Powell Endorsement Unleashes Republican Racism
I am so angry this morning I can barely steady my finger long enough to write this post. The blatant racism that has been unleashed by the Republican Party in the closing weeks of this presidential...
View ArticlePaulson and Greenspan on Meet the Press
Remember when Tim Russert was the host and Meet the Press was a serious news show? Those days are no more. Now the host is David Gregory and the best Meet the Press can do is look to two of the...
View ArticleRove’s Claim Goes Unchallenged By Tom Brokaw
Every time I watch Meet the Press I’m reminded of the magnitude of the loss of Tim Russert. Yesterday’s program only reinforced that as an unprepared Tom Brokaw allowed Karl Rove’s claim that it was...
View ArticleGOP Agenda: Meaningless Generalities and “Going Back”
It appears that Republicans are following the advice of Rep. Peter King (R-NY) about laying out their agenda for what they would do should they regain control of the House in the November mid-term...
View ArticleIs 9% Unemployment the New Norm?
Considering this: “Nearly half of the unemployed—45.9%—have been out of work longer than six months, more than at any time since the Labor Department began keeping track in 1948…Overall, seven million...
View ArticleBush Taught, Obama Learned
From an editorial in the St. Petersburg Times, May 21, 2006, via Newshoggers: “[T]he changes that George W. Bush has made to our nation’s constitutional firmament may not depart with the first family’s...
View ArticleConfidence, Schmonfidence
Whenever I see a discussion about the real crisis this country faces—that would be unemployment, not the manufactured one over the deficit– a couple of words keep coming up from the alleged smartest...
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