Archive for February 5th, 2009
They Fell For It.
You have to hand it to the Republicans. They are good. They know how to act as an opposition party. They have extreme party loyalty. When the Borg Queen, er ah, the Republican Leadership issues their orders, the foot soldiers all fall in line. They stick to one failed idea and ideology, and are damn […]
Pointing the finger
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy We can’t delay, and we can’t go back to the same, worn-out ideas that led us here in the first place. In the last few days we’ve seen proposals arise from some in Congress that you may not have read, but you’d be […]
The Condescension of Andrew Card.
For the second time in as many weeks, Andrew Card has thrown a little temper tantrum. Last week, he threw a fit on the conservative Michael Medved show. Yesterday, the little peev complained to Bill O’Reilly’s old haunt, Inside Edition: In an interview scheduled to run Wednesday night, Andrew H. Card Jr. told the syndicated […]
Justice Ginsberg Had Surgery for Cancer Today
Via NPR Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the only woman currently serving on the nation’s highest court, underwent surgery Thursday for removal of a cancerous tumor from her pancreas. Ginsburg, 75, is being treated at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. Pancreatic cancer is one of the very tough ones, but Justice Ginsberg […]
Well, we have been calling them the American Taliban for years…
“Insurgency, we understand perhaps a little bit more because of the Taliban. And that is that they went about systematically understanding how to disrupt and change a person’s entire processes. And these Taliban — I’m not trying to say the Republican Party is the Taliban. No, that’s not what we’re saying. I’m saying an example […]
Comment Rescue: America’s Burning
Okay, I’m paraphrasing in the title, but Unstable Isotope made an interesting comment: Even people with a job right now are not feeling too secure. That’s why consumer spending has fallen off a cliff – it’s not just the unemployed, but the underemployed and the people who are afraid of job loss. Americans are walking […]
Crazy a$$ thought for the day
If 2 wars, Tax Cuts, Defense Spending, Derugulation out the whazzo, privatizing everything were supposed to be good for the economy AND, not signing the Kyoto Protocol, not raising CAFE standards, not supporting infrastructure were all supposed to be bad for the economy can someone tell me what will work?s
Tom Carper, The President is Talking to You
By way of a Washington Post Editorial… In recent days, there have been misguided criticisms of this plan that echo the failed theories that helped lead us into this crisis — the notion that tax cuts alone will solve all our problems; that we can meet our enormous tests with half-steps and piecemeal measures; that […]
QOD
I’m having a hard time understanding the tax break proposed for home buyers, so please lend me a hand. My question is this: Is this tax break putting the cart in front of the horse, i.e. don’t people need jobs before they buy a house?
And the hits keep on rolling
New claims for unemployment benefits spiked to a quarter-century high of 626,000 last week, as businesses continued shedding workers to cope with the economic downturn. The number represents a larger-than-expected increase over the 591,000 people who filed for benefits the week before, and sets the stage for another jump in the unemployment rate for January […]
Laying Straws On The Camel
Al Mascitti is now on the air pointing out that paying money to fix the National Mall and saving the tidal basin is a good idea. Nice work Cassandra. It is hard going up against the 50 foot thick wall of lies and distortions that the GOP’s media/industrial complex puts up – but we have […]
No Travel Money For State Reps & Senators
Good. Every so often a conference can be useful, but by and large these things are nothing but junkets. Donna Stone would have pitched a fit – but the voters took care of that problem in advance.
Day 8: Mike Castle’s Betrayal of Delaware
Mike Castle: Don’t give away my fancy coins to hard-working Americans! They are for me to swim in.
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