Post Partisan Depression

That Barney Frank is one funny guy.  Even when he’s bitching about one thing or another, which is most of the time, the House Financial Services Committee Chairman is good for a few yucks.  Right now, he’s kinda miffed at the new president-elect for insisting on remaining president-elect when it’s convenient, and acting like King of the Freaking World when it’s not.  It’s the “I’m not really president yet, guys,” thing that’s got Frank’s knickers twisted, though, especially when it comes to the financial crisis.  According to AP-Yahoo News:

“At a time of great crisis with mortgage foreclosures and autos, he says we only have one president at a time,” Frank said. “I’m afraid that overstates the number of presidents we have. He’s got to remedy that situation.”

Ol’ Barn’s not the only Dem miffed, and talking about it, either.  It’s just that Chris Dodd…

“The Obama team has to step up,” Sen. Christopher Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee and one of the lead negotiators, said Nov. 21 in Hartford, Conn. “In the minds of the people, this is the Obama administration. I don’t think we can wait until January 20.”

…and Carl Levin…

“It would be very helpful if the president-elect would become more involved in resolving the issue over the source of the funds,” he said. “I want him to offer his assistance. He is a person who can really bring people together.”

…are not nearly as cute when they’re pissed.  Lord King ObiWanNaBePresidentINO’s BFF, B.F., also takes issue with The Lyin King’s “post partisan” poop:

“It is a grave mistake to assume that parties are irrelevant to this process,” he said. “My one difference with the president-elect, about whom I am very enthusiastic, is when he talks about being post-partisan.

“Having lived with this very right wing Republican group that runs the House most of the time, the notion of trying to deal with them as if we could be post-partisan gives me post-partisan depression,” Frank said.

From what I remember of Carl Levin at the DeaNC’s Rules and Bylaws Committee gang rape, and considering how Dodd’s financial ties to Countrywide Financial and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac affected the poor, pitiful, beleagured Obama campaign, which Barney knows all about, maybe that “partisan” thing ain’t all it’s cracked up to be.  Especially since hanging around with those guys too much has the power to make Obamagogue hallucinate.

Obama CAN’T Show His Birth Certificate

The reason Barack Obama has not, as yet, produced his long-form vault copy birth certificate is because he can’t.  Not because he doesn’t have it, or have access to it.  He does.  Not because he was born on some far-off Kenyan goat farm.  He wasn’t.  And, it’s not because it lists his father’s name as Frank Marshall Davis or Malcolm X.  It doesn’t.  The reason is far more simple, yet simultaneously complex, than that.

The Obamessiah cannot produce a verifiable birth record because he was born in a manger on the Big Island to a Teenage Virgin Mother.   Three wise men, Curly, Larry and Moe, or Manny, Moe and Jack, depending on who you believe, walked to Hawaii from the mainland, following a bright, eastern star.  Took them forever, by the way.  Anyway, you can see how this information, were it to be confirmed, would open a huge can of worms, with global implications.  Given that the Teenage Mother in question was Caucasian, and her virgin-born offspring is obviously not, imagine the back pedaling the Vatican would have to do.  And, while the truth would permanently put to rest those persistent Muslim rumors, it muddies up the whole “right of return for Ethiopian Jews” thing.   A “black” president is one thing, but living, breathing, strong circumstantial evidence of the ethnicity of God?  Puh-leeze.

Therefore, we are unlikely to see any definitive proof of the Obamessiah’s divine birth in our lifetimes.  We will just have to forget about all those lawsuits, and take the fact of our “wondrous joy to behold” on faith.

That’s my theory, and I’m sticking to it.  I don’t care what outlandish stories he’s pushing.

“Contrary to the rumors you’ve heard, I was not born in a manger. I was actually born on Krypton, sent here by my father Jor-El, to save the planet Earth.”

Yeah, right.  And, your middle name’s “Steve” huh?

Bail This Out!

Why should the federal government spend one dime of taxpayer money bailing companies out of jams of their own making?  Whatever happened to “you made your own bed…”?  Whether we start with the reverse Robin Hoods of the real estate/housing/mortgage-gouging Ponzi schemers in the “lending” industry and all the attendant theives in their RICO caliber conspiracy, or focus on the “Big 3″ automakers now singing, “waaah, waaah, waaah,” in unison and harmony in front of Congress, the fact remains that they knew long ago that if they kept doing what they were doing, they’d end up where they are.  Duh.

Supposedly, because of the ACORN-inspired Community Reinvestment Act “requirement” that the lending institutions lend money to poor people, the put-upon bankers just had to issue “zero down,” 100% financing, double mortgages to anybody who came through the door, and encourage them to pay too much for houses they couldn’t afford, since they could always take out another “home improvement” loan to replace perfectly good ceramic tile countertops, plain Jane white appliances, and linoleum tile floors, with the far superior granite countertops, super slick stainless steel appliances and chi-chi slate/terrazzo tile or other hip, urban flooring, in order to further inflate the already inflated home prices and pass them on to the next newly stiffed potential homeowners they were assured they would be able to sell their over-priced “investments” to in the very near future at a nifty, hefty profit.  Now, these poor, put-upon “lenders” are so surprized that the bottom has fallen out of these “sound lending principled” scams, since of course, they couldn’t “see this coming,” (I mean, who could?) that they just gotta have a gazillion dollars of taxpayer money just to get by.  And, it stands to reason that if these “lenders” can no longer afford to “lend” at the same super-inflated rates they were enjoying so much profit from, well, then, nobody can loan anybody any money to buy anything.  Right?  So, it naturally follows that, the big, bad auto companies, who have lending arms of their own, at least one of which was involved in home loans, and, who aren’t predisposed to loaning money to people to buy their own product anymore, just have to make up the shortfall with taxpayer bailout money.

Bite. Me. Hard.

“Nobody’s buying our cars anymore, waaah.  They want smaller, fuel-efficient foreign cars.”  Bullshit.  According to a Reuter’s blog article today, Americans aren’t buying anybody’s crap:

Unfortunately, neither loans nor the companies’ promises address the basic problem:  Americans just aren’t buying cars, whether GM, Toyota, Ford, or Nissan.

Consider the November sales data, showing GM ’s sales down 41% from a year earlier, Ford’s down 30%, and Chrysler’s down 47%.  Foreign brands were hurt, too: Toyota down 34%, Honda 32%, Nissan 42%, Hyundai 40%.

The truth is, there is no “out.”  The financial industry scammed the public and now that all the co-conspirators are caught with their pants down and their hands elbow deep in the cookie jar, they want to scream “victim” so they don’t get the spanking they deserve.  Union concessions, private jet sales, and other “belt-tightening” measures amount to spitting in the ocean.  Until the housing market prices begin to more accurately reflect their value, everybody will continue to lose money and try to blame eveybody else.

Either bail everybody, including homeowners, out, or let ‘em eat cake shit ____ (fill in the blank with the expletive you prefer.)