Well, this week has been sobering.
I think this animation which helped me with civics when I was younger left out a few stages in the process.
They don't mention the failing in the House, going to the Senate for a few billion in sweeteners, then riding back to the House on another bill for another vote.
Sweet land of liberty!
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Old Bill. He's been through the ringer.
Sid, you must be nearly as oldas I am. My nieces don't have civics class anymore and didn't know the word when I mentioned it to them.
Thanks to Schoolhouse Rock & remember the preamble verbatim even to this day. I just had to buy the DVD for my nephews a couple months ago. ;)
We bought the Schoolhouse Rock DVD for our kids, too.
Now they know that the very, very bad Bailout Bill cannot be blamed on just one person.
I love the line from The Patriot when Gibson's character chimed in on secession: "Why should I trade one tyrant 3000 miles away for 3000 tyrants 1 mile away."
I sat powerless as a really, really bad bill passed. sigh
Slate's calling it "Lifeboat Capitalism" today:
http://www.slate.com/id/2201534/
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