Under the headline Suck. It. Up. Michelle Malkin writes about the subprime crisis:
I need a man. A man who can say “No.” A man who rejects Big Nanny government. A man who thinks being president doesn’t mean playing Santa Claus. A man who won’t panic in the face of economic pain. A man who won’t succumb to media-driven sob stories. /…/ There’s nothing compassionate about taking money from prudent, frugal families and using it to aid their reckless neighbors and co-workers who moved into McMansions they couldn’t afford or went crazy tapping their home equity and now find themselves underwater. /…/ I’m still looking for Mr. Right. Remember: You’ll have me at “Suck. It. Up.”
Well, Michelle, there are some emotionally numb men incapable of empathy out there, but they rarely make it in politics, unless they hide these qualities from other people. For some odd reason.
It’s clear to everyone that these loans should never have been approved. But whos fault is it that they did? If a clever, highly educated banker gets to greedy and tries to milk an uneducated and often functionally illiterate loaner for more than he is worth, then who has the greater responsibility? Silly me, thinking that would be a rhetorical question.
Obviously, there will never be a libertarian president, since most people don’t like the suck-it-up candidates; never have. So why not just get on with your life and… you know…suck it up?
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