Pelosi is on CNBC saying that this crisis snuck up on us on "little cat's feet"

[LeftyFingerPop]

Awwwwwwwww

[ogneopasno]

1. That would be FOG, Pelosi.

Jayzus, why would you even do that?

[JDPriestly]

36. FOG -- Isn't that where Pelosi lives?

[groovedaddy]

2. If it "snuck up," then someone was asleep at the switch! n.t

[avaistheone1]

21. Sort of like 9/11 "snuck up" on Bush.

I don't buy Pelosi's story. She is either incompetent or lying.

They have known for over a year that the financial markets have serious problems.

[PVnRT]

3. No, it didn't

Christ, I remember hearing "housing bubble" in the last presidential election, however faint.

[ixion]

4. "No one could ever have foreseen something like this..."

yeah. right. whatever.

She continues to be a disappointment to me in the extreme.

[ShortnFiery]

5. They need to "cool their jets" and wait until we have a solid majority in the Congress. eom

[dixiegrrrrl]

44. But consider this about that

When asked why impeachment was off the table, Pelosi launched into an
explanation that the Dems needed the 2006 elections to become strong enough to win the 2008 elections so that they could win the 2012 elections !!

I read it, I do not have a link..sorry.

[hobbit709]

6. Anybody with a brain and the ability to pay attention

saw this coming a long time ago. It's only the people that didn't WANT to know that are acting surprised.

[Stuart G]

7. Bullshit...Bush knew, and couldn't care less...........

He kept much of the info that the Fed had within a tight circle of people...He was sure the market would correct it...That is one of the few truthful things he has ever said.....

[ProdigalJunkMail]

8. this is true...

for someone with their head in the sand (or elsewhere...)

sP

[Speck Tater]

9. I've been expecting it for 3 or 4 years now. I don't know why people can't pay attention. NT

[JHB]

30. It's that "...payceck depends on not..." thing. n/t

[annabanana]

No nancy.. It screamed like a air raid siren... You were listening

to the wrong things dear..

[Mandate My Ass]

10. Then she needs to step down and let someone abler do the job

Lots of people saw this coming. Lying cow. :grr:

[ShortnFiery]

18. I'm disgusted with Pelosi and Frank. They must think that we are IDIOTS.

I hope she's ousted by her next democratic challenger. I'm so ashamed of her right now. :grr:

[Eric J in MN]

11. Atrios has been writing about this for months.

He calls the mortgage-related securities, "Big Shitpile."

He's against the bailout.

[BobRossi]

12. Why do Californians elect her?

Is there something in the water out there? They all smoking socks?

[ShortnFiery]

20. Well we'll need her bony ass to be re-elected next month, but she shouldn't be Speaker next

year and, I hope, she will be unseated by her next Democratic Challenger two years from now. I know that if I have a pot to piss in, I'll donate some mean green to get this Corporatist out of OUR Congress. :grr:

[JDPriestly]

37. She's rich. Thanks to government contracts awarded to her husband's

companies.

[OwnedByFerrets]

13. God, I hate being lied to and treated like I'm stupid....FU Pelosi.

[seemslikeadream]

14. Bullshit

I called this mess 2 1/2 years ago, how can a grandma in the middle of a corn field be so right and all those Washington people be so so wrong?

[JDPriestly]

38. This crisis has been foreseeable for years.

Democrats in Congress were predicting this economic disaster in 1985 on C-Span.

There is no excuse for Pelosi's ignorance.

[jberryhill]

15. Paging Nancy Pelosi - San Francisco Zoo For You On Line 3 /nt

[dixiegrrrrl]

16. "little cats feet" always brings to mind T.S.Eliot

soothes my jangled nerves for a moment or 2...


Part of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"


The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes,
The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes
Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening,
Lingered upon the pools that stand in drains,
Let fall upon its back the soot that falls from chimneys,
Slipped by the terrace, made a sudden leap,
And seeing that it was a soft October night,
Curled once about the house, and fell asleep.

And indeed there will be time
For the yellow smoke that slides along the street,
Rubbing its back upon the window-panes;
There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet;
There will be time to murder and create,
And time for all the works and days of hands
That lift and drop a question on your plate;
Time for you and time for me,
And time yet for a hundred indecisions,
And for a hundred visions and revisions,
Before the taking of a toast and tea.


http://www.bartleby.com/198/1.html

[Solly Mack]

17. no one could have anticipated

mistakes were made

wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[seemslikeadream]

19. The party is not over Nancy you all are just moving it elsewhere

[eShirl]

22. oh, so THAT's how a ton of bricks sneaks up on one

[ThomWV]

23. T.S Eliot

[timtom]

24. Oh, a poetry buff, eh?

Doesn't seem to enhance her critical thinking skills.

How come Doug Clark saw this coming, step-by-step in 1978? "How to Survive the Money Crash".

http://www.amazon.com/survive-Money-Crash-Doug-Clark/dp/B000GRCOEW

We've only had 30 years to prepare for this, Nancy. Speaks well for leadership in this country.

[AngryOldDem]

25. I liked the line about the Great Depression....

"Why anybody would call it GREAT..."

Uh...maybe because it was on a worldwide scale?

[Imagevision]

26. Pelosi, a shill in the big picture and she's promoting it like the good trooper she is...

[C_U_L8R]

27. Traders have been talking about the looming crisis for years now

where has our government been ???

[JackDragna]

28. Even more proof the current Dem leadership must be evicted.

EOM

[JHB]

29. Maybe she should take off those earphones blasting "little cat feet".

It would have made it easier for her to notice the problem glomping towards us on big Tyranosaurus feet.

[iheartmulletz]

31. Aw...now isn't that special?

She just says the darndest, qaintest little things...

[Adsos Letter]

32. Some of the good DU people in the "Economy" forum....

have been warning about this for over a year...

I am quite sure Nancy will make good use of her "weekend home" up in the Napa Valley to recover from the emotional strain of this whole experience. :sarcasm:

[guitar man]

33. my ass!!!

:grr:

Jesus H Keerist, this has been coming for 28 fucking years, ever since the rise of Reaganomics, this snowball has been rolling down hill at us and the ones of us who have dared to say anything about it have been branded as chicken-little alarmists and dismissed.

what a crock of shit!! :mad:

[LiberalHeart]

34. My bullsh*t detector is exploding.

[Mandate My Ass]

42. Mine too

The only thing I hate worse than a liar is a liar who can't even be bothered to make up something remotely believable. Who the eff does she think she's kidding? :eyes:

[LiberalHeart]

35. So will it sit on silent haunches and then move on, Nancy?

[ShortnFiery]

39. Now Frank is kissing Pelosi's figurative ass. I'm sick of BOTH of them.

:(

[ShortnFiery]

41. Awe, he's talking about us UNWASHED MASSES and disciplining us "liberals".

Arrogant bastard! :puke:

[Poiuyt]

40. It's from a Carl Sandburg poem, "The Fog"

The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.

[ShortnFiery]

43. Jee-sus that's DEEP!

:crazy: :(

[dixiegrrrrl]

45. ohhh..yes...I like that one too. ty.