This guy is an a**hole.
[NOTE: Call-out removed from diary title to conform to site rules.] Yes, this guy, Frank. He calls out individual posters in his diary in a highly negative way. Of course, that's against site rules,...
View ArticleKrugman and Bartels Are Wrong: Re-bunking the Obama/Frank theory of small...
A duo of columns in the New York Times a few days ago purported to puncture the soundness of Barack Obama’s sociology in his much-discussed "bitter" comment and his later clarifications. First it was...
View ArticleCapitalism in Hospice Care
The patient is terminal. Second and third opinions from specialists all confirmed that any effort to prolong its life even past November 3 would be in vain. Key members of the family gathered last...
View ArticleA Rescue Plan which Puts Americans First
At least four of the issues gripping the debate over the White House’s Proposal for Treasury Authority to Purchase Mortgage-Related Assets, or TARP, seem certain. Congress is going to recess soon; and...
View ArticleBailout Common Sense
I am a simple man. I do not understand all of the ins and out of the financial markets, but I am an intelligent man. Given enough information I can come to an intelligent decision. This leads to a...
View ArticleFour reasons I'm proud to be an American today
I've been somewhat depressed lately. Considering all the bad economic news of the last two weeks I can't help but worry about my children's future. We have a failing economy due to the excessive...
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McCain Unable! Rachel Maddow nails GOP Leadership!
I've been gathering information and trying to paint the picture of John McCain's failure in Congress during the economic crisis. Just like most of McCain's 26 years in Congress, he's been unable to get...
View ArticleDemocrats and Fannie Mae failure
I have to admit that the Democrats are complicit in the Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac failure, which lead to the current financial crisis. Here is a video of the Republicans trying to regulate Fannie Mae, and...
View ArticleCan "they" get any lower?
I'm disgusted and have to vent. May's racist satire, Keating & Buchanann saying Obama is a "guy from the street," Palin - "he pals around with terrorists," etc. So, these are stupid and...
View ArticleCabinet Diary 2 - Secretary of the Treasury (with poll)
It's time to continue our look at the Cabinet in the upcoming Obama administration. Second - Secretary of the Treasury, perhaps the most important appointment President-elect Obama will make, given the...
View ArticleThe "Socialism" scare did not work. But should it have?
The leader of the Democratic Socialists of America, Frank Llewellyn, is a columnist for the Richmond Times Dispatch. This is a significant thing for a relatively conservative newspaper and sets the...
View ArticleANP (VIDEO): Bailed-Out Bank CEO Says Bailout Failing Community Banks
As another $350 billion floods out of the Treasury, the American News Project looks at one small bailed-out bank. Eagle Bank, a community bank headquartered in Maryland, received many millions of...
View ArticleKrugman’s Counters to Obama Stimulus Naysayers Ignores the Most Obvious...
Little Alex in Wonderland: The State with nothing to spend can't spend to stimulate the economy, no matter what the Keynesians say.
View ArticleFixing the banking mess: We're not even started yet
Bloomberg has two articles that reveal much about the causes of our economic problems, and show Washington has yet to address the real sources of the rot. Unless and until it does, things are not...
View ArticleThree Diaries in One on Banking Deregulation
Three Diaries in One! First up: Comments from 1999 on the passage of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. Second: Comments from 2005 on the rising CDS bubble And Finally: A citation for the Rolling Stone report...
View ArticleConservative Dems hindered FDR too...
According to economist Thomas Worsley, who served in President Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration, President Obama should attend to his stimulus "knitting" - that is the key to economic recovery....
View Article4/20 contact buzz still has nation flying high
Many Kossacks have advocated patience with respect to Obama and reforming drug policy. More and more Americans don't want to wait. Following 4/20 coverage from all corners of the media, the hits...
View ArticleNew Consumer Protection
As Jane Bryant Quinn Points out in an article advocating for a Financial Products Safety Commission, there are a smattering of laws on the books that could have prevented many of the abuses we are now...
View ArticleRight-wing Talk Show’s Ideology of Hate Strikes Again
Click Here To Read: Play About Anne Frank, Emmett Till Canceled After Museum Shooting Are hate mongers keeping a tally of the murders they help create with their hate endorsements? O'Reilly...
View ArticleThe phoniness of being against healthcare
I do not begrudge the middle and lower class workers and laid-off workers that come to the healthcare townhalls to scream, hoot and holler. They just don't know any better. They have put their faith in...
View ArticleAlan Grayson - Award for Democratic Testicular Fortitude
First there was Barney Frank: Barney Frank's Award for Testicular Fortitude Now Alan Grayson Grayson on CNN PWNING Wolf Blitzer Grayson's "Apology"
View ArticleObama/Congress against Independence of the New financial Regulator
I'm reading this article and I'm thinking to myself. What the fuck? What's the point of all sh#t? Voting for Obama when they feed you the good lines and side with crooks in the final analysis. What's...
View ArticlePolitical Impressions for the C-SPAN wonks
Part 1 of a bunch of political impressions only a real junkie could love. You won't find too many other comedians doing Arlen Specter or Bill Nelson.
