Let's Have a Beer on That!

By Baxter

As we write this post, the New York Stock Exchange is down 358 — thanks to the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy and the Merrill Lynch takeover. And now the government is asking Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan to shore up AIG. People across the country are wondering if their money is safe.

Yet here's what John McCain said at a rally in Jacksonville this morning: “Our economy, I think, still, the fundamentals of our economy are strong.”

Senator Obama is asking which economy John McCain lives in. But we cats think we know.

If your wife made something close to the GNP of Sweden on the buyout of Anheuser-Busch, you'd believe the economy was strong, too.

Think John McCain is the kind of guy you'd like to have a beer with? Go right ahead. But John McCain won't be picking up the check. You will.

UPDATE: We cats sold the Dow drop short. It's 495. Hope you humans weren't planning on retiring tomorrow.

UPDATE II: Sorry, it's 504.48. Holy whiskers!