I'm NOT a Conspiracy NUT but . . .

But one would have to really believe strongly in lots of coincidences being completely unrelated to buy the crap happening today.

Rev Wright is critically important but Hagee irrelevant? We have to see Wright's sermons on an endless loop but none of Huckabee's were disclosed even though he stated he was running as the Christian President?

Journalist Greg Palast has made a compelling case tying the Spitzer investigation to a different top story.

While New York Governor Eliot Spitzer was paying an ‘escort’ $4,300 in a hotel room in Washington, just down the road, George Bush’s new Federal Reserve Board Chairman, Ben Bernanke, was secretly handing over $200 billion in a tryst with mortgage bank industry speculators.

Both acts were wanton, wicked and lewd. But there’s a BIG difference. The Governor was using his own checkbook. Bush’s man Bernanke was using ours.

This week, Bernanke’s Fed, for the first time in its history, loaned a selected coterie of banks one-fifth of a trillion dollars to guarantee these banks’ mortgage-backed junk bonds. The deluge of public loot was an eye-popping windfall to the very banking predators who have brought two million families to the brink of foreclosure.

Up until Wednesday, there was one single, lonely politician who stood in the way of this creepy little assignation at the bankers’ bordello: Eliot Spitzer.

Who are they kidding? Spitzer’s lynching and the bankers’ enriching are intimately tied.

How? Follow the money.

The whole Bear Stearns bail out is outrageous when you consider how horrified these ‘free market’ proponents are at the thought of say, socialized medicine, but barely bat an eye at socialized banking. No telling what kind of bonuses will be handed out to Bear Stearns executives in light of this massive failure of management but you know it will be minimum 7 figures.

UPDATE 3-18-08
Glenn Greenwald expresses a similar sentiment but, of course, in a MUCH more articulate way.

Huckabee Want to Change our Constitution

In Warren, Michigan last night Huckabee said:

[Some of my opponents] do not want to change the Constitution, but I believe it's a lot easier to change the constitution than it would be to change the word of the living God, and that's what we need to do is to amend the Constitution so it's in God's standards rather than try to change God's standards," Huckabee said.

He's just certifiable, isn't he? I HOPE and PRAY he just shot himself in the foot but it's a lingering death. I HOPE and PRAY voters are smart enough to know how dangerous it would be to have someone in the Presidential office with this point of view.

My question to Huckabee is "which living god?"

Huckabee

I'm a little sad that Huckabee is crashing and burning so soon. His meltdown after the Bhutto assassination showing his complete lack of any international knowledge came too soon. I was looking forward to him gathering steam and then watching the inevitable overt trashing of the evangelicals by the Republican party. For a couple decades they have talked the talk and courted them but almost never delivered on any of their wishes. I'm sure the evanelicals know they are the ugly cousin, just invited to the party becuase the Repubs have to, but otherwise ignored and forgotten. But if Huchabee started gathering steam, the repubs would have to start trashing him and it would be obvious to even the most die hard denier.


I have a question for Huckabee after his performance yesterday on Meet the Press:

MR. RUSSERT: Some Americans believe that life does not begin at conception, and that it's...
GOV. HUCKABEE: Well, scientifically I think that's almost...a point that you couldn't argue. How, how could you say that life doesn't begin at conception...
MR. RUSSERT: Right. Do you respect that view? [..]
GOV. HUCKABEE: I respect it as a view, but I don't think it has biological credibility.

So since two-thirds of fertilized eggs are spontaneously discarded through the menstral flow, should we start holding funerals and burials for all our pads and tampons?

Sorry to be crude. But his argument always gets me. I can go along with the viability test but the 'moment of conception'!!??