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Thursday, November 19, 2009
Eliot Spitzer: Obama Economic Policies Ineffective, A Continuation Of Bush
(2 comments) Spitzer takes aim at the administration's economic policies, accusing the Obama Administration of shying away from the kind of comprehensive reform that the financial system needs. The Obama administration is not so different from the Bush administration, he says, at least so far as their approach to the banking crisis goes:

Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Matthew Hoh, a Senior Official in Afghanistan Resigns in Protest over US Policy and Strategy in Afghanistan
A former Marine turned senior diplomat resigns in protest over the war in Afghanistan. Matthew Hoh, 36, a senior foreign service officer expresses his "doubts and reservations" about our current strategy and planned future strategy in Afghanistan in his letter of resignation. He says he "fails to see the value or the worth in the continued U.S. casualties or expenditures of resources in support of the Afghan government."

Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Does Obama Get It? by Bob Herbert, NY Times
President Obama should confront the employment crisis with a sense of urgency, but he has not shown he understands the gravity of the situation.

Sunday, September 6, 2009
From Baby-Sitting to Adoption---[Is Afghanistan a 'bad baby' to adopt?]
After eight years of work in Afghanistan, we still do not have a reliable Afghan society or government to justify our blood and expense in staying there despite the hazards of withdrawing from it. Time to tell the President "NO!" until we nationally discuss it. We are in bankruptcy nationally and can't afford this extended mess.

Monday, August 24, 2009
All the President's Zombies
Reaganomics has failed to deliver what it promised, yet it continues to be an engine of obstructionism, wherein people still believe that government intervention is bad, and leaving the private sector to its own devices is good. Major reforms are stopped by it dead in their tracks.

Sunday, August 23, 2009
Where did that bank bailout go? Watchdogs aren't sure
Although hundreds of well-trained eyes are watching over the $700 billion that Congress last year decided to spend bailing out the nation's financial sector, it's still difficult to answer some of the most basic questions about where the money went.

Tuesday, August 18, 2009
This Is Reform?
Giving consumers the choice of an efficient, government-run insurance plan would have moved us toward real cost control, but that option is gone. The public deserves better than a hopped up version of Medicare Part D for health insurance. It is a bonanza for the insurance companies and pharmaceuticals and another rip off for the public..

Friday, August 14, 2009
Republican Death Trip By PAUL KRUGMAN
We've seen that it is fruitless to try to appease the angry Republicans. They are not interested in accomodation. So much for Mr. Obama's dream of moving beyond divisive politics. How will Mr. Obama will deal with the death of his postpartisan dream? Like a deer in the headlights or like a passionate leader who moves on with his reform agenda?

Friday, July 17, 2009
Push Must Now Come to Shove for Obama to Get Health Care
On health care, one need know just one fact: ~70% of the people want a public plan option, and are willing to pay higher taxes to get it. Yet, whether a public plan is in the bill remains highly uncertain. Only the interests of the permanent political class could be holding it up.

Thursday, July 9, 2009
Health Deal Involving Key Players of Healthcare Industry Could Harbor Hidden Costs
As the White House trumpets big agreements, what the industry groups will be getting in return is rarely discussed.

Tuesday, July 7, 2009
We Need a Fairness Doctrine for Health Care Lobbying
It seems that big corporate health care is continuing to pump hundreds of millions of dollars into the pockets of our elected "representatives" in order to subvert our democratic process. Even if it scares the hell out of conservatives, we need to enact a fairness doctrine to level the playing field on lobbying because our voices and our votes simply aren't convincing enough to our public servants anymore.

Saturday, June 20, 2009
Where in the World is Kathleen Sebelius?
I've seen a great variety of Republicans all over TV trying to bury the public option in an avalanche of lies. So, where are the Democrats? Where is the Obama administration? Where is Kathleen Sebelius? Why isn't she on every cable show pushing for the Obama plan at the critical time when the public has to be won over? Why aren't there dozens of people from the administration blanketing TV to make their case?

