accountability: it’s more than just a memo

for starters, don’t just get angry with ME — let’s all get angry with congressman michael capuano from massachusetts. i have never heard truth-telling like this in the house, with this level of fire, in my entire life. the real fun starts about 1:55 into this (5-minute) video. watch it!

senator capuano, i might move to massachusetts just to be under the protection of a public servant with the BALLS to call it exactly like it is. there’s a rumor he may be running for the senate, and i hope the rumor is true. we need more leaders like this! let’s all drop congressman mike capuano a note and thank him for speaking out the way he did.

and the righteous fire of economic indignation has now reached, not the streets, but the beautiful gated communities of the corporate banking elite. this from crooks & liars (read the whole post, it’s amazing what’s going on here):

On Sunday, hundreds of angry homeowners and volunteers traveled in vans and minibuses and protested outside Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack’s multi-million-dollar mansion to tell the wealthy finance czar how they really feel.

morgan stanley is a particularly good target, since those scumbags went ahead and handed out THREE BILLION DOLLARS IN BONUSES to their incompetent traders and managers — after taking sixty billion tax dollars from us — while cautioning the lucky recipients not to call them bonuses because they’re not bonuses, they’re awards. what, exactly, are they awarding over there? congratulations, you played a big part in fucking up the entire american economy with your shit decisions, go out and buy yourself another mansion so that foreclosed homeowners can come and burn some crosses on your beautifully manicured lawn.

hopefully, the senior execs of chase bank will be next. chase, with one hand out for tarp money, just unilaterally screwed its credit-card holders. no, not all of them --  just the ones who already seemed to be struggling to meet their monthly payments. makes perfect sense to charge them more and raise their monthly minimums, don’t it? an act of generosity and compassion on the part of a multibillion dollar scamming scumbag bank.

ah, but i shouldn’t be so hard on those rep-tied masses. after all, it’s terrifically hard to live on $500k/year. and the tattered remnants of  the republican party are doing their best to oppose any restrictions on executive pay.

 of course, not everybody has gotten the memo. peanut mogul stewart parnell, whose decision to sell product that he KNEW was tainted with salmonella, simply “took the fifth” in answer to every question directed at him after being subpoenaed by congress. yeah, well, he’s got quite a bit of self-incriminating material to worry about, with eight (8!) people dead (dead!) and hundreds more in the hospital as a direct result of his action. stewart, you’re going to jail. dunno where, dunno when, but you’re going.

 it ain’t business as usual any more in america. no sir. thank god.

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