QUOTE OF THE DAY: 
GLENN BECK AT CPAC 2010:
‘Hello, my name is the Republican Party, and I’ve got a problem. I’m addicted to spending and big government…I’m addicted to spending and I just don’t want to spend today.’
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"If by a “Liberal” they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people — their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties — someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a “Liberal,” then I’m proud to say I’m a “Liberal.” ~ John F. Kennedy, 1960
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Very good oversight of the situation;
Death of ‘Soul of Capitalism:’ Bogle, Faber, Moor
About the “great stock market” they are hawking;
The Stock Market Has Never Been This (Intermediate-Term) Overbought
S & P too:
Pay No Attention to the 140 P/E Behind the Curtain
And as for the derivatives, w-e-l-l-l-l those supposed safe investments were never what the crooks claimed they were, were they?
Intractability of Financial Derivatives
(PS: which is why Micheal Moore couldn’t find one person on Wall Street to accurately explain derivatives.)
So it has always been a scam, pushed by the shysters who made out much better then Bernie Madoff, at least that crook is in jail.
Short and sweet, the economy is still DOA.
The system is far too broken to quickly recover, and if it does we aren’t gonna like the outcome, irregardless of who is sitting in the White House or who controls congress,
The laissez faire crowd, broke the economy, with their voodoo economics, exotic investment schemes, sliced and diced tranches of crapola loans sold as triple A investments, all promoted by the scam artists on CNBC … that much is simple to understand.
We collectively have allowed the greediest people to scam the system based on lies and propaganda IE(that we all would get some trickle down), but that lie has been exposed and now we all have to pay the price,
Pay the price for 30 years of economic gross mis-management, and propaganda to push that LIE by the crooks (and their political lackeys, Reagan included) who set up bubble after bubble (Savings and loan, tech bubble, housing market) to enrich themselves and fleece the rest of us. It worked for those who pushed the crap they sold to the sheeple that trickle down and lassiz faire would enrich us all, but now we know they got rich, we got crap.
Just like the bust after the 1920’s go-go decade, we have to do the real necessary work to try to unwind this one, however the crooks want to inflate one more bubble to get even richer, based on keeping the system they have scammed for so long to get the government and FED to inflate a bubble based on essentially no interest money from the fed, kited through their scams and deceptions to inflate this bubble till the masses have no more to give.
Wall Street scam artists and shysters know how this game is played, they have done it for 30 years. Last fall they had Hank Paulson begin rigging it all up with the TARP, and now have Bernanke keeping interest rates at basically zero (shades of Greenspan 2003-2006 during the housing bubble inflation period) for them to borrow essentially interest free,while raising the interest rates WE pay on our mortgages, credit cards, and loans if you can get one. Now you know how Goldman made all that money they just reported, while millions of Americans lost their jobs.
Trust me Wall Street will push this one as far as they pushed the housing scam the pushed to get the bubble that just burst. They no longer are interested in capital formation or helping entrepreneurs to build new businesses, (which is why small business CAN’T get the loans they need now) just how they can scam people and smaller investors out of their money FAST, before this one pops.
However this bubble if they can inflate it is the last one, cause each bubble must be large enough to include the damage of the last one, and no bubble can over come the crash of wall street if the fleece all the money they can out of Treasury and the FED.
This one ain’t about politics, NO it is about the final economic acts of a group of people who have scammed us all for three decades and want to do it just one more time.
If the lies, distortions and propaganda pushed against the health care reform, to keep the Wall Street people happy (no matter how many suffer, face bankruptcy or die because of it), is any indication; they are gonna get away with it. Cause with all the oxygen in the room stole with tea baggers, birfers, astroturf and the MSM follow the crazies for ratings, IE (the balloon story) …the scam will be far enough along that it will be mostly set up with Wall Street raking it all in as fast as they can, before the expected pop, and next economic crunch. At which time the MSM will have some of the crooks on claiming nobody could see it coming. (Just like they did for the housing bubble.)
I feel 2012, is the farthest out this bubble can last.
After that, … well, things ain’t so rosey ……..
Newt Gingrich’s dog also has an award to give Allison Vivas….
(image found HERE)
Karma certainly has a funny way of exposing people at times;
Newt Gingrich Accidentally Names Porn Exec ‘Entrepreneur Of The Year’
Newt Gingrich’s 527 group sent a letter to porn exec Allison Vivas Wednesday telling her she’d won their “Entrepreneur of the Year” award and inviting her to an “intimate event” with Gingrich.
