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Obama’s Turn at the Populism Trough
The GOP has nothing to offer even in rebuttal.
Obama channeling Teddy Roosevelt:
UPDATE 3-Obama hits Republicans, Wall St in populist speech | Reuters: “Their philosophy is simple: we are better off when everyone is left to fend for themselves and play by their own rules. Well, I’m here to say they are wrong,” he said.
But Republicans said it was another attempt to distract from what they see as Obama’s failed economic record. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell accused the president and his fellow Democrats of resorting to “cheap political theater.”
(Via Reuters.)
Of course being the Party of No, well, that’s expensive political theater. If he resonates with the Occupy movement, the GOP goose is cooked. You heard it here first. Break a leg, Mr. President!
New York’s Foulest
The Gang in Blue.
It’s very difficult for us to grasp the notion that cops are human beings, subject to the same racial biases and flaws of other human beings. This is not a plea for mercy on their behalf. It’s a plea for understanding that abuse will happen. A gun and a badge do not confer a “great soul.”
(Via Ta-Nehisi Coates :: The Atlantic)
Amen. If they didn’t try to squeeze over two million people on a road that can safely handle half that, we would have most of the real issues in the first place.
Budget Predictions For 2012: Expect Even Less
Stan Collender’s almost-last-of-the-year Roll Call column tells you everything you need to know about what’s ahead next year…and why you should believe him. Continue reading →
Stan Collender’s almost-last-of-the-year Roll Call column tells you everything you need to know about what’s ahead next year…and why you should believe him. Continue reading
Carriers with Low IQ’s
Sen. Franken is not the guy you want asking hard questions. Continue reading →
Sen. Franken is not the guy you want asking hard questions. Continue reading
Patriarchy Costs Men Too
Boys need as much teaching as girls get perhaps more.
Parents!! Fidelity, Monogamy, and Sexual Purity Matters for Your Sons Too!:
I’m not here to blast Cain or Newt or any other man taken down by sexual issues, but I am here to say that it’s time that parents and leaders begin to take real time out to educate and inform the boys and young men of our world that their sexuality matters to their future, it matters to their career, it matters to their money, it matters to their name.
(Via Shaun in the City — The Blog of Shaun King)
Amen. Boys need as much teaching as girls get perhaps more. Doing the same with my seed.
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The Fed’s $7 Trillion Secret Loan Program
The Fed has some ‘splainin’ to do! Continue reading →
The Fed has some ‘splainin’ to do! Continue reading
The Fed’s $7 Trillion Secret Loan Program
The Fed has some ‘splainin’ to do! Continue reading →
The Fed’s $7 Trillion Secret Loan Program:
Eliot Spitzer on the aforelinked scandal revealed by Bloomberg:
Imagine you walked into a bank, applied for a personal line of credit, and filled out all the paperwork claiming to have no debts and an income of $200,000 per year. The bank, based on these representations, extended you the line of credit. Then, three years later, after fighting disclosure all the way, you were forced by a court to tell the truth: At the time you made the statements to the bank, you actually were unemployed, you had a $1 million mortgage on your house on which you had failed to make payments for six months, and you hadn’t paid even the minimum on your credit-card bills for three months. Do you think the bank would just say: Never mind, don’t worry about it? Of course not. Whether or not you had paid back the personal line of credit, three FBI agents would be at your door within hours.
Yet this is exactly what the major American banks have done to the public.
Or, as Jon Stewart asked, “How the f*** is it that Martha Stewart went to jail?”
(Via Daring Fireball)
Gruber finds the perfect quote.