Should We Just Send Hearing Aids to the White House?

Tens of thousands of jobs have been lost. People are losing their homes. Banks are collapsing. The stock market suffered an historic drop. The largest and most stable financial institutions in our country are declaring bankruptcy.

Even if you're not willing to admit that we are suffering through an abysmal economic crisis of mass proportions (We're "strong," right, Dana Perino?"), you've got to admit that uh, we're kinda in trouble and need to figure out how to turn this country around.

What can we do? What's going to help? More importantly, what does our fearless leader say?

"I can't hear you. I'm old."

Hunh.

Our Commander-In-Chief's party mate and Presidential hopeful John McCain is pretty damn old, too. If he gets elected, should we start sending telegrams to the White House? Or just get really, really big bullhorns?

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We need to remind ourselves there are two economies at work. One is Wall Street, and the other is the economy American workers live in. They are distinct and separate. The Wall Street economy is called corporate welfare. Republicans love corporate welfare. The American worker economy is called the real economy. Democrats love the real economy. The financial crisis is about saving the Republican's economy, not saving the real economy. If that were not a true statement, we would have had a moratorium on foreclosures months ago.

Vote Republicans back into power if you like Wall Street corporate welfare.