Dem to Wall Street: Ima kick your ass
September 24, 2008 11:46 AM Subscribe
Humiliation through legislation: A supposed email from an anonymous member of Congress floats some proposals for tweaking the $700B bailout package. "I'm open to other ideas, and I am looking for volunteers who want to hold the sons of bitches so I can beat the crap out of them."
This post was deleted for the following reason: Supposed + anonymous = maybe either drop this into one of the open finance threads or sit on it until those words turn into "confirmed" and "identified". -- cortex
I volunteer to carry a boombox on my shoulder. Said boombox will play nothing but Dre produced beats.
posted by mannequito at 11:57 AM on September 24, 2008
posted by mannequito at 11:57 AM on September 24, 2008
Dre beats? Son, you want some Public Enemy Bomb Squad shit playing for a beating like this.
posted by Damn That Television at 12:05 PM on September 24, 2008
posted by Damn That Television at 12:05 PM on September 24, 2008
Holy crap. This is nearly exactly how I'd imagined Democratic politics operating at several points, but I'm more than a little surprised to find out it seems to be real.
posted by namespan at 12:12 PM on September 24, 2008
posted by namespan at 12:12 PM on September 24, 2008
The (supposed) email reads like every progressive's wet-dream where the Dems actually grow both balls *and* spines. Sadly, reality will out. Wall Street will get it's 700B with nothing more than a light slap on the wrist and a pinky-promise they won't do it again...in the next two years.
I really like the idea of making Wall Street execs go through credit counseling. Makes me giggle.
posted by Thorzdad at 12:13 PM on September 24, 2008
I really like the idea of making Wall Street execs go through credit counseling. Makes me giggle.
posted by Thorzdad at 12:13 PM on September 24, 2008
Just let me wear some goggles so the blood doesn't get in my eyes.
Here's the money shot for me: I also find myself drawn to provisions that would serve no useful purpose except to insult the industry, like requiring the CEOs, CFOs and the chair of the board of any entity that sells mortgage related securities to the Treasury Department to certify that they have completed an approved course in credit counseling. That is now required of consumers filing bankruptcy to make sure they feel properly humiliated for being head over heels in debt, although most lost control of their finances because of a serious illness in the family. I want to buy this person a drink.
After that, dessert: Molotov cocktails for Wall Street and fancy Manhattan condos.
posted by adipocere at 12:13 PM on September 24, 2008
Here's the money shot for me: I also find myself drawn to provisions that would serve no useful purpose except to insult the industry, like requiring the CEOs, CFOs and the chair of the board of any entity that sells mortgage related securities to the Treasury Department to certify that they have completed an approved course in credit counseling. That is now required of consumers filing bankruptcy to make sure they feel properly humiliated for being head over heels in debt, although most lost control of their finances because of a serious illness in the family. I want to buy this person a drink.
After that, dessert: Molotov cocktails for Wall Street and fancy Manhattan condos.
posted by adipocere at 12:13 PM on September 24, 2008
McCain just announced he's suspending his campaign to go back to Washington and deal with the crisis, and wants Obama to agree to postpone the debate.
Shit must be serious.
posted by gottabefunky at 12:17 PM on September 24, 2008
Shit must be serious.
posted by gottabefunky at 12:17 PM on September 24, 2008
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