Allez les sans culottes!
So John McCain thinks he can shirk responsibility for the financial meltdown by finding a nice white goat to cut loose in the desert:
Sept. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Republican presidential nominee John McCain said he would fire Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox if he were president.
``The chairman of the SEC serves at the appointment of the president and in my view has betrayed the public's trust,'' McCain said at a rally in Iowa. ``If I were president today, I would fire him.''
Ehem. Here's a man whose chief economic adviser, Phil Gramm, authored the deregulation bill in 1999 that got us into this mess. Here's a man whose other chief economic adviser, Carly Fiorina, ran H.P. into the ground before being fired with a fat golden parachute. He's surrounded by guilty parties and Wall Street bagmen, yet he thinks he's off the hook for putting this nation's "economic Brownie" out to pasture?
Wouldn't it be great to hear just a little bit more "throw the bums out" from Obama? I mean, we're the red meat chorus around here, but given the wrong track/right track numbers, I don't think that Obama can overplay his hand on this one. So, with giant, huge, egotistical presumption, let me suggest the line (god, I hate putting words in this candidate's mouth, since he's considerably smarter then me):
"John McCain says that if elected, he says he will fire the Chairman of the S.E.C.
If we're elected, guess what? We'll fire them all."