So, the house voted a resounding ‘Nay’ this afternoon and denied the bail out. What was supposed to bail out Wall Street and banks wasn’t as important as hurt feelings. At least that’s the way Barney Frank put it. Is that true? Is it because Pelosi made some poorly timed, idiotic, partisan speech blaming Republicans for this mess? And that Republicans care so little about the country that they would allow their fragile egos to be bruised?

Is this bailout necessary and why is it that once the bailout occurred we started seeing more and more banks jump ship and fail? Now there are rumblings of GE wanting a piece of this too? Does the largest capitalist country in the world have this many shitty business people that they’re failing at this rate?

Are all the CEOs in this country so consumed with greed and incompetence that they can’t fight their way back to the top? How did these morons get to a point in their careers that they could demand multi-million dollar salaries without proving their ability? Who hired them?

Then there’s this: If these banks are failing because, as Bush made clear, people were irresponsible when buying homes, wouldn’t it be a logical step for banks holding these mortgages with unreasonable interest rates to start calling people? Call people with 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 percent interest rates and see if they can pay 6 percent. Rather than take homes that are going to cost (what the mortgages companies are saying) $250,000 just for the paperwork.

I may be naive, but it seems to me that the more help that’s offered the more companies are going to want to a piece, rather than actually run a business responsibly. That may take work.

And wouldn’t it be logical for banks to get 6% for the next 30 years, rather than take on a house that in this market is depreciating in value?

Or does that make too much sense?

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I’m sure who ever voted in either way was doing it strictly to save their own ass, but as of right now I don’t know what those reasons are. Here’s the video The house votes no on the bail out today.

Here’s a good one too …

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It seems that Christmas is coming early this year. More of Couric’s interviews with Palin will air.

In the mean time check these out from SNL…

and while it’s not much different from the real one…

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While I think Michael Moore is a self indulgent, radical, blow hard, I have to admit the e-mail, written by him, I got this morning was worth a read.

I generally treat these “emails” with some speculation, but this one’s on his site.

Besides, if it’s on the Internet it must be true.

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