And the beat goes on ...

Tell all those Know-it-All Republican Neighbors, Relatives and Friends: "America's getting just what you deserve."

He's got a point ... in a funny sick sorta way, and it started Sept. 9th with his regular Clusterf*ck Nation Chronicle: [excerpt] Why do the big deals always happen over the weekends? So the big boyz in government and finance can take off their neckties when they bargain with each other? So the markets will be closed and unable to register a response one way or another? So the shrinking fraction of the US public that pays attention to anything besides Nascar and pornography won't catch the news Saturday evening? ... [end excerpt]
Also the same wit and time:

James Howard Kunstler: "The Party That Wrecked America"

It's official: John McCain and Sarah Palin are up in the latest polls now that the conventions are over. This is a positive development. It will give the Obama-Biden campaign incentive to get serious. It would have been a disaster for Obama-Biden to come out of this past week ahead. It might have prompted them to kick back and be complacent.

McCain-Palin have nowhere to go now but down, and I will tell you exactly how this will happen. They can run away from President Bush, but they can't run away from the Republican Party.

The Republicans will be regarded from now on as 'the party that wrecked America.' Over the weeks ahead, as carnage in the economy and the financial markets ramps up, it will become increasingly clear. It is important that this meme be spread through the internet. I urge all commentators who read this blog to adopt and spread the idea that the Republicans are 'the party that wrecked America.'

It will work because it is the truth.

Use it freely. Don't bother attributing it to me. Just spread the word.

Get the meme going.

Quote of the day: Mike Morgan on bad debt contagion in the financials:

"'This is a virus, with a 100% kill rate. This is a pandemic, the likes of which we have never seen. This is only something that can be fixed after we kill all the players that carry the virus, because the virus only dies when the host is dead. The hosts are the sick financial institutions being run by crooked executives, regulated by incompetent regulators, appointed by blissfully ignorant politicians and at the end of the line is a judicial system that is without power to do anything.'"