A successful stimulus bill would look a lot like the one that was passed
Unfortunately, the one thing Leonhardt gets wrong is the idea that aid to states won’t just sit in accounts – unfortunately, that’s exactly what’s happening in Indiana, thanks to Bush’s man Mitch. (See “Most stimulus cash for state sits unspent”)…
Jon Cohn: “Yes, let’s talk about those Republican ideas for health care.”
The only thing that could be more destructive to America than the “Party of No” is a party with these “conservative” ideas. Clipped from www.tnr.com The idea that Republicans haven’t had a chance to present their ideas on health care…
Glenn Greenwald on the banksters who want to control politics & the journalists who enable them
Read the whole thing. Clipped from www.salon.com Second, stories like this ought to put to rest forever the notion that the Republican Party is some sort of haven for populist anger. Third, that Wall Street is dissatisfied with the Democrats…
Dan Coats: Lobbying For Yemen?
Greg Sargent reports that national Democrats, already hitting Dan Coats for his comments about not coming back to Indiana, will “go on the offensive” today about Coats’ lobbying for foreign governments. According to a short piece in The Hill, Coats…
Stephen Colbert tackles CIA poseur John Kiriakou’s lies about waterboarding
Stephen Colbert is one of the few on TV to tackle CIA poseur John Kiriakou’s revelations that he was making up his evidence in favor of waterboarding. (For more, see John Cole’s post, “Just Making Shit Up”) The Colbert Report…
A Cold Welcome for Dan Coats
Absolutely brutal – and spot on – email from the state party: On behalf of Hoosiers everywhere, we’d like to welcome back Dan Coats to the State of Indiana. After more than a decade working, living, and voting in Washington,…
Brilliant look at Evan Bayh & weak-kneed Dems on #HCR, through football metaphors
Clipped from vagabondscholar.blogspot.com Bayh and the Blue Dog Democrats remind me of the Cincinnati Bengals of the 90s under owner Mike Brown. One sportscaster called them “an embarrassment to sport,” as in, the entire human endeavor of sports, where a…
Taibbi rips Brooks’ moral relativism – it’s not about class, it’s about crime!
In his expletive-laden, take-no-prisoners style, Matt Taibbi rips David Brooks’ latest NYT column trying to defend the indefensible behavior of the big banks. I love that Taibbi admits (unlike most journalists) to being a part of the same upper class…