“I’m honored, and more than a little surprised, to receive this prestigious award,” Vivas said today in a cheeky press release. <>”Rest assured, I’ll take the opportunity to inform Mr. Gingrich of some of the major challenges facing the adult entertainment industry in the current market .., from obscenity prosecutions to content piracy, I’ll make sure he walks away from that dinner educated about the realities of the online porn market.”
The statement made the rounds, and now Media Matters reports that the group’s spokesman sent a short statement clearing things up: “We have notified Allison Vivas that the notice she received was sent by mistake. We regret the error.”
The spokesman, Dan Kotman, did not immediately return TPM’s request for comment.
Vivas, president of adult entertainment studio Pink Visual, posted the letter on her web site.
“You’ll dine privately with Newt,” it reads. A handwritten addendum reads, “Newt is looking forward to finally meeting you face to face — and get your thoughts on cap and trade and Obama’s tax policy.”
The award itself includes a signed replica of Gingrich’s gavel he used as Speaker of the House. (See a picture of the award, which Vivas says the group sent to her.)
Vivas said in her release that the gavel would “make for a pretty cool prop for a ‘Couples Seduce Teens’ episode.”
Seems like widdle newty used the wrong little black book when looking for people to hand out his fake awards, and looking for his very own tea baggers.
After all newty was the one screwing around on his second wife while bitching about the Clenis blowjob.
I do wonder what he was hoping for during their intimate dinner.
What the California State Assemblycritter says he was getting?
After all if he was looking forward to meeting her face to face he has to know what she does for a living, right?
What ever, widdle newty as usual has shown he still isn’t ready to lead …..
Karma is sorta funny like this.
If George W Bush were willing to open up and admit his thoughts after leaving office, I have a sneaking suspicion that his answer to a question he was asked during his presidency, and failed miserably in his answer, would surpires many. I think his response would be completely different today.
In April 2004 a reporter asked the question;
In the last campaign, you were asked a question about the biggest mistake you’d made in your life and you used to like to joke that it was trading Sammy Sosa. You’ve looked back before 9/11 for what mistakes might have been made. After 9/11, what would your biggest mistake be, would you say? And what lessons have you learned from it?
His answer is memorable for it’s arrogance and clueless at the same time;
Hmmm. I wish you’d have given me this written question ahead of time so I could plan for it. I’m sure historians will look back and say, Gosh, he could have done it better this way or that way. You know, I just — I’m sure something will pop into my head here in the midst of this press conference with all the pressure of trying to come up with an answer, but it hadn’t yet.
Given his presidency is finished and beginning to be judged by history, something he claimed would result in his resurrection in the publics eyes, I would ask a slightly different version of the same question.
In the first campaign, you were asked a question about the biggest mistake you’d made in your life and you used to like to joke that it was trading Sammy Sosa. Now that you can reflect on your presidency, what mistakes might have been made. What would your biggest mistake in your presidency be, would you say?
I think if he is completely honest and candid, his answer would surprise many of us.
I for one do not think he would say;
The fact he totally missed the intell and warnings pre 9-11.
The failure to properly prosecute the Afghan operation and focusing on actually capturing Osama bin Laden.
His failure to properly access the intell and realities about the Iraqi situation pre-invasion.
The actions post invasion in Iraq which both allowed the insurrection to arise and bumbling mostly by Rumsfeld that fed it for years.
The total debacle of his and the government under him response to the worst natural disaster in our nations history, hurricane Katrina.
His numerous failures to actually follow the US Constitution and International law, ie allowing torture, wholesale unlawful spying on Americans.
Pushing the US military to the breaking point, and not addressing the stress and needs of uniformed military and veterans during wartime.
Nomination of Alberto Gonzales to any post.
The failure to properly enforce regulations and demand proper accounting standards before the worst recession post WW2.
No as important as each of those failures are, I think George W Bush regrets one decision he made even more then any of them.
I think that he just might consider his greatest mistake was actually made on July 25, 2000, when he asked Richard Bruce Cheney to be his running mate.
Once he asked Cheney to run with him, he seemed to hand much of the power and decision making power over to Cheney.
