re: #4 Citizen K

The fact that Dowd still has a column and career is bad enough. But the rush for her colleagues to use this as a flashpoint to declare Obama the ultimate out of touch super failure of all time is just….fucking hell.

If you go over to Naked Capitalism, they’ll tell you that Obama was evil for not letting the banks fail by appointing Eric Holder and that sniveling weasel Lanny Breuer of the Criminal Prosecution section of the DOJ for just basically fining the banks billions for the subprime crisis back in 2008 and not jailing those who caused the whole problem in the first place.

But since most of of the US is (a) stupid, and (b) has the attention span of a fruit fly, people tend to forget these things. Anybody remember when the last successful Sarbanes-Oxley act prosecution was?