Poppycock!

First of all, we should congratulate anyone who has the confidence to use the word "poppycock" in a public forum and Senator Dodd has our thanks.

But secondly, the logic coming from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is completely ridiculous.  Many experts agree that Dodd's bill does not go far enough to deal with "too big to fail" megabanks, but no one is arguing that the bill either continues it or expands it, like McConnell says.

Yes, Washington was a part of the problem but not because we bailed the banks out.  Washington was a part of the financial collapse because there were no cops on the streets and the cops that were on the streets were paid for by the gangs!  Imagine if we didn't pay for our policemen but drug gangs did?  That's what happened with Wall Street.  There was no incentive to police, even a positive incentive to NOT police those financial crimes.

Anyone who had a 401K was robbed by Lehman, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, CitiGroup and AIG.

As the comedienne Wanda Sykes so eloquently put, "A black man might steal what you have on you today, only the white man will steal your future."

Most reasonable people want more financial cops on the beat and rules to break up big banks the way the Federal Government has authority to break up small banks. If these guys want to play casino they can, but they shouldn't be able do it with taxpayer subsidized dollars.

Nuff said.

It's time for the Republican party to get serious

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I know that this is Fox News and they will never be serious.  But this country needs a strong, smart and intellectually rigorous Republican party if it's going to be governed in a positive and productive manner. The irresponsibility of the Fox News Channel only furthers the misinformation in the conservative movement and the myth of the Reagan, who, in reality, signed both the original START with the Soviet Union, and I might add, the U.N. Convention on Torture.

Politics is entertainment and policy is boring.  The Republican party needs a lot more David Frums and a lot less Sarah Palins.

A Wildcat Retires

Associate Justice, John Paul Stevens, the oldest member of the Supreme Court and the only Supreme Court member to graduate from the Northwestern University School of Law announced that he is retiring at the end of this Court's term.

See his letter to the President here.

Amen

The Onion got this right 8 years ago.

The Long Game

Quote of the Day

"Ask yourself: how many openly gay and adjusted priests have been found to have abused minors? Or ask yourself another question: if straight men were forbidden to marry women, had their sexual and emotional development truncated at the age of 13, and were forced into institutions where they were treated by teenage girls as gods, an given untrammeled private access to them, how much sexual abuse do you think would occur there? Please. This is not that hard to understand." 

Andrew Sullivan, The Daily Dish in his must read essay. A rebuttal to Catholic League leader Bill Donohue and his take that the endemic and systemic child abuse in the Catholic Church is the fault of homosexuals and not the Church itself.

Mental Health Break

Last night, I rented the movie I Love You Man and it was just as funny as the time I saw it at the movie theater. Here are some outtakes of Peter Klaven's verbal ticks, played by the brilliant Paul Rudd.