aff, davelj really good discussion. I tend to think the problems in FIRE aren’t just ‘structural’, or alignment of risk, etc. There is a strong component of all this that is 100% criminal and fraudulent and people need to go to jail.
sddave: Lots of good people on this site. Some goofballs too, partisan hacks, but on balance it’s a good place. These days, you can tell the GOP goobers because they want everything to be about Obama.
This Cramer-Stewart thing, whatever you think of Stewart — isn’t about Obama to the general public. It’s about the economic Katrina of our time, and CNBC, the financial news shows, these butt-clown market-talkers talking up the bubble/fraud, all the while KNOWING FULL WELL it was going to blow up. They had no integrity, no sense of honesty, no responsibility, no sense of shame. They deserve everything they’re getting here.
Perhaps you’re being sincere in making some point about John Stewart and so-called liberal media bias, but the larger arc of this ‘event’ is about these Wall Street fuckers and how much the American people despise them.
Pivoting off on Obama just makes you sound like the ranting fringe ‘clown patrol’ that is the modern GOP. Even McCain’s daughter has had enough, teeing off on Ann Coulter, which is long overdue BTW. Honestly, I wish the moderates in the GOP would reassert control, kick these extremist jackass Limbaugh-types out of the party. Nobody likes them anymore.