Wednesday, June 10, 2009
America's Sea of Red Ink Was Years in the Making
(1 comments) In the debate about how the government racked up so much debt, there is enough blame to go around.

Sunday, June 7, 2009
Is Larry Summers Taking Kickbacks From the Banks He's Bailing Out?
A little-known company where Summers served on the board of directors received a $42 million investment from a group of investors, including three banks that Summers, Obama's effective "economy czar," has been doling out billions in bailout money to: Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, and Morgan Stanley. The banks invested into a small startup company, Revolution Money, right at the time when Summers was administering the "stress test"

Saturday, May 30, 2009
Rogues, Robes and Racists
Until someone can produce proof of words and actions on the part of Sotomayor that even approach the scale of key Republicans some of whom have wielded the hot blade of racial divisiveness for years. To be now calling Sonia Sotomayor, the Supreme Court nominee, a racist is rank hypocrisy.

Monday, May 18, 2009
The Perfect vs. The Good: The Planet Can't Wait for A Perfect Climate Change Law
After all the years of denial, after all the years of inaction, we finally have a chance to do something major about climate change. Waxman-Markey is imperfect, it's disappointing in some respects, but it's action we can take now. And the planet won't wait.

Friday, May 1, 2009
Top Senate Democrat: Bankers "Own" the U.S. Congress
Sen. Dick Durbin, on a local Chicago radio station this week, blurted out an obvious truth about Congress that, despite being blindingly obvious, is rarely spoken: "And the banks are still the most powerful lobby on Capitol Hill. And they frankly own the place."

Friday, April 10, 2009
Easy Access: $5,000 and One Hour Buys 10 Guns
ABC News conducted an experiment. His sister was one of the Virginia Tech victims. Over the course of one hour, Omar Samaha was given 5,000 dollars with which to see how many guns he could purchase and what kind of questions would be asked at a local gun show. In one hour Samaha purchased 10 guns: three rifles, four shotguns, one handgun. He could have purchased many more handguns, but he wanted to abide by Virginia

Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Geithner Bank Plan Faces New Wave Of Criticism
Two weeks after being introduced, Timothy Geithner's bank rescue plan is facing a new round of withering criticism from economists who say the proposal is likely to produce major losses for taxpayers as banks and investors game the system.

Saturday, March 28, 2009
Blue Dog Democrats To Be Used by Republicans to Triangulate Against Obama's Reforms
(2 comments) Blue Dog --i.e.,Conservative-- Democrats provide an opening for Senate Republicans to team up and "triangulate" with Republicans against progressives in Congress.

Thursday, March 26, 2009
Afghan Strikes by Taliban Get Pakistan Government Help Say U.S. Aides
The Taliban's widening violence campaign in southern Afghanistan is made possible in part by direct support from operatives inside the shadowy S Wing of Pakistan's spy service, "the Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence." This support consists of money, military supplies and strategic planning guidance to Taliban commanders who are gearing up to confront US and other countries' troops fighting there.

Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Geithner Plan A Bad Deal
There are 3 scenarios, none of the good: 1. The toxic assets attract only few bidders 2. Banks receive low bids,forcing weak banks to do further write downs. 3. Assets will be purchased but it will amount to risky US taxpayer subsidizing of failed banks and it is folly to bet our financial system on a flawed 'grand scheme'like this one.

Sunday, March 15, 2009
NY Times Editorial:"Following the A.I.G. Money"
Congress and the public alike need to know which firms are on the receiving end of the bailouts and what responsibility they bear for the financial mess.

Saturday, March 7, 2009
Right-Wing 'Tea Party' Movement (noise machine against Obama) Was Planned Months Ago by GOP Billionaires
(2 comments) This article reveals how the latest right-wing-"populist" revolt against the Obama Administration and the Federal government is actually a pre-planned GOP PR campaign.