Cheney brought his PNAC team in to the bush administration with him, from Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Perle, and Feith, at Defense, to Armitage, Cheney’s daughter and Bolton at State, to Libby and Addington, running his hit squad inside the VP office. These team Cheney players set the course for the first six years of Bush’s time in office and doomed Bush to a course for the failures he experienced in foreign policy.
But Cheney had a larger influence then just rigging the foreign policy views to match the PNAC delusions, he under cut Treas Sec O’Neill and Sec of State Powell, and was the prime mover in the Plame Affair black eye the Bush Administration suffered. This resulted in the major disasters for Bush by the end of his presidency;
Powell couldn’t stop the invasion and resulting fiasco in Iraq and O’Neill wasn’t allowed to point out how disastrous the policies Bush was perusing would end, like they did in our current recession. Cheney made sure of it. Cheney also was the prime architect of the efforts to under mine the US Constitution and laws to promote a view of the presidency which does not exist in either the founding fathers original ideal nor the document the wrote to found this nation. Cheney in the end setup Bush for the vast majority of the failures he experienced.
The only major failure Bush experienced which Cheney isn’t prominently featured in was Katrina.
Cheney came into office with a set of plans for the Middle East, and how power should be exercised by the executive branch, that Bush never discussed with the voting public. However until at least November 2006 Bush seemed to aqueous to the ideas of Cheney most of the time. By the time the results of those policies were obvious to most Americans, the Bush administration was resoundingly rejected both in the mid term elections of November 2006 and the presidential election of 2008. John McCain seemed to run from Bush/Cheney in 2008 even more then Gore ran from Clinton in 2000
I expect if one could actually sit down for a few beers with Bush, and he relaxed and got honest both with himself and the rest of us, he would admit his very first “presidential decision” was actually his worst;
IE, asking Dick Cheney to be his running mate.
As long as the greedy health care CEO’s can quadruple their profits every seven years like they have done from 2000 to 2007,
IE 428% rise in profits while the population which lacks health insurance rises from 35 to 47 million, the profit motive seems to be the main problem in both costs and access.
Those profits from 2.4 billion to 12.7 billion through one recession into the beginnings of a much deeper recession,
Then the people who actually take home that obscene profit will always block and derail any attempts to cut into their glutenous profits
Only the oil industry has a rise in their profit number to match that,
We know how speculators on Wall Street helped increase the price of oil,
Oh wait Wall Street has a big stake in health care also,
A constantly rising stake,
IE large insurance corporations and big pharmaceutical corporations which put profits first.
Which seems sorta un-American go put obscene profits ahead of people, I know it is the unchristian thing to do.
Jesus said so.
Sorry, but both the Christian and true American thing to do would be put people and their health ahead of triple digit rises in profits.
And the weak proposals the republicans throw out can’t solve the problems of obscene profits over people.
Vouchers, minimal regulations ……
They will game vouchers to just raise costs and profits like they have gamed the HMO idea from the 1990’s, and turned the co-ops like Blue Cross-Blue Shield (a former non profit co-op) into profit centers for their greed.
they will do this much to the detriment of the people who actually need health care, well over 47 million uninsured and the millions going broke even though they have insurance.
Vouchers are no more the answer in health care then they were in education, just another reich wing canard to prevent any real change to either broken system
Only a TRUE public option the greedy CEO’s can’t game and coop to their own interests will be any real reform.
Vouchers isn’t it by a long shot.
Neither is a couple of regulations that congress can undo like they undid Glass-Steagall in the banking industry, (which has a primary direct cause of the economic meltdown we are currently suffering from),or like how the Bush administration just ignored hundreds of regulations, to help corporations to maximize their profits over the good of all of the citizenry of the country.
Sorry but until you CUT the power of the greediest of the richest among us to scam the system in ways that would make Bernie Madoff blush,, the problems of health care for most of the rest of us will just grow.
Only a public option does that.
To put it in easy terms to understand ….. a reorganization along European principles might save the American people about $1 trillion per year. But it also might cost the insurance and chemical industries that same amount, and they’re simply not going to let that happen.
So people push for a few new regulations and a brain dead idea like vouchers, instead of changing the cause of most of the problem,
The cause of the misery tens of millions suffer through each day,
The obscene profits of a few corporations and the very greedy CEO’s and big stock owners who keep lining up like pigs at the trough while millions lack health care and hundreds of thousands go bankrupted before they die.
