Dr. No and the Wisdom of Our Sage Politicians

With the economy bobbing in rough seas and the american public growing more fearful by the day I want to thank the Republication Party for their unabashed gall. All they can do to President Obama is say no. Very constructive behavior coming from the party of our recent reckless spending. It seems all the politicians want to show how fiscally responsible they are all of a sudden. Believe me, in spite of what you may think, the housing crisis was not of Republication or Democrat making. Both parties drove and took credit as it snowballed.

I thought that David Brooks summed it up best in his Column of March 19th, Perverse Cosmic Myopia, where he points out how politicians never really want to deal with the issues that confront us.

"The Washington political class has spent the past week going into made-for-TV hysterics over $165 million in A.I.G. bonuses. We’re in the middle of a multitrillion-dollar crisis, and our political masters — always willing to throw themselves into any issue that is understandable on cable television — have decided to risk destroying the entire bank-rescue plan because of bonuses that account for 0.001 percent of the annual G.D.P."