Thursday, February 26, 2009
U.S. Is a Vast Arms Bazaar for Mexican Cartels
(2 comments) The case against the owner of a Phoenix gun store offers a glimpse of how weapons delivered to U.S. gun dealers are being moved into Mexico and wielded in horrific crimes. This is what we get for having right-wing passed and inspired easy gun laws.

Saturday, February 14, 2009
How Banks Are Worsening the Foreclosure Crisis
Banks refuse to allow mortgages to be modified in bankruptcy court to make people more able to pay them.This article shows that one reason foreclosures are so rampant is that banks and their advocates in Washington have delayed, diluted, and obstructed attempts to address the problem. Industry lobbyists are still at it today, working overtime to forestall and narrow any attempts at reform.

Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Banks look overseas for workers even as they lay off Americans
Even as the economy collapsed last year and many financial workers found themselves unemployed, the dozen U.S. banks now receiving the biggest rescue packages requested visas for tens of thousands of foreign workers to fill high-paying jobs, according to an Associated Press review of visa application

Sunday, February 8, 2009
The Fairness Doctrine: Why We Need It Back
In the Fairness Doctrine, trustees of a scarce public resource, FCC licensees accept certain public interest obligations in exchange for the exclusive use of limited public airwaves, ensuring a variety of views.

Monday, February 2, 2009
Bailouts for Bunglers
Question: what happens if you lose vast amounts of other people's money? Answer: you get a big gift from the federal government - but the president says some very harsh things about you before forking over the cash....Right now that's what seems to be happening.I'm talking about the administration's plans for a banking system rescue - plans that are shaping up as a classic exercise in "lemon socialism" wherein taxpa

Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Stand Strong Against Rush Limbaugh
(3 comments) Rush said he hopes President Obama fails. In so doing, he is hoping America fails. Anyone who is of a mind to can go to this website listed here and sign an online petition to tell Rush what you think of his attacks on President Obama. We need every grassroots Democrat to show Rush Limbaugh and all of the Republicans what they're up against if they start in with their dirt.

Tuesday, January 27, 2009
US Bets On Same Bank Execs Who Made This Mess to Also Fix It
Nearly nine out of every 10 of the most senior executives from 2006 are still on the job, according to an Associated Press analysis of regulatory and company documents. The AP's review reveals one of the ironies of the bank bailout: The same executives who were at the controls as the banking system nearly collapsed are the ones the government is counting on to help save it.

Monday, January 26, 2009
BAD FAITH ECONOMICS
As the debate over President Obama's economic stimulus plan gets under way, one thing is certain: many of the plan's opponents aren't arguing in good faith. Conservatives really, really don't want to see a second New Deal, and they certainly don't want to see government activism vindicated. So they are reaching for any stick they can find with which to beat proposals for increased government spending.

Saturday, January 24, 2009
Firms that got bailout money keep lobbying
Wall Street pirates are playing high stakes poker with our taxpayer money instead of helping liquidate bad debt and get credit moving.

Sunday, January 18, 2009
Bailout Is a Windfall to Banks, if Not to Borrowers
Most banks that received bailout money are using it to pay down debt or to make investments, not lending. a Congressional oversight panel reported on Jan. 9 that it found no evidence the bailout program had been used to prevent foreclosures, raising questions about whether the Treasury has complied with the law's requirement that it develop a "plan that seeks to maximize assistance for homeowners."

Saturday, January 17, 2009
Taxpayers' Billions: How Banks Won't Tell How They Are Using It
(1 comments) ABC News Business Unit posed the same five questions to Bank of America and 23 other banks that received at least $1 billion in TARP funds as were posed by a congressional oversight panel of the Treasury Department recently. Four banks chose not to reply, including JPMorgan Chase and others like Bank of America were dismissive saying the questions "show a fundamental lack of understanding about how TARP funds work."

