Just give us a few trillion and we'll make it better, we promise

Bush's treasury secretary is saying the upcoming bailout is the economy's last best chance. After we have taken over the mortgages themselves when they nationalized fannie and freddie, and also taking over the biggest insurance company around, now treasury secretary Paulson wants $700 billion to buy crap paper from when those mortgages were sold and re-sold. The bush administration is pushing hard to get it pushed through, going so far as to say they are worried how the markets will react tomorrow, monday.

It seems almost absurd now the scope of crisis than have been taking place. What more perfect metaphor for bush's presidency than a massive failure of the US financial market with a taxpayer funded bailout on a scale to be the largest in our history, while never ceasing to proclaim that everything will be ok, they have it under control. Not one for small actions, Bush has managed quite a few achievements of scale, through a combination of ineptitude, bad luck, single mindedness, and corruption. The largest reorganization of federal government and the country's largest bureaucracy with the homeland security dept. The most expensive war(s) we have ever fought. Some of the biggest intelligence failures ever, or possibly biggest deceptions ever, with WMD's. One of the biggest natural disasters and most pathetic recovery efforts in New Orleans. The largest terrorist attack on our country. The most obsessive push for a powerful executive branch as there ever was. One of if not the most corrupt and inept administrations ever. And this is the administration that we are falling over ourselves in order to give them huge sums of taxpayer money to do with as they see fit and somehow bring about a miracle cure for what they so love to refer to as 'turmoil'. Based on their say-so that it will work, it must be big, it must be immediately with no time for analysis or study, and they must be given a free hand to do what they wish.

The pattern of behaviour is long. Bush and his administration's response to every crisis, whether real or manufactured, is to push something gargantuan through as fast as possible with as little detail as possible, and with maximum authority to the executive and minimal room for questioning or transparancy.