A Ripe Moment

[Crewleader]

by Jim Kunstler

It turns out the real hurricane blew through Wall Street last week, not Galveston. This morning, Manhattan is strewn chest-deep with the debris of banking and at this hour (seven a.m.) nobody knows how far, deep, and wide the damage will spread. The fear, of course, is that we are witnessing a classic "house-of-cards" or "dominos-in-a-row," situation, and that the death of Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch will cascade into a generalized collapse of the entire consensus of value that supports mediums of exchange.
At least one thing ought to be clear: this has happened due to the negligence and misfeasance of the regulating authorities, namely the Republican Party, and that now all the hoopla surrounding Sarah Palin can be swept away revealing that group to be what they actually are: the party that wrecked America. I hope one or two Barack Obama campaign officials are reading this blog. You must commence the re-branding of the opposition right now. The Republicans must be clearly identified as, the party that wrecked America.


http://jameshowardkunstler.typepad.com/clusterfuck_nation/2008/09/a-ripe-moment.html

[tblue]

1. "GOP: the party that wrecked America"

Works for me.

[monmouth]

2. Me too....n/t

[ixion]

3. Carpe Diem

sounds like a good plan to me.

[Dover]

4. Well, the hurricane that blew into Texas was also very real...

and if you want to take it's symbolic as well as literal message to heart, I do wonder what it
might mean that not only did it wipe out whole coastal communities, but it seemed to also
specifically target the JP Morgan Chase Towers in Houston. Hmmmm......