I tell you what…I’ll leave all of you to your self-absorbed, undeversified little make believe kingdom here in hopes that someday you too will get a life.

I do not know you, have never seen you here before and have no desire to be at loggerheads with you; but, the current antagonism is going to cease. This has been an inauspicious start for your time here; how about we all reset to a neutral baseline and start again and try to do it right? That is my suggestion, and it is made in good faith, but what has started here is going to stop here and now one way or another. I know that Rayne, rOTL and I will honor such a bargain, the rest is up to you.

And you’d be smart to realize that and think more independently….you don’t really need them to guide you through life, or do you?

Now get up and dust yourself off and get back to the topic or mind your own business because you are obviously waaaaaaaaayy over your head here.

1. Rayne is brilliant. This woman is absolutely brilliant. She’s done corporate research of some type, and she has been environments that don’t have time or patience to tolerate candyass bullshit. Any commenter dumb enough to insult Rayne is someone’s name I’ll skip next time out.

2. bmaz’s analyses are often dazzling, and there are students paying tens of thousands of dollars to law schools getting less education than the witty, erudite bmaz dishes out here each week. Again, anyone who comments insultingly to bmaz is a name that I’ll skip over next time.

The people who post and comment here are, IMHO after reading for several years, extremely bright.

If you could manage to extract your head from your anal cavity long enough to read a few of EW’s previous posts, I think that:
1. You’d learn a ton,
2. You’d find her to be a fearless — and brilliant — instructor,
3. You’d find that people who comment around here ‘call bullshit’ in one hell of a hurry when someone interferes with the common task of seeking to understand complicated, extremely fast-moving or confusing policies and developments.
4. You’d discover that there a number of bilingual commenters and readers who can access remarkably timely, relevant sources of information.

If you were smart, you’ d leave an apology and be grateful to have the chance to encounter such fine minds. Ball now in your court.

The way that I read this thread, and heard Corker’s comments, his mental framework for ‘corporation’ is outdated (probably to around 1985), and he revealed that he was not a very perceptive listener, nor did his questions take advantage of the chance to really dig into the fundamental issues involved in this bailout, and the Wall Street bailout. He did not show the analytical skills necessary to really examine and comprehend the nexis of problems related to this bailout.

Acquainting yourself with EW’s previous work on this topic would help you understand why some here view Corker as in waaaaaayyyyyyyyyyy over his head.

Brush yourself off, pick yourself up, and be polite next time.

Bob Corker a business genius??? …He was a common land speculator who used his political contacts to rake inordinately during the real estate boom of the early to mid 2000s.

Oh, yeah, but these vain monkeys all think they’re geniuses.

I’ve met some very classy, extremely smart developers of high end properties in upscale regions and they have guts, savvy, and initiative. They’re smart and interesting, and they build cool things.

Then go lower down the food chain to the Corkers, who think that ‘money makes money,’ and preen their way from one golf course to another**. They’ve never invented or created anything other than an LLC (Limited Liability Corporation), and end up often screwing their subcontractors. In my experience, this caste has a lot more ego than judgment.

Corker is a walkin’, talkin’ example of the dreadful problems of what Robert Reich terms supercapitalism.

** No insult intended at golf, which is a great sport.