So... Rusty looks down at his bloated, wasted corpulence and imagines he's atop a mountain, eh? I could see how he would think that... looking down. But... imagining that "everybody" wants to be a thrice divorced, pasty, morbidly obese coward who hides behind a microphone... a person so vile that a majority of his countrymen, and apparently anyone he'd like to have a relationship with reviles... a junkie... an impotent braggart....

Nah.... he can have his 40 million. I hope he finds comfort in it in the few remaining years that he has left before his heart gives out from the drug abuse and trying to pump blood through all that coagulated fat.

Rush continuously trumpets his listenership numbers, as if that was justification enough for the supposed value of his mindless venom. But, there's a lot more to that story.

http://infrared41.tripod.com/blog/index.blog/354814/limbaugh-by-the-numbers/

Sure... Stewart's "just a comedian", and sure, satire doesn't have any effect on the body politic. Just ask Sarah Palin and Tina Fey.

I'd put my money on Steward and Colbert over Limpbaugh in the "entertainment wars" any day.

That the dear leader George W. Bush kept us safe for seven years and six months by capturing the monster leader of the axis of evil "dead or alive".... and he did it single handedly, in his flight suit, with the nice package...

Afganistan is ALREADY dear leader George W. Bush's Viet Nam, as is Iraq. Maybe you didn't notice but HE invaded both of those countries some years ago, and then completely bungled the handling of both wars

Learn to play bass.

Of course there's that vow of poverty thing that scares most people away... and the gear is really bulky and heavy.

I've been trying to wrap my head around all this, seriously, I have.

BUT... I guess the end question for me is: Where did ALL this money go? SOMEBODY is making money off this. Ultimately is ALL this owed to government bond holders? Corporate shareholders of the institutions involved? Grannie with her savings bonds? Charlie Chan in Hong Kong with his US government backed securities?

I mean... really... there's all these BILLIONS... nay... TRILLIONS of dollars just being printed as fast as they can push the paper through the presses and ultimately SOMEBODY is putting it in their pockets and goin' out for a beer.

And... yeah... I'm just overwhelmed by all the different opinions and news and analysis and I really just want one question answered honestly and accurately....

WHERE'S THE MONEY???

This is starting to smell like the mother of all ponzi schemes to me. Is capitalism so unworkable that this is where it ends up? Is this the natural end to the great casino of Wall Street?

Sure.. I understand the supposed function of the stock market - allegedly to raise capital for business expansion. But this just seems like a complete, utter collapse of all the scheming involved that really, ultimately doesn't appear to have any function other than to make a few well connected gamblers so rich that they couldn't possibly spend all the money.

I mean... all this money that is being thrown at this problem HAS TO eventually end up in somebody's pocket, regardless of how that person spends it, or doesn't. Or.. is this just all a big scam? I'm sure I'm just not getting it. I mean... even Krugman, nobel laureate and all, thinks we should spend MORE...

BUT... where's the money going... to who... for what?

Speculators? Gamblers who lost their bets (credit default swaps, anyone?)...

My basic understanding of economics ends at my wallet and whether I have enough for the gas to get to the tavern with enough left over for a beer.

(assuming they can get they're act together!)

Oh goodie!

I mean... they did SUCH a good job for the last eight years. And "everybody" knows that trickle down, tax cuts for the rich all the time, is the ONLY fiscal policy that works "every time"... don't we?

Nah... seen that show. Didn't like it. Ain't gonna buy another ticket. Limbaugh's gonna tell you nutjobs who to vote for and the Confederacy will follow.

Arizona is one of the biggest beneficiaries of earmark spending. And what's more "pork barrel" than the military spending that John Palin has championed for so long?

Damn... I'm glad sleepy didn't get elected.... my friends....

Sure... and who was that guy who was living in Obama's house the last eight years? Hmmm.... no sign of him anywhere, eh? The market dropped MORE in the last year of that discredited idiot's foul reign than it has "under" the six weeks that 'Bama's been in control. Maybe you've forgotten that... you and this shrieking clown.

Let Creamer keep screaming... maybe he can keep his job that way. Cheap circus clown entertainer... follow his advice.

Stewart is spot on in his take down of this idiot.

If true, that Creamer is going to be on Stewart's show. John turns into a mushball nice guy when the object of his scorn is sitting across the table from him. At least most of the time. I'd rather have Creamer go on Colbert where he'd get a real thrashing and wouldn't even realize it.

a misguided failure and an absolute disaster.

I thought Mitch was talking about HIS PARTY....

silly me!

(although he would have been closer to the actual reality had he been doing so)