There's loyalty, and the there's rewarding incompetence and indiscretion. We still got heaps of the latter spilling over from the former President, in the form of bailouts to Wall Street, so it was refreshing to see the Obama administration make the right choice on Daschle. He's a good man, but [...]
Jack Clark of Blast The Right podcast recently posted a great list of 5 questions that really drive home the difference between government run by conservatives and that of liberals.
[...]MSNBC's Keith Olbermann reminds of the true Bush Legacy.
OLBERMANN: George Walker Bush, 43rd president of the United States, first ever with a criminal record. Our third story tonight, his presidency, eight years in eight minutes. Early in 2001, the U.S. fingered al Qaeda for the bombing of the USS Cole.' [...]
America, in the face of our common dangers, in this winter of our hardship, let us remember these timeless words; with hope and virtue, let us brave once more the icy currents, and endure what storms may come; let it be said by our children's children that when we were [...]
Is it just me, or are the GOP candidates for chairman of the Republican National Committee starting to sound like a bunch of summer survivalists?
Next, I expect they'll be comparing the girth of their Bibles.
Does Katon's "too many to count" really mean "I'll find some and I'll bring 'em to [...]
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BBC News treats us to a blow-stout-through-your-nose funny walk down Bushie Lane in their article The 'misunderestimated' president? [...] Lessons of 2008, a year that begged for the return of common sense.
[...]Welcome to 2009: In which we learn that 2 pints of ale with lunch do not preclude you from donating blood.
[...]Jennifer Read at Indigo Journal eviscerates Governor Mark Sanford's posturing against Federal assistance to keep South Carolina's unemployment benefits flowing.
[...]U.S. prosecutors want a Miami judge to sentence the son of former Liberian President Charles Taylor to 147 years in prison for torturing people when he was chief of a brutal paramilitary unit during his father's reign. What about Bush/Cheney?
[...]An SEC whistleblower says there are more Madoff-sized frauds to come. In retrospect, the fraud that pervades Wall Street is exactly what we should expect under the blind eye of an administration run by people - that is to say, Republicans - who believe that markets self-regulate and the main [...]
I wonder if Bruce has figured out that the supply-side trickle-down economics, which he marketed so heavily and so effectively through the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal , are largely responsible for the pit we've fallen into. The policies that Bartlett cooked up for Reagan of cutting taxes [...]
Dean Baker points out a fundamental flaw in a Washington Post article on supposed difficulty of limiting executive pay. Maybe we need to start off-shoring our executives or add top management positions to the H1-B Visa program. I'm thinking there are plenty of Chinese and Indian managers who could do [...]
Why does American business logic says that to be competitive you have to pay your workers less and pay your executives more...much, much, much more? It seems to me that we moved away from a meritocracy and into a plutocracy decades ago - around the time that median income stopped [...]
Jeff Frankels explains the the origins of the economic crisis in one chart!
[...]Sec. St. Condeleza Rice works on the Bush Legacy Whitewash, recommending that Blackwater mercenaries be dropped from US security details [after she and Bush are gone].
[...]Thomas Friedman in NYT discusses Bernard Madoff, former chairman of NASDAQ, who admitted last week that his $50 billion hedge fund really just a Ponzi scheme. Friedman doesn't have to stretch far to label our entire financial morass, from sub-prime mortgages, to collateralized debt obligations and credit default swaps, to [...]
“Minimally adequate” is the kind of effort you apply to picking fuzz balls off a 20 year old Christmas sweater, not to educating the future of your state and your country.
Thank goodness there are folks trying to shake that 19th century notion from the heads of our Illustrious Legislators. You [...]
There’s something logically and morally wrong with using a cigarette tax to offset income tax or even to fund an on-going healthcare program. Just stop and think about it for a minute.
Raising South Carolina’s cigarette tax might be one way to discourage a stinky, dangerous, and costly addiction, and, in [...]
