Palin told him those annoying subpoena things are a joke. "The person to which you refer must at all times be referred to as 'the First Dude'." Thanks, The Liberal Media

BillCoe was asking of recommendation for the protection of the posterior, not anterior. Well, seeing as how he's usually talking out of his ass, a dental dam would probably be appropriate. Sorry, I couldn't resist.

So not much change at all really...

Yeah, apparently he had trouble with "something called volcano monitoring". Living in the Pacific Northwest, I can't imagine why or how such a thing might be important.

Obviously, the real question is What Would Paul Ron Do? Anyone?

And we'd be hearing a lot more of

This would be happening a lot faster.

Yeah, not extending unemployment benefits during a depression. What's not to like?

Paul Harvey is the mastermind of this sort of down-home, home-spun nonsense. You should shoot him an email, maybe he'll send you a little junior-deputy badge for doing your part to help spread the fertilizer.

Who writes this kind of crap? Good question! I'd say it's probably some mixture of propaganda hacks on furlough from the Cato Institute or Reader's Digest, retired veteran goofs wearing twin-peaked caps emblazoned with numerous trinkets, your Mom, bored housewives of corporate execs who (still)have too much time on their hands that mad as hell that they have to shop at Costco now, Republicans, out of work Paul Ron campaign workers...

This jackass makes me wonder if an old tradition needs to be resurrected. What a douche.

Oh, I know it is. The problems start when one blames the current global economic crisis on decades old legislation benefiting minorities. It simply doesn't hold up under any kind of historical analysis. That should be apparent to anyone. If it doesn't hold up, why is it still being bandied around? Political opportunism from the Right that can wash its hands of any of the responsibility that neoliberal policies with regard to finance played in the current mess while laying the blame for global conflagration at the door of one of the last liberal social policies that this country has seen. While I'm not suggesting that you're arguing that minorities are ultimately to blame, that argument has been made, and has been made by laying all this at the feet of Freddie and Fannie. Anyway, this isn't likely to be of much interest as the rest of the planet has moved on.

Go get him then, cowboy. Or are the Washington bureaucrats and latte-sipping intellectuals tying your hands again?

He probably moved once these finding were published.

Tell it to Iceland. That a thirty-year old domestic housing policy of Jimmy Carter carried on under Clinton has ballooned into a global depression doesn't hold water. The global capitalist casino built on derivitives and bad-debt (all kinds of debt) that has thrived in the wake of financial deregulation has been much more effective in inflating the housing bubble and has created the conditions for the spread of the radioactivity globally. Fannie and Freddie might be an important (and certainly not the only) part of the housing-bubble story, but to suggest that it is the cause of the systemic chaos we're now facing is myopic at best, and political opportunism with racial undertones at worst.

Actually, your fellow men are better if just cooked until golden brown.

Blaming Freddie and Fannie for the global economic meltdown is akin to blaming WWI on Gavrilo Princip. You mistake a catalyst for the cause.

This is precisely the topic. In case you didn't hear...

Yeah, no kidding. Here it is in all its glory.