The whole debate boils down to that.
So while profits uber alles is the rallying cry of the club for growth section of the, reich wing,
It is actually expressed in death panels organized by the insurance industry to cull those who are too sick to even give insurance … then to cut off the policy when the costs of care might slow the obscene profits of the wall street crowd.
It is expressed when other corporations have to close down factories and destroy the lively hood of millions of the middle class, to send their factories overseas, because the profits of a few, mean the rise in the costs of health care make employing people here is uneconomical, further eroding the security of the middle class, both by the loss of their jobs and the health care connected to those jobs.
Yes those death panels do exist but not where Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich lied and claimed they would exist,
No those death panels, which do not exist in the proposed legislation, those death panels do exist in the board rooms and bureaucracies of the corporate health care industry. Those death panels are fighting very hard to prevent President Obama from putting them out of the business of sentencing millions to unneeded illness, despair, financial ruin and death.
Those death panels underwrite the excessive immoral profits of those corporations, and the Wall Streeters who make their livings off the ideas the death panels of the corporate health care industry dishonestly push on the rest of us.
And of course the politicians who enable those obscene profits,
Gov Sanford isn’t the only republican governor trying to hide his sexual indiscretions;
Judge rules governor must hand over phone records
Gov. Jim Gibbons’ phone records will be handed over to the woman who accused him of assault in the run-up to the 2006 gubernatorial election, a federal judge ruled this week.
Federal magistrate judge Peggy Leen rejected Gibbons [of Nevada] request for a protective order preventing Chrissy Mazzeo from obtaining his phone records.
Her attorney earlier had subpoenaed the phone records from the Clark County district attorney’s office.
The agency kept Gibbons’ phone records and other documents in connection with a 2006 police investigation into Mazzeo’s claims that Gibbons assaulted her in a parking garage after a night of drinking. Leen ordered the records be turned over to Mazzeo by July 3.
The governor of the state made famous in part for its quick, private divorces is now embroiled in a breakup so tawdry, so publicly spectacular and so potentially grueling that how it plays out could have implications from Carson City to the White House.
Gov. Jim Gibbons of Nevada, a first-term Republican, had hoped to minimize the publicity surrounding his divorce from Dawn, his wife of 22 years, by convincing a Reno judge to seal the records per a state law that allows either party to do so.
What he may not have expected was that Mrs. Gibbons, 54, would file her own 33-page motion to draw attention to longstanding rumors: that she believes the governor is having an extramarital relationship with the wife of a Reno podiatrist.
[Full text available here as a pdf document.]
Lets see;
* attacks a waitress
plus
* then used his political hatchet goons to threaten her,
plus
* his wife thinks he is sleeping another woman,
equals
typical hypocritical reich wing asshole republican if you ask me.
He joins the:
Ex sen Larry wide stance Craig (R-WY),
Ex rep Mark sexting with under-age male pages is just good clean fun don’t ya know Foley (R_FL),
Ex rep Newt cheats on each wife with the next wife, screeching for impeachment while getting head fron his third wife to be while married to his second wife Gingrich (R-GA),
Gov Mark sex with a mistress and hiking the applachian trail it’s all the same thing to me Sanford (R-SC),
Randall i don’t like prostitution unless i am using one Tobias, Bush’s Global AIDS Coordinator
Sen. John she’s just a friend (with benefits)Ensign (R-NV),
Rep. Vito the bigamist Fossella (R-NY),
former Florida State Rep. Bob oral sex in a mens room Allen,
Sen. David diaper sex with prostitutes Vitter (R-LA),
Ex-Rep. John i don’t beat my wife or cheat on her Sweeney (R-NY).
Sen John cheating on your wife with a rich heiress isn’t a sin if you dump your wife and marry the rich heiress McCain (R-AZ)
…. on the world wide hypocrisy tour of repubie big mouths who trashed the Clenis for what they themselves are guilty of, cheating and lying.
Typical reich-wing double standard hypocrisy here, nothing to see, move on ………
To the reich-wing trolls Paul Weyrich died in December and may he ROT IN HELL;
Paul Weyrich – “I don’t want everybody to vote” (Goo Goo)
Weyrich is the father or reich wing republican anti-american voter suppression so they can steal elections instead of fairly winning them within the RULES
He just didn’t give a speech, he actively helped the right wing of the Republican Party create the dishonest machinery of voter suppression people like Harris in 2000 and Blackwell in 2004 used to deny United sates citizens from exercising the most basic right of a citizen, the right to freely choose their own leaders.
