Matt Taibbi Quotes About House

• Pagamos por esto en lugar de una generación de seguros de salud, o una red de energía alternativa, o un nuevo sistema de carreteras y autopistas. Con los más de 13 billones de dólares que se calcula que gastaremos finalmente en los rescates, no sólo podríamos haber comprado y pagado todas las hipotecas de alto riesgo del país (eso sólo habría costado 1,4 billones de dólares), sino que podríamos haber pagado todas las hipotecas restantes de cualquier tipo en este país, y aún nos habría sobrado dinero suficiente para comprar una casa nueva a todos los estadounidenses que aún no tienen una.

  Matt Taibbi

  Campo, Casa, Energía

• Most people, when they imagine New England, think about old colonial homes, white houses with black shutters, whales, and sexually morbid WASPs with sensible vehicles and polite political opinions. This is incorrect. If you want to get New England right, just imagine a giant mullet in paint-stained pants and a Red Sox hat being pushed into the back of a cruiser after a bar fight.

  Matt Taibbi

  Hogar, Lucha, Pensamiento

• The race for the White House is normally an event suffused with drama, sucking eyeballs to the page all over the globe.

  Matt Taibbi

  Drama, Race, White

• If anything, the bailouts actually hindered lending, as banks became more like house pets that grow fat and lazy on two guaranteed meals a day than wild animals that have to go out into the jungle and hunt for opportunities in order to eat.

  Matt Taibbi

  Animal, Opportunity, Order

• The House Rules Committee is perhaps the free world's outstanding bureaucratic abomination - a tiny, airless closet deep in the labyrinth of the Capitol where some of the very meanest people on earth spend their days cleaning democracy like a fish.

  Matt Taibbi

  People, House, Labyrinth

  Matt Taibbi (2007). “Smells Like Dead Elephants: Dispatches from a Rotting Empire”, p.21, Black Cat

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