Ah, the joys of watching malice in wonderland.
Above all, the long crusade against financial regulation, the successful effort to unravel the prudential rules established after the Great Depression on the grounds that they were unnecessary, ended up demonstrating — at immense cost to the nation — that those rules were necessary, after all.
Oh Paul, you and I both know that in Republican Nirvana; up is down, and down is up
No, in the universe of the Republican Party we found ourselves in a crisis because Representative Barney Frank forced helpless bankers to lend money to the undeserving poor.
Those evil, greedy, irresponsible borrowers, and payers of excessive fees and interest; a pox on them I say!
And Herman Cain? Oh, never mind.
A Nobel laureate mocking the 9-9-9 pizza man, Paul; you may shortly be accused of elitism. Well Perry did tell Warren Buffet that he had no idea how the real world worked.
By the way, has anyone else noticed the disappearance of budget deficits as a major concern for Republicans once they start talking about tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy?
Tsk, tsk, how could you be so mean and point out the nub of the problem?
It’s a terrible thing when an individual loses his or her grip on reality. But it’s much worse when the same thing happens to a whole political party, one that already has the power to block anything the president proposes — and which may soon control the whole government.
A terrifying world where there is no Alice.
It is an excellent opinion piece and well worth a complete read.
I wonder who will have the role of the Red Queen? I can imagine Cain saying "off with their heads 9-9-9 and toot sweet", but I am more worried about the Jabberwocky played by Mitt Romney: