I know, I know, I wrote about health care less than a week ago but everyone just has to read this post from Ezra Klein.
Here are the juicy bits (including charts!) for you lazy folk:
If you’re worried about the federal debt — particularly the long-term federal debt — there is literally no way you can [...]
Apparently the market didn’t appreciate it when the House, with 70% of Republicans and 40% of Democrats opposed, rejected the $700 billion Wall Street bailout bill.
Wheeeeeeeeee!
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CNN’s Jack Cafferty delivers the brutal verdict on Sarah Palin’s candidacy:
Cafferty’s conclusion for those of you without video or audio: “If John McCain wins this woman will be one 72-year-old’s heartbeat away from being President of the United States. And if that doesn’t scare the hell out of you, it should.”
And you know what [...]
Dü-ba-dü-ba-debate!
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8:15pm
I’m eating pizza and cooling some beer (Big Boss Bad Penny) in the fridge in preparation for liveblogging the debate. Luckily, I won’t have to work too hard on my analysis tonight. According to an ad leaked this morning, McCain has already won.
8:45pm
If Nader is so popular and powerful [...]
The possibility of a $700 billion bailout for Wall Street is looming large over the national conversation, so I’ll forgive you for not noticing these fun nuggets portending America’s doom:
Congress is working on passing a $25 billion bailout for Detroit automakers
And why $25 billion for companies that have long ago ceased to be worthy of [...]
U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, with the help of President Bush, is trying give at least $700 billion of our dollars to their irresponsible friends on Wall Street. I haven’t seen a good explanation of why they need that much money or why they need the bailout plan in place by the end of this [...]
“What is more intrinsically corrupt than allowing people to engage in high-reward/no-risk capitalism — where they reap tens of millions of dollars and more every year while their reckless gambles are paying off only to then have the Government shift their losses to the citizenry at large once their schemes collapse? We’ve retroactively created a [...]
While I was out of town, our old “Roundup Guru,” Jordan, forwarded me a story he thought I should write a post about. Since I’m still recovering from the vacation, I’m going to take his advice, even if it’s a few days late.
The article Jordan forwarded is “This is Your Nation on White Privilege” by [...]
While I was on vacation in NYC, I posted to a Twitter account that was automatically updated on this page. Now that I’m back from my vacation, I’ve archived the “tweets” I posted during my trip. Exciting eh?
Archive of Twitter Feed:
Timestamp: Sept. 22, 10:30pm EST
I see that Palin is supposed to meet with Kissinger. Shouldn’t [...]
Woop woop. Consider this an open thread until I post something substantive… any requests?
11:45am
We’re all communists now. “Fearing a financial crisis worldwide, the Federal Reserve reversed course on Tuesday and agreed to an $85 billion bailout that would give the government control of the troubled insurance giant American International Group.”
When Jim Cramer was on MSNBC [...]