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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And While You Weren’t Looking

Filed in National by on September 26, 2008 1 Comment

The House has passed a $25 billion loan guarantee scheme for the Auto industry. And the Senate seems poised to agree to this too. Senator Carl Levin notes that there will be another round of these low-interest loans early next year. A spokesman for the German car industry has this piece of magic to contribute: […]

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Top 10 REAL Reasons McCain Wants to Skip the Debate

Filed in National by on September 26, 2008 17 Comments

This thread suggested by a loyal reader (not sure yet if he wants the credit) and starts the reasons: 10.  I have to wax all 13 cars that night. 9.   I found a set of house keys, and I have to try them out in each of my 8 to 12 houses. 8.   9/11 7.   […]

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McCain Has Not Suspended His Campaign

Filed in National by on September 25, 2008 2 Comments

And Jeffrey Toobin calls Bullshit on the media nonsense of the day: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVsOpwjY53E[/youtube] Good for him.  I wrote NPR for being bamboozled by this earlier today.  This campaign is not suspended if your VP nominee is campaigning at Ground Zero, if you are appearing at scheduled events in the morning, and showing up on all […]

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Deal

Filed in National by on September 25, 2008 13 Comments

Apparently done. Apparently bipartisan altho another report I read had some hedging language from a Republican negotiator. Read it and tell us what you think. And done and announced before the White House meeting.

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In Which We Are Reminded The Real Meaning of Country First

Filed in National by on September 25, 2008 8 Comments

The important thing is for the American project to go on: Today is September 24. On this day in 1864, Abraham Lincoln presided over a country at war with itself and a party split to its roots over the question of how to plan for the nation’s reconstruction—to such an extent that on this day, […]

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Markell Beats Lee 2:1

Filed in Delaware by on September 25, 2008 12 Comments

I love that headline! XStryker points us to new DE polling from SUSA today. SurveyUSA 9/22-9/23, MoE 3.6%, N=703 LV Jack Markell (D) 64% Bill Lee (R) 29% 1 in 3 republicans cross over to vote for Markell in this poll. This also shows: Obama 57% McCain 37% Biden 64% O’Donnell 32%

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McCain Suspends Campaign to Vote On Bailout

Filed in National by on September 24, 2008 35 Comments

Details of today’s maverickyness here. The suspension begins after he speaks to Mr. Bill’s foundation conference on Thursday. Not today or tomorrow, while there are real negotiations ongoing to craft the bill. He wants to be around Friday when there is the possibility of a vote. He is calling on Obama to suspend too — […]

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I Just Knew It!

Filed in National by on September 23, 2008 3 Comments

REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP Just go read the whole thing.

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Why Is The Bailout Urgent?

Filed in National by on September 23, 2008 45 Comments

Seriously. I’ve been reading the usual stuff and haven’t seen anyone who addresses the urgency of this bailout. What is so catastrophic out there that it needs to be taken care of this week? Apparently , and they’ve got lost of exposure too. So why so fast? I admit to not being a fan of […]

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Economists Warn of Another Market Close to Collapse

Filed in National by on September 22, 2008 7 Comments

Now, this is a crisis! Economists Warn Anti-Bush Merchandise Market Close To Collapse

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Dodd Takes Steps in the Right Direction

Filed in National by on September 22, 2008 2 Comments

See here. I haven’t read the draft (and won’t until later today) but this looks like a start to remediating the Bush blank check. This likely doesn’t go as far as I’d like, but take a look for yourselves.

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Won’t Get Fooled Again

Filed in National by on September 22, 2008 5 Comments
Won’t Get Fooled Again

A reminder of the consequences of cooperating with BushCo when they say their pants are on fire:

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Bailout Nation — Hell No, Mr. Paulson

Filed in National by on September 22, 2008 22 Comments

As Jason notes below (and in my comment) the scope of this bailout just gets bigger. Now we apparently are going to be on the hook for foreign banks (whose expose to this toxic stuff is worse than many of our own banks) and for the credit card debt your cousin Stewart racked up on […]

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