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Archive for September, 2008

Mussolini-Style Corporatism in Action: Treasury Conference Call on Bailout Bill

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

A good example of just how business is conducted in the new Paulson financial dictatorship.
This post is from naked capitalism.
Various readers wrote us, and it was confirmed by a detailed report on the call at DealBreaker, that the Treasury Department held a conference call this evening for analysts on the bailout bill. A memo was […]

Just for yuks

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

Fox News reports, you decide whether this impromptu poll was “split”.

My… oh… my

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

Georgia’s senate race: Martin (D) just picked up 15 points in two weeks on the incumbent Chambliss (R) to pull within the margin of error.
I wonder if the electorate has had enough of Republican ideology (tax cuts=deficits, deregulation, free trade, privatization) for awhile. Are we seeing a liberal realignment?
Swing State Project: SurveyUSA (9/28-29, likely […]

Republicans on the Left and Democrats on the Right

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

From The Independent Institute
Ivan Eland
In the topsy turvy world of Washington, to combat what is being called the “most momentous financial crisis since the Great Depression,” the Republicans have gone socialist and the Democrats are advocating the corporatism of Italian rightist dictator Benito Mussolini.
Fairly unique in U.S. history, the Bush administration has nationalized companies—insurance and […]

SNL The McCain/Obama Debate

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

This is funny!

Bill Clinton

Former Teacher Who Fled to Mexico With Student Lover Gets 6 Years

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

Did the time match the crime?
FOX- former teacher who fled to Mexico with a 13-year-old student with whom she was having a sexual relationship was sentenced Monday to six years in federal prison.
Kelsey Peterson, 26, had pleaded guilty in July to a charge of transporting a minor across state lines to have sex and avoided […]

Cadbury Recalls Chinese-Made Chocolates, Safety in ‘Doubt’

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

What should be done?
FOX-British chocolate maker Cadbury said Monday that tests have “cast doubt” on the safety of its Chinese-made products and ordered a recall, the latest foreign company affected by China’s tainted milk scandal.
Meanwhile, two U.S. food makers were investigating Indonesian claims that high traces of melamine were found in Chinese-made Oreos, M&Ms and […]

McCain: Now Is Not The Time For Blame, But I Blame Obama

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

Has McCain lost it?

Matthews Blames Bailout Crash On McCain’s Failed Leadership
WATCH
Ed Rollins: Failure Of Bailout Will Hurt McCain
HP-A prominent GOP strategist said on Monday that John McCain handled his role in the bailout process poorly and would ultimately be hurt politically by the failure of the House of Representatives to pass the measure.
“To a certain […]

Another Weatherman terrorist key player in Obama campaign

Monday, September 29th, 2008

Well here we go again. Though the Obama biased media tries to hide all Obama’s radical friends they just keep popping up. Here’s the short list: Marxist author of “Rules for Radicals” and admirer of Lucifer (Saul Alinsky), terrorist (Bill Ayers), Marxists (all of them), anti American (Rev Wright) and convicted slum lord (Tony Rezko). […]

McCain camp prays for Palin wedding?

Monday, September 29th, 2008

Is this a smart idea from the McCain/Palin camp?
TIME-The marriage of the vice-presidential candidate’s pregnant teenage daughter could lift a flagging campaign
In an election campaign notable for its surprises, Sarah Palin, the Republican vice- presidential candidate, may be about to spring a new one — the wedding of her pregnant teenage daughter to her […]

Senate sends big spending bill to Bush to sign

Monday, September 29th, 2008

How do we pay for this?
AP-Automakers gained $25 billion in taxpayer-subsidized loans and oil companies won elimination of a long-standing ban on drilling off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts as the Senate passed a sprawling spending bill Saturday.
The 78-12 vote sent the $634 billion measure to President Bush, who was expected to sign it […]

The Game Changer

Monday, September 29th, 2008

Very good article! Do you agree the meltdown changes everything?
TH-The financial meltdown will change many things in America, and we can start with campaign promises. You can say goodbye to universal health care, a cornerstone of Barack Obama’s campaign strategy. Massive medical benefits are now impossible because the bailout will take all the money.
Also, […]

John McCain strategist Steve Schmidt vs Barack Obama strategist David Axelrod

Monday, September 29th, 2008

Bailout

Iraq

Jack Cafferty: If Sarah Palin Being One Heartbeat Away “Doesn’t Scare The Hell Out Of You, It Should”

Monday, September 29th, 2008

Should Palin step down?
FROM AMERICAN CONSEVATIVE-Capitol Hill sources are telling me that senior McCain people are more than concerned about Palin.
The campaign has held a mock debate and a mock press conference; both are being described as “disastrous.” One senior McCain aide was quoted as saying, “What are we going to do?” The McCain people […]

Pro-McCain DVD: Be afraid, be very afraid

Sunday, September 28th, 2008

That’s the message from a pro-McCain group that’s distributing 28 million fear-mongering, anti-Muslim DVDs entitled “Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West” in swing states in an effort to scare the electorate to vote Republican. From what I’ve read, the DVD doesn’t mention Obama by name and was, in fact, distributed during the Bush/Kerry election.
Remember, […]