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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Bailouts by the Numbers

Filed in National by on December 26, 2008 27 Comments
Bailouts by the Numbers

Quite so:

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Drive A Stake Through It

Filed in National by on December 26, 2008 5 Comments

Instead of rethinking a strategy for governing, the failed conservative project seems to be busily working at rewriting the last 8 years of failed government.  While we certainly have evidence of the failures all around us — especially in the detrius of the economy broken by their ideology — we need to always be prepared […]

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Torture Has Not Kept Us Safer

Filed in National by on December 23, 2008 7 Comments

So says Robert Mueller in Vanity Fair: I ask Mueller: So far as he is aware, have any attacks on America been disrupted thanks to intelligence obtained through what the administration still calls “enhanced techniques”? “I’m really reluctant to answer that,” Mueller says. He pauses, looks at an aide, and then says quietly, declining to […]

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How Pitiful Is This

Filed in National by on December 22, 2008 10 Comments

Open Left reports that John Boehner is advertising for “credentialed” economists who oppose the upcoming stimulus package. Evidently the “credentialed” economist community sees the economic problems we face sufficiently serious enough that they aren’t available to the wingnut echo chamber to try to advance their ill-informed opinions on how the government should deal with the […]

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Biden Defends the Warren Choice

Filed in National by on December 22, 2008 6 Comments

Joe Biden will evidently be in Larry King Live tonite and has said this about what the Warren selection means: …Barack Obama said you’ve got to reach out. You’ve got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country. We can’t continue to be a red and blue country. […]

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This May Be Your Only Chance

Filed in National by on December 21, 2008 0 Comments
This May Be Your Only Chance

To throw something at the President-Reject: The comments are good too — listing the stuff others would like to throw at Bush.

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A Template for Bank Bonus Plans!

Filed in National by on December 18, 2008 2 Comments

From the minds of the folks over at Credit Suisse — Pay your execs in the illiquid assets they built up! Really, this is an interesting idea. Pay those bonuses, but use the derivatives and other facilities that these guys were so hot for (and that crashed and burned so spectacularly): Credit Suisse Group AG’s […]

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Ford Says UAW Not to Blame

Filed in National by on December 17, 2008 25 Comments

(via John Cole). Ford Chairman Bill Ford was on Larry King last night and had this to say: KING: What about the UAW in all of this? FORD: Well, the UAW obviously has been our partner through all of this. Have they made mistakes and have we made mistakes? Of course. The UAW has come […]

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Dear Gov.-Elect Markell — People’s Settlement Needs Tough Love

Filed in Delaware by on December 17, 2008 26 Comments

Dear Governor-Elect Markell: While we are delighted that you will be taking the reigns of the government here in Delaware, we certainly understand that you begin governing with some of the greatest challenges of many generations. Certainly, you don’t need any more problems to fix, but the People’s Settlement needs attention, and quickly. The Office […]

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Regulating the Cards

Filed in National by on December 17, 2008 4 Comments

From Sunday’s WaPo: The Federal Reserve on Thursday will vote on sweeping reform of the credit card industry that would ban practices such as retroactively increasing interest rates at will and charging late fees when consumers are not given a reasonable amount of time to make payments. ….Among the many provisions is a ban on […]

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Really Bad Pundits: 2008

Filed in National by on December 16, 2008 16 Comments

Foreign Policy Magazine made their selections of the 10 worst predictions of 2008 and this turns out to be fun: 1. William “The Bloody” Kristol, who told the world two years ago that “Barack Obama would not beat Hillary Clinton in a single Democratic primary”. 2. Jim Cramer, who, in March 2008, was yelling at […]

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Dennis Rochford Out?

Filed in Delaware by on December 15, 2008 28 Comments

WDEL is reporting that Governor-Elect Markell’s choice for Chief of Staff is out. Haven’t heard why or who will replace him yet. Tell us what you’ve heard in the Comments.

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Requiem for Old School Capitalism

Filed in National by on December 8, 2008 17 Comments

Winthrop Smith — son of one of the original partners of Merrill Lynch Pearce Fenner and Smith — gave an occasionally angry eulogy for Merrill Lynch at the shareholders meeting that was to approve ML being sold to Bank of America: Today did not have to come. In the past it was Merrill Lynch that […]

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