Things like;
Photo ID laws
The Republican Party has passed photo ID laws in seven states, including Indiana and Georgia. This disproportionately affects minority and elder voters who do not have driver’s licenses and lean towards voting Democratic. For example, about 12 retired nuns in South Bend, Indiana, were barred from voting in Indiana’s 2008 Democratic primary election because they lacked photo IDs required under a state law which the Indiana Supreme Court upheld in April 2008. John Borkowski, a South Bend lawyer volunteering as an election watchdog for the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, said, “This law was passed supposedly to prevent and deter voter fraud, even though there was no real record of serious voter fraud in Indiana.”
Purging voter rolls
In 2008, more than 50,000 registered Georgia voters were purged from voter rolls because of a computer mismatch in their personal identification information. At least 4,500 of those people must prove their citizenship to regain their right to vote. The state may make the burden impossible to meet. For example, the state of Georgia gave college senior Kyla Berry one week to prove her citizenship in a letter dated October 2, 2008. Unfortunately, the letter was postmarked October 9, 2008. However, Berry is a U.S. citizen, born in Boston, Massachusetts with a passport and a birth certificate to prove it. Wendy Weiser, an elections expert with New York University’s Brennan Center for Justice said, “What most people don’t know is that every year, elections officials strike millions of names from the voter rolls using processes that are secret, prone to error and vulnerable to manipulation.”
Just in case ya didn’t know, Georgia has a republican governor and Sec of State.
They were just following in the footsteps of Katherine Harris who did the very same thing in 2000 in Florida;
Florida Central Voter File
Between May 1999 and Election Day 2000, two Florida secretaries of state, Sandra Mortham and Katherine Harris, distributed the scrub lists produced by the cleansing process to counties and ordered the 57,700 people identified as “ex-felons” to be removed from voter rolls. Together the lists comprised nearly 1% of Florida’s electorate and nearly 3% of its African-American voters.
the facts;
In Florida during the 2000 presidential election, some non-felons were banned due to record-keeping errors and not warned of their disqualification before they no longer had the right to contest it.
In other words, many people on the list were NOT even a felon, they just shared a name with someone from ANOTHER state who was a felon, or some people had their right to vote reinstated before she illegally stole that right.
But Harris succeeded to throw the election in Florida to Bush in 2000 by her traitorous activity of denying US citizens their constitutional right to vote. In a sense she stole the election before she helped steal the election by blocking the counting of all the votes.
2002 New Hampshire Senate election phone jamming scandal
In the 2002 New Hampshire Senate election phone jamming scandal, Republican officials attempted to reduce the number of Democratic voters by paying professional telemarketers in Idaho to make repeated hang-up calls to block Democrats’ ride-to-the-polls phone lines on election day.
2004 presidential election
Allegations surfaced in several states that the group called Voters Outreach of America had collected and submitted Republican voter registration forms while inappropriately disposing of Democratic registration forms.
What the shit stack said to do in 1980, prevent American citizens who might not vote for you from voting at all;
Michigan Republican state legislator John Pappageorge was quoted as saying, “If we do not suppress the Detroit vote, we’re going to have a tough time in this election.”
2006 Virginia Senate election
During the United States Senate election in Virginia, 2006, Secretary of the Virginia State Board of Elections Jean Jensen concluded that the incidents of voter suppression appeared widespread and deliberate. Documented incidents of voter suppression include:
* Democratic voters receiving calls incorrectly informing them voting will lead to arrest.
* Widespread calls fraudulently claiming to be “Webb Volunteers,” falsely telling voters their voting location had changed.
* Fliers paid for by the Republican Party, stating “SKIP THIS ELECTION” was allegedly an attempt to suppress African-American turnout.
A particularly reprehensibly form of voter suppression practiced by republicans acting out the designs of voter denial for opponents of republican candidates;
Caging
Which under the National Voting Rights Act of 1993 (NVRA) should be illegal, but the Bush DOJ never enforced the law as usual.
