You are certain that the credit crisis is cutting into normal life when you tune to CNBC and see Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) ranting from the podium of the House Committee on the Budget. You know that things are way off kilter because there simply must be a very severe shortage of lithium and chlorpromazine in the Northeast.
I mean it, what is wrong with this woman? It's Dennis Hopper level mania.
One through nine, no maybes, no supposes, no fractions. You can't travel in space, you can't go out into space, you know, without, like, you know, uh, with fractions - what are you going to land on - one-quarter, three-eighths? What are you going to do when you go from here to Venus or something? That's dialectic physics.
Sheesh.
UPDATE: CNBC has several video clips up of the hearing, but none at all featuring our favorite, lithium deprived servant of the people. It's like someone just George Orwelled her entire psychotic rant into oblivion.
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2008 11:23AM
THE ORACLE HAS SPOKEN
QUESTION NOT THE ORACLE
Posted by AJ , Oct 20, 2008 11:26AM
What the hell was that in reference to?
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2008 11:27AM
This woman is a lunatic. She taunted the Beard about how spending freely on any sort of liberal do-good programs (healthcare for all, wind power, etc) would restore America's financial greatness.
These are all laudable goals, but they're completely uneconomic. You can tout them as a social good, but it is asinine to pretend that they will be "good" for the economy.
Get ready for these wild-eyed free- spending liberals if Obama gets elected in.
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2008 11:28AM
Whatever sort of drugs she is taking, I want some...
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2008 11:29AM
Seriously, how do fucks like this get elected? It's mind boggling.
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2008 11:33AM
3 get ready for free spending liberals.... That's been the R party line since Sara Palin's lack of smarts has been made apparent to the entire world. A lame attempt I would say given 1) the spending spree over the past 8 years, when Rs were in charge 2) the fact that Palin's fiscal discipline comes in a state awash with oil money and also good at being on the federal dole (how they managed the later, given the former, I will never understand) and therefore very forgiving of mistakes in the fiscal department.
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2008 11:33AM
She is apparently smarter than the people who put us in a $1 trillion hole.
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2008 11:36AM
@7,
That's called Obama False Logic.
She's never done anything, so she's smarter than people who have screwed up.
So we should give her the chance to do something.
Highly illogical, Captain.
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2008 11:38AM
What did Paulson just say?
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2008 11:39AM
Eff her, She got the Bernanke Bitch Slap
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2008 11:42AM
I mean here we are watching uncle ben and then Paulson just blithely steps in with his breaking news and then Rick Sntelli says there were errors in his statement???
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2008 11:43AM
The scary part, Obama et al have precicely the same nonsense rattling around in their hollow skulls.
This type of thinking should be laughed at all the time but it is usually delivered by better salespeople than Ms. De Lauro. She is, for lack of a better phrase, "the word incarnate." The diesel haircut, the wild eyes, the incoherence, changing the meaning of what you actually said once someone points out you have your head up your ass.
Behold Obama-socialists, Rosa DeLauro is the physical embodiment of your beliefs. There was a time I was ashamed of liking the twitchy geet Steve Forbes, no more.
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2008 11:44AM
the best was when she didn't know they extended UI benefits.... The Beard shot the stupid f down.
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2008 11:50AM
Sorry to change the subject, but has this http://news.hereisthecity.com/news/business_news/8365.cntns
been discussed already? He just got lucky, right? And does he realize that people who are born rich did not choose that any more than those who were born poor (and, ahem, not raised properly)?
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2008 11:51AM
I'm embarrassed! I'm from CT. How do these people get elected?
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2008 11:53AM
@15- YES, IT HAS. can you people learn to use a search function before posting links to stories that have already been covered? thx
http://dealbreaker.com/2008/10/andrew-ladhe-goes-too-far.php
Posted by Joseph di Jersey City , Oct 20, 2008 11:53AM
I hoped that I had seen the last of this goulish enemy of freedom when I left CT. It's too early Monday morning for this shit.
5: She barely won her first term in a solidly Democratic district. That accomplished she is pretty much in for life unless she's dumb enough (and fortunately she is) to try for higher office.
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2008 11:56AM
This woman is typical of the batshit crazy, dirt-chewin, tree-huggin', dope smokin', commie liberal pinko Democrats.
Obama has painted himself as a reasonable, moderate Democrat (at least in the General election, since he threw his antiwar supporters under the bus a few months ago).
Make no mistake though: All the far-left nutcakes are going to be out in force if this election goes to their Obamessiah.
