I am BEYOND impatient with the Republican fuuls

How can I have time for the Canadian Conservative fuuls when I'm sidetracked by the US ones and their FUCKY economy, scheduled to hit us any day now? I won't be happy with a Democratic win at the next US elections, I want a LANDslide. As if the Republicans hadn't already trashed their country in so many ways, this economic meltdown is beyond ridiculous. And they don't know fuck all what to say about it.

And on a side note, how can we get undergrads to write simply and elegantly when Palin's throwing around "verbiage" like an aide just handed her a thesaurus? And what a bad choice of words too, considering that we usually mean it in the "profusion of words usually of little or obscure content" sense, rather than Merriam Webster's definition #2: "manner of expressing oneself in words."

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HANNITY: Let's talk about, Governor, obviously, the economy is on the minds of many Americans. We've got Lehman, we've got Merrill, we've got AIG. Senator Barack Obama yesterday was attacking Senator McCain for saying that the "fundamentals of the economy are strong."

Do you believe that the fundamentals of our economy are strong?

PALIN: Well, it was an unfair attack on the verbiage that Senator McCain chose to use because the fundamentals, as he was having to explain afterwards, he means our workforce, he means the ingenuity of the American. And of course, that is strong and that is the foundation of our economy.

So that was an unfair attack there, again, based on verbiage that John McCain used.

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And for another lovely Republican...

From wiki: William Philip "Phil" Gramm

He was John McCain’s presidential campaign co-chair^[8] and his most senior economic adviser^[9] from summer 2007^[10] to July 18, 2008.^[8]

His fundamental economic theory is described by his critics as "Reverse Robin Hood and Little John Economics". This theory assumes that to improve the quality of people's lives you must impose the burden of tax on the middle class and poor, while providing tax relief to the rich or wealthy. It is believed that the lives of the middle class and poor will then improve when a portion of their original taxes trickles down to them. While advising the McCain campaign, Gramm was being paid by UBS to lobby Congress about the U.S. mortgage crisis. During this time, "the mortgage industry pressed Congress to roll back strong state rules that sought to stem the rise of predatory tactics used by lenders and brokers to place homeowners in high-cost mortgages."^[11]

In a July 9, 2008 interview explaining McCain's plans in reforming the U.S. economy, Gramm downplayed the idea that the nation was in a recession, stating, "You've heard of mental depression; this is a mental recession," and "We have sort of become a nation of whiners, you just hear this constant whining, complaining about a loss of competitiveness, America in decline."^[12]

Gramm was one of five co-sponsors of the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000^[3]. One provision of the bill was referred to as the "Enron loophole" because the House Agriculture Committee drafted it and it was later applied to Enron. Some critics blame the provision for permitting the Enron scandal to occur.^[4] At the time, Gramm's wife was previously on Enron's board of directors.