View ArticleBarney Frank should be stripped...
of every single one of his committee chairman positions, he should be removed from every single committee he sits on, he should be forbidden to speak to the press on behalf of the Democratic party, and...
View ArticleHealth Reform Debate Devolves (Further)
It's not just about the money. It's about fairness, and equality, and how profoundly our political culture is infused with the imperatives to keep us divided on the most fundamental bases. Our economic...
View ArticleA Frank Response In Three, Two, One...
Cross-posted from ePluribus Media.In a discussion over on DelphiForums, a poster by the name of Frank had made some observations regarding the bleak situation that Barack Obama inherited when he...
View ArticleMONDAY is the Day We Win - With GOTV !
I'm making this diary short and sweet. We've almost halfway to victory and proving the Washington D.C. pundits and pollsters wrong. Since the spring of this year, we've heard about the 'enthusiasm gap'...
View ArticleA Corrupting Influence
Ok, let me set the stage, fill in the background for you, this was a comment wherein I try and explain to myself just what happened to the promise we once had and the ideals we once embraced, what...
View ArticlePUNDIT SHAMING
Pundit Shaming has compiled quotes from a bunch of pundits that got it all wrong. Below are some quotes. Head over to the site for more.“Mitt Romney can win this election. No doubt about it. “And it...
View ArticleWhat would Frank Luntz think?
Small but significant point, but I think Obama's wording on the current fiscal negotiations could be a lot better and and could force the republicans into a more difficult position than they are now.
View ArticlePatrick to name Kerry's replacement on Wednesday
Lawrence O'Donnell has been Barney Frank's biggest, or at least most vocal, supporter in Frank's bid to fill John Kerry's Senate shoes until the special election. On tonight's Last Word, Lawrence...
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I Have a Right to be Fleeced!
The latest battle in the War on Obamacare comes in light of the President's oft cited claim that if you like your current insurance you can keep it. As it turns out, many people who buy insurance on...
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Cartoon: They're Only In It For The Money
Allow me to add my voice to the thousands who have been imploring everyone to please contact their local representative and insist that the Internet Service Providers be re-classified as Common...
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Big Fail on To Big To Fail Failing Big
In the darkest of the night last night, a funny little rule from Dodd-Frank went into effect. Basically, the purpose of the rule was a rule of sanity. If a finance entity is going down due to erratic...
View ArticleThank you, Frank Rich!
There is not much for me to say except I’ll let Frank Rich in the current edition of New York Magazine to say what I have been saying all along about Hillary Clinton’s campaign:Clinton can’t go all out...
View ArticleMillionaires And Billionaires: Bernie Sanders' Nightmare
Last night’s Dem debate was exhausting.I like Sanders a lot -- but I support Hillary. Why? Because though I agree with most of what Bernie says he’s so light on specifics that he quickly devolves...
View ArticleHow To Win Both Elections
In the most improbable general election victory in the last 100 years, Harry Truman won the 1948 election by running against “that good-for-nothing Republican Congress.” It had a dual purpose— first,...
View ArticleDNC Rejects Demand to Remove Frank and Malloy
The DNC responded to the demand to remove Daniel Malloy and Barney Frank from their respective committee chairs (chairships?). Nope. In a letter (still looking for the letter, sorry) the DNC said that...
View ArticleTesty, Testy
This entry is a test of the WTF system. As in, I just signed up, and I’m pretty much WTF at this point, just like my two cousins in the photo above. To provide context, allow me to share this...
View ArticleThe Vector - Two - Spring Forward, Cat Backwards, and the Bird Box Beat Edition
Frankie, my cat, is an asshole. I just wanted to get that out there right now. Love him completely. Also, he is an asshole. Whatever you do, you should not vote for him in the poll at the end of this...
View ArticleWUWT Tries Out Sexual Harassment Denial, For A Change, Taking On ‘Harpy Culture’
Over the past few years, we’ve noticed something of a stagnation over at Watts Up With That. Where the blog once dominated the climate denial discourse, the rise of more multi-purpose denial websites...
View ArticleABC:A hefty donation to Trump's inaugural comes under scrutiny
This story from ABC Associated Press:Hefty DonationFranklin Haney made a One million Dollar donation to Trump’s inaugural.“The contribution from Haney, a prolific political donor, came as he was...
View ArticleRepublican strategist Frank Luntz reveals Oval Office replica in bizarre news...
Republican strategist and strange person Frank Luntz was on CNBC’s Squawk Box with Andrew Ross Sorkin and Joe Kernen. Squawk Box is the business show where Sorkin represents the liberal point of view,...
View ArticlePillow Man's big rally today featuring TFG is (surprise!) an unmitigated...
Who would have guessed that this would have flopped?
View ArticleWhat actor/actress crushed a role so much so that it would be hard for anyone...
If you need me to go over the plot and explain the movie RHPS which means you’ve never seen the classic Rocky Horror Picture Show, I do not know even were to begin.Suffice it to say I give up this duty...
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