Crime just does not pay, unless:

[Hubert Flottz]

You are a republican politician or someone who owns those republican politicians, by way of corporate bribery.

[closeupready]

1. I see someone's been paying attention.

Gold star for you.

[Hubert Flottz]

3. Thank you for my gold star...

I try to keep up with the GOPers' black hearted shenanigans and political/criminal mayhem.

[deafskeptic]

2. I've been thinking for a while

that if I were a sociopath or a narcissist, this would be the perfect party for me because I could get away with a lot of stuff that results in jail time for ordinary people.

[Hubert Flottz]

4. Seems like a sociopaths and narcissists are the cream of the GOP crop.

Sociopath Turtle is chomping at the bit to lay waste to the working poor and the unemployed, in order to repay the recent secret campaign favors. His friend John Boinger is the chief of the narcissist caucus in the house and ready to stamp out compassion, regulation and civil rights. Whatever happened to that "Nation Of Laws" we once lived in? When the terrorists accomplish their mission in America they shut down the government along with our democracy.

[Odin2005]

7. Low-functioning sociopaths are the stereotypical "dumb criminals" we make fun of...

...while high-functioning sociopaths control our government and our economy.

[Octafish]

5. Buy-Partisanship is why Welfare for Wall Street is Bi-Partisan.

''What would Goldman think?''

Larry Summers: Goldman Sacked

By Greg Palast
Reader Supported News, September 16, 2013

Joseph Stiglitz couldn't believe his ears. Here they were in the White House, with President Bill Clinton asking the chiefs of the US Treasury for guidance on the life and death of America's economy, when the Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Larry Summers turns to his boss, Secretary Robert Rubin, and says, "What would Goldman think of that?"

Huh?

Then, at another meeting, Summers said it again: What would Goldman think?

A shocked Stiglitz, then Chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisors, told me he'd turned to Summers, and asked if Summers thought it appropriate to decide US economic policy based on "what Goldman thought." As opposed to say, the facts, or say, the needs of the American public, you know, all that stuff that we heard in Cabinet meetings on The West Wing.

Summers looked at Stiglitz like Stiglitz was some kind of naive fool who'd read too many civics books.

CONTINUED...

http://www.gregpalast.com/larry-summers-goldman-sacked/

[Hubert Flottz]

6. The tangled web of wall street/PA Avenue.

Crashing the market at will, without restrictions or repercussions. A license to steal.

Smash and grab gone wild.

[Octafish]

8. Crooks seem like the kind who like to label and shoot looters on sight, too.

Pots of gold awaits those on both sides of the Wall Street to Washington revolving door.

Neil Barofsky Gave Us The Best Explanation For Washington's Dysfunction We've Ever Heard

Linette Lopez
Business Insider, Aug. 1, 2012, 2:57 PM

Neil Barofsky was the Inspector General for TARP, and just wrote a book about his time in D.C. called Bailout: An Insider Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street.

SNIP...

Bottom line: Barofsky said the incentive structure in our nation's capitol is all wrong. There's a revolving door between bureaucrats in Washington and Wall Street banks, and politicians just want to keep their jobs.

For regulators it's something like this:

"You can play ball and good things can happen to you get a big pot of gold at the end of the Wall Street rainbow or you can do your job be aggressive and face personal ruin...We really need to rethink how we govern and how regulate," Barofsky said.

CONTINUED... http://www.businessinsider.com/neil-barofsky-2012-8

"Integrity is for paupers." -- traditional saying, ABCNNBCBSFixedNoiseNutworks

[Hubert Flottz]

9. Thanks for the link.

We ARE in a world of sh!t!

[Octafish]

10. But thanks to you and ALL who give a damn, we'll win.

The reason: Truth is on our side.

That's also why the BFEE can trump peace and the Constitution while the Kochs and their toadies are free speeching all those billions on the Big Lie. They know if they let off the Wurlitzer's gas, all it takes to bring their sorry game to an end is one little idea.

That's also why DU matters. Furzample, check out how Parenti put it:

Once the truth gets in, not even a million Roves can spin fast enough to get it out of an illuminated mind.

[Hubert Flottz]

11. Mr. Parenti has the fat cats pegged.

Great talk. Informative and down to Earth reasoning. Hard to believe that the government pays all that cash for crash test dummies when the GOP comes up with an endless supply of dummies who swallow the corporate propaganda/political bait, hook line and sinker. Maybe the USA don't deserve a "democracy" anymore? The voters seemed to side with a GOP/corporate status quo, in retrograde. Turning back time, because they can't cope with a truth based future. No solutions based on reality.

Republicans and their faithful suckers, still sticking with the Ivy Lee approach to truth twisting and camouflaging the cold hard truth. America is trickling down very close to a tipping point, IMHO. America's standard of living has been the only thing I'm steadily seeing trickling down, here in the real world.

We have become a lootocracy instead of a democracy and the looters will be out in force again come January and all that swearing in, with the hands on the "Holy Bible for theatrics," will be as bogus and useless as a freight train load of ENRON stock. Come January the corporations will all gorge on the payback from their dark and secret political bribery/contributions. The corporate media has already gorged on the billions from their cut throat political ads. Propaganda is big business and that's always...right up the GOP's back alley.