Ricky Gervais Should Be President

The Wise Senate Says Yes to the Bailout... and so the youthful House tomorrow, chastened by their clever colleagues, will probably say yes too.

Have we learned nothing from Ricky Gervais' analysis of Humpty Dumpty? When the egg smashes into a million little pieces you don't send in every man, woman, child, and horse to put him back together. It just doesn't work.

So now that humpty-dumpty (read:the market) has fallen off the wall and smashed into a million little pieces why does the Bush Administration (yet again) want to send in the troops? They aren't going to glue this all back together. Why do they want to give 700 billion dollars, SEVEN HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS, to Secretary Hank? The man who presided over one of the major players in this mess in the first place? Hank helped push Humpty off the wall. Hank hated Humpty. Hank and his heavies helped waste Humpty.

Market Turmoil reads in English as "an opportunity for drastic changes". This is a real opportunity for a youthful, dynamic, young man, with democratic ideals (sound familiar?) to stand up and say this isn't a crisis, it's a chance to make things better. You want change, well, now is the perfect opportunity.

Instead, cap in hand, he votes with the herd.

We get the politics of fear. "We must pass this bill or it's the end of the world." The people are scared, they want to see something being done, and their politicians seize the opportunity to fail them.