In America, it takes about two weeks in the limelight for the whole country to think you've been around for years.

The new America, instead, is fast becoming a vast ghetto in which all of us, conservatives and progressives, are being bled dry by a relatively tiny oligarchy of extremely clever financial criminals and their castrato henchmen in government, whose job is to be good actors on TV and put on a good show.

It's really interesting that we've had this great Tea Party movement that is all about restoring free market capitalist values, but what they completely fail to understand is that what we've got now is a situation where there is a small class of gigantic financial companies that have put themselves above capitalism.

America's always had a real passion for lunatic movements. That's one of the things we're probably known for around the world, I would imagine.

Ratings agencies are the glue that ostensibly holds the entire financial industry together.

Within the cult of Wall Street that forged Mitt Romney, making money justifies any behavior, no matter how venal.

The average Tea Partier is sincerely against government spending - with the exception of the money spent on them.