In my 7 minutes of spare time a day, I’ve been toiling over a fact- and link-filled post addressing Governor Sanford’s “DON’T show me the money” media circus. Sanford is clearly willing to make the most vulnerable South Carolinians suffer to stroke his libertarian ego. I believe in fiscal restraint [...]
Is it just me, or does Adam Fogle cling to a slightly twisted interpretation of what it means to be American. Here’s his comment on “Second Amendment Weekend:”
This honestly might be the most American thing of all time — buying guns and not paying [...]
Check out this eye popper on Voltage Blog
Of course, as many have noted, this bailout cost calculation assumes that the assets that the government (taxpayers) bought have zero value. While I’m sure that the Bush Administration and the honchos on Wall [...]
Kos over at DailyKos.com distills the meaning of Election 2008.
Here are a couple of highlights (emphasis is mine):
Remember, a party predicated on the notion that government sucks and can’t do anything right can’t possibly run an administration that doesn’t suck and can do [...]
The New York Times reports that crazed “Black Friday” shoppers at a Wal-Mart in Valley Steam, N.Y. broke through the store’s doors and trampled employee Jdimytai Damour, 34, to death in their rush to get the best holiday deals. Ho, ho, ho.
Police said that even [...]
As the economy deteriorates and financial corpses continue to pile up and begin to rot, everyone from Tito the Builder and William Kristol to President-Elect Obama and his economic team are wondering: How big is big enough? Long gone is any pretense that the “free” market will right itself; we’re [...]
“Country First” my ass. Conservative strategy would kill Americans to preserve Republican Party power.
Just when you thought Election 2008 might give us a brief break from cynical politics, we hear the latest stomach-turning plotting from the battered conservative wingers. Michael F. Cannon, writing for Cato @ Liberty spells it out [...]
“Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.”
Abraham Lincoln
Hey, if GMAC can become bankie in order to qualify for bailout funds, why not AnyIdiot?
So, let’s make it official before Paulson blows his last $400 bazillion:
I HEARBY ANNOUNCE THE GRAND OPENING OF AnyIdiot’s National Bank, LLC .
Send me all your money. Suitcases of cash preferred, but I also accept [...]
Take a look at this graphic representation of increases in Democratic and Republican voters in 2008, compared to 2004. I think it’s fair to call it a Democratic LANDSLIDE and Mandate for Change. That’s before you count the millions of Americans (mostly [...]
Thanks to Paul Krugman for linking to this Electoral College Map from the Princeton Election Consortium . Gives a better representation of population, rather than square miles per state.
Perspective makes a difference.
In 18 years of voting in SC, I’ve never encountered a line out the door and never had to wait more than 10 minutes to vote. Last Friday, early voters were waiting 4-5 hours to vote.
Today - Election Day! - I arrived just as the polls opened and waited 55 [...]
RNC Decides On Last Minute Slate Change
Credits: Got this by email, too lazy to search for the source. You know who you are, Mitt.
Senator Obama on the future of America. If you are too ideologically cemented to watch this, it’s time for some new footwear, or you’re headed to the bottom of the pond in your own trap.
If this scares you, seek counseling.
The October 24 edition of Bill Moyers Journal brought my attention to the latest report on income inequality from the 30-nation Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development - or OECD. It’s not pretty, and it blows a hole in John McCain’s desperate [...]
Unless you live in a sound-proof padded cell under a rock in Sarah Palin’s yard in sight of Putin’s rearing head, you’ve already heard that Republican hero Colin Powell has endorsed Barack Obama over his old friend John McCain. If you haven’t already seen or heard the 7 minute endorsement, [...]
Monday, Oct. 20 at 7 p.m., Fourth House District Republican incumbent Bob Inglis and Democratic challenger Paul Corden. Produced by ETV Upstate in Spartanburg.
I haven’t had a chance to watch the whole debate yet, but of the bits I saw last night, I would say that Paul Corden handled himself [...]
