178: GOP Congress

Katrina Vanden Huevel says a GOP Congress would be disastrous because women,  minorities,  and illegal aliens would not get everything they want. Need I say more?   Vote anti-incumbent.

177: Alert-National Media Finds BO Can't Manage

Almost six years into the BO fiasco, the national media has discovered that BO has no management skills. Did they actually think he would learn on the job?

176: James (Benedict Arnold) Bullard

Bullard, president of the St. Louis Fed, has been a prudent and reasonable voice on QE - until now.  The market has a hiccup for a couple of days and all of a sudden Bullard is the newest chicken little in the group of clowns known as the Fed Open Market Committee.  These jokers have really come to believe that they know what they're doing, and furthermore that they can predict the future.  The Fed is just another disastrous by-product of huge government run amok.

175: BO Disappointment

As more and more "distinguished scholars" weigh in with their admissions of BO's failed presidency, you have to wonder how these folks got credentialed

174: Hurray For Hank Greenberg

My hat is off to Hank Greenberg for having the guts and courage to force Paulson, Geithner, and Bernanke into a public forum to answer for their combined actions from 2007 onwards.  Hank may or may not win his lawsuit, and Larry, Moe and Curly (Hank Paulson, Ben, and Timmy) may or may not have properly or correctly gambled with the entire US Treasury and US economy, but at least the Three Stooges will have to appear in front of the public and answer the questions they evaded since their reckless actions.

The Stooges always justify their self-serving actions by saying that without their combined acts we would have had another Great Depression.  I doubt this very much.  But how could one ever know?  The Stooges acted before they needed to.  They panicked.  But what the hell, it wasn't their money.

173: Presidents In My Lifetime

The presidents in my lifetime are: Truman, Ike, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush the Elder, Clinton, Bush the Younger, BO.  The first four I was too young to judge personally, although I have studied them all through biographies.  The last nine I have personally observed in adulthood, and also studied through books.  In my view only two of them were excellent presidents - Truman and Reagan.  Bush the Elder, Ford and Ike all meant well, and rank in the above average range.  Carter, Clinton, Bush the Younger, and BO were (in order) psychological, societal, intellectual, and pathological disasters.  Johnson wanted to be great, but was too damn resentful.  Nixon was, and remains, a true enigma.

When I examine the leaders chosen in our democracy, I wonder if we might not be better off with a little less of it.