How'd They Do That?

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button:

Just Dance

BOOMBOX from Ely Kim on Vimeo.

h/t Andrew Sullivan

Top Repubie

Gov. Huntsman is creeping up in my small, inconsequential, list of top Repubies....if he works hard enough may break the top 3. First supporting civil marriage and now this? All within a month? Wowsers. Pretty soon he'll be kicked out of the GOP for all this clear-thinking.

GOP Governor: Congressional Leadership 'Inconsequential' (VIDEO)

"I don't even know the congressional leadership," Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. told the paper's editors and reporters. "I have not met them. I don't listen or read whatever it is they say because it is inconsequential -- completely." Huntsman added that he would not reject any money from President Obama's stimulus. While he criticized what he saw as misdirected spending in bill, he said Republicans had no credibility on fiscal responsibility.

"Our moral soapbox was completely taken away from us because of our behavior in the last few years," he said. "For us to now criticize analogous behavior is hypocrisy."

The Own Up

I think William Cohan gets it right when he says this:

Until Wall Street CEOs admit that their blind ambition and ravenous greed resulted in decision after decision, year after year that put their firms, and now our financial system and way of life, at perilous risk, there can be no healing, no redemption, and no recovery. The sooner we squeeze the life out of the pathetic myths that Wall Street continues to perpetrate as if we were all idiots, and the sooner we face the truth of what happened and why, the sooner we will be able to put this dreadful chapter in our history behind us. Let’s get on with it already.

It's time for the CEOs and banking executives who got us into this mess (who seem very quick to blame homeowners, but not themselves), to own up to their failures as leaders. And the honest thing to do would be resign for their bad decisions.

But I ain't holding my breath.

RIDIC of the Day

Chase Bank CEO Jamie Dimon:

"I don't think just because someone's underwater they say I don't have to stay there. But they're supposed to pay the mortgage, and we should teach the American people, you're supposed to meet your obligations, not run from them. Because you have a mortgage doesn't mean you should run away as it goes down."

Um, when your company just took $25 Billion of taxpayer money, you should be banned from lecturing the American people on meeting obligations.

Flippy Floppy Repubies

The Rude Pundit gets it exactly right:

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Shut the Fuck Up and Take the Money:

Really, Republican Governors Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, Mark Sanford of South Carolina, and Sarah Palin of...well, you fuckin' know? Really? You're really thinking about rejecting some of the money coming to your states in the federal stimulus? Well, not really, since the law says your legislatures can take the money without your okay. So you can huff and puff and talk about "strings attached" or what-the-fuck-ever, but in the end, you know that you're gonna shut the fuck up and take the cash, bitches.