Jacket-less Bush
First a lesson in Irony, and now a lesson in Hyprocrisy. Andrew Card, you can stick your condescension and your smug racist advice for Obama where the sun don't shine.…
Confidence
The classic refrain from Wall Street and the Republicans, in opposition to President Obama’s $500,000 cap on the salaries of those bank executives who have so failed in their jobs that they required billions of taxpayer money, is that 1) the market should determine the salaries; and 2) the best get paid the best.
Those two excuses are, of course, wrong. Banks were failing all last year, but the market did nothing to prevent those failed CEOs and executives from receiving hundreds of millions, if not billions, in bonuses that they did not earn. Indeed, some of the bonuses paid out had the feel of a literal robbery. And if these miserable failures in life did earn that money, if they were the best, then why are banks failing everywhere? Why did they need a federal bailout?
Logic is the enemy of Wall Street now, I suppose. It has always been the enemy of Republicans. But I digress.
His rotundness, Ric Struthers, the head of Bank of America’s credit card operation, was in Wilmington yesterday to talk about irony.
Yes, irony.
Day 9: Mike Castle’s Betrayal of Delaware
Congressman Mike Castle is part of the American Taliban, also known as the Republican Party.
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…
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 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…
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.…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…