The Democrats are going to run on “results” in November??

I know, I know.  It took me awhile to stop giggling too.  They can’t possibly be serious.  But that’s what PoliticalTicker is claiming.   Swallow your coffee before you read it: Washington (CNN) – When voters head to the polls in November, the Democratic National Committee would like them to remember Democrats with one word: results. [...]

White House Shuts Barn Door After Horses Escape

Now that the gigantic oil spill has reached the Louisiana coast and now that we know the oil spill may be worse than the Exxon Valdez, the White House, in the person of senior advisor David Axelrod, has announced that no more offshore drilling will be approved until the cause of the leak is investigated. [...]

Dorothy Height: “A Matriarch Moves On” (and Hillary in a Hat)

“Dorothy Height: A matriarch moves on” –Florida Times-Union headline Dorothy Height, In Her Own Words: In 1929, Height was accepted to Barnard College but denied admission due to an unwritten racial quota of only two black students per a year. From Height’s memoir: But I couldn’t believe my ears. I was devastated. Since childhood, school [...]

Could you afford to fight?

“We have the best system of justice that money can buy. How much justice can you afford?” I was over at Ian Welsh’s blog reading Recissions and Denial of Care Under Obamacare when I saw this: ‘‘SEC. 2712. PROHIBITION ON RESCISSIONS. ‘‘A group health plan and a health insurance issuer offering group or individual health [...]

If I won the lottery: OPEN THREAD

Every once in a while a story comes along that makes you smile.  For me, it was the recent story of Christopher Shaw’s epic lottery win.  Chris is the kind of guy you want to win the lottery.  Down on his luck, with less than $30 bucks in the bank, this 27 year-old will now [...]

Wednesday Morning News

Good Morning Conflucians!! What an interesting week we’re having so far. Mmm, love me some greed on wall street. And between the New Wall Street (don’t look at the man behind the curtain) Dem party and the Batshit Crazy (socialist, or now mexican, under every rock) Repub party, no one is noticing that our ship is [...]

Was Obama Wall Street’s BIGGEST Short?

You gotta love Lloyd Blankfein for finally telling it like it is.  Wall Street thinks we’re all suckers.  If you don’t specifically ask whether a security or CDO is crap, shitty or junk, they have no obligation to tell you.  That’s not their job.  They just sell the stuff.  It’s the 2010 version of “I [...]

“The Republicans are the ones who liberated Europe in World War II.”

I never knew that! Isn’t it fascinating to learn new historical facts? I’ll bet Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was President of the United States during WWII, would be awfully surprised too, if he were still alive. My dad served in WWII, and he wasn’t a Republican, but he was in the Pacific. I guess all [...]

Monday Morning News and Views

Good Morning Conflucians!!! I’ve got a bit of a news potpourri for you this morning. There isn’t any huge story that the media is hyping at the moment. Are the corporate media trying to downplay financial “reform?” Before I begin, Lambert at Corrente is involved in organizing a Fiscal Sustainability Teach-In Counter-Conference and he’s trying [...]

Invisible America

There is the one America where John Edwards paraded himself around as a goody goody family man, and then there is the other America where his mistress goes on Oprah to tell all about his love lips. It is a crying shame that Edwards was the one to popularize the “Two Americas” rhetoric and taint [...]