I imagine that hillary is still in shell shocked disbelief.  This election was hers to lose.... and lose she did.  How?  She had all the advantages, money, experience, 'bill', name recognition, party support, Republicans on the defensive, and no serious primary rivals.  She started at the top and worked her way to the bottom and when she got there she started digging.  It will be interesting to see if she will now accept being just a senator instead of a 'senator-while-waiting-to-become-president'.

FDR created more problems than he solved.

THE "HUNDRED DAYS" ENDED 75 YEARS AGO THIS
month, and the results remain all too much with us. The legislative
festival began March 4, 1933, as Franklin D. Roosevelt took the oath of
office as president. One hundred days later, the United States of
America and its government were much more like the country and
institution we know today.

Appropriately enough, the first act
of the Hundred Days was an executive order that went beyond the
president's constitutionally enumerated powers. Roosevelt ordered every
bank in the country to take a "holiday." He shut the banks so that
people couldn't swamp the banking system with fear-driven withdrawals,
as they had been doing just before his inauguration.

He had told the American people, "The
only thing we have to fear is fear itself," which wasn't exactly true.
The thing to fear in the banking system was size: Small banks were
dangerous; banks limited to a small geographic area were dangerous;
banks with no access to cash infusions from the Federal Reserve were
dangerous. On the last point, the Federal Reserve itself had made
matters worse by shrinking the money supply.

Canada, with a smaller number of
commercial banks doing business in all the provinces, experienced most
of the same problems of the U.S. during the Great Depression -- but no
bank failures.

Gold in Chains

An Emergency Banking Act
retroactively legalized the bank holiday a few days later. Another
executive order issued a little later was even more startling and
questionable: On April 5, Americans were ordered to surrender all gold
coins, gold bullion and gold-backed paper money by May 1, or face as
much as 10 years in prison. The retroactive authorization for this
wasn't enacted until January 1934, when the president also received the
power to set the price of gold.

It's not clear what Roosevelt was
trying to do in this case, as in many others where his policy was to
have no policy, but to keep on trying new ideas and hoping for results.
He may have been influenced by an aberrant economist named George F.
Warren, who believed that the price of gold controlled the price of
commodities. A higher price for gold might create prosperity for
farmers by raising the price of produce. In pursuit of this nonsense,
Roosevelt deprived markets of an important touchstone for his policies.
If gold was worth whatever he said it was, then U.S. money was, too.  More >>

Source: Barrons

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Lets fix the Supreme Court for good!

Communist vs. Statist '08

MSNBC breaks into John McCain's speech today just in time to cover a couple of Code Pink hecklers. The timing was just too perfect. I suspect MSNBC coordinated with Code Pink as to when the heckling would occur, and "broke in" at just the right time. As soon as the hecklers were escorted out, MSNBC resumed their regular coverage.

Yes, I'm questioning the timing.

I found it interesting that Hillary addressed those who would either support McCain, or stay home. She invited them to "re-think" their decision. If she "endorsed" or asked them to "support" Obama, I must have missed it.

Today's Washington Post has a picture of the unity "rally" on the front page--I tell you what, considering this was a meeting of the Messiah and the smartest woman in the world there sure was a whole lot of green grass visible.

Why does a truly unified party need a unity rally?

JDW

Remember the Countrywide Six?

Who forgot to write about the advances in Iraq?

If bin Laden is presumed innocent, why not just shoot him there?

The Shot Heard Round the World happened today 94 years ago. 

More "unintended consequences" of Liberalism. Thanks, comrades!

The Picture of the Day.

Restaurants are feeling the crunch in this recession, er, economic slowdown. The reasons listed: gas prices, food prices, less demand from broke consumers. No minimum wage mentioned at all.

"When he got the loan three years ago, it was an adjustable rate mortgage and they knew that and they were told it might go up," Ms. England said. "But they were also told it might go down. And they expected [any change] would be within a few percentage points." ACORN strikes again!

George Bush sends rodents to kill Americans.

Don't you know who I am!?!?!?!

Storms here in Louisville last night.A 75 foot oak tree squished two vehicles in the driveway.

My truck looks like it rolled down Mt. Vesuvius.

Will the struggle never end?