Boo-ya. Wall Street Reform Bill in the hizzy. Looks like the Congress finally got its act together on this one. Well, mostly together. I swear, we've been working on this one for, what, a year now? It seems to me that it shouldn't have taken so long to write a law that says jerks shouldn't be allowed to be jerks with money. But what do I know about politics? I'm just the freaking President of a little country called the United States of America. I'm just an amateur.

So, what is this bill actually going to do? Well, based on the light reading I've been doing recently, it looks like it's gonna make a regulatory body for the giant, super-rich companies so they don't, ya know, screw regular, not insanely wealthy people out of their money by dumping it all into iffy hedge funds and speculative investment “opportunities”. And before the right-wing reactionaries get their secret lace panties in a bunch, the bill doesn't stop firms from making some risky investments. Despite what the uninformed have been spouting since before I even took office, I'm not a socialist. Risk is a big part of free market capitalism and I'm not about to make risk illegal.

I've got to believe that my presidency will have a positive effect on the country, even the world. I know things aren't everything my supporters wanted from me. I'm not blind, but I'm also not so cynical that I don't think that stuff matters. I've dropped the ball more than once and I feel bad about that. Not to lean on a labored basketball metaphor... hell, why not? When you drop the ball, you just gotta hustle up and try to get it back. So, my time in office won't be a shut-out, that doesn't mean it can't still be a win.

I didn't give jobs to all Americans. I didn't stitch up the economy like some kind of political nurse, but I did make a halfway decent bill that's genuinely going to change the way we do business in America. It's been 70 years since we made any worthwhile reforms to the American economy. It may not be pretty or a quick fix, but I'm still proud of this bill.

In other news, it looks like the Gulf has stopped spewing oil, finally. July has been an okay month, all told. Oh, and the news about Palin's kid? Hi-freaking-larious. Made my day. Life is going to fine for me and mine just as long as the Tea Party set keep clinging to that flaming raft of ineptitude and classlessness.