Thursday, January 15, 2009
Bank of America Could Get More Bailout Money While We "Must Sacrifice"
(2 comments) The U.S. government is nearing a deal to inject Bank of America Corp. with billions of dollars in more aid, The Wall Street Journal reported. They already got 25 billion to loosen the credit crisis and instead they go and buy Merill Lynch. Now they need more $$$ because the deal turned sour. Perhaps we should revoke their loan and liquidate these financial pirates.

Tuesday, January 13, 2009
In Israel This War in Gaza Seen as Fight for Israeli Survival
(4 comments) To Israel's critics abroad, the picture could not be clearer: Israel's war in Gaza is a wildly disproportionate response to the rockets of Hamas, causing untold suffering and bombing an already isolated and impoverished population into the Stone Age but in Israel, this is not a disproportionate war of choice but an obligatory war for existence.Hamas booby-traps schools, apartment buildings and hospitals, and its fighter

Sunday, January 11, 2009
Obama's Bush-style "Trickle Down" Tax Cuts for Business in the Stimulus Package
Barack Obama's tax-cut components of his stimulus package are hardly a clean break with the Bush years. Apparently in order to win the support of Republican lawmakers, the package is shaping up to include trickle-down tax cuts of roughly $150 billion in business tax breaks, even though such breaks are widely recognized as packing very little bang for the buck

Friday, January 2, 2009
Bigger Than Bush
Most of the right wing's whining since losing the election takes the form of claims that the they were just unlucky to have picked Bush. The fault, however, lies in the right wing philosophy itself.

Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Two Cheers for Rod Blagojevich
What went down in the Land of Lincoln is just the "reductio ad absurdum" of an American era where both entitlement and corruption have been the calling cards of power. Blagojevich's alleged crimes pale next to the larger scandals of Washington and Wall Street.As our outgoing president passes the buck for his failures so do leaders in the private and public sectors who enabled the economic debacle.

Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Beyond the Bailout Fat Cats: Stop Feeding the Rich Bankers While Clobbering the Poor
When the Champagne and caviar crowd is in trouble, taxpayer money can be found quickly and aggressively. But the working poor and young are being clobbered in this downturn and lawmakers don't want to spend any money on them.

Monday, November 3, 2008
THE TOXIC REPUBLICAN PARTY
The G.O.P. is at the culmination of its long transformation into a haven for racists and reactionaries. The G.O.P.'s transformation into the party of the 'unreasonable and intolerant right is likely to accelerate as a result of the impending 2008 election defeat. This will pose a dilemma for any remaining GOP moderates, many of whom have spent the Bush years in denial about GOP dishonesty and contempt for the rule of law.

Tuesday, October 28, 2008
EARLY E-VOTING RESULTS IN VOTE FLIPPING IN THREE STATES SO FAR
West Virginia, Tennessee and Texas use iVotronic machines made by Election Systems & Software. And remember 45 percent of the electorate (24 states) currently uses electronic voting. Now, in addition to West Virginia there are now also reports that similar problems have been happening in Tennessee and elsewhere

Monday, October 27, 2008
McCain "guarantees" he will "win" the election on Nov 4th
McCain guarantees Hvictory Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press" that he can "guarantee" a win on Nov. 4 in a squeaker victory that won't be clear until late that night. He said "I'm going to win it...we'll be up late". Is it just me or IS HE PREDICTING A STOLEN ELECTION. HOW ELSE WOULD HE KNOW? DOES HE HAVE A CRYSTAL BALL OR DOES HE KNOW SOMETHING THE REST OF US DON'T?

Sunday, October 26, 2008
Christian right intensifies attacks on Obama
Although hard-edge attacks are common late in campaigns, the tenor of the strikes against Obama illustrate just how worried conservative Christian activists are about what should happen to their causes and influence if Democrats seize control of both Congress and the White House.

Friday, October 24, 2008
Bailout a Boon for Washington Lobbyists
This redesign of our entire financial system is potentially a lot of profitable business for lobbying and law firms to cash in on and get their share of this new pork program for the rich, who are already seeking to capitalize on the new law. From the financial sector to the banking industry to insurance providers, companies are lining up lobbyists to make their mark on the shifting rules.

