Here I go again. Microanalyzing idiots to decide which one will be less bad for me. Ah, yes, it’s the run-up to the Presidential Election.

Fortunately, McCain keeps reminding me that I can safely exclude economics from consideration, since he is either as bad or worse than Obama in the area of playing Robin Hood.

And what seemed, at first, possibly the first act of principle by Congress in recent history, turned out to be (yes, I should have known) a bunch of politicians shitting bricks because their pissed-off constituencies threated not to reelect them.

This idiot, Representative Marilyn Musgrave (Colorado) was on Larry King last night. Musgrave was one of the House Republicans who voted against the “bailout”. She was given a completely open platform to say what specifically could be done to make her happy with the “bailout” bill up for vote. Look how she takes advantage of her air time:

KING: Congresswoman, do you have an idea what they could do to suit you?

MUSGRAVE: Well, first of all, they have to restructure Fannie and Freddie. We need guarantees that the taxpayer is not going to be on the hook. And, again, we didn’t get this mess overnight. Decisions made in haste are never good. So I’m going to be there working hard. You know, a number of Democrats and Republicans, we are committed to finding a solution to this problem.

Look at the number of words devoted to an actual answer versus the number devoted to articulating complete horseshit. That’s how much principle is involved here.

(Off the topic: This clip called Larry King: Death of a legend is a reference to Paul Newman, not Larry King. That’s too bad.)

Maybe I should sell my vote. Anybody interested? It can’t possibly be used for evil. I mean good. Damn, I just did a search, and sure enough, somebody beat me to it. Who knew it would have been illegal? In that case, I take back my offer of sale. (But feel free to email me bids for entertainment purposes only.)

While I’m rambling… Finally, someone has written something sensible on this financial crisis: Bankruptcy, not bailout, is the right answer

I’m no financial expert. But if you’re going to increase government spending and regulation, you need to sell me on the reasons for it. Until then, I reserve the right to be crazy and agree with some guy from Harvard for once.