From The Hill: That didn’t take long. After saying “Rush Limbaugh is meaningless to me” on Thursday, Republican New York Assemblyman Jim Tedisco’s camp walked back the statement on Friday. […] Here is the full statement from Tedisco spokesman Adam Kramer : Jim’s comments were in response to a question about what voters are asking …
Tapper’s twitter
At the American Prospect, Adam S. writes: Huh, I wonder why Jake Tapper, press access warrior, has blocked me from following his Twitter feed.Touchy, touch. Time for a blogger ethics panel? UPDATE: Tapper has also blocked Talking Points Memo. Bonus Tapper: His exchange with White House Press Secretary Joe Gibbs (sic) over “transparency that you …
“CNBC in particular has been out in front on this”
Sheesh, when will this end? Cramer resumes hostilities with Jon Stewart.
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Creeping Galtism, Part III
Matt Yglesias flags this from Bloomberg columnist Carol Baum: The government needs Liddy and Citigroup’s Vikram Pandit and Bank of America’s Ken Lewis to continue working to restore their firms to prosperity in the same way the looters in Rand’s novel need Hank Reardon and Francisco d’Anconia and Dagny Taggart, respectively, to run their steel …
Iraq and Mexican drug cartels
If you’re like me, you find it fascinating when a new wingnut talking point appears out of nowhere. Here’s a new one: Mexico is like Iraq but possibly worse. I’m not sure why this is such a relevant comparison, but apparently it is. Here’s Lou Dobbs talking about it, here’s Bill O, and here’s the …
The big three come out for AIG bonuses
This is kind of interesting, given the negative reaction from GOP Congressional leaders (from Greg Sargent via Sully): Rush Limbaugh recently said: “I am all for the AIG bonuses” and attacked the Obama administration for trying to undo them. He also blasted Dem efforts to get the names of the AIG bonus recipients as “McCarthyism.” …
The boldest experiment in banking history
From TPM: AIG CEO Edward Liddy: We’ll ask the bonus recipients to give half the money back. It’s hard not to think of the scene from the Alberts Brooks classic “Lost In America” where Brooks asks a casino to give them back the money his wife lost at the tables: Brooks: As the boldest experiment …
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