Jaded Times

In news only a 6 year old (or perhaps Dana Perino) could be shocked by, the FBI has begun investigating potential fraud in the financial market, focusing on Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Lehman, and AIG.  If only they’d thought of that a year or so ago, huh?  Might have been nice to not, oh, have CEOs receive million dollar salaries to mismanage so severely, or even collect up to 9 figure severance packages during the crisis. To add insult to injury, it turns out that rich white men aren’t willing to chip in and help the nation.  Who knew?

Meanwhile presidential hopeful John McCain has been linked to the crisis through one of his main aides, whose firm was apparently paid by Freddie Mac.  This connection comes a mere week after McCain displayed his bold faith in the economy as it, well, crumbling around him, which in turn came only weeks after joking that people making under $5 million a year aren’t rich and admitting to not knowing how many houses he owns, and only eight months after he claimed that we weren’t even headed into a recession (one which we had already been in for several years). Of course, none of this should be taken to heart; after all, who better to deal with out current financial crisis than one of the original Keating Five?

Finally, our “do-nothing-think-nothing” president is set to address the nation again.  Of course, there’s also a new episode of Bones tonight.  Chances are you’ll get more out of that.

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