129 Days Left Till Election Day

Fascinating picture.  Senator Dodd, and Rep. Barney Frank celebrate after reaching an agreement over the shape of a new finance reform bill. 

It's appropriate that Barney Frank should be pulling his pants up after screwing 300 million Americans.  Here is a guy who "didn't know" that a male prostitution ring was being ran by his boyfriend from the basement of his house, but knows how to reform our economy.  Dodd, on the other hand, is the son of Thomas Dodd, of a former alcoholic senator who was censored by the senate for corruption.  Chris Dodd has so far avoided prosecution and jail by announcing that he is not running for reelection. 

The bill that democrats are about to ram through our throats contains 2000 pages of regulations that no one seems to understand how they will actually work and what their impact will be.  But the most interesting aspect of this legislation is that it attempts to reform our economy without mentioning once Fannie Mae or Freddy Mac.  This is the equivalent of performing surgery to remove a metastasized cancer and leaving the original tumor untouched.

For those who say that reform is needed to avoid another economic crisis, let me remind you that we live in a global economy.  Those who want derivatives or dangerous speculation will do so with a laptop, pressing the enter key and conducting their businesses from Singapore, Hong-Kong, Panama or a thousand different locations that will welcome American investments.  Wall Street does not have to be in lower Manhattan anymore.

The gambling industry is a perfect example.  We prohibit Internet gambling in America, and millions of gamblers are playing from home in virtual casinos located in Costa Rica.

Can't wait till November.  I just hope it wont be too late.

Articles that caught my attention

Barney Frank and boyfriend. The boyforend has very poor taste in men.

Putrid congressman Barney Frank's boyfriend has been arrested in Boston for growing and possession of marijuana. Frank said he did not know his boyfriend was growing weed in the house they share and was not charged. In his defense, Frank claimed not to be able to recognize marijuana plants because "he is not a great outdoors man." Oh, the contempt he has for us. But, perhaps he is right. After all the morons in Boston keep reelecting him. Actually, he is not a great outdoors or indoors man.

This also brings memories of many years ago, when his putridness's boyfriend was arrested for running a prostitution ring from the house he shared with Frank. Frank again claimed that he didn't know what his boyfriend was doing in the house. I am glad to see that his ignorance is extended also to the other house where Frank spends much of time. The House of Representatives. There too Frank can claim ignorance. He didn't know anything about Fannie Mae, Freddie Mack, ACORN, the banking industry and a myriad of other important issues that he should have been aware of.

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Anita Dunn will step down from her position as White House communications director. She will be replaced by Daniel Pfeiffer who is married to Sarah Feinberg, spokeswoman for enfant terrible Rahm Emanuel. I guess Anita Dunn will be now able to dedicate all of her time to the study of her favorite political philosopher, Mao.

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For the prophets of doom. NOAA has just announced that October 2009 was the third coolest in record.

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Steve Rosen, writing for Foreign Policy, asks the Obama administration not to take Netanyahu to the woodshed. It is incredible how low US-Israel relations have sunk, and how little is US Jewry aware of it.

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Dorothy Rabinowitz writes about the Ft. Hood massacre. Her thesis is that Hasan's motives are known to everyone but the army brass and media. Must read.

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For the twntieth annycversay of the tearing down of the Berlin Wall, Fuad Ajami asks whether Muslims will tear down theis own walls.

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