Eight years ago another ne'er do well son of a powerful family who had screwed up everything he touched told the American people that "when I was young and foolish, I was young and foolish", and people gave him a pass on his reckless youth. We have now seen what it is like to have a delinquent as president for seven plus years.

Will people buy that story twice? John McCain's is more plausible. He doesn't claim just to have found Jesus and stopped drinking. He has a real road to Damascus story that took five and a half years in hell. Still, I think it's the same story and is equally untrue. People do not get over what is wrong with George W. Bush or with John McCain.

If you think McCain is more responsible today than he was as a hotdog pilot, just look at his choice for vice president.

This is just following the tradition of Republican vice presidents. Dick Cheney shoots pheasants just released from cages. Any evidence that Sarah has shot any of her hunting partners? Those high powered rifles would do more damage than bird shot.

What has our country come to?

Politics in America is not all that complicated. The Republican Party is an economic class based party that represents maybe one percent of the American people. Their only two real issues are cutting taxes for rich people and deregulating business. Everything else they do follows from those two goals. Our current economic disaster follows directly from the very successful pursuit of those two goals since 1980.

Anybody who is not seriously rich who votes for a Republican is just dumb as a stump. That's not really an opinion; it is an objective fact. Class war does not consist of my saying this; class war is what the Republican Party has waged against the American people.

The fact that John McCain is a sociopath is not the best reason to vote against him.

I suspect that something like the proposed bail out needs to be passed by this weekend. It is, however, an irony that Republicans who have done this to the Country are now presenting the Democrats with an "or else" proposition.

I have a suggestion--which I know full well is a fantasy because Democrats are incompetent. I suggest that the Democratic leadership publicly announce that they will provide enough votes to ensure passage of the bill with minimal change by Friday as long as every Republican in both the House and Senate votes for it.

The Democratic leadership should make it perfectly clear, and enforce the decision, that they will not let Republicans force them to be the responsible ones yet again since this is a Republican debacle. If Republicans try to duck responsibility, Democrats should adjourn and go home, and be very blunt as to why. Then we would see if the administration finally got one right.

There is a way to achieve victory in Iraq. We must arm the Sunni insurgents and set up pipelines for Saudi aid through Jordon and Syria prior to leaving. They should be able to reestablish a Sunni dictatorship that can suppress and dominate the Shiite majority. If we stabilize the present government and leave, we have just ceded the country to Iran. Anybody who understood the ethnic divides in Iraq knew before we went in that any "democratic" Iraq would be Iranian dominated. Hopefully the next Sunni dictator will not be as crazy as Saddam.

Obama's continued refusal to confront McCain over his naive ideas of an American "victory" is more evidence of the incompetence of his campaign.

It is very important for the future of the country that the blame for our financial crisis be correctly allocated.

Republicans have run the country into the ground by cutting taxes for rich people and not regulating business. The process began in 1980, and eight years of Clinton presidency only marginally slowed the process. It is the same strategy that gave us the Great Depression, and it has worked pretty much the same way again. The big difference is that the economy did not collapse after the S&L crisis in the '80s because we had deposit insurance and other mechanisms in place.

We also have a national debt that is over ten times larger than it was in 1980--at least 90% attributable to Republican administrations. The huge deficits have helped in keeping the economy from an even earlier collapse.

Now the people who brought us to this disaster are trying to evade responsibility by forcing Democrats to take the blame for a very unpopular bail out. Democrats should refuse to play. It would be better to wait until after the election to take corrective action than have Democrats go into the election after taking ownership of the economy. (They already foolishly took partial ownership of the Iraq war.) My suggestion is that the Democratic leadership tell the President and the Republican leadership that they will provide enough Democratic votes to pass almost anything the Republicans want to pass, but only if 95% of Republicans vote for it. Otherwise no deal.

The Republican Party should not have survived the Great Depression. Maybe this time we can get the bastards, (and I know what I have just written is pure fantasy because Democrats have no balls.)

Bimbo in headlights.