Wednesday, October 22, 2008
DEMOCRATS RILED BY GOP FAILURE TO DENOUNCE SUSPECT IN VOTER REGISTRATION FRAUD CASE
(2 comments) The Republican YPM (Young Political Majors) has been caught at voter fraud and John McCain and the RNC Must Sever Ties with Tainted GOP Operatives like Mark Jacoby, 25, who was hired by the California Republican Party to register GOP voters and faces four felony counts of on two occasions, having lied on his own voter registration forms, claiming he was a California resident in order to be eligible to register voters in CA

Wednesday, October 22, 2008
UNDECIDED? REALLY?WHO THE HELL ARE YOU?
(2 comments) Behold, the Undecideds. Have you heard of this bizarre, nefarious group? The millions of faceless, slow-blinking, mentally unattached Americans who are, right this minute, with mere days to go before the most historic election in our lifetime and when faced with what seems to be the most glaringly obvious divisions of attitude and perspective you could possibly imagine, still "on the fence" about Obama or McCain?

Sunday, October 12, 2008
White House Waited Too Long To Overhaul Rescue Plan
(1 comments) A new approach that would inject capital into banks raises questions on whether officials squandered time with an earlier $700 billion plan to buy securities and whether White House officials wasted time resisting Democratic proposals to require that the government receive an equity stake in the companies it was helping. Now, because of the delay, the price tag has gone up.

Saturday, October 11, 2008
THE GOP MASK SLIPS
(2 comments) There are two things I find remarkable about the G.O.P. The first is how wrong conservative Republicans have been on so many profoundly important matters for so many years. The second is how the G.O.P. has nevertheless been able to persuade so many voters to vote against their own interests.

Thursday, October 9, 2008
Report: Voter purges in 6 states may violate law
Tens of thousands of eligible voters have been removed from rolls or blocked from registering in at least six swing states, and the voters' exclusion appears to violate federal law, according to a published report.

Wednesday, October 8, 2008
The dumbing down of the GOP
Why aren't more conservatives disgusted that their party nominated a person devoid of qualifications for the vice presidency (again)? There was a time when conservatives lamented the dumbing down of American culture. Preservation of basic standards in schools and workplaces compelled them -- or so they said -- to resist affirmative action for women and minorities. Qualifications mattered; merit mattered; and demagogic appeals

Monday, October 6, 2008
DEBATE STAKES HIGHER FOR MCCAIN AS INSULTS MOUNT
Their target audience in the debate is the roughly 10 percent of the electorate who are undecided and an additional twenty-five percent who say they might still change their minds before Nov. 4.McCain is going to "take the gloves off," Palin said Monday, signaling that the GOP nominee will question Obama's character, record and policies as part of a stepped-up smear campaign.

Saturday, October 4, 2008
Paulson's Reasons for Delaying Day of Reckoning Won't Do Any Good
The $700 billion rescue plan approved by the U.S. Senate won't fix the core problem with the nation's ailing financial institutions. And it almost guarantees that you and I will have to pony up for an even costlier bailout someday, maybe soon, now that the House of Representatives passed it. If you think this bailout is expensive, just wait until you see the next crisis that is coming soon.

Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Why Bail? The Banks Have a Gun Pointed at Their Head and Are Threatening to Pull the Trigger
(2 comments) We are now being threatened with doom and gloom now that the bailout is stalled. The writer of this article says we are getting a 'snow job'

Monday, September 29, 2008
Main Street Turns Against Congress, President and Wall Street
A populist backlash against the Wall Street Bailout is changing America's political climate. Inflamed by the financial crisis and bailouts, a form of class warfare that has put aside partisan ship in its rage against the Machine that could haunt business leaders for years to come. Historic government intervention is unleashing a tsunami of class fury that threaten tol hurt incumbents and U.S. companies, business leaders, and w

Saturday, September 27, 2008
Mega-Million Dollar CEO Payouts
ABC News, in collaboration with James F. Reda and Associates, complied a list of some of the companies in the headlines today and looked at just how much money some of these CEOs are taking home while their friends foreclose on YOUR home. Take a look at the obscene figures for compensation packages of some of these robber-CE0's. You'll get an eyeful.

Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Experts See a Need for Punitive Action in Bailout
(1 comments) As economists puzzle over the proposed details of what may be the biggest financial bailout in American history, the initial skepticism that greeted its unveiling has only deepened.

Sunday, September 21, 2008
ADVISERS ON EACH OF THE CAMPAIGNS HELPED CREATE THE MESS
The presidential campaigns went after each other's economic advisers this week - and they're both right in claiming that the other camp deserves a share of the blame. John McCain and Barack Obama are each taking advice from people who created, passed and implemented the laws that paved the way to this market meltdown.

Thursday, September 11, 2008
Number-crunching pollster sees decisive Obama win
A pollster whose mathematical model has correctly predicted every winner of the White House popular vote since 1988 is banking on a decisive victory for Democrat Barack Obama in November.

Thursday, September 11, 2008
Palin's Ethics Scrapes May Undercut Pledge to End Old Politics
John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as his running mate sent a signal that he would end business as usual and cronyism in government. Her record shows the Alaska governor engaged in some of the same practices she and McCain now condemn. These incidents raise some serious questions about her judgment and serious questions about her standards of ethics in publi

Monday, September 8, 2008
JOHN MCCAIN'S LOBBYISTS (THE LIST)
Listening to the McCain campaign deny Obama's accusation about McCain's ties to lobbyists, here is a list that TO DATE shows that John McCain is a LIAR and his denials are rubbish. John McCain has 118 LOBBYISTS either working or raising money for him. So far, he's fired only three of them and he expects us to believe he doesn't have any on his staff? This article names names and is dated September 08, 2008.

Sunday, September 7, 2008
Obama vs. McCain: Taxing and Spending: McCain is Lying; Obama Wins
The candidates' opening salvos reveal widely different views. Obama calls current policy "the most fiscally irresponsible in our history". Obama's tax plan would give all but the top 1 % of income earners a BOOST in income, whereas McCain's tax policies would worsen the present inequality of incomes between the top 1% and the rest of the population. and would generate at the same time more revenue for the treasury.

Sunday, September 7, 2008
Right at the Edge
That US and Pakistani soldiers are fighting one another along what was meant to be a border between allies highlights the extraordinarily chaotic situation unfolding inside the Pakistani tribal areas, where hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Taliban, along with Al Qaeda and other foreign fighters, enjoy freedom from American attacks. But the more fundamental questions of the long war against terror is which side is Pakistan on?

Friday, September 5, 2008
Pundit Reactions to John McCain Speech
I did not think that the substantive part of the speech worked very well. It was mostly a rerun, retread of a lot of old Republican ideas that have brought us to where we are now. I think the country is looking for fresh answers. It's hard to separate yourself out from President Bush when you essentially have the same economic policies as President Bush. I thought that the policy presentation was a little thin.

Friday, September 5, 2008
The Real John McCain
Rather than remaking George W. Bush's Republican Party in his own image, Mr. McCain allowed the practitioners of the politics of fear and division to run the show. Thursday night, Americans mainly saw the old John McCain versus the 'new' John McCain who questioned the patriotism of his opponents and threw out a list of false claims about Barack Obama's record

Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Palin Was a Director of Embattled Sen. Stevens's 527 Group
Was a Director of Embattled Sen. Stevens's 527 Group. Gov. Sarah Palin began building clout in her state's political circles in part by serving as a director of an independent 527 political group organized by the now embattled Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens. Palin's name is listed on 2003 incorporation papers of the "Ted Stevens Excellence in Public Service, Inc.," a 527 group that could raise unlimited funds.