Watch your wallets.
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2008 11:56AM
#15. They get elected because most people, are overwhelmed by their own lives and literally don't vote.
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2008 11:58AM
the best was when she didn't know they extended UI benefits.... The Beard shot the stupid f down.
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2008 12:08PM
So now they are talking another "stimulus"? Why is he saying "slush fund", "bridges to nowhere", "sending checks to buy votes". Oh Geez this is ridiculous.
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2008 12:09PM
So now they are talking another "stimulus"? Why is he saying "slush fund", "bridges to nowhere", "sending checks to buy votes". Oh Geez this is ridiculous.
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2008 12:11PM
I'd shoot myself if I had to wake up and look at that ugly b****
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2008 12:12PM
I wonder how many millions this wench has earned as a result of freely giving away CT taxpayer money to social interest groups that in turn reward her campaign in some way or another. This leech, like most democrats, really care about the disadvantaged only as long as they can get something out of it in the end. I would give away other people's money too if I knew I was going to enjoy benefits from it.
We'll find out about this soon when Obama gets elected to "spread the wealth around" and everyone winds up in the government payroll, fueled by taxpayers.
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2008 12:12PM
#21 here. Seriously don't know how my post posted twice.
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2008 12:13PM
I'd shoot myself if I had to wake up and look at that ugly b****
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2008 12:13PM
#6 - Keep drinking the kool-aid. Your messiah will save us all.
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2008 12:15PM
27 Where's the kool aid in 6? looks like a heap of facts to me.
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2008 12:16PM
#24. CNBC is saying that the governors of NY and NJ were on this morning saying they were having trouble getting money. So, how does that get fixed?
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2008 12:17PM
can anyone find a link to the video clip of this? Can't find it on CNBC's site. Thanks.
-CT resident eagerly waiting to write letter to Rep DeLauro
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2008 12:20PM
#6. you said "since Sara Palin's lack of smarts has been made apparent to the entire world."
Really, the woman is the governor of a state. The other three idiots are simply Senators. The Governor has to literally run a small enterprise. The buck stops with her. The Senators have enough staff to float a battleship and they discuss one issue at a time. They have no idea what it is like to juggle several issues and situations at once.
So, it's because you are sexist right? It is because she is a woman, right? FYI, the best presidents have been Governors and she is only the second slot on the ticket. Bill Clinton was a governor, remember?
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2008 12:23PM
Except for the southwestern golden arm of commutable suburbs, CT is generally a sh!!hole. A carcass of empty defense plants, hat factories and thread works, plus a lot of insurance company paper shuffle jobs. Somehow that has generally escaped most people but should become apparent now after watching Rosa D.
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2008 12:24PM
But you forget the WS driven bedroom communities like Greenwich?
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2008 12:27PM
#2 Apocalypse now
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2008 12:28PM
31 She is the gov of a state thats easy to govern. Its awash with oil revenue and federal largesse. A libertarian's paradise - with essentially a negative income tax. Before that she was mayor of Wasilla, a place with a budget smaller than the co-op on which i serve as a board member. I don't deny she's charming, but there's nothing to indicate any sort of competence. Its well summed up in Peggy Noonan's column in last Saturday's WSJ. Choosing her as a running mate eliminated McCain as a potential reasonable candidate. Simple as that.
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2008 12:29PM
#31, you're right. Buck stops with her. Even if she was running a state with a smaller population than the area for which Obama was a community organizer, and which is literally swimming in oil money and Federal pork, she was, technically an executive.
But the buck seems to have passed her by. An investigatory body found that she had acted both unethically and unlawfully. Her response: "They found that I didn't do anything unethical or unlawful."
This is the statement of either an idiot who cannot read a simple English sentence, or an out-and-out liar. Which one is she? Does either bode well in a future potential President? Myself, I'd rather have a smart liar than an honest idiot, but only if those are my only two choices. I think she's the former but I have no real evidence to go on other than your basic "she's the governor of a state, it's impossible for her to be as dumb as she looks" approach.
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2008 12:30PM
33 I said except for the southwestern golden arm: that would include Greenwich, Darien, etc.
Posted by diablo , Oct 20, 2008 12:31PM
@31
George W. Bush was a governor. Forgot?
The only debate remaining about W is whether he was a Great President, or the Greatest President Ever and Forever...
...fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2008 12:33PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Rosa_DeLauro_at_Barack_Obama_rally_5,_February_4,_2008.jpg
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2008 12:40PM
39 - nice image - shame no one had a bucket of water
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2008 12:46PM
#29 "CNBC is saying that the governors of NY and NJ were on this morning saying they were having trouble getting money. So, how does that get fixed?"
Just take the $ from Joe the plumber -- after all, the Dems and the MSM (but I repeat myself) have told us he's rich.
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2008 12:52PM
#35 and #36. She is still a Governor and has more experience than the three male Senators. Haven't read Peggy Noonan's column and I will read it but she has been a little too odd lately for my taste. I think that the guy may have looked around and felt that he wanted someone totally immune to Washington politics. Someone who "owes nothing" to the lobbyists that seem to be infused in Washington almost as much as CDO's seem to be infused in WS. As regards the commission and their findings, I read the stuff and when it originally came out I was watching Keith Oberman and Rachel Maddow and they both said they would have done the same thing the Governor did. If you read what the guy was doing, by his own admission you might think she was right too. As far as firing the official, she was permitted to do that, by law. I think each person will read the circumstances she was dealing with and arrive at Oberman's and Maddow's conclusions, so no, I don't think it is an issue in the campaign.
What I do object to is the elitist stuff saying she is the Governor of an easy state to Govern and such. She is still a Governor, bottom line and she is, according to Alaskans, doing a great job. So I do think people, by not giving her a chance, are being short sighted. A lot of governing is common sense and knowing how to do the right thing and she has proven that she knows how to do that. I think people are mad at McCain because, as usual, he didn't do "what was expected" and they are sort of having a little tantrum. But, we'll see, on election day, what most people think of her.
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2008 1:07PM
#36 if she acted unlawfully, then what has she now been charged with? When is the trial?
BTW, it would seem that the Obamessiah violated Illinois ethics laws when he took payment for speeches he gave. Where do we find the evidence that he violated the law? -- why in his tax returns where he reports the income.
The buck stops with him. He's the presidential candidate and he's acting unethically. Trouble is that the media is as uninterested in this as the Dems (though since they're one & the same, I'm not surprised).
The man and his campaign are also quite involved with ACORN, an organization which should be the subject of a RICO investigation.
Also, there seem to be some very substantial questions about the legality of many of his campaign donations and, unlike the McCain campaign, has yet to give a full accounting of his small donors. What has been released is full of obviously fraudulent names, and there much cash coming in from foreign countries, with no proof that the donor is an American citizen. Lots of foreign currency being converted.
And the man certainly has done a lot of bobbing and weaving regarding his friendship with that unrepentant terrorist, Bill Ayers.
And how did he manage to buy his great, big home in Chicago? With the help of convicted felon Tony Rezko. What did Barack do for Tony that Tony helped him like this?
Guess we'll have to wait for after the election to find out the answers. But if Obama's elected, it could be dangerous to ask questions. His media thugs can be counted on to destroy anyone who asks an inconvenient question.
But Sarah Palin is the one that's unethical and is thus
As regards experience, Obama's as inexperienced as she is with the extra added attraction of having no executive experience.
BTW, I'm sure you must have voted for W. last election due to the fact that Kerry VP candidate John Edwards had almost no experience except a short time in the Senate. Dick Cheney, on the other hand, was enormously experienced. Funny, that didn't seem to bother the media too much during that election.
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2008 1:14PM
I was watching the hearing this morning, and I thought she made some pretty good points. Obviously not the stuff you are quoting though
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2008 1:34PM
Fair reportage has never been EP's forte. It's annoying enough that she has to plonk in a WWII reference every time anything Swiss is mentioned. Or her silly drone about California.
I come to this site for insightful commentary on the markets, not for a litany of EP's personal biases. Seriously, can we just clone Bess and have her do all the posts?
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2008 1:55PM
43: I didn't vote for anybody in the last election and have no plan to vote for anybody in this one. In those immortal words, "I think the lot of you are sons-a-bitches and I wish there was some way you both could lose." Pointing out Obama/Biden/et al's deficiencies to me will result in me nodding and saying, "Yep, fuck them too."
However, you ducked the question as neatly as any of them could. I didn't say what she did was wrong (or right.) I said that there was a finding of unlawful and unethical conduct. There was. She said there was a finding she didn't do anything wrong. That is not true. She's either illiterate or a liar. No other options. Which one is she?
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2008 2:46PM
@46: False dichotomy. The unethical conduct seemed to be that she should have known what hubby was doing, and didn't reign him in.