Pre Election Day Operations New Registration Mailing
At whatever point registration in the state closes, a first class mailing should be sent to all new registrants as well as purged/inactive voters. This mailing should welcome the recipient to the voter rolls. It is important that a return address is clearly identifiable. Any mail returned as undeliverable for any reason, should be used to generate a list of problematic registrations. Poll watchers should have this list and be prepared to challenge anyone from this list attempting to vote.
* Shortly before the 2004 election, Palast also obtained a caging list for Jacksonville, Florida, which contained a high number of African Americans and registered Democrats. The caging list was attached to an email which a Florida Republican party official was sending to RNC headquarters official Tim Griffin.
Who BTW worked directly for Karl; Rove
* The Republican National Committee sent letters to predominately urban minority areas in Ohio. When 35,000 letters were returned as undeliverable, the party employed poll watchers to challenge the voters. Voting rights groups challenged the RNC in a case that went to the Supreme Court, but the RNC was not stopped from challenging those voters. Similarly, the RNC sent out 130,000 letters in Philadelphia hoping to cage voters there. Philadelphia is a city with a majority African American population that votes heavily Democratic. The Republicans were attempting to cage votes by people who were likely to vote for the Democratic candidates.
* In the Ohio court challenge, the RNC submitted a caging list that targeted urban and African-American areas in and around Cleveland.
* Journalists found evidence that the Republican National Committee (RNC) attempted to use caging to suppress votes in five states in the 2004 US presidential election. For example, in New Jersey RNC officials used caging lists to challenge absentee ballots and absentee ballot requests.
The reason I find caging particularly reprehensible, is because caging catches anybody who is NOT living at their home of record but registered to vote there.
Caging is designed to go after college students, a block of voters who historically normally do not vote republican,
BUT it catches another subset of the voting public in similar circumstances as to living at their home of record;
DEPLOYED MILITARY MEMBERS especially ones deployed to combat zones where mail sometimes takes upwards of six weeks to arrive and six weeks to be returned.
When the republicans cage a heavily democratic leaning district, they also deny the right to vote to the very people who are actively defending that very right.
During the Bush administration they even allowed voting suppression activist like Hans von Spakovsky and Bradley Schlozman to actively work within the Justice department lead by Alberto Gonzales, to work the anti-american ideas of Weyrich into using federal power to suppress the rights of American citizens to vote.
Republican based voter suppression, something Weyrich helped create and foster to help his extreme ideology to attack the country is a historical fact, People like Weyrich are traitors to the US Constitution, and our country.
And I have no quarter to give to traitors,
whether they use bombs like Timmy McVeigh did,
or the machinery of the Republican Party to subvert the US Constitution.
May they both rot in hell.
David Faber; “The real housing boom began in 2002″
Which means the reich wing lie it is all Clinton and the democratic party’s fault.
David Faber; “well over half of sub-prime wasn’t low income mortgages BUT cash out refinancing”
Which means taking cash out of the equity to put in a pool or buy a car.
So the reich-wing fabrication it was the poor who got loans the govberment forced banks to make is another republican’t sponsored LIE.
Cash out refinancing isn’t something fannie or freddie gets involved in since the people asking for a new mortgage already have bought the house and have a mortgage on it, they just want to go deeper in debt to buy some short term trinkets or take trips they couldn’t afford otherwise.
Watch House of Cards, it explains what happened, with out the reich-wing lies distorting the truth.
Want a little more truth?
Bill Clinton; “Some of the conservatives said that I was responsible because I enforced the Community Reinvestment Act, and they said that’s what made all these subprime mortgages be issued. That’s also false. The community banks, the people that loan their money in the community instead of buying these esoteric securities, they’re doing quite well. ”
Hmmmm, now why would the reich-wing republican’t party LIE so much when the nation’s economy was in such dire straights?
Well could it be because THEY never take responsibility for their screw ups?
Or do they still think lying and selling reich-wing dishonest spin is their path to victory?
2006 and 2008 should tell them NO.
The republican’ts seem quite dull in their ability to learn they have to find a new message cause their old one is more bankrupted then Bear Stearns or AIG are.
Well they will never get far being the 21st century version of the old 1930’s party of NO, while the rest of the country says yes we can.
Keep lying calling everything you disagree with pork, and the mass majority of the country will accept what ever you say as lies and spin. Cause just like the time FDR changed the course of this great nation, the people who live through the trying times will remember, and the reich wing couldn’t sell their lies until the vast majority of that great generation passed away.
