Today we’re starting to see more articles about the impact of Failure to Launch on the markets. Apparently all along investors thought they’d work things out. Silly rabbit…

But hope springs eternal, and now the expectation is ‘oh, they’ll work it out in early January..’ No they won’t – not without one of three things happening:

a) massive protests in the streets and/or messages of disdain in politicians’ inboxes;
b) a MAJOR one or two day drop in the stock market – say 1,000 points or so; or
c) liberal use of the word “impeach” in the media and blogosphere…

Apparently no member of the House of Representatives has ever been impeached, so this would be truly precedent-setting. What if the whole lot of them were impeached at the same time? That’d be cool, wouldn’t it? But since impeachment is the sole purview of the House of Representatives, they’d have to do it to themselves. Now that would be WAY cool…like self-immolation

On the Fifth Day of Christmas,
My True Love Gave to Me
Five Gold Rings!

Five gold rings – again, per 10000 birds.com, it wasn’t jewelry being given, it was golden pheasants with a ring around their neck – sticking to the bird family of gifts. So five more birds – the numbers are mounting and I’m tired of talking about it. Let’s get rid of the lot of ’em!