In case you were wondering (and I know you were...), the great financial meltdown that began in America and rippled around the world in 2008 has its roots in the hippie movement of the 1960's and its birth can be...
The blogosphere was abuzz today with the news from the Obama Administration that it was floating a proposal of a three-year freeze discretionary of federal spending not related to national security. Reactions ranged from a suggestion that the move was...
I'll admit some sympathies with the Tea Partiers. I understand their frustration and anger. I get it. But I also think it's childish and naïve. I have the same sympathies for Libertarians, which is an ideology I explored years...
Nate Silver nails it: To channel my Inner Krugman: it's a political imperative for the Democrats of the highest order to get some sort of jobs bill to Obama's desk -- the sooner and the bigger the better. Suppose...
Reich: The numbers would be even worse but for the stimulus package. According to an analysis by the Economic Policy Institute, the stimulus is saving or creating between 200,000 and 250,000 jobs a month. Without it, job losses in September...
We wouldn't normally re-post something verbatim from another site but I simply have to share this sane, reasonable conservative argument posted on Andrew Sullivan's blog: "We are not moving from pure capitalism to pure socialism, we are moving from an...
Matt Taibbi, GLONO's Upright Standing Man of 2008, nails it in a piece for Alternet: Imagine a meat company that bred ten billion rats, fattened them on trash and sewage, ground their bodies into chuck, and then sold it all...
We've all heard the conservative revisionism of the Great Depression's cause and ultimate cure. Contrary to historical fact and data, the popular talking point is that the New Deal actually extended the depression, while the data shows that it was...
If you're watching the news theses days you're probably sick of at least two things: the octuplets mom saga and the debate around deficit spending. The former is annoying and basically nobody's business but hers and her family's. The latter...
I am not that bright. I have strong opinions and some people like the way I put them in writing, but I am not burning up the joint with my scary understanding of complex matters, especially those concerned with...
(via MediaMatters.org) Rush Limpaugh, de-facto leader of the remains of the Republican Party, tried to kill two birds with one stone on Tuesday by conveniently "confusing" President Barack Obama with Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe while peddling the tired Right-wing fantasy that...
This is what I'm talking about: I just received a fundrasing email from Michael Steele's RNC with the following unedited message: So our tax dollars are going to pay AIG executives millions in bonuses! Just another day of good news...
There's no question the Democrats, and the Obama administration in particular, fumbled this whole AIG bonus deal. The President has acknowledged as much. But they didn't screw up in the way Republicans today say they did. If anything Obama messed...
Somehow I knew this would not be a headline on the Drudge Report today: Stocks shoot higher on Citigroup profit news For those who are not daily Drudge readers, he's had a habit of late of running headlines of plunging...
Jim Cramer is awfully sensitive, and get a load of Joe Scarborough criticizing the Daily Show. Jon Stewart is maybe the last "comedian" on TV you want to pick a fight with right now. Jim Cramer Responds to Jon Stewart...
Republicans Lindsey Graham, Jon Kyl, and David Vitter have a message to their colleagues considering the $410 billion omnibus spending bill: your earmarks are "bloat" while ours are "priorities." Each has come out against the spending bill, attacking it in...
Politics is a messaging game. It's all about communicating your ideas to the people and then promoting your successes so they keep you in office. What to do then if you are flat out of ideas and largely out of...
In his weekly radio and video address, President Obama put out a challenge to those would try to oppose his budget proposals and work to reform various spending programs, specifically those tied to subsidies and tax breaks for health insurers,...
I once had a partner agency tell my Account Director, "This what happens when agencies try to integrate....someone gets screwed." Judd Gregg just screwed President Obama. There was a lot of clapping and cheering when Barack Obama announced he'd nominate...
(H/T Huffington Post) The Republicans recently selected Michael Steele to be their national committee chairman, apparently thinking that simply putting a black man in a prominent position will make them more competitive against Democrats under the Obama Administration. Whatever their...
Jon Stewart and the Daily Show are national treasures... February 5, 2009: Clusterf#@k to the Poor House - Economic Recovery .cc_box a:hover .cc_home{background:url('http://www.comedycentral.com/comedycentral/video/assets/syndicated-logo-over.png') !important;}.cc_links a{color:#b9b9b9;text-decoration:none;}.cc_show a{color:#707070;text-decoration:none;}.cc_title a{color:#868686;text-decoration:none;}.cc_links a:hover{color:#67bee2;text-decoration:underline;}The Daily Show With Jon StewartM - Th 11p / 10cClusterf#@k to the...
While I find President Obama's talk of bi-partisanship heartening, I think he needs to stop talking and ram through his plan. Democrats won back to back increases in both houses of Congress and Obama handily won the Presidency: that's a...
The House quickly passed a version of the economic bailout plan pushed by President Obama today without the support of a single Republican. The massive huge $819 billion stimulus bill passed by a vote of 244-188, showing two things: Democrats...
One of the right's favorite put-downs of their colleagues on the left is that progressives are mealy mouthed ninnies who hem and haw at every detail and argue themselves right out of a decision at the expense of the American...
House Republicans today unveiled their own economic stimulus program in response to what President Barack Obama is pushing. There are some good ideas in the GOP's plans and some not-so-good ideas. Among the good ideas is an across-the-board cuts in...