Sunday, August 31, 2008
Obama Outwits the Bloviators
(1 comments) After a week long orgy of inane gassing by pundits, falsely called "convention coverage" on television, the outcomes at the Democratic convention turned out to once again fool the mainstream media, which was completely caught off guard. There was a huge disconnect between the ingrown, made-up world of the lamestream politically biased right-leaning narrative and the mood out on mainstreet among the American public.

Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Obama Asks Dept of Justice To Block Swiftboat"Terrorist" Ad And Investigate
(1 comments) Barack Obama has appealed to the Department of Justice in his efforts to fight a Republican billionare's ads that try to connect the Democratic candidate to foreign and domestic terrorists. Obama's campaign has written the Department of Justice demanding a criminal investigation of the "American Issues Project"

Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Networks Sleep While Democracy Burns
(1 comments) The "Big Three" have decided that democracy is bad for business, and are treating viewers to SITCOMS and TEEN LIBIDO. The message they're sending is that the most important political events of the last four years don't merit the nation's full attention - and certainly matter less than the standard prime-time fare. According to research from 2004 less than 5 percent of networks newscasts dealt with candidates' positions on po

Saturday, August 23, 2008
The AP has a Ron Fournier problem
(4 comments) No sooner had Obama announced Biden as his pick for VP than Ron Fournier, Associated Press writer, writes a hatchet piece(under the guise of objective journalism which carries the title "Biden Pick Shows Lack of Confidence" This is a prime example of what I have been saying about the Lamestream media serving as Republican National Committee propagandists. Note Fournier's association with Karl Rove.

Saturday, August 23, 2008
Media repeat Limbaugh's baseless charge that claimed Obama got "sweetheart deals" from Rezko Without Noting Rebuttal
The Neo-Cons are busy little bees getting the media to do their dirtywork on behalf of John McCain. Now, apparently, they are uncritically passing along Rush Limbaugh slander without any disclaimers as to the Limbaugh source for their story. No rebuttals. It seems that the press is busy tearing down Obama and protecting McCain. Real "objective" of them, isn't it?

Saturday, August 23, 2008
Anti-Obama Ayers Ad Funded By One Billionaire McCain Supporter
The "American Issues Project", an "independent" group whose ad is the most negative of the cycle and links Obama to terrorism, says the group just filed a report naming its sole donor as Dallas billionaire Harold Simmons, who made his first fortune in chain pharmacies Simmons is a major Republican donor, who gives Republicans huge amounts of money.

Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Large U.S. Bank to Collapse This Year: Worst is Yet to Come
(4 comments) The worst of the global financial crisis is yet to come and a large U.S. bank will fail in the next few months as the world's biggest economy hits further troubles. We're not just going to see mid-sized banks go under in the next few months, we're going to see a whopper, a big investment bank or huge bank go under. The U.S. Federal Reserve was wrong to cut interest rates because that will lead to hyper inflation.

Sunday, August 17, 2008
How Anti-Intellectualism Is Destroying America (and electing John McCain)
(1 comments) "It's like these guys take pride in being ignorant." Barack Obama finally said it. Though a successful political and electoral strategy, the Right's stand against intelligence has steered this country far off course, leaving us unable to deal successfully with the complex and dynamic circumstances we face as a nation and a society. How can we as a society have 15-year-olds who rank 24th out of 29 countries in math

Sunday, August 17, 2008
McCain's 'Cross In The Dirt" anecdote stolen from Solzhenitsyn?
(1 comments) I was watching the 'Saddleback Forum' and decided I would try to listen to John McCain speak. I was doing OK with the "my friends" and the evil chuckle when I heard him tell his POW story of the cross in the dirt. That was when I couldn't take anymore. That just sounded so fake and so contrived, that I did a little research about it. Here is what I found: An almost identical story excerpted from Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

