Less of a prognostication, and more of a wish list
I’m about 65% when it comes to predicting local races. Which means that I’m essentially going on conventional wisdom and the registration breakdown of the district. Beyond that I’m throwing darts on a board, with the slight wind of the insider knowledge in my repertoire to help me predict outcomes at my back. Every race has it’s own idiosyncracies, and […]
It’s official, ACORN is the new Willie Horton
Even local crank Doug MacEachern got the memo. His quick hit in this morning’s Republic:
The level to which Americans have funded their own financial firing squad will be a fascinating story when it’s told. Tens of millions of taxpayer dollars have been funneled to groups like ACORN, the “community organizers” so consistently in hot water […]
The McCain Strategy
I’ve been watching the McCain/Palin ticket just go to town on an inflated Bill Ayers/Obama connection. I have been thinking that it is simply an attempt by their campaign to distract low-information voters from the real issues of the economy and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Yesterday I watched many videos of people in […]
To Regulate or Not to Regulate…
This morning while I was getting ready for work, I heard a gentleman on the news stating that our current financial meltdown is a result of TOO MUCH regulation. Many of the economists who have spoken out recently have blamed the deregulation for the current meltdown. Obviously, having a feeling about the cause of the […]
Right wing talking point du jour: Bill Clinton, ACORN, and brown people caused financial crisis.
A cackling chorus of conservatives are blaming the current fiasco on subprime mortgages going to poor minorities because Bill Clinton and those evil community organizers turned Fannie and Freddie into Democratic patronage mills. Did you catch that?
I mean, I thought that the banking system was on the brink of collapse because investors created these funky things […]
GOP excuse for bailout not passing: Nancy Pelosi hurt our fee fees
I kid you not. I just saw Reps. Boehner and Blunt at a press conference claiming that Republicans were all ready to vote for the bill until Pelosi made a “partisan” speech. Which, if true, means that a substantial number of Republicans in Congress are far too emotionally unstable to serve in their positions. Now […]
The Latest Stunt
Yesterday Krista pointed out McCain’s latest stunt and asked our opinions of it. Is it all just smoke and mirrors? Or is he really serious about the current economic situation and the 2.5 page outline that Bush and Paulsen are trying to rush through congress?
Last night, Rachel Maddow interviewed Chris Dodd, the banking committee chairman. […]