And Gallup has still more difficult news for old Rush...

Part One was here. Part Two follows...

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Nouriel Roubini, RGE Monitor, who accurately predicted the current economic crisis: "Last week we argued that, with the nationalization of Fannie and Freddie, comrades Bush, Paulson and Bernanke had started transforming the USA into the USSRA (United Socialist State Republic of America). This transformation of the USA into a country where there is socialism for the rich, the well connected and Wall Street (i.e. where profits are privatized and losses are socialized) continues … with the nationalization of AIG."

Atrios: "The entire financial system is practically collapsing and they're lamenting the possibility of more regulation...People who prattle on about 'the free market' are usually too stupid to have a clue how complicated and pervasive the "rules" had to be to to get a well-functioning modern market system: sophisticated concepts of contracts and enforcement, property rights, legal entities, proper accounting, bankruptcy, limited liability, etc... etc..., did not descend from the heavens but were, in fact, created."

Matt Yglesias: "Who knew the 'Washington Consensus' would die in Washington, DC under a Republican President in a mad fit of bailouts and nationalizations?"

Tom Toles:

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Context, for those who still may need it...

Couldn't find many more on this topic this week. Guess ensuring that legal voters can actually cast their ballot this November isn't all that important. On the other hand, there are dozens of toons this week about that guy who said some stuff and who also happens to know someone that's running for President (to paraphrase Jon Stewart on the Rev. Wright nonsense).

(Context from Jon Ponder. Hat-tip BRAD BLOG toon sherpa Pokey Anderson)

(Hat-tip BRAD BLOG comic sherpa, Pokey Anderson)

(Toon by Paul Jamiol. Hat-tip to TheZoo's "nwmuse" who offers, along with the above, a bunch of good details on the Sibel Edmonds case. Our own extensive Edmonds coverage can be read by you, and ignored by the MSM, right here.)

One of America's very best political cartoonists --- and certainly one of its most under-appreciated --- Tom Tomorrow, (aka Dan Perkins) reviews the first part of 2007. The rest of the year's shame promised for next week...

IN RELATED NEWS: Congress and the courts review the Bush Administration's unprecedented extra-Constitutional use of the "states secrets privilege." The same one used to keep FBI translator/whistleblower Sibel Edmonds' allegations of criminal misconduct from seeing the light of day for 5 years now and counting.

(Hat-tip to BRAD BLOG toon sherpa, Pokey Anderson!)

Given yesterday's comments from Russ Feingold on the 5th anniversary of Bush signing Congress's Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq, and given their rolling over yesterday for yet another Bush federal judge nomination, and given...um...everything else they continue to roll over for, we thought the following animated video might be useful...

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Never fear...One coming up shortly for the Loser Republicanists as well! UPDATE: That one is now posted here.

(Hat-tip to BRAD BLOG Toon Sherpa, Pokey Anderson)