Joe Scarborough, sort of a war skeptic when he had an evening MSNBC show, is a neocon in the morning.

Today he was excoriating the press for not giving more attention to Nicholas "What's-the-French-for-Neocon?" Sarkozy's sycophantic speech before Congress on the glories of the US government.

What a shocker. The head of a restive province now safely in imperial control comes to Rome to lavish praise on emperor and senate.

Then Joe hosted Jim "Printing-Press" Kramer to denounce the failure to put vast new federal funds into the banks and mortgage lenders, in a vain attempt to prevent the unraveling of the Fed's artificial boom.As usual, there is no indication that there might be a downside to further inflation for a crisis caused by inflation.

In fact, as Ron Paul has long said--and as he will tell Ben Bernanke in congressional hearings today--we need sound money to stop the endless boom-bust cycle.

Jim and Joe both said their proposal to bail out the big boys was motivated only by concern for middle-class homeowners. Of course, the federal funny money factory--like these two birds--is dedicated to protecting and rewarding the power elite.

We need money of gold that no central bank can reproduce; it also acts as a band of iron around the throat of the military-industrial complex and its ambitions for endless tax-funded mayhem.