Down goes Paulson! Down goes Bernanke!
Instant update on the $700 billion bill:
WASHINGTON — In a moment of historic drama in the Capitol and on Wall Street, the House of Representatives voted on Monday to reject a $700 billion rescue of the financial industry.
The vote against the measure was 228 to 205. Supporters vowed to try to bring the rescue package up for consideration against as soon as possible.
Stock markets plunged sharply at midday as it appeared that the measure was go down.
Remember when Republicans were supposedly Wall Street shills? The GOP has been absolutely insipid over the last few years, but this is strength in the face of the Bush Administration.
As for Wall Street, this song seems rather appropriate:
Mystery Solved
Ever since The Daily Dish jumped the shark polar bear on the Sarah Palin, some in the blogosphere have wondered what happened to the most popular Oakeshottian of all time. Will the real Andrew Sullivan please stand up? Thankfully, Reason’s Hit & Run has unwittingly unveiled the true identity behind the current Dish posts:
Lindsay Lohan chimes in on the big race:
“I find it quite interesting that a woman who now is running to be second in command of the United States, only 4 years ago had aspirations to be a television anchor, which is probably all she is qualified to be.
“Oh, and… Hint Hint Pali Pal—Don’t pose for anymore tabloid covers, you’re not a celebrity, you’re running for office to represent our, your, my COUNTRY!”
Lohan—who is rumored to be in a relationship with DJ Samantha Ronson—also referenced Palin’s views on homosexuality.
“Is it a sin to be gay?” Lohan asked. “Should it be a sin to be straight? Or to use birth control? Or to have sex before marriage? Or even to have a child out of wedlock?
“Is our country so divided that the Republicans best hope is a narrow minded, media obsessed homophobe?”
In conclusion, Lohan cited an Associated Press story reporting that Palin’s church advocates a conference about prayer curing homosexuality. Wrote Lohan: “Palin’s Desire to “save and convert the gays”—really??”
Of course, we still don’t know where the hell Andrew actually is. Perhaps House of Wax 2 will star a hirsute intellectual in Lindsay’s stead?
UPDATE: It seems, however, that there’s a second candidate: the host of Red Eye (the best show on TV), Greg Gutfeld
Progress
Much of the campaign has focused on whether or not America is better off than it was four, or even eight years ago. With this new development, via Conventional Folly, that question can be put to rest once and for all:
Bacon salt is a zero calorie, zero fat, vegetarian and Kosher seasoning that makes everything taste like bacon.
The website is located here. This new, post-LHC world is definitely an improvement. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go the grocery store.
More Palin-mania
Apologies for the lack of posting; unfortunately, I did not make it up to the Man-Su Valley (although that would be quite the excuse, wouldn’t it?). I’m still in the process of putting things together, but for now enjoy the work of the ingenious Fafblog, proof that satire isn’t dead (yet):
MAVERICKNESS.
As a moose-hunting Jesus-fearing hockey-mom mother of five who hunts moose, Sarah Palin isn’t some petty Washington bureaucrat. She’s a petty Alaskan bureaucrat, and she’s gonna shake things up in Washington! For her first reform she will pose for photographs with a gun and a stuffed moose head! For her second reform she will say something bold and brassy. For her third reform she will give birth at a live press conference to six eagle scouts, three peregrine falcons and an American mastodon, rear them in the Christian faith and release them into the wild before hunting them down, shooting them and mounting their heads in the Roosevelt Room!
Seriously, read the rest here.
Paleocon Paradise
Via Reason’s Hit & Run, a place I wouldn’t mind vacationing to myself:
Q: I was just talking to someone who claimed to have knowledge of Alaska to some degree, and they say where Sarah Palin comes from it’s the equivalent of Humboldt or Chico in California, like, of course, you know, she’d have a Girls Gone Wild phase, and smoking pot. Is this just wishcasting, or what can you tell us about her geographical background?
A: So the Mat-Su Valley, you know, Matanuska-Susitna Valley, otherwise known as Upper Wingnuttia, is full of right-wing libertarian militia fundamendalist Christian gun-toting, pot-growing dope-heads.
Q: Awesome.
A: Yeah. If Jerry Falwell rolled his own, you would have the Mat-Su Valley. I live in South Anchorage, and my raspberry plants, courtesy of 22 hours of daylight in the summer, grow eight and a half foot high. That’s a raspberry bush. Can you imagine what a single pot plant would turn into? [...]
Note that Alaska legally allows possession of up to an ounce of marijuana, and also allows for the possession of 25 plants.
The title, of course, is merely an excuse to link to this song. Who knew that Axl Rose was a curmudgeony Buchananite on the inside?
