WPCNR The Daily Bailey. News COMMENT! By John F. Bailey. July 15, 2008: Here it comes: Another Presidential Press Conference this morning.  Sunday, the Federal Reserve’s genius, "Dollar Ben" bailed out Freddie and Fannie Mae. Yesterday “America’s Dauphin” ordered off-shore drilling for oil. Today, what’s next, a bailout of General Motors? Could we give the worst President in the history of the country the next 6  months and 6 days off? BEFORE he finishes wrecking the country. BEFORE he finishes the job he, big oil, the Wall Street Gang, and the  Clueless Congress have done on America in the last 7 years, 6 months and 15 days?

Can County Replace the Clobbered Clock with a Bush Countdown Clock?

Now that an alleged perpetrator has been apprehended in the flattening of the County Countdown Clock at the County Center, surely the Board of Legislators will see fit to erect another one, and this time it’s purpose could be the BUSH COUNTDOWN CLOCK which would countdown the seconds, minutes and days left in the worst presidency of the United States. The Dauphin makes Millard Fillmore, Jimmy Carter, Andrew Johnson and Ulysses S. Grant look very good right now.

Every day there is a new mind-boggling financial unraveling:profits built on thin air. You see it from the top on down.  Jobs are departing. Unemployment rising. The bank runs have started. This is the legacy of the Republican Party of the last twenty years. Make no mistake though. The Clinton Administration ushered in this era of faux profits, zero primes,  and financial casinos.

The frightening thing is America’s Dauphin has 6 months, 6 days left. He can do a lot of bad things in six months. Five months ago, the subprime mortgage crisis first came to our attention as a problem. Five months ago, gas was $3.00 a gallon. It is depressing to think it is going to be $6 a gallon in another five months. Five months ago you could sell cars. Now G.M., Ford, Chrysler cannot give their SUVs and Trucks away.

Please, a BUSH COUNTDOWN CLOCK is needed. If we can spend millions on a children’s museum at Playland, it is only appropriate that the legislators living in the dream world, the never never land of the Westchester County Legislature reerect the County Clock  so we can cross our fingers each day that we are not all working for foreign countries by January 20, 2009 -- the day a new President is sworn in. 

Unless of course, “for the good of the country.,” the Dauphin declares Marshall Law and takes over the country like Robert Mugabwe to save us from Barack Obama. (Mugabwe didn’t want to leave.)

I have an idea!

Isn’t there another country The American Dauphin can visit? Quick! Gas up Air Force One and get him out of here. Why couldn’t he have just stayed out of the country? Now he’s back acting Presidential and that’s a dangerous thing for America.

I can’t help wondering about the financial acumen of the Fed Heads, the Wall Street Robber Barons, who saw all this unfolding. What were they thinking? Were they thinking? Could we at least have a statement once in awhile that  a lot of smartypants financial geniuses screwed up.

 They are not as bright, or as smart as they think they are. They deserve no respect.

Notice though who is getting bailed out. Not you. Not me. Not the pour souls who need help, it’s the rich geniuses, the investment bankers, the derivativites, the air mortgagists who have singlehandedly wrecked the American economy with mythical money, products that do not exist, and products that hurt America and pervert the American Dream. Such men and women of vision.

It all ends January 20,2009, maybe.

Every Press Conference is met with apprehension.