you forgot to photoshop the raging flames behind his head, or a sunami wave, or a volcano with lava or...

Seems to me there's no need for such artifice. The actual photo is scary enough.

Iceberg Straight Ahead!

Allen L
True but I was just trying for some humor...
How about a cattle stampede? 'specially designed for the man with 'all hat and no cattle'?
If I do not laugh I cry...and fear for my country.

Ask not what I did to my country, but what my country did for me and my cronies.

It's so unfair. One shaky move and it defines your whole presidency.

Iceberg Straight Ahead!

Actually, the iceberg has already been hit and this ship is listing hard to port.

What is it called when a small group of entitled elite take something of substantial value which belongs to a larger group for very little in return? Oligarchy? Slavery? Theft? These guys are making us look like a bunch of pathetic A-holes. Maybe it's time for another Boston Tea Party. If everyone suddenly stopped paying their taxes it would certainly shake things up. They exist only because we allow them to exist.

"It's so unfair. One shaky move and it defines your whole presidency."

This may be the funniest line I've heard in the laugh-fest/tragedy that describes this administration. Thanks Bill.

It's so unfair. One shaky move and it defines your whole presidency.

James Buchanan said the same thing I believe.

This is a kind of taxation without representation...

I think it *is* time for another Boston Tea Party except this time we should throw all the financial crooks into the water OR at the very least organize and refuse to pay federal income taxes.

This Bailout does nothing to resolve the current crisis; banks will remain under capitalized making financial disaster a certainty.

What the bailout *does* do is ensure all of Paulson's Banker friends keep their holdings intact as they head for the exits.

Now I see Ben "Printing Press" Bernanke is "bluntly warning" congress that the country faces a recession if they don't pass the bailout...

We have been in a recession since the beginning of the year. The bailout does not divert us from this path.

This is the same kind of fear mongering which produced well-crafted pieces of legislation such as the Patriot Act.

No wonder the market continues to bleed with reassurance like that. Heckuva job Bushie.

Fear mongerer. Period.

IMPEACH the S.O.B. NOW !

One good thing about IMPEACHment is: Pardons are prohibited while IMPEACHment is in process.

Hopefully we'll come out of this crisis with a different form of government as well, one in which idiots like Mr. Bush either won't get elected or will get thrown out by a simple vote of no confidence, like in a parliamentary system.

"calling the MP for Portland, Oregon!"

Now I see Ben "Printing Press" Bernanke is "bluntly warning" congress that the country faces a recession if they don't pass the bailout

The word "recession" was a euphemism. He was thinking of another word that differs by only a few letters of the alphabet. But he can't say it.

Our economy may be in a recession, but our people have already slipped into a depression.

Let us not forget the repug mantle:
" Stay the Course".

Just when you thought the flaming sack couldn't accomplish his mission any further.

Huh
Tensky made a short comment that actually makes sense!

Wouldn't that just fix him and his friends. No last minute pardons to cronies "for acts that may or may not have been illegal."

After the president has been set, presidents would have to do the cover up pardons earlier and face the music while in office,

What is it called when a small group of entitled elite take something of substantial value which belongs to a larger group for very little in return? Oligarchy? Slavery? Theft?

I think the term you seek is kleptocracy.

Can anyone give me a good reason why we even need a government anymore? Just one. That's all I ask.

kleptocracy

Or, wenn es Ihnen gefällt, fascism.

You don't need a government that's out of touch; like, you don't need an absentee landlord. Raygun's demeaning tag line -- "I'm from the gov't ..." -- fully says the gov't is something way off the planet in a tidal basin far far away.

Just cancel the 'federal' and its strident 'nationalism.' Most of the countries in the world are smaller than Oregon. Let's normalize.

I mean, the melting pot thing is all well and good, where the crayons melt together. However, the good ol' U.S.ofA. failed; the various sorts of Amurcans stay segregated apart in their respective corners. Who's been to Mississippi - Hands? Maine - Hands? Anyone? Anyone? Well, ditto there backatcha.

Alaska? Oops ... nevermind.

Just divide into sovereignties, and each 'cluster of States'/new local-size Nation, take a seat at the UN.