Stoking the Fire Before the Chat

Biden's slip was pretty funny: how Roosevelt went on television to calm the people when the stock market crashed. If only Palin had uttered it. But we overlook Joe's hip shooting because his heart is in the right place. Hers is lodged somewhere among her kidneys and her colon and a ruptured bile duct. It is obviously saturated with the surrounding materials.
There is a striking difference between that situation in 1933 and the one we are in now. In our time, the government is milking this. They created it. They are fueling it. They are orchestrating it. Back then the country was blindsided and the government sat on its hands for four years trying to justify its inaction until Roosevelt got in and went on the radio to calm and encourage. He then took action to directly help the people; not the tycoons. This president goes on TV to foretell the panic before there even is one. And his rescue plan is a mirror image of what worked so well three generations ago. Mirror: as in backwards.
What possible motivation could W have for doing this? The same one he might have used to plan, stage and execute the attacks of seven years ago. To scare the people into submission. Ram through a new round of oppressive laws and nazi crackdowns. But this time, we go to the next level: suspend the election. Most of the conspiracy theorists figured he would attack Iran a couple of weeks before voting and use that as his excuse. But instead, he pulls a trick rabbit out of his ass that nobody saw coming. I gotta hand it to him; although it had to be that Paulson snake who really hatched something this sinister and complex. Either way, it's a win-win situation.
If the bailout does get passed, the guy who has every indication of being the clear winner will get saddled with an anvil around his ankles. None of his programs will get funded and he will be hounded and vilified and lose in 2012. And this will be made all the worse when the incumbent democrats in congress are strung up in trees in 2010 thanks to whatever is left in the bag of dirty tricks. Barack might win this battle but he will lose the war. And these people likely do not take prisoners. If they do, they torture them.
If the bailout does not get passed, the depression hits with a bang and POTUS invokes the maximum executive privilege to stay in power to ensure tranquility and imprison rioters. Karl and Berto and Harriet all come back to DC to help herd the new outlaws into prison ships bound for Gitmo; Nancy and Harry and Barney and Chris rail and snipe and whine but they are spinning their bald tires on ice. This democracy is about to be served the government it truly deserves for having been so ignorant, so hypnotized, so selfish and so damn dumb for the last generation and a half. If I had any grandchildren, I could tell them I was alive when it was a great country. But I don't have any. And it is better that way.