Up until this, I felt there was no possibility of any of the Republican candidates getting elected...but after watching this luke-warm obfuscation fest, I'm no longer so sure.

These people are deliberately hiding their stance on the issues (assuming they have one), in hopes they will get votes because they have better fashion sense than the other candidates.

They do this for a living, so I guess they are probably right. This democracy is toast.

...who fervently believe in what is basically an elaborate Santa Claus myth. They are, quite simply, gullible. They will docilely follow the next charlatan that claims to represent their interests, and get exploited again.

Kind of like most voters, now that I think about it.

...and this action will barely be remembered 3 months from now. A tiny fraction of ARM loans resets and we have a panic requiring the fed to ride to the rescue, but there are 3 years more of resets already in the pipeline.

People are defaulting on mortgages because they can't refi or sell. The banks collectively stopped extending the risky mortgages, so now they can't sell their forclosed properties at anywhere near where they were collatoralized because nobody can afford them. It's the exact opposite if the feedback loop that drove prices insanely high to begin with.

This one is going to be a doozy...a recession lasting a minimum of 3 years, unless homeowners have the wit to stop making payments before their ARM loans even reset.

I've laughed out loud at his last two comics. It's been years since I've found his work funny.

Wonderful! Welcome back Berke!

...turned out to be a poor business strategy in the long run. Shoving trillions of borrowed dollars into the housing market, driving prices up and up sure looked like a good way to keep Joe Sixpack making payments forever...until Joe became physically incapable of earning enough to make the payment.

If they've got you in their clutches, let them have the house back. In 7 years you will be back to normal. If you try to bull through it, in 7 years you will be a burned out husk, making payments on a loan that is still worth more than the house it bought.

Don't be a slave.

...as soon as they are asleep, pee in the orange juice bottle. The next morning, cook them breakfast with nice big glasses of orange juice.

These people are scum. You've been had bro. Pack up, get out, and leave them a note about the orange juice.

I thought they were saving the earth...in which case, a chemical that inhibits human reproduction would be a GOOD thing.

What a joke they have become.

Hillary is way too powerful for any other democrat to get the nomination, and the republican field is way too slimy for any of those guys to have a chance, except for Ron Paul.

The republicans will never nominate him though, because he makes them ashamed of what they have become, so it's going to be Hillary, just as our economy tips into the abyss after 30 years of financial shenanigans.

The next few years are going to be rocky.

The Kansas strip sucks. It reminds me of the time I sat down to write a web comic, and how hard it was to make it anything like good.

Waylay isn't funny or political, but it is surreal and interesting. It is a steady supply of weird ideas. If I can't find it here, I'll go find it somewhere else.

I wont click on the Kansas strip again...and my standards for comics are pretty low.

I clicked on it. I read it. I gagged on the artsy puns, and I came here to bitch about it.

Again.

Must...not...click...it...

I was in the habit of coming here to read Waylay on tuesdays, and not finding that, well.

Here's an idea people. If you want this gone, dont click it, dont post here. When they see it is being ignored, they'll quit paying for it, and hopefully it will go away.

I just came in here to say, DON'T CLICK IT, if you want it to go away.

I'm surly because I came to Salon to read Tom Tomorrow...and had to dig around for it instead of it being on the front page like before.

Stay pure! Don't click Kansas! It will only annoy you. Proceed directly to the comments and vent your pure, righteous fury at the encroachment of this vortex of suck.

...twice.

I giggled even harder at the word "flatulence". I always do.

...because we all know there's more where that came from, right?

Mr. Chinese banker has deep pockets for his American friends!

...so people that want to live under Sharia Law have places to go. Yet many move to Europe. Why?

Europe is being colonized by the middle east. Turnabout is fair play, I guess.

...or socialism, or republicanism, or any other ism. The problem is human nature. There has never been a social or economic system that can withstand the greed and stupidity of its participants.

...as the economies in these places evolve. Once the appropriate financial institutions are in place, these people will be enslaved in a way that everybody accepts: with mortgages on depreciating houses and credit cards with 29% interest. They'll get to hold money for a little while before they give it back.

Now THAT'S freedom.

...just WOW.

"Ben Bernanke's comment, later in the session, "If you want to say we bailed out the market in general, I guess that's true. But we felt that was necessary, in the interest of the American economy."

Looks like the folks on wall street have figured out how to milk the government with orchestrated failures.

If we don't pay them, they'll just come around and rob us in person.

...ever since she ran for senator of New York. Quite frankly, she gives me the leaping fantods.

DO NOT give this woman access to our nuclear arsenal.