Palin’s not going to be an easy challenge for Biden Thursday. When Palin gets her mojo working like she does here, she can sling that home and hearth Joe Six Pack shit with the best of them. This will play well with the base and could swing a good amount of swing voters […]

America was headed for an economic crisis September 10, 2001. A president with little popular support, no overt agenda, owned by the religious right, an economy in a spindrift because everything good put in place by middle-of-the-roaders was being dissembled and pillaged. Then the planes hit the buildings. If that didn’t happen, the Titanic would […]

This makes me happy:
Watch Barney Frank pwnd the Republicans at this youtube link, damn wordpress. (Sasha, you’re the wiz, do you know how to youtube on wp? Please?)
I’ve started x-number of notes attempting Om accepting that the shittiest and piggiest Republicans, for the shittiest and piggiest Republican reasons, successfully blocked a bill I oppose, but […]

It’s a hole he dug for himself, putting himself first while claiming that he was putting the country first. Now he is a a dead-end, or at the bottom of the pit. He claims he is demonstrating “leadership” but his problem is that he has no “followship”. His conservative base in the House is deserting […]

As you watch the value of your 401K shrink before your eyes today, make yourself feel a wee bit better reading Rick Perlstein, who suggests that Barack Obama, if he can manage to win the election, might have a legislative opening similar to FDR’s in 1932 and LBJ’s in 1964—crises to deal with, public support […]

The bailout bill has failed in the House. The Dow is now lower than it was at the start of George Bush’s first term. Ruth and I are OK. I pulled most of our savings out of the markets a couple of months ago. Our little business keeps poking along. Hope everyone else is ready […]

Mike Whitney at Counterpunch called it perfectly. Here’s a good, concise and reasonably understandable treatise on why we are where we are today. This stuff is incredibly complex–even sophisticated finance types on both sides of the aisle are having difficulty getting their arms around this. The consensus: No matter what we […]

This is not a pretty sight. Not what anyone imagined this morning. There will be many sleepless in Seattle and Singapore tonight.
And so has the blame game. McCain is blaming Obama with no basis in fact, just blaming him to get the jump on the news cycle. Obama is coming out lame saying this is […]

Fidel was one thing, and a long time ago. All he had was bad Russia, good cigars, great music, and raw sugar. Hugo is something else. He has bad Russia and mother oil. Of course, he only wants nuclear power for peaceful purposes, in case his wells run dry. Yeah…
This one is a gift for […]

The vote today to “bail out” Wall Street comes on the heels of financial takeovers by governments over the weekend in the Netherlands, Luxembourg, England, and Germany. And that is just a start. This isn’t over today.