Which means you clowns have another 40-50 years in perpetual minority status if ya keep sellin’ the lies and spin you clowns have sold since the crash on October.
Hey, what’s that sound coming from the current CIA offices under George Bush? Oh that’s right! It’s this….
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I guess having someone like Leon Panetta coming in as the new CIA Director, you know, a guy who is against the use of torture and is an outsider, so the sound of paper shredders has got to be deafening today at the CIA! “Gotta destroy the evidence!” has been the mantra of the Bush Regime for years now and the Bush Neocons must be frantic! Hey, one thing we’ve learned from the Bush Regime over the past 8 years is they can ‘tidy up the place’ very quickly before the authorities get there. There are still 10 million emails/documents missing from the Bush Regime’s White House servers, but then again, we Americans aren’t supposed to know about the illegal stuff. Instead, George Bush has always told us Americans to go shopping while he and his Oil Cartel handle the rest. Spit.
Remember recently when Sarah Palin was trying to convince us that Levi Johnston, who is the father of Bristol Palin’s baby, Tripp, was the Teenage Dad of the Century, because he was taking correspondence courses while working on the North Slope as an apprentice? Well, turns out, to work on the North Slope, ONE MUST HAVE A HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA AND IT’S A VIOLATION OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS TO BE WORKING ON THE NORTH SLOPE WITHOUT ONE.
Ooopsie.
From the Anchorage Daily News:
Now it appears the governor may have found a new way to skirt the rules. How is it possible that the governor’s soon-to-be son-in-law, Levi Johnston, is working as an apprentice on the North Slope?
The governor, in trying to dispel rumors the father of her grandchild is a high school dropout, released this statement this past week,
“Levi is continuing his online high school work in addition to working as an electrical apprentice on the North Slope.”
But federal regulations require all members of apprentice programs, union or otherwise, to first obtain a high school diploma, something the governor’s soon-to-be son-in- law does not have. Some apprentice programs even require the completion of high school level algebra or the post-secondary equivalent.
Are there any laws, rules, powers, or regulations that the Palin family and those connected to it don’t break, abuse, or make up as they go along? Something tells me that just by asking this question, I will end up with a horse’s head on my front steps courtesy of the Palin Mafia in Alaska! See? It never ends.
As usual, here’s Sarah Palin getting out of dodge to find the closest Neiman Marcus store to shop this latest crime off (or maybe she’s trying to find Levi’s mother for some good drugs to get her through? Who knows! It’s anyone’s guess as to where she’s going!)….
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Alright, I admit it. I didn’t listen to Rush Limbaugh’s radio show in it’s entirety today, but I did happen to be listening when he was talking about Bernard Madoff (who is a money manager and whose hedgefund just went belly up costing investors in his scheme $50 billion dollars). Rush Limbaugh sounded a bit confused and at a loss for words while talking about what Bernard had done and I got to thinking that maybe Rush had invested with this guy and lost some money. Or maybe he just feels bad for him, I don’t know, but I do know now that Madoff happens to be his neighbor in Palm Beach, and as I’m learning….many uber wealthy people threw money at Madoff, as well as big businesses, because they knew they would get at least a 12-15% return on their investment. Rush, to me, seems to be this kind of guy who would take a portion of his money to invest with a guy like Madoff just to watch the money grow right before his eyes. Many did trust Madoff and many are now realizing they have nothing after investing all those years.
What would happen if Rush Limbaugh lost a good portion of his fortune to this guy? OMG, that would be something else! Of course, he still has his ‘liberal’ girlfriend to fall back on if times get too rough for him if he did indeed lose a considerable amount of money, but hey!, let’s just ponder it for a moment shall we? What if this was the thing that financially broke the king of right wing radio? I doubt it, but man!, it’s a doozy to think about, but then again, there are a lot of Americans who got caught up in this crap and are slowly losing everything as we speak.
Can you imagine if all these hedge funds/Ponzi schemes go belly up at some point? Right now it’s estimated that $63 trillion has been invested in hedge funds/credit default swaps/insurances. Oh boy.
Basically, we are in the midst of a shadow economy….
And Americans are losing. Betting on the bet on the bet is not SOUND BUSINESS as we are now learning.
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Spits of rage…