Archive for February, 2009
My Father, the Typical GOP 30%
My Q to him: So the stock market, the housing problem, the bank’s failing, circuit city going out of business is Obama’s fault? A: YUP!! As I said to you a long, long time ago; it is a psychological war. Before the conventions, they (e.g., Reid, Pelosi, etc.) were all saying how bad things were […]
RNC To Crush Dissent
h/t Politico, although their title features the hilarious typo “disssidents”: RNC Chairman Michael Steele has threatened to withhold party funds from three GOP senators who voted for the stimulus package. : “Will you, as RNC head, recommend no RNC funds being provided to help them?” Steele was asked on Fox News. “Oh, yes, I`m always […]
Credit Where Credit is Due: Mike Castle At White House Summit
Castle was in a breakout session dealing with healthcare. Rep. Mike Castle: Community health centers deliver health care to the uninsured. Pharmaceutical companies do programs that provide low cost drugs. The administration should draw attention to resources that are out there that the uninsured isn’t taking advantage of. “More services are out there.” The administration […]
Four Bad Bear Markets
Click on the image to view the larger and more readable graph. Courtesy of dshort.com.
Ironic Thought of the Day
Interesting that the top H1B companies are not even US companies; they are “major Indian offshore IT services firms.” Sweet.
New Poll Suggests Obama Shouldn’t Waste Time On Republican Antics
Another failed Republican strategy? Let’s face it, Republicans aren’t good at subtlety. Did they really believe the American people wouldn’t see their obstructionist tactics as, well, obstructionist tactics? A newly released NYT/CBS Poll spells even more trouble – if that’s even possible – for the GOP. A majority of people surveyed in both parties said […]
Don’t Let ‘Em Play the ‘Class Warfare’ Card
Rethugs, many trained by Newt Gingrich, have mastered the art of Orwellian double-speak. ‘Death Tax’, ‘Reaganomics’, and the like. They have used these terms in large part to turn the tax code on its head through Kemp/Roth and the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy while misleading the public with verbal sleight-of-hand. President Obama, starting […]
Is this going to hurt Beau Biden’s Senate run?
It stinks to high heaven (Reuters) – A fund of hedge funds run by two members of Vice President Joe Biden’s family was marketed exclusively by firms controlled by Texas financier Allen Stanford, charged by regulators with an $8 billion fraud, the Wall Street Journal said. Paradigm Global Advisors is owned through a holding company […]
“What kind of idiots are running that bank?”
Watch the Video Granddaughter of the man who founded Bank of America in San Francisco in the early 1900s called the bank’s current condition “totally repulsive” and blasted the bank’s management for being “idiots.” Q: Where do you put your money? Bank of America A: Bank of America. I have no loyalty to it, it’s […]
Day 27: Mike Castle’s Betrayal of Delaware
Which member of Congress has now gone 23 months without holding a scheduled in advance* town hall style meeting with his constituents? Hmmm…? *Note to Mike: Meetings announced on Wednesday afternoon for Thursday night don’t count. Concerned Crowd Brings Economic Woes To Town Hall Meeting MyNC.com, NC – Feb 17, 2009 Congressman Price will hold […]
Kowalko, Ramone and Peterson Victorious!
Approximately 100 people showed up at the City Council meeting in Newark to register their displeasure with the proposed disproportional water rate increase for non-resident city water customers. The bottom line of the whole affair is that the city relented in the opening moments of the meeting and made the rate increase a flat 15% […]
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