Nice picture, eh? I call it “Monument to a man who’s motto was “Can Do!” looking over a monument to the Americans who said “kick the Nazi’s, Japanese, and Italians buts all at the same time? No prob.” taken from a monument to a man who said “I will not allow the Union to dissolve, and I will not allow slavery to continue in this land!” backgrounded by a building run people who are so pathetic that to ascribe to them the tag “sheer incompetents” might actually be a compliment
It was a room full of peoplewho 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.
I’m not particularly surprised that Queen Pelosi, Chucky “Abortion is Great!” Schumer, and the rest of the people in charge of the Congress had no clue. It’s no wonder that Congress wants to take token measures but punt the football over to President Bush to take care of.
Isn’t it simply wonderful what can happen in less then 2 years when the people in charge of Congress take their eyes off the ball? What happened to all their hearings and oversight? Remember, one of the Democrats 6 for ’06 was to address the rising concern caused by Booooooosh economic policies (sic.) I guess they were too busy……..I’m not sure what they were too busy doing.
Aside: speaking of the 6 for ’06, whatever happened to them implementing ALL of the 9/11 commission’s recommendations?
