Bart Simpson ask Todd and Rod Flanders this question once.

The Republicons shoved their God and christianity mandates down our throats when times were good. They were holy rolling money changers gone wild. Now we have to listen to them asking this same God to forgive them and ease their burden!!!!! Hey they're the ones telling gays their God is a vengeful one and he will smite them down, I guess they're shaking now because IF their God IS a vengeful one, they're now at the top of his shit list! The bible may be vague on some things but Jesus said a lot regarding greedy Pharasees and overlords and how they will be punished for THEIR deeds.

PS, If you fire Chris Cox, please don't send him back here! He was your friend if you were an upper middle class land owner in South Orange County. He was no friend to the rest of us.

Henry Paulson definitely needs to go before he gets his hands on that 750 BILLION dollar gift card scammed by duping the American people!

The rightwingers keep the talking points that Clinton planted the seed of this disaster fifteen years ago when he pushed for looser rules so that poor minorities could buy houses (anti-redlining). But the article that inspired Leonard's post discusses another deregulatory rule made on Bush's watch. True, Clinton did sign off on Gramm-Leach-Bliley in 1999, but the current perfect storm could not have happened without Liar Loans, CDOs, rating agency malfeasance, lobbyists, corrupt mortgage brokers, appraisers, and investment bankers.

Remember back in 2004 when the economy and Bush's job creation stats were unimpressive and the right wingers diverted attention by pointing to the Dow numbers and the increases in home ownership? Now we know that the crawlspace, if not the foundation, of that claim was termite infested.

All these interest rate resets and foreclosures that are happening now originated after 2004--not fifteen years ago. Sure there are some minorities who got liar loans three years ago. But there are also middle-class white house-flippers, young white naifs who were suckers for subprime, and whites of all ages who, from either need or avarice, couldn't resist a 125% home equity re-finance. I want to see the percentage of 2007 and 2008 foreclosures that originated from loans made between 1992 and 2000. And then I want to see that number minus the ones that were due to a medical bankruptcy. Whatever that number is, you can blame that on Clinton with my blessing.

Let's apply it to the War on Drugs, which has been grossly mismanaged and a losing proposition since it started.

Let drug-users regulate their own consumption. Just trust people to do the right thing.

If they do the wrong thing, THEN sent grenade-throwing stormtroopers in body armor after them.

Let's deregulate driving, too. It's a horrible burden on small business that people need "licenses" and stuff to drive, and that's not the kinda freedom I think of when I think of 'Murka.

Was the title I thought got changed when I updated that last rant. Jesus Can't Save was my draft title.

It came from the episode when Bart was using the wireless microphone, posing as God, ordering Rod and Todd to bring him cookies.