It could be me, and I’d hate to offend anyone, but is there any Irony in the fact that the guy that coined the phrase “moral majority” passed away right at the end of Bush’s Presidency?

Weyrich stitched the religious, social-issue voters into the secular fabric of the Republican Party. He co-founded the Washington-based Heritage Foundation in 1973 as a counterbalance to the liberal Brookings Institution and launched what became an influential network of conservative think tanks and talk radio shows that contributed to the culture wars of the past three decades.

Ah yes, the man that essentially gave us Limbaugh, Hannity and helped impeach Clinton. Reading that bio he seems like a nice fella.

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h/t NotBrian

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h/t andrewsullivan via Ken Silverstein
From the Project on Government Oversight’s letter to congressional oversight committees:

As you know, the TARP was created for the express purpose of buttressing the financial system by assisting institutions in danger of going under. In the language of the statute, the TARP was meant to “provide authority for the Federal Government to purchase and insure certain types of troubled assets for the purposes of providing stability to and preventing disruption in the economy and financial system and protecting taxpayers.” However, we are concerned that some institutions are taking advantage of the law, assuming the trappings of failure in order to feed at the TARP trough.

It has come to our attention that a number of insurance companies are attempting to qualify for TARP funds by purchasing banks.

Helping you the taxpayer get a 12 incher rammed up your kiester….KWS, keep up the good work!

Let’s see how well you know your Economics….

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I’ll see your “So What” and raise you a “Psycho Killer”

If you plug up your rearend right as you are about to pass gas, will it then come out your ears?

I turned on DTR…

to hear Burris blaming the UAW and their 22lb 9 oz contract for the woes of the American Auto industry. Ford has a state of the art factory in Brazil. They don’t have one in the US because of the UAW. It’s pretty much entirely the UAW’s fault at this point, with the exception of 2 management problems, which I failed to remember as I was trying to listen to the rest of the bullshit he was spewing.

Oh, but Dave is in favor of people making as much money as they can….

Wow Dave, you are udderly amazing.

I guess you didn’t read this post yesterday

PS, Dave’s show consists of reading you the newspaper and saying “um” or “uh”

If I put my Ipod headphones up my nose and turn the music on really loud. I can hear the music playing.

In case none of you are paying attention:

The Federal Reserve entered a new era on Tuesday, lowering its benchmark interest rate virtually to zero and declaring that it would now fight the recession by pumping out vast amounts of money to businesses and consumers through an expanding array of new lending programs.

Going further than expected, the central bank cut its target for the overnight federal funds rate to a range of zero to 0.25 percent and brought the United States to the zero-rate policies that Japan used for years in its own fight against deflation.

Perhaps them already having poured a few trillion to AIG, Citi, Fannie etc wasn’t enough eh?

So, you’d think taking a historic such as basically giving away free money would do wonders for their brothers at arms over on Wall Street right? How’d that work out today?

Dow	8,824.34	-99.80	-1.12%
Nasdaq	1,579.31	-10.58	-0.67%
S&P 500	904.42	-8.76	-0.96%
10 Yr Bond(%)	2.1900%	-0.1730

Of much greater practical importance, the Fed bluntly announced that it would print as much money as necessary to revive the frozen credit markets

I haven’t been following this thing to closely, but as I read that above statement, and again I could be totally off base so bare with me, didn’t we just do some crazy bailout with no strings attached for like 700,000,000,000.00 like 3 weeks ago?

just an FYI, Bush is still the President.

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