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The best part of the 2008 Veep debate happened 22 minutes before the debate actually started. This was it.

The immaculate wisdom of the Sarah Palin Random Quote generator.

As Senator McCain has said, that has to be considered also and we’ve got to keep an eye on Russia.

It has been overwhelming to me that confirmation of building new relationships trying to get people to understand what he’s been talking about.

Senator McCain also showed great appreciation for what America that is what America needs today and we’ve got to remember what the desire is in this nation at this time.

I’m ill about the position that America is in, and should not be rewarded have provided me a lot of perspective on the world.

If you’re panicky today about the future of our financial system, take ten minutes to read this very well-reasoned blog at HuffPo –Peter Dreier: How To Fix The Mortgage Mess 101

See the thing is, yesterday when the bailout was defeated, was a chance to get it right, not some horrible partisan sabotage that will ruin the entire planetary banking machine. All those guys on the TV who talk about saving Wall Street in order to protect Main Street ( excuse me I have to puke after typing that … ) — what they are not telling anyone is that this mess was CREATED starting in the Regan administration, and deepened and worsened until now.

The DOW may have had it’s biggest one-day point loss Ever In History, but taken as a percentage of the unearthly (some would say ‘artificial’) levels it’s not so bad. (See this completely separate and technically thorny graph and article.)

Anyway, read Peter Dreier, who has many great points, including this:

We’re in the current mortgage meltdown mess — the escalating wave of home foreclosures, the growing number of bank failures, and the tightening credit crunch — because Congress tore down the last remaining legal barriers to combining savings-and-loans, commercial banking, investment banking and insurance under one corporate roof. Banks, insurance companies, credit-card firms and other money-lenders became part of a giant “financial services” industry. Washington walked away from its responsibility to protect consumers with regulations and enforcement.

I like it when two words and an image can sum up what 1000 other blogs are writing about today. Don’t you?

I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America….

Please reply with all of your bank account, IRA and college fund account numbers and those of your children and grandchildren to wallstreetbailout@treasury.gov so that we may transfer your commission for this transaction. After I receive that information, I will respond with detailed information about safeguards that will be used to protect the funds.

Yours Faithfully Minister of Treasury Paulson

Prior to putting this up, I didn’t realize it was so heavily memed

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Imagine a situation where the electoral college ties 269-269 and Joe Biden is our next president.  Or maybe two years of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in charge while the final counts are battled in court?  Or an Obama-Palin ticket?  Could Dick Cheney or Joe Lieberman decide who will be the next President?

Are you scared?
The Washington Times lays out some interesting scenarios in a September 23 article titled “An electoral college ‘doomsday’?”

“The probability of a tie in 2008 is about 1.5 percent, which is slightly higher than we calculated at about the same time back in 2004,” said Paul. Sracic, associate professor in the department of political science Youngstown State University in Ohio, who enlisted the help of the university’s math department to come up with a possible 1,024 combinations with the current 10 states now considered tossups.

Be afraid, be very afraid.

I need to know that. I really do. Because she’s gonna have the nuclear codes, ya know? [at about 1m 24s]

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