New York - (Off-the-Wall-Street Mess): "And not before time!" BigOil tycoon Helmore B Damnt commented today amid news that Vatican sovereign debt had been downgraded by US regulators.
The relegation should have made Goldman Sux another bucketful of dosh, of course.
But with CEO Lloyd Blankfein and his gofer Fabrice Tourre up before the Senate Committee there's been no real pros available to work another classic Goldman scam betting on wholesale bankruptcy of this tragic state.
The last time things were as bad as this Pope John Paul II sent his bagman Roberto 'God's Banker' Calvi to London to cash in on a subprime mortgage scam linked to Margaret Thatcher's gerrymandering Homes For Nazi Votes.
Calvi nearly ended up with the fishes, and was found hanged under Blackfriars Bridge in the Shitty of London.
Spanish Inquisition head Cardinal Ratzinger - as he was at that time - strenuously denied being Robert Maxwell's business partner in the lurid scam.
But now that Maxwell's been dead for nigh on 20 years the adage dead Men Can't Speak seems pretty water tight.
Bernard Madoff is serving 150 years for his contribution to civilized financial practice.
