I would like to nominate Rick Santelli to be elevated to ......

[Stinky The Clown]

.......... The Xenophobe King ..... the leader of the new "Eat Your Neighbors" movement ...... the cheerleader for people who march in white sheets or brown shirts or shaved heads ......

I also invite him to blow me.

[Justitia]

1. You mean the Multi-Millionaire Santelli whose company (CME) TRADES IN REAL ESTATE FUTURES?

I know he is one of the sleazeballs who got us into this clusterfuck, but, c'mon, his personal fortune is at risk here!

How is he gonna afford those slick Armani suits and pricey haircuts?

[Stellabella]

2. Yeah, like Wall Street traders are indicative of Americans?

God, they're the pigs who got us into this mess with CDS and hedge funds.

[WillParkinson]

3. I've never understood the invitation to blow someone...

I mean, why them and not me? Really now. Be fair. :-)

[lxlxlxl]

5. The more some one wraps cheap rhetoric in the flag, the less inclined I am to believe them.

Rush and the conservatives, and Bush, do this all the time, and I am disinclined to believe someone who takes a position that should rely on DATA, and defaults to wrapping themselves in a flag for self defense. it is despicable but works on TV right?

[bluestateguy]

4. He should be deported as an enemy combatant

If he doesn't like the way President Obama is running this nation, then he should leave.

[AngryOldDem]

6. I wonder what he would have said about the New Deal.

I missed his rant yesterday, but saw it today.

Again -- it's this "I got mine" attitude that got us squarely into this mess, among other factors.

Mr. Santelli, it may not be MY house on the foreclosure block today, but it could well be tomorrow. At some point, it could be those of the CBT people who cheered you on yesterday. I don't dispute that a lot of people bit off more than they could chew when they got into these subprime mortgages, but really, I don't have the time nor the interest anymore to be angry at them, especially when many were told by the banking industry that it was okay to overreach and overextend. This crisis has become too wide and deep to stand back and let my neighbors sink. We're ALL in this together anymore, and if we can see our way clear to bail out the banks and the auto industry, then dammit, there shouldn't be an issue with helping keep the middle class alive as well.

"Shared sacrifice" is what got this nation through the Great Depression. It's what's needed now.

As the middle class goes, so goes the nation. Always true, but now moreso than ever. They keep trumpeting the "92%" (or whatever the number is) who are meeting their monthly obligations. But I have to wonder by how many skins of teeth, by how many hard decisions -- is it the cancer medicine or mortgage this month? How many of that 92% are looking at a job loss in the next six months? How many of this 92% WON'T be able to make their payments within the next year? THEY, Mr. Santelli, are the people YOU should be most concerned about, and THEY are exactly why we need some kind of mortgage safety net in place. And really, I don't care who that net catches -- the person who just had to get that McMansion, or the auto worker who's just trying to keep a roof over his head.

I'm done with CNBC. I can't stomach it anymore. It's an alternate universe. Its reality is not my reality (not that it ever was) but it seems like it is just fine with letting society as a whole crash and burn as long as the investor class is safe and sound. That especially seems to have become the attitude there since Jan. 20. Fuck them.

[Bake]

7. Put him out of the limo in the homeless area under the bridge.

With no coat. No food. See how he likes it then.

Bake

[SOS]

8. Santelli rails against mortgage restructuring

but doesn't say a word about $2 trillion being dumped into zombie banks.
Watching Wall Street die has it's amusing moments.

[Joe Fields]

9. He'll be the repubs latest "Joe the Plumber," and will immediately

vault to the head of the party.