View (From the Other Side of the Screen)

Real-Time transcription of T.V.-watching by Jack Silverman

It's called Breaking News. That's what it says on the screen. In the middle of the morning CNBC brings us some kind of public meeting between the nation's assorted political expertologists.
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The politicians on T.V. are worried about something going wrong. They appear to be Vigilant. Apparently vigilantly watching the economy.
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Here are Bernanke; and, various Congressmen. I'd like to see the private meetings and not just the televised ones. The Fed is a controller of interest rates and money supply. Abstractions. Which, we believe, matter.
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What we see.
Various members of the legislature declaim their profundities. Bernanke. Well-trimmed beard. B. replies to a bald-headed congressman. We see nothing on the screen - no words I mean - to identify him; to clarify. Which is he? Dem. or R.?
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The philosophy followed by the Fed -- and others -- is that the fundamental choice is between easing and tightening credit.

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------------....-------- ......... Tightening or Easing: what's it gonna be?

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It's as tricky as a three-cornered hat.

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Repub's don't care about content. They care about posturing. But they don't even know it themselves. It's not that Democrats don't posture. Andrew J. invented it (the first president to use marketing techniques). The R's tried to corner the market on decency and sobriety and straightness --- they've been out-cornered by reality itself.

Now we see 'em in their pink ties... (btw, I had wrote more, but I decided to cut it off here)
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