Late Night Open Thread: CNBC’s Mark Haines vs. Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA)

Pro-Wall Street CNBC host Mark Haines accuses Congress of “witch-huntery.” Sherman gives as good as he gets. The arrogance of the CNBC interviewers is stunning. Sherman is a member of the House Banking Committee. “You know, this is witch huntery, I’ll be perfectly honest with you,” Haines said. “You and people who share your opinions [...]

Saturday: Things that make you go “hmmm”, episode 2

I used to be an NPR junkie, that is, until TalkingPointsMemo became my gateway drug to blogging about 5 years ago.  I used to wake up to Bob Edwards and drive home to Robert Segal.  Then they started to all sound like my neighbors, moderately Republican and pro-business.  Gone were the days of Maria Hinajosa [...]

Open Thread: “Barack Obama is dumber than a bag of hammers.”

Now here’s a writer who tells it like it is. and he’s darkly funny too. David Michael Green writes: Barack Obama is dumber than a bag of hammers. I never thought I’d say that about the guy. I thought he would probably disappoint me with many of his policies. I thought he would probably fail [...]

FRANKLY MY DEAR, I DON’T GIVE A DAMN!

Truer words uttered by Rhett Butler to his whining spouse can also be applied to those members of congress who couch those same words in flowery prose but whose meaning is just the same. Don’t let their supposed umbrage over the latest financial fiasco fool you. They truly could not care less about the rest [...]

Friday: Be very afraid?

Last night on Conflucians Say, we discussed anger and why it’s sometimes a very useful emotion.  You have a right to be angry if someone has abused you or has done something untrustworthy.  Keeping anger inside or giving in to pressure that says you shouldn’t get angry because it isn’t polite can lead to frustration, [...]

Conflucians Say: Lolly-lolly-lolly, get your outrage here!

From Market Ticker, Karl Denninger is MAD! – Bernanke Inserts Gun In Mouth: We’ve got over a trillion in trash on our balance sheet now, which we promised would fix the problem but it didn’t do jack. That’s because nobody in their right mind will borrow money when the economy is in the tank and [...]

“Don’t expect too much from me,” says the POTUS

I’m just lucky that I still have some Tums handy: From Yahoo News/AP Obama seeks patience, warns of expecting too much LOS ANGELES – Facing largely adoring crowds far from Washington, President Barack Obama on Thursday asked Americans to back his far-reaching economic and health policies, but warned them not to expect too much from [...]

Just cuz it’s fun, more Caption This Photo madness!

I just couldn’t resist!  These are from yesterday during Obama’s campaign stop in California: Photo 1: (update: please note the upper left corner) Photo 2: Photo 3: Open thread, but I found this gem to discuss: WASHINGTON – At least 13 firms receiving billions of dollars in bailout money owe a total of more than [...]

Thursday: A Series of Unfortunate Events

There has been plenty of finger pointing in the past couple of days.  Tim Geithner is getting his under-the -bus moment this morning on the front page of the NYTimes.  What did Tim know about the AIG bonuses and when did he know it?  The WH is starting to float the “complete confidence” meme, which [...]

Some more Caption This Photo fun…

Photo 1: Photo 2: Photo 3: Leave us you captions in the comments sections…and away we go! PS:  RIP Natasha Richardson.  A truly great talent and vehement AIDS activist. From one of my favorite movies, The Handmaid’s Tale (just noticed a part is NSFW):