GOP Mad-Libs: Response to Scandal

The investigation continues regarding [name of person], who [is from the same state as / served on a committee with / once played basketball with] Obama. Obama is not implicated…

Another GOP talking point dismantled

What a surprise, UAW workers don’t make $73 an hour. Who knew…

That’s because labor costs, for all the attention they have been receiving, make up only about 10 percent of the cost of making a vehicle. An extra $800 per vehicle would certainly help Detroit, but the Big Three already often sell their cars for about $2,500 less than equivalent cars from Japanese companies, analysts at the International Motor Vehicle Program say. Even so, many Americans no longer want to own the cars being made by General Motors, Ford and Chrysler.

The calculations show, accurately enough, that for every hour a unionized worker puts in, one of the Big Three really does spend about $73 on compensation. So the number isn’t made up. But it is the combination of three very different categories.

Crazy Mary

Again, real music to listen to:[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0m7hnxwc5pw[/youtube]

Hey, well lookie, lookie

It wasn't the CRA or the poor blacks and hispanics that created the mortgage mess.  Oh my, look, it was greed. But don't read the article, it may shed light…

Impeach the Bastard

When wiretaps are legally and constitutionally obtained, they are devastating evidence.  Yes, Blago is innocent until proven guilty, and I will enjoy seeing what kind of defense he will put…

Obama Did Make a Phone Call

But it is not what Feroce or Burris thinks. The New York Times: In a sequence of events that neatly captures the contradictions of Barack Obama's rise through Illinois politics,…

Obama on The Blagojevich Scandal

Dave Burris commented: The only thing that bothers me about this is Obama’s statement that he hadn’t talked to Blago. There’s no freakin’ way he gives up his Senate seat…