And no, it is not hyperbole to say that the banksters are worse than America’s most celebrated crime families: Had AIG proceeded to an ordinary bankruptcy, had the company’s downfall happened via normal market procedures, Goldman might have gotten 40, 50, maybe 60 cents on the dollar. If that! Instead it got completely paid off, …
Archives for November 2009
This is Depressing
I’m surprised the hypocrites on the right aren’t making a bigger deal out of this: The Obama administration has, yet again, asserted the broadest and most radical version of the “state secrets” privilege — which previously caused so much controversy and turmoil among loyal Democrats (when used by Bush/Cheney) — to attempt to block courts …
More on Health Care
The NY Times: After months of plodding work by five Congressional committees and weeks of back-room bargaining by Democratic leaders, President Obama’s arms-length strategy on health care appears to be paying dividends, with the House and the Senate poised to take up legislation to insure nearly all Americans. Debate in the House is expected to …
Mugwumps, bitches
Like John, I’ve always thought that third parties were like the XFL. In fact, if it were up to me, all third-party candidates would have to wear a He Hate Me starter jersey on the campaign trail. Not surprisingly, chunky David Brooks feels differently: Imagine if Bloomberg, instead of using New York’s Republican Party as …
Open Thread: Happy Birthday, Zevon
He’s eight years old today, and has been living with us for the last three. When the Spousal Unit picked him up from the nice breed-rescue foster family in Pennsylvania, they told him [name redacted] was the “perfect” Papillon — good-looking, not noisy, reliably housebroken, used to leashes & crates, friendly with cats and other …
Don’t forget old and rich
Matt Yglesias produces a map (from Open Left) showing how Republican white men are and writes, smartly: I would say that another message is that progressive politics is badly disadvantaged by a situation in which the overwhelming majorities of political leaders and prominent media figures are white men. There are plenty of white men with …
The blue and the red gray
Leave it to the managing editor of a little newspaper, Bob Gorman of the Watertown Daily Times, to nail NY-23 in a way that the national media never could: Despite the national media attention on Northern New York right now, we should all remember that the 23rd Congressional District has no great significance. And neither …
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