NBC/Univision/MSNBC/a coalition of 230 radio stations and TV networks have been running and hours and hours of stories this whole week.  I think we are starting to get some traction.

Lovely, just lovely.

Pretty please with GMO sugar on it painstakingly extracted from sugar beets instead of inexpensively imported from the Caribbean?

It’s just a straw man argument -- ignore.

It’s greed. Greed is the only deadly sin worth even thinking about any more. Greed drives everything else now.

“Now is the time on Sprockets when we protest goal wahhhhhming!”

Those are my ancestors!

Good point.

Well, Kinja has gone back to no longer processing GIFs or providing a drop-down menu, so I’ll just use the text, and let people fill in the images themselves. Dropped in over an image of Gollum from The Lord of the Rings:

It was Must-See TV!

Well, I don’t think that you would have had to abandon centrist policies to attach conditions on the bailout to the banks and investment houses. That’s just plain common sense. Businesses that are willing to crash the entire economy to make obscene profits instead of fat profits are gonna need reminding that they…

Gosh, I wish I believed in Hell, so that I could imagine Trump, Miller, Sessions, and Nielsen roasting there eternally.

Thank you! God, thank you for bringing this up! This whole thing was steeped in the worst kind of racism and classism.

This is painfully true.  Third Way democrats suck.

Disagree. the problem was not the size of the stimulus, but the complete failure of Obama’s administration and the other negotiators to set conditions upon the money we paid for the bailout, to enforce with financial and criminal penalties any deviation from those conditions, and their utter failure (see the “Holder…

Have to politely disagree. Letting the banks actually “fail” would have been an improvement, and if there was ever a time that we had them by the short hairs, this was it. Make a bank bailout conditional on a real stimulus plan with real regulatory teeth,and you have a whole different story.

I would be in that group. Even if no additional money was available for the bailout, Obama could have made it conditional to the banks on 1) the banks doing a cramdown with the underwater borrowers on their loan terms and amounts, with any failure to fulfill said cramdown resulting in huge fines and penalties; and…

Dude, you are not kidding. I would have settled for snap inspections, no-notice, no permission, video allowed,  for any CONGRESSCRITTER, Senator, government official, mayor, or sheriff or police chief.  That would have encompassed all of the useful oversight that is needed.

Everything old is new again. This happens each time there’s a market cycle. People are drawn in by the apparent gains of others, people put in their money, the sharpest of the investors start to pull out at that point, they are replaced by suckers-come-lately, the whole thing takes a tumble, everybody but the…

Gosh, thank you!