Posted on November 24th, 2008 by JayMonster
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
Posted on November 21st, 2008 by JayMonster
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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Posted on November 18th, 2008 by JayMonster
The lame duck President isn’t done yet trying to screw over women in the name of his religious buddies. Once again, he is trying to implement rules that would allow pharmacists, doctors and other healthcare providers to refuse perfectly legal and legitimate access to medications and or medical procedures because on “religious or moral grounds.” [...]
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Filed under: Bush, Failures, Religious Right
Posted on November 17th, 2008 by JayMonster
If there was any thought that right wingnuts would actually give President-Elect Obama any real “opportunity” to even try to govern before they started the blame game, well that has already been put to bed as hacks Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity have already started trying to pin the current recession on the man that [...]
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Filed under: Failures, Faux News, Wingnuts
Posted on November 12th, 2008 by JayMonster
I could use the old line of “How do you know when Sarah Palin is lying? Her lips are moving.” But I am not yet convinced that she is bright enough for that. It could be that she just can’t separate fact from fiction. And yet she still bumbled and couldn’t quite get her facts [...]
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Posted on November 11th, 2008 by JayMonster
The Wall Street Journal’s William McGurn apparently thinks, John McCain Owes Sarah Some Straight Talk, or more specifically he is supposed to I guess apologize to her for his campaign staff throwing her under the bus. It goes on to tout all the “wrongs” done to poor Sarah, and how it “wasn’t her fault” and [...]
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Filed under: Failures, Media Falsehoods, WSJ
Posted on November 7th, 2008 by JayMonster
Lieberman is still looking for love, according to this Boston Globe article. He didn’t get what he wanted it seems from Harry Reid, so now looking for some love from Mitch McConnell. Lieberman finds it “unacceptable” to lose his seat on Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. I guess he should have considered that when [...]
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Filed under: Failures
Posted on November 6th, 2008 by JayMonster
The Washington Post has the details: The White House is working to enact a wide array of federal regulations, many of which would weaken government rules aimed at protecting consumers and the environment, before President Bush leaves office in January. This is not something completely odd, as many Presidents have done last minute items in the past. But [...]
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