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Ocktoberfest!

By liberalgeek September 19, 20086 Comments

Screw this crappy economy. Come out tonight to the Ocktoberfest in Newark. Good food, good beer, good music (if you like German folk music) and lots and lots of politicians.

Bailout Nation, Part What?

By cassandra_m September 19, 200819 Comments

I'm losing track now. GM wants in on the action now. This is a company that can't sell cars that consumers want, has leadership that thinks Climate Change is a…

The

By cassandra_m September 19, 200831 Comments

I'm just posting this entry from Barry Ritholtz at The Big Picture in its entirety, because it is that good. From Mr. Ritholtz: "I am having a hard time keeping…

The Great Depression is Here.

By Delaware Dem September 19, 200867 Comments

Let's be clear, without this massive bailout, the economic system of the United States would collapse into a depression worse than the Great Depression. The system would "meltdown." The Dollar would be…

Massive Bailout

By liberalgeek September 19, 200875 Comments

There really is no other way to describe it. The US Government will essentially buy the bad mortgages that are sitting on the books of the US banks and will…

Where’s Bush?

By pandora September 19, 200819 Comments

The stock market plunges, people are losing their jobs and their homes, and our fearless leader is nowhere to be found. Politico sums it up.

“I will continue to closely monitor the situation in our financial markets and consult with my economic advisers,” President Bush said Thursday in a two-minute address from the Rose Garden.

That’s right, two minutes. Delivered, according to the official White House transcript, from 10:15 a.m. EDT to 10:17 a.m. EDT. Maybe you missed it. Maybe you were at work. Maybe the president doesn’t care.

Maybe that’s the problem.

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The Senior Vote and Privatizing Social Security

By pandora September 19, 200836 Comments

Cafferty sums it up. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN00rFIn8ig[/youtube] If there's any issue guaranteed to make Seniors sit up and take notice it's Social Security. How will the McCain camp spin its way…

Bob Barr as a Serious Spoiler

By liberalgeek September 19, 20088 Comments

There was a time, not too long ago, when Bob Barr could have played spoiler. He was taking enough GA voters that McCain would lose the state to Obama. Some…

Dudes! Good Luck With That!

By cassandra_m September 18, 20083 Comments

George "Macaca" Allen is headlining a GOP Minority Outreach Rally in Virgina. Are they doing this on purpose, or what?

Oh, no she didn’t! Palin/McCain

By pandora September 18, 200815 Comments

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZKQDyL5gzc[/youtube] Freudian slip? I think not.

QOTE

By Donviti September 18, 20087 Comments

What is the current GOP Platform and how have they exercised it?

Welcome back…

By Donviti September 18, 2008

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVS3WNt7yRU[/youtube] I thought I was going to use this one sooner to be honest....

You Are A Sponsor of Man United — UPDATED

By cassandra_m September 18, 200827 Comments

Kevin Drum over at Mother Jones asks: Now that you, the American taxpayer, more or less own insurance giant AIG, it turns out that you, the American taxpayer, are also…