cassandra_m
"You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas." -Shirley Chisholm
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Bailout 2.0 Reactions
Read them at your leisure: Paul Krugman isn’t sure what this says, but he’s working on some optimism. He also recycles a joke that I haven’t heard since the annual Deconstruction Wars at a bookgroup I was addicted to: What do you get when you cross a Godfather with a deconstructionist? Someone who makes you […]
Liveblogging the 14th District Democratic District Meeting
Redwaterlily (aka Suzanne) is liveblogging the proceedings here. I think that this is the first official Democratic function John Brady is attending after the big switch this afternoon.
Bailout 2.0
I didn’t get a chance to see Geithner’s press conference talking about the plan to stabilize the banks. But I understand that what was presented was an outline of a plan, with details to be provided as they work them out. (Now I see that they unveiled a new website today — still under construction […]
The Unbearbable Dishonesty of Being the News Journal
The News Journal Editorial Board has decided to weigh in again on the Recovery Package — against FTR — and to do so in a way that serves not only as a symbol of the real lack of basic economic knowledge of folks in the media, but also is an example (one of many) of […]
BWW’s Owners are Liquidating
Article from today’s NJ. TommyWonk reviews his previous assessment of this situation and what this likely means for the Blue Water Wind project: It’s clear that BNB’s once formidable empire will be broken up, which means that Bluewater Wind may well have a new parent company sometime this year. The original plan was for BBI […]
On the Vast Unemployment of the US Government
So not only do we have a lack of basic economic fluency by Republicans, their New Day leadership hasn’t a clue about job creation — Michael Steele yesterday AM on ABC: STEELE: You’ve got to look at what’s going to create sustainable jobs. What this administration is talking about is making work. It is creating […]
Gulf States Taking Lead on Clean Energy Investments
The NYT did an article almost a month ago showing how the Gulf States are looking beyond their carbon riches to thoughts of becoming a clean energy exporter: So even as President-elect Barack Obama talks about promoting green jobs as America’s route out of recession, gulf states, including the emirates, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, are […]
On Boosting Congressional Financial Literacy
Steven Pearlstein, a business columnist for the Washington Post writes a scathing column asking for a Personal Financial Trainer for every Representative and Senator in Congress. Pearlstein isn’t concerned about overheated rhetoric — he is pointing out the real deficiencies in knowledge here, deficiencies (no matter the policy differences) are actually pretty scary. He finds […]
On How Pete Sessions Finds His Party’s Fatal Flaw
…or finds one of them, at least. Last night, the state GOP had their annual pep rally, with keynote speaker Representative Pete Sessions from Texas. According the the NJ reports, there wasn’t much remarkable about the meeting, which included the usual calls for party unity, the usual fawning over Mike Castle (with nudge nudge wink […]
Campaign Finance Issues — Michael Steele Edition
…or How The So-Called “Good News” for Republicans became the same old story. The Washington Post reports that new RNC Chair Michael Steele has a number of unresolved campaign money issues: The recent allegations outlined four specific transactions. In addition to the payment to Steele’s sister, Fabian said that the candidate used money from his […]
Day 11: Mike Castle’s Betrayal of Delaware
From a LTE in the NJ: …His constituents voted nearly 2-1 for President Obama. And does anyone really believe that “significant problems in the bill” – as reported in the article – actually account for him joining his Republican colleagues in the House in a unanimous party vote? If you do, then why is Congressman […]
Verizon Math Fail
OK, this may have limited amusement potential, but I thought that this was hysterical: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCJ3Oz5JVKs[/youtube] (h/t The Big Picture)
Senate Recovery Bill Text
PDF of the Senate Version — S. 336. The Huffington Post has an embeddable copy of the bill (via docstoc) at their site, and they are asking for volunteers to compare the Senate Bill and HB1 as passed to begin a full scale search for the differences. If you have time and the inclination, go […]
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