Write the headlines and engrave the trophy: Bernanke is the official assclown of the year. Totally incompetent jackass.
Unfortunately, this isn't a lesson which needed to be learned "this way". History is RIFE with examples. Our "leaders" weren't bamboozled by any of this.. they knew exactly what they were doing, and they did it on purpose. It's not that our leaders were taken by surprise.. but rather that they are LYING, THIEVING, GREEDY BASTARDS!!!! They don't give a CRAP about America, our future, and our people... only about their own greed and self-aggrandisement