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Emperor Paulson's trillion dollar Wall Street bailout has been in the works for months

Wed, 09/24/2008 - 11:45am — lambert

Via emptywheel, from RollCall:

[White House spokesdroid] Fratto insisted that the [Paulson] plan was not slapped together and had been drawn up as a contingency over previous months and weeks by administration officials. He acknowledged lawmakers were getting only days to peruse it, but he said [with a straight face] this should be enough.

Shut the fuck up and give Wall Street more money! What could go wrong?

A piece of shit "contingency" plan rammed down our throats at the first available emergency opportunity. Just like, say, the Patriot Act, whose hundreds of pages were mysteriously ready to go and were passed mostly unread.

Classic Shock Doctrine tactics.

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I'm not surprised by this. Any idiot, and I do mean idiot,

By elixir on Wed, 09/24/2008 - 11:55am

could see that at least over the last 6 months that the proverbial shit was going to hit the fan and that they might want to start putting pen to paper on a to do list... 1. Bail out investment houses, 2. save CEO salaries, ... like that.

I love this job!

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I love this job!

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I Want Out Of Here.

By Damon on Thu, 09/25/2008 - 2:55am

Now, would be the perfect time for Canada to annex my dear Michigan, that is, if they'd even want us.

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But, we've always been at war with Eastasia...

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