Ronald Reagan

I don't believe we're right now in a downward spiraling financial fiasco. We've been in a downward spiraling financial fiasco for 3 years but most intensely for about 10 months now.

It's not just the oil crisis.

It's not just the credit crisis.

It's not just the foreclosure orgy.

It's not just the financial burden of the Iraq War.

It really wasn't 9/11 either.

Yes, all of these have accelerated the crisis. Yet the crisis was here all along.

It is called Trickle Down Economics:

UPDATE: Sometimes a story is too good to be true. Even though this story sounds plausible, turns out http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/kinsley.asp ">it's been debunked on Snopes.com.

While John McCain is eagerly embracing Bush and vowing to continue Bush's failed policies, it may be a good idea to remember what Ronald Reagan thought of the Little Bush:

"A moment I've been dreading. George brought his n'er-do-well son around this morning and asked me to find the kid a job. Not the political one who lives in Florida; the one who hangs around here all the time looking shiftless. This so-called kid is already almost 40 and has never had a real job. Maybe I'll call Kinsley over at The New Republic and see if they'll hire him as a contributing editor or something. That looks like easy work."

From the REAGAN DIARIES------entry dated May 17, 1986.

So this is the guy we had shoved down our throats and who John McCain wants to emulate?

Time for the voters to reject the failed Bush/McCain poli