Absurd Quote of the Day that Brought Me Out of Hiatus

You can hear the panicked screams emanating from Capitol Hill all the way down here in South Carolina. Lawmakers are suddenly faced with a very tough decision- how are we going to spend this $700 billion crisis money? Turns out that the bailout is deeply unpopular among the public, but hey what do we know?

This brings us to our absurd quote of the day that brought me out of hiatus. This gem comes from Rep. Jim Marshall (D-Ga.), who hails from the conservative 8th District of Georgia- the fightin' 8th. To set up the irony of this quote, I need only cite to Rep. Marshall's own website, the title of which claims: "Jim Marshall: Representing the People of Georgia's 8th District". Source. Seriously, check the link, its in the title, in big, bold letters. So imagine my surprise when I'm reading through the WaPo's coverage (Source) of the bailout this morning and I see Rep. Marshall saying this:

I am willing to give up my seat over this.

That's right, REPRESENTATIVE Marshall is willing to give up his seat to pass an incredibly unrepresentative piece of legislation that just happens to vastly extend the power of our federal government and enables our economy to continue down the road of becoming a full fledged Ponzi scheme, all because people (and by "people" I mean people in the Treasury Department and corporate America) got all freaked out because what is the equivalent of a large scale, corporate pay-day lending scheme stopped working. Gotta love it, folks!