Oh, he doesn't call it that—econ-terrorism—in his column, The Other Plot to Wreck America. But in fact, Frank Rich lays out a compelling commentary on the destructive economic tactics titans of Wall Street have wreaked, unchecked, on all of the rest of us. And fully expect to keep on doing. Unless.
This could be, should be, the most important news of coming days — initial hearings of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, its chairman former California treasurer Phil Angelides.
One presumes that a public official from the state arguably hardest hit by the Enron corruption would bring his own compelling case to the destructive chaos that is the current state of the economy. (and one would hope the willfully myopic malfeasant Larry Summers would step out into the real country where the economy matches the weather and stop with the bullshit that everything is rosy-dosy once again.)
But wait, first we have to be fearmongered about Underpants Bomber; titillated by the penises of Tiger and John Edwards; toss in a few flashes of the gams and cleavage of Gretchen and Erin and Mika for the
Unless we say, "enough."
So I'm saying it. Enough. Report on what matters. Report facts. Farm out the pundits and the partisans to the pasture.
Enough.
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crossposted at firedoglake's The Seminal
UPDATE QUESTION: So... anybody hear a word about this hearing on the Sunday gasbag shows or evening news cycle? Nope. Me neither.
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