Bail. Out.

What the fuck? On the one hand, this is marginally less loony than spending $700 billion on valueless securities, but on the other hand, only marginally, and shouldn't we all blink once or twice at the idea that the Treasury can get that much money for one thing and then be all like, Oops, maybe we'll do something else! Who's steering this fucking ship? The blind are leading the stupid here, clearly.

At this point, shouldn't we take the economy out back and put 'er down? I hate watching anything suffer.

I know, I know. Liberals think that they're going to take over and do something rational or sensible or Seussical or whatever, but the great waxy ball of truth at the center of this Tootsie Pop is that nobody anywhere has any idea what to do, in large part because there is nothing to do. The pooch is screwed. The egg is scrambled. The cream is whipped. Constructing vast and expensive monuments of atavism will not restore things to the way they once were. The problem with the economy is that it was full of phony money. Now it's gone! These things happen. Poo-tee-weet. Jesus Christ, people, even fucking stars blow up. Nothing is too big to fail.