And as to how they get elected? Hmm, not many of the commenters here are running for office. In fairness, constituents expect their congresscritter to be smarter than them in their own field of expertise. DB readers want financial gurus, firefighters want fire chiefs, environmentalists want pollution experts. Granted, it's a tough point to make via someone like DeLauro, but by and large they're not a ... stupid .. bunch.
Posted by MoneyBoss , Oct 20, 2008 2:47PM
Good to see Ruth Buzzi is active in politics. http://worldofwonder.net/images4/ruthbuzzibday.jpg
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2008 3:56PM
47: False dichotomy, my ass. Please identify any other possibility other than "she can't read" and "she's deliberately lying" regarding a report that says she committed unlawful and unethical acts and her saying in so many words that the report says she committed no unethical or unlawful acts. Note that she didn't just say she didn't do anything wrong, she said the REPORT says she didn't do anything wrong, which is simply not the case. It's counterfactual. It's inconsistent with observable reality. It isn't so.
"She hasn't read the report" is actually shorthand for "she's deliberately lying," incidentally, so no ducking with that one. If she hasn't read it, saying what's in it is a lie since she doesn't know what's in it.
Bonus points if you were going to point out extraneous possibilities like "She's crazy," "She lives in an alternate dimension where she was found not to have committed any unlawful or unethical acts," or, "Her staff lied to her about what the report said." Any of these would in fact avoid the dichotomy I pose but wouldn't really do much to actually advance her case that she should be Vice-President.
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2008 4:07PM
47,
That is absolutely false. I have yet to read or see an interview with any elected official on Capitol Hill where I didn't shake my head in disgust. On either side of the aisle. It's a disgrace.
Do we hold them to high standards? Hell yes we do. They're the leaders of our country, they should be held to pretty damn high standards. Now, I work with philandering narcissistic douchebags on a daily basis, and can appreciate that, but I'd still prefer if they didn't run the country.
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2008 5:12PM
#46 She wasn't subsequently charged with anything because she didn't do anything illegal. "Governor Palin’s firing of Commissioner Monegan was a proper and lawful exercise of her constitutional and statutory authority to hire and fire executive branch department heads."
That's from the commission's findings. She hasn't been charged with anything as a result of the comission's investigation, which were headed by an Obama supporter. Perhaps that's in the future now that the standards are such that anyone who stands in the way of Dear Leader's path to the coronation must be destroyed, be they a politician or an ordinary citizen.
She was well within her rights to fire a political appointee. Just like Obama will (legally) get rid of hundreds of political appointees if he's elected president. But that will be ok with his media brownshirts because they're on his side. Reporting the news in an unbiased fashion doesn't enter into the equation here, because the news media doesn't see that as their primary function. They look at their job as "making the world a better place", and since they're almost all Dems (or to the left of that), they see it as their job to get Dems elected and to support Democrat policies.
In general, consumers are not getting the news, they're getting DNC talking points.
But really, look at the amount of time and effort by the Dems and MSM (same thing, I know) investigating and reporting on everything about this matter compared to how little interest in possible major ethics violations and lawbreaking by Obama and his campaign.
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2008 9:02PM
a 60% majority of these nutjobs... we are all screwed
Posted by guest , Oct 20, 2008 10:09PM
47 here. @ 50: Run for office if you think you can do a better job. No? Now examine your reasons for declining to do so.
@ 49, you missed my point entirely. It may be that I'm a bit more precise in my use of language. But let's give it a try: Please identify, citing to the page of the committee report, the specific, affirmative ACT that Gov. Palin performed that the committee found to be unlawful and/or unethical. No? No. Unless you count "not acting to restrain the husband" to be an action, which I suppose must be what you're thinking.
Ultimately, it may be a case of seeing only what you want to see, in which case logical argument is fruitless. And I suppose I could understand your point; that is, if I didn't think the whole report was a hatchet job. All I can say is that most people I know would be surprised that she didn't fire Wooten's ass regardless of consequences.
Posted by Blabrmouthcom , Oct 20, 2008 11:57PM
I am pretty sure at one point I saw Bernanke laugh in her face, I think it was the unemployment issue.
Posted by guest , Oct 21, 2008 4:23PM
53: Page Eight. Finding #1. Fuck You. And. Your. Clintonesque Quibbling. About. The Meaning. Of Is.
Posted by guest , Oct 21, 2008 5:50PM
Man, I'd love to see the context of this...what she said was a direct quote from Apocalypse Now. What in the world do you suppose brought that up?