Bush is now trying to “approve extensive federal intervention in financial markets that he said is both warranted and essential to halt the worst financial crisis in decades. ‘We must act now,’ he said.” Why is at least a half a trillion-dollar bailout now essential according to Bush? He and McCain just recently said the economy is fine. I mean, Bushy just declared on Monday that the U.S. economy is healthy enough to withstand “the adjustments that are taking place” in the financial markets. Hey now, I thought we were all a bunch of whiners! I just don’t get it. I sure wish they’d make up their mind. So is the economy okay now? We have to prevent the “worst financial crisis in history since the Great Depression.” What’s that all about? What is the Great Depression? What’s great about being depressed? Oh what a bunch of silly gooses! This is America, the greatest country in the Universe. At least this intervention will help George W. Bush end his presidency on a good note, exonerating him of all prior crimes, and if it means lending a few trillion dollars to the bigwigs… wait a minute, if the government is in a bunch of serious debt with a huge deficit, where are they getting the money to loan to… oh the taxpayers? Ha! I guess we’re the ones bailing out the big corporate interests that don’t actually represent us. That sure is a funny thing. I laugh a long time because of it. How do you feel, fueling the giant machine, which will inevitably collapse around us?

At least while all the attention is on our economic disaster, the administration can continue doing stuff like this (killing Iraqi civilians*):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7625167.stm

Hey, at least the stocks are surging on all the “good news.” That certainly eases my troubled heart.

*I realise this isn’t really a big deal - as long as they’re not American troops dying, the casualties don’t matter - they’re not even real people.