View a Class Starkly

Why do people insist on bushwhacking honorable Congresspersons like this? He agrees to come to your stupid little town hall meeting and slouch on a stool like a hammered barfly and all you guys can do is hassle him:

Okay, look. First of all, the guy’s name is Fortney. That’s gotta be hard. And of all the nicknames he could have chosen to use instead, he chose “Pete”. That’s like a . . . → Read More: View a Class Starkly

Ovewweguwation? Don’t Be Widicuwous!

Here is an interesting factoid brought to you by the founder of the Elmer J. Fudd Society for Enunciative Excellence. For those of you too lazy to make the jump, in the video Barney Frank (D-MA) had this to say:

The genewaw feaw that the banking membew and others have issued, that we’we going to ovewweguwate on behalf of consumews is a fantasy unwewated to any human expewience. The federaw govewnment has nevew done . . . → Read More: Ovewweguwation? Don’t Be Widicuwous!

Numbers Racket

The Wall Street Journal has a concise and infuriating summation of the multi-thousand page financial regulatory sham that Christopher Dodd was blubbering about on Friday. Read it and weep. And be sure to call the offices of Dodd, and his co-conspirator in the House, that master of elocution, Barney Frank, to congratulate them on their hard-fought tribute to criminal absurdity.

There’s no way to accurately analogize this; but, imagine a team of surgeons leave a . . . → Read More: Numbers Racket