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I made a prediction this past Sunday.

I wrote:

Watch the floodgates fly open now with an onslaught of letters to Pelosi and Crew requesting their own chunky slice of the socialist bread pudding – all in the name of restoring financial stability.

Close enough.

Of course, I’m no soothsayer or anything. (My crystal ball has been in the shop since I blew my “lock” for a McCain victory).

But as predicted . . . the swarm has descended.

From the International Herald Tribune:

When the U.S. government said it would spend $700 billion to rescue the American financial industry, it seemed to be an ocean of money. But after one of the biggest lobbying free-for-alls in memory, it suddenly looks like a dwindling pool.

Many new supplicants are lining up for an infusion of capital as billions of dollars are channeled to other beneficiaries like the American International Group, and possibly soon American Express.

The Treasury Department is under siege by an army of hired guns for banks, savings and loan associations and insurers — as well as for improbable candidates like a Hispanic business group representing plumbing and home-heating specialists. That last group wants the Treasury to hire its members as contractors to take care of houses that the government may end up owning through buying distressed mortgages.

Honestly, who didn’t see this coming?

Please, raise your hands if you didn’t think this stinking pile of odoriferous government bailout crap would attract every kneepad wearing, arm-extended, palm-up, garbage-dump fly lobbyist from Seattle to Miami Beach.

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