A little angry are we? Do yourself a favor...Stop hating republicans and blaming them for the current financial mess. It is common knowledge that all of the necessary regulations were in place to thwart this mess and the very people elected to be the "watchdogs" to make sure the "greedy wall street execs" don't abuse the system, were the one's sleeping with (literally) those same execs. Barney Frank and Chris Dodd did more damage with their lack of oversight in the last 8 years than W did with all of his blunders combined. At least he kept the fight over there. This BS mortgage & housing meltdown will end up costing way more than Iraq did. This one falls squarely on the dems, but since they are in power now it will never even be investigated. The next 3 years are going to make the recession on the 70's and the 80's look like a walk in the park. Hold on to your seats because when the 2nd and 3rd wave of foreclosures hits we are in for a "lifestyle adjustment" that no one expects. Can you say "worthless dollar". We have squandered our children’s inheritance by living outside our means for 2 generations. Kiss things like luxury cars and a $4.00 cup of coffee good buy. I predict Starbuck will go under. Soon Americans are going to have a “values adjustment” too. 10% unemployment is a sure thing and O will have his hands full. If he doesn’t start opening more markets and deregulating, building Nukes for energy and employing the early 20th century financial principles that made us great in the 1st place, he is doomed to become a laughing stock like Carter. Then, sadly, it will be another 100 years before America is willing to vote another black man into the presidency. Right now, the dems are their own worst enemy. It’s not the valleys that test you. It’s the peaks. If while in power, the dems can’t show principled leadership with proven results, their tenure at the helm will be short. America was willing to throw real principled political ideology to the wind and emotionally vote for “change” We are going to see change all right…..It won’t be anything Obama does….It is the financial winds of mismanagement that have us in it’s grip. We must weather this “adjustment” through normal market laws like “supply and demand” . We expect O to lead us through this with some miracle solution….No one could. The right is going to have so much politcal fodder to run against Obama with in 2012 because he can't possibly live up to what has been laid at his feet. I give him 4 years.

WONDERFULLY PUT! my take on Joan's tape
not necessarily scathing, my imagery a bit highbrow,
my point hoping to feel that disgusted, as I felt...
in the ARMEY and the MATThews with nothing
left: bombing the other sex... somewhere, somehow
this transcribes to a gang and a bang,
bang, bang the drum slowly goes the change,
8 years in the making.... now, it's all up to
the sexy, or the sex--where the boys were--
to get us through:

If I was missing something, it smelled of old
cigar smoke in an old boys' club, and definitely
not those that sat up high on Beacon Hill;
Where's the Harvard in these pundits? Where's
the gentlemen, collectively to be found? There
she is, up against the wall, where the boys were