I was just watching Chris Matthews explaining how the Dow is President Obama’s “scoreboard” and how people are going to start getting angry at him soon if he’s not able to get the Dow to stabilized and start going up soon:

It is of course an entirely separate matter whether that is actually true — as to public response — and whether it makes any logical sense at all.

There does seem to be a certain lack of comprehension of the fact that there are economic realities, actual losses, underlying the steep stock market decline.

We already own 80% of AIG. Now they’re coming back for more.

And more to the point, who are the counter-parties that the money is going to go to once we give it to this company that has no value at all?

Most people who do rotten

things have redeeming qualities if you look hard enough. Then there are the really low and vile characters like Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY). After tastelessly predicting Justice Ginsburg’s death in 9 months over the weekend, he’s now followed up with a sneering non-apology apology in which he pins the whole dust-up on her apparently being oversensitive. Truly a rotten person. No wonder his own party is trying to find someone to run against him.

“I apologize if my comments offended Justice Ginsberg,” Bunning said. “That certainly was not my intent. It is great to see her back at the Supreme Court today and I hope she recovers quickly. My thoughts and prayers are with her and her family.”