I was stuck on a business trip to Atlantic City yesterday (no… seriously), but fortunately that just provided me with time to find those a bit (ok, a lot) more articulate than to support some of the things that I have been trying to say over the past 3 weeks, and round them up. Eric [...]
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I was understanding (probably more than most) about why the Democrats would want to keep Joe Lieberman in the caucus and not just toss him overboard. But much like Michelle Bachmann, apparently Joe doesn’t understand the power of video and audio tape and just because you want to claim you never said something, that doesn’t [...]
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Filed under: Failures
After we endured over a week of hearings and squabbling over the $25 Billion loan to help keep the Big 3, now comes the news that the government has agreed to absorb… not loan, not provide against actual real assets, but to absorb $247.5 Billion in losses from CitiGroup. Back in May Henry Paulson informed [...]
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Filed under: Bush, Failures
If it is a war of mindshare, those GOP thoughts seem to be winning, as I am seeing their talking points continue to press even into more progressive thoughts. It is not often I disagree with Momocrats, but for some reason people seem to overlook or miss some very basic issues. 1. Bankrupting the automakers [...]
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Filed under: General, Media Falsehoods
So who is the real Mitt Romney? The one that said while running for president: “I want to bring Michigan back,” said Mitt Romney. “I am not willing to sit back and say ‘too bad for Michigan, too bad for the car industry, too bad for the people who lost their jobs, they are gone [...]
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Like a gift that keeps on giving, the name Jack Abramoff is back in the news, as yet another guilty plea comes down. This time the guilty please comes from a former aide to Sen. Kit Bond (R-Mo.) The Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington has the story: Trevor Blackann, 34, a former aide [...]
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In our latest installment of how Dana Perino is no different that Bagdad Bob, I give you this wonderful exchange when the AP questioned Perino about one of Bushes Midnight Orders, this one to help gut the Endangered Species Act. From the official transcript(emphasis added): Q The first one is the Endangered Species Act. Could [...]
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Filed under: Bush, Failures
Look, I understand that government bailouts are not very popular. Nobody, and I mean nobody wants to finance private business, and that is all well and good, but there is no arguing that there are definitely times (like now) that it needs to be considered. What is troubling, is not that people are trying to [...]
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It is amazing, You know the saying, those who forget history are doomed to repeat it (fine, I may be paraphrasing, so what?), well it seems that this has proven true yet again. It seems the last time unemployment was as high as it is now is when Daddy was in office, 16 years ago. [...]
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How low can it go? I mean seriously… Churches that hate. Churches that lie. And more pathetic than all of that, they try to justify and explain it. I give Rick Sanchez credit, I don’t know that I cold continue to listen to this and not laugh at their ignorance.
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Filed under: Religious Right, Wingnuts
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