Home » Blogs » lambert's blog

TARP: Financial FISA

Mon, 09/29/2008 - 11:08am — lambert

I can't tell you how much TARP -- and since this is a family blog, I can't give the acronym I heard* -- reminds me of the AUMF and especially FISA: Same lack of rationale and shifting justifications, same cast of characters, same rush to get something, anything passed before adjournment, and the same rationalization that "we'll fix it later" except now from people who should know better.

How'd "fix it later" work out on the whole no retroactive immunity for telcos thing, anyhow?

NOTE * Well, the kids won't read the notes, so Taxpayer Anal Rape Program. Not that there's anything wrong with liking that sort of thing, if that's the sort of thing you like.

»

Comments

Comment viewing options

Select your preferred way to display the comments and click "Save settings" to activate your changes.

thank you, for beating me to yet another post topic

By chicago dyke on Mon, 09/29/2008 - 12:05pm

krugman: not perfect. we all understand that now, m'kay?

this poll is depressing the hell out of me. propaganda and fearmonger work, clearly. people are saying in one breath how they don't understand econ, the bill, whatever, and in the next "but i'll trust buffet and krugman because they could never be wrong or support anything that could hurt me!" it's pathetic.

anyway, as i said over there: it's long time to end the celebrity worship. it's killing us. just because one is Famous and Serious doesn't mean intelligence, correctness, or compassion go with it.

»