Any article that starts with "President Bush thought the cameras/microphone/tape recorders/whatever were off when he said ... " is not worth reading any further.

About the situation when you're wealthy, privileged, and when you have no conscience. Morally speaking, Bush has the equivalent of a signal digit IQ. It makes me sick to hear/see Republicans laughing at his stupid jokes, are they all as dumb as he is? Must be.

I wonder what kind of special financing rates Laura will get on the house in Dallas?

Then again, if George is talking about hangovers again, maybe she's trying to buy it on her own credit?

In that, Wall Street is not unlike our Beloved Resident.

that as ignorant an analysis of the situation that Bush uttered at that event I'm sure he was just repeating what he heard one of the right wing nut jobs he employs say.

Bush has no opinion on the economy. His knowledge of economics starts and ends with daddy bailing his ass out.

He truly is an empty shirt.

Stand up comic. He killed. Hilarious. Funny stuff. If he cna work in a 9/11 joke, move over Seinfeld.

Is she leaving him?

Paraguay, land of the brave and home of the un-extraditable super-criminals... Word has it that there's a new fancy Ex-Officio Neocon subdivision down in Paraguay, McMansions and McRanches for Bush Administration retirees.

It's my backup plan.

"Huh huh, huh huh -- Wall Street got drunk -- huh, huh, huh!"

Be sure to watch to the end of the video, where you can see that apparently the news correspondent was drunk as well.

Presidentista Bush jokes around about our current and future state of economic chaos as if his own government hadn't enabled and encouraged the invention of those wonderful new kinds of even-more-addictive money-flavored alcoholic beverages he refers to as creative investment vehicles.

What the Bush regime (well, it actually began with Reagan and Clinton before him) did on Wall Street was the equivalent of wiping out all auto safety requirements, repealing all speed limits, wiping out the state patrols of every state and all prohibitions and penalties for driving while intoxicated, turned off all the traffic signals and now, that the financial life of the country; of everyone from those in poverty to the investors of the country's largest banking houses has been turned into one gigantic multi-car pileup that stretches from sea to shining sea, he has the audacity to joke about it with his wealthy friends as if he were Bart Simpson saying, "I didn't do it!" to Krusty the Clown

Of COURSE he did it! There were many voices, over many years saying this is where we would end up if we followed the policies the Bushistas were promulgating, but, hey! The "free market" said there was money to be made out of nothing for anyone smart enough to grab it! Until it was all lost...

Meanwhile, the entire country is forced to swallow the "red pill" and see just how deep this rabbit hole goes ("Zion" from the Matrix movies looks fascinating but I don't think I want to live there. Still, what choice will we have when the surface of the earth is too damaged to support life).

I don't like Bush one bit. But you know, that's not a bad description.

All that's missing is the acknowledgment that it was he and his buddies who provided the open bar and told the cops not to stop cars weaving out of the parking lot.

And it would be nice to mention the wife and kids at home living on macaroni and cheese and cowering whenever daddy staggered in the door.

Bush cannot give a decent policy speech, but he makes a pretty good stand up comic. I guess he missed his calling.

Remember 2000 when 'ol Alan Greenspan was so worried about the market being out of control that he kept raising interest rates until the bottom fell out of the market? I thought *that* was the hangover.

The last 7 years hasn't been much of a party for anyone on Wall Street except for the energy/oil companys and those profiting from the war in Iraq.

Zzzzzz, but still the same stupid journalism (do salon contributors consider themselves journalist, let's hope not). Not sure why we should be upset over this, or up in arms, or laugh, or whatever.

The worst part about all of this is that salon and other sites are still putting out stories referring to the '9/11 suspects' which don't even mention Bush or Cheney or any other members of the gang. Why is George so calm, so philosophical? Because he will sit in the White House wearing the best clothes,eating the best food and being pampered and protected like a king until his term expires, safe in the knowledge that whoever wins office in November won't lay a finger on him or any of his cronies. Wall Street did more than get drunk. Most people now know how busy they were on 9/11. A veritable blitzkrieg of insider trading went on as the 9/11 attacks took place which indicates all too clearly that many people on Wall Street knew beforehand exactly which stocks to buy and which to sell to profit from the attacks. It's called being an accomplice. Wall Street can't suffer enough or fall low enough for me but the others, the taxpayer funded criminals who organized the murder of around 3,000 of their fellow citizens, will never have their own personal Nuremberg moment and will never be arrested the way Euro trash like Milosevic and Karajich were. Bush knows nothing about the economy but he knows a lot about breaking the law and being drunk -qualities you definitely need in a statesman.

In 8 years, Bush has gone from saying dumb, elitist things to asking the media not to record him saying dumb, elitist things.

The economy taking a bender doesn't worry me, it's the addiction - and thus the prospect of continuous "hangovers" into the future.

It was a bump of crank off a hooker's ass.