Quote of the Day

It is remarkable. I had expected that we economists would have to fight Democratic political advisors who would be pushing for policies that were bad in the long run but that gained votes in the short run. I had never expected to be fighting Democratic political advisors who are pushing policies that are:

• bad in the long run.
• bad in the short run.
• lose votes too.

----J. Bradford Delong, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the United States Department of the Treasury in the Clinton Administration

<Tinfoil Hat>I'm beginning to wonder if Obama isn't some sort of Republican Manchurian Candidate</Tinfoil Hat>

I don't really believe this, but his policy of cozying up to bankers, BP, and other corrupt centers of power in our society while cock punching the DFH's^* that are his base seems to be a pretty good job of sabotaging his party.

^*Dirty F%$#ing Hippies.