Zombies.
Daily Kos has been invaded by Zombies. Must believe Bush. Must believe Paulson. Must find brains. Need food brains. Must believe Bush. Must save Stock Market. Stock market dropping below DOW 11,000 end of civilization. Bush say so. Food brains good.
Must save banks. Paulson say so. Henry Paulson Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Goldman Sachs, one of world's largest and most successful investment banks. Paulson say must save banks before election. Bush say stock market must be 12,000 before election. So economy fundametal strong food brain.
Paulson scare Schumer. Bernanke huge brain. Bernanke eat Schumer's brain.
Brain bank good food.
Don't expect me to buy all this crap, zombies. I've not been bitten.
I'm still a progressive. Progressives don't scare easy. You'll never get my brain. Never. I'm using it. For instance, I'm not worried about the life savings of hard working Americans food brain, because hard working Americans, on average, have no life savings. We've a negative savings rate. That means, on average, Americans owe more than they're worth. Owing more than they're worth, if they're getting less interest on their savings than they're paying on what they owe, they're pretty fucking stupid to want to save the banks that are charging and paying those interest rates. And. They. Are.
Being a progressive, I know that most Americans don't have savings. I'm not saying you don't have savings, zombies brains eat, I'm saying that thanks to 8 years of Bush economics, the greater percentage of Americans don't have savings. They've uneaten brains so far, they just don't have pensions or savings.
21% of working-age citizens of this country have 401ks. Those 21%, on average, would TEMPORARILY lose approximately 20% of their 401ks if the DOW dropped to 9000, which is where it would be if we weren't fixing to borrow 1 TRILLION dollars to keep up Bush's fake prosperity 6 weeks upstream of the most important election in generations.
Must borrow one trillion dollars food bank brain - save 20% for 21% of zombies. Mean 79% have uneated food brains, by the way.
My fellow non-zombies. My fellow unaltered humans. Don't expect what I'm saying to have any effect whatsoever on the zombies. You can't argue with a zombie. They will just continue to say vague warnings about the collapse of civilization if they don't give Bush what he wants. They will just continue to want food brains. They can't think. Earlier this evening, I read one quoting Paulson AND Thomas Friedman. Honest! On Daily Kos, this commenter was quoting Goldman Sachs Food Bush Brain Henry Paulson and Earth Flat Kick Iraq's Ass Because We Can Food Brain Cheney Thomas Friedman, to prove that we're in a crisis and we must all buy the Poisonous Pop Tarts from the nice zombie investment banks!
If we don't! Growth will stop!
No food brains!
Zombies don't think. They never stopped to think that taking on 1 TRILLION dollars of toxic debt makes Obama's promised middle-class tax cuts at worst impossible and at best immoral. The zombies are spending that money, up front, now, next week.
Zombies buy all Paulson's and Bernanke's and Bush's pure brain bullshit that Congress must act IMMEDIATELY! Before the ELECTION! Or ALL IS LOST! They don't question that. Never mind that there is no way Congress can adequately study something this big adequately in 6 months or 6 weeks, nevermind by the end of next week. And what's there for Congress to study? Bush, Bernanke and Paulson are selling this as a food brain package, neatly wrapped. They haven't even told Congress ANY particulars or even if there ARE particulars! But note that the STOCK MARKET gained 700 POINTS in TWO DAYS anyway. Democratic Congressional leaders don't mind that. They're ready to commit. Food brain. Regulation? Oh! We'll worry about regulation AFTER we save all the beautiful tasty food brains! We'll worry about regulation later. Next year, maybe.
I leave you with one of us. One of us humans. Atrios. Who still has his brains.
GOP Daddies In Nice Suits
Told the Democrats that Something Very Serious Was Happening and Something Needs To Be Done. So predictable.
WASHINGTON — It was a room full of people who rarely hold their tongues. But as the Fed chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, laid out the potentially devastating ramifications of the financial crisis before congressional leaders on Thursday night, there was a stunned silence at first.
Mr. Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. had made an urgent and unusual evening visit to Capitol Hill, and they were gathered around a conference table in the offices of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
"When you listened to him describe it you gulped," said Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York.
-Atrios
Food brains banks. I will fight you, Zombies. I will fight you.