(lack of) money changes everything

"This sucker could go down," Bush is said to have told the group -- referring to the teetering US economy. (reports The Guardian)

Perhaps Bush should call for a "Coalition of the Giving" and collect funds from generous member nations like Poland or Georgia: "Hey, Saakashvili, can we renege on the 1 billion dollars Dick Cheney promised you?"  Or the USA could apply for a loan from the World Bank.

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In the meantime, House Republicans are reading von Mises and von Hayek while finance capitalism burns. Republican representative Mario Diaz-Balart (Fl.) lectured on Ortega y Gasset in the House friday morning. And Sarah Palin hasn't gotten back to Katie Couric yet.