[Then Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson’s 2008 Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP)] proposal was essentially the last, unaired episode of Beavis and Butthead, with the three pages of script just containing a single scene in which Butthead walks into the U.S. Senate and says, “Can you, uh, like, give us 700 billion dollars? Uh-huh-huh.”

– from Matt Taibbi, Bailout Architect Runs for California Governor;  World Laughs