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Why It’s Not Over, Part II

By cassandra_m September 29, 20085 Comments

OK, this is just funny and we need a breather, but no one with any management skills at all tries to quell a real crisis this way.

More seriously, if I were a Nobel Prize winning economist this is what I would have to say about the Paulson business. As they say, read the whole thing:

Strange Bedfellows

By Delaware Dem September 29, 20086 Comments

Well, this whole bailout failure, and the resultant market collapse, has produced a number of strange bedfellows. Nancy Pelosi and George W. Bush. Dennis Kucinich and Newt Gingrich. John McCain…

New Republican Leader, Eric Cantor, Is a Wussie

By jason330 September 29, 200860 Comments

Cantor, who has rested control of the GOP from George Bush, John McCain and John Boner, would have had the house GOP members vote for the bail out, but they…

There is an upside….

By Delaware Dem September 29, 20083 Comments

....to today's market collapse, a loss estimated to be $1.2 trillion dollars, in that Charlie Copeland's trust fund now has that much less to tap in his run against Matt…

Comment Rescue — Why It’s Not Over, Part I

By cassandra_m September 29, 200812 Comments

One of my favorite commenters, Not Brian, writes cogently and points the way to something other than print Treasuries thinking in this thread. I'm reposting the full text here because…

Castle Voted Yes.

By Delaware Dem September 29, 200812 Comments

Roll Call on the vote is here (warning PDF). Congress is in recess until Thursday, in observance of the Jewish High Holidays. So no vote will take place until then,…

Deep Thought: RIP Republican Economics

By jason330 September 29, 200811 Comments

Can we please go back to the progressive economics that began under FDR and created the 50 year long economic expansion, not to mention the middle class as we know…

22nd District Update From Rebecca

By jason330 September 29, 20084 Comments

I thought I'd pass this along. Hey Jason, So far I've received $1,250 dollars from DelawareLiberal bloggers! What an amazing group of people. How lucky I am to be a…

UPDATED: Kavips is taking dumbass pills or something

By jason330 September 29, 20089 Comments

Some people are so used to blaming everything on Democrats that they just can’t not blame Democrats. The fact of the matter is this bill sucked. It basically turned Paulson…

Denn: “(Copeland) the insurance industry’s chief water-carrier”

By jason330 September 29, 20082 Comments

Matt Denn, who during his time as Insurance Commissioner had a front row seat to all of Copeland’s anti-consumer/pro-insurance industry votes in Senate, hit back at Charles Lamot Dupont Copeland’s smears today and did not pull any punches, calling Copeland “the insurance industry’s chief water-carrier in Dover” for voting against consumer protects and in line with insurance industry lobbyists instructions.

Denn also said that it was laughable for Copeland to talk about conflicts of interest when Copeland has recently admitted to have made “$3 million from the State of Delaware while serving as a State Senator in the legislature.”

Complete statement below the fold.