It's deja vu all over again.
In October 2002, Bush's top national security staffers were all over the Sunday punditoria, lying through their teeth about the clear and imminent danger to our country from Saddam Hussein. Saddam had weapons of mass destruction, ready for use, aimed right at us. Saddam was behind the most deadly attack in history on American soil. If we didn't give the Bush administration a blank check to take whatever action it wanted against Saddam, we didn't care about America's safety and survival. All because Bush ignored a memo "bin Laden determined to attack the United States".
All because the Bush family and Dick Cheney owned a hell of a lot of stock in defense companies. All because Bush had pathetic Oepdipal issues to work out -- at our expense.
Now it's September 2008 and it's deja vu all over again.
Bush ignored the truly ridiculous lowering of standards in the mortgage business, because rising prices made workers whose paychecks weren't getting any bigger feel rich, and of course it gave massive profits to his family and his campaign donors. He couldn't care less when millions of ordinary Americans lost their homes. But now that the proverbial chickens are coming home to roost in his own house, and in the houses of his campaign donors, suddenly we can't wait another day to take actions. Any failure on the part of Congress to give him 700 BILLION dollars to distribute as he sees fit will cause the entire economy to collapse. Any delay to consider oversight, conditions, or the effects of this massive, unprecedented bailout on the American taxpayer is practically treason.
And who gets this bailout money? The same jerks who two years ago informed us that expecting them to pay taxes on the massive profits they were making on their toxic products would ... wait for it...cause the collapse of the US economy.
Privatize the profit. Socialize the loss.
700 BILLION for Wall Street, but a few hundred million for sick kids -- why, that'd cause the economy to collapse!
Fool me once, shame on me.
Fool me twice...
won't get fooled again.