So the Shrubbery threatened to go on television to calm the markets and as has consistently happens every time he speaks publicly the market dropped like a rock taking the rest of the world with it.
It has calmed down a bit, but someone needs to keep him away from television cameras. Every time he shows up it reminds investors of the worst decision they have made in years, helping to get him elected.
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There was a time when Shrub would deign to make such an appearance that folks like CNN would carry it live. It took awhile for it to even show up this time. Seriously dead duck.
You might be forced to wonder if they put in sell orders before they announced his intention to speak.
This late in the game I’m wondering if they really understand what the problem is, or if they think they will calm people down by deflecting attention from the general failure of the system they put in place.
The rest of the world is thoroughly ticked off by the tactics used to get the bailout through Congress by going into full panic mode rather than easing into this thing so there could have been an orderly process.
At this point, he’s even more worthless than drinking a non-alcoholic beer in a bar. Or going to a whore house just for a hug.
I responded to your post on this, Rook. The guy is a one-man economic disaster.
In Al Capp’s comic strip “L’il Abner” which is probably well before the time of most of y’all, there was a character, Joe Btfsplk, who wandered around with a small black cloud over his head because he was a total jinx. The Shrubbery is the Joe Btfsplk of economics.
Okay, look. I can remember L’il Abner. So, just you not go there.
Al Capp and Walt Kelly were the forerunners of Gary Trudeau.
Don’t worry, I won’t tell a soul that you have to be older than dirt.
This well may be why he seems to have shifted to giving his daily White House lawn speech to Saturday morning at 8 am, when no markets are open to vote with their wallets.
I am just amazed that he thinks people still want to see him. Anywhere in the world….I mean, really. The buttwipe has ruined the economy of the Entire Freaking World….
I know the markets appreciate the change and I hope like hell he doesn’t comment on the G7 meeting which is bad enough on it’s own, John. They decided not to decide, and they don’t need the “Great Decider” chiming in on that failure.
Moi, he is going to need to go into hiding for a couple of years to avoid the angry crowds. He may have to check into Israeli citizenship, or some other country that won’t extradite citizens.
Huh. It’s a little harder to whip a yid grannie out of thin air here in the States than it was in the failing Soviet Union back in the late 1980’s, when it was just a matter of bribing the right bureaucrat in the right government bureau to provide “proof” that your grannie was a genu-wine heeb and thus you were eligible for Israeli citizenship. The Bush family tree is just too well known to be able to invent a yid grannie that way. So I don’t think the Shrubbery is headin’ to Israel. But there’s all that stuff about his ranch in Paraguay. Does Paraguay have an extradition treaty with the US?
Paraguay is probably a good choice as the laws are subject to influence based on your bank account. Brazil used to be the destination of choice, but they’ve gone left and it isn’t as safe as it was.
older than dirt? well, that can’t be more than about 6000 years, then.
Depending on how you define a year which is not exactly clear, nor is the concept of a week.
Accepting time clues from people who still use a lunar calendar is not exactly a sane occupation.