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The bailout is off, at least for now. I do not know if the measure would have stabilized our economy, or ruined it. I do know that a 110 page crap shoot is not leadership.

Nothing makes up for lack of preparation -- not money, not smarts, not even luck. I don't know how many times we have to sit through that lesson (think: 9/11, Katrina, Afghanistan, any Sarah Palin interview) but obviously we have not learned it yet. In the face of copious writing on the wall, this administration and this Congress (I'm looking at you, Pelosi) are guilty of a total failure to anticipate a massive domestic crisis or brace for its consequences, which affect us all. They are willing to drive our country straight into the ground, and it makes me so angry I don't know where to begin. Or whether I even want to begin.

Has the world gone crazy? Is anyone driving the bus anymore? From McCain's 22 hour journey to Washington, to Bush's Iraq-esqe speech at the White House, to the utterly impotent Democratic leadership in Congress (whose boldest move toward a solution has been to roll over and believe the Executive's tales of gloom and doom if we don't grant it unbridled discretion now, now, now . . . ) the whole thing is surreal. Absolutely surreal.

Full post as published by Nuts & Boalts on September 29, 2008 (boomark / email).