Saturday, August 16, 2008
ExxonMobil Owns the Media's Convention Coverage
This should explain in part why we never see anything disparaging about John McSlander. The raw truth is that the folks who own him (big corporations and big oil) have been, are now and will be from now on, using the mass media to 'king make' John McCain by proxy and propaganda as their pick for president through manipulated press coverage and funding the Republican National Committee's slander machine embodied in the McCain

Thursday, August 14, 2008
Report Shows 20% Of Money Spent For Iraq War Goes To Private Contractors
The United States is spending roughly one-fifth of funds for the war in Iraq on private contractors. This is a troubling trend."The Bush Administration's move to outsource large portions of the Iraq war effort sets a dangerous precedent in part based on the need to provide logistical support beyond the capability of an overstretched military. The use of private contractors restricts accountability and oversight; opens th

Tuesday, August 12, 2008
For Hillary--Smart Dems Want Hillary on Ticket
(20 comments) Obama/Clinton would unify on one ticket both change and experience. Together, they look like the future millions of Americans, not only women and minorities. I don't see why Obama resists putting Hillary on the ticket. He'd be a fool not to, at this point, with McCain coming up in the polls. Maybe Republicans hate the "Hill" but the haters won't vote Democrat anyway. Obama needs someone who has name recognition that

Tuesday, August 12, 2008
GOPers For Obama Rip McCain On Georgia, Tout Hagel As VP
Moderates Republicans say they served with Sen. McCain when he voted against the Bush/Cheney tax cuts and against drilling in ANWAR. These same Republicans view McCain's current foreign policy as bellicose and shortsighted and probably at odds with international interests. They say his recent uncivility and his flip-flopping to pander to the right all goes [against] his credibility.

Friday, August 8, 2008
Know-Nothing Politics
(1 comments) Republicans, once hailed as the "party of ideas," have become the party of stupid. What is meant by "stupid" is: that know-nothingism - the insistence that there are simple, brute-force, instant-gratification answers to every problem, and that there's something effeminate and weak about anyone who suggests otherwise - has become the core of Republican policy and political strategy.

Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Riding the warhorse: Introducing President McCain
Allow your mouth to say "President John McCain". Our depleted military will swell its ranks with people once turned away (i.e., criminals) and there will be even more of that private army of highly paid, federally funded Blackwater mercenaries unaccountable to the rule of law. War and national bankruptcy will become a permanent way of life

Monday, August 4, 2008
Poll: McCain's attack strategy paying dividends
If this article is true, and the old Bush-Rove tactics are working yet again, then this country is more stupid than I thought and we're doomed to finish the ride down the tubes we've been on for the last eight years. There is no hope if the American public is this flat out dumb!

Monday, August 4, 2008
JOHN MCCAIN:THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE CONNECTION
McCain was subjected to 5 ½ years of Soviet driven "brain perversion techniques."Is he fit to be President and Commander in Chief of the military

Friday, August 1, 2008
Strong Economy Propels Brazil to World Stage
Brazil, South America's largest economy, is finally poised to realize its long-anticipated potential as a global player, as the country rides its biggest economic expansion in three decades. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has demonstrated a light touch when it comes to economic stewardship, avoiding the populist impulses of leaders in Venezuela and Bolivia and has guided economic expansion. through a deft combination

Thursday, July 31, 2008
John McCain Plays the Race Card
(5 comments) McCain's "celebrity" smear ad is a somewhat tamer version of the white bimbo ad used so successfully against Harold Ford in Tennessee. In juxtaposing Barack Obama with Britney Spears and Paris Hilton, the McCain campaign is simply trying to plant the old racist seed of black man hitting on young white woman. Not directly, but subliminally and disgracefully.

Wednesday, July 30, 2008
McCain Lies About Oil Drilling and the Media Yawns
Ending the moratorium on coastal drilling holds no serious promise of reducing gasoline prices for US consumers even a single penny two decades from now according to Bush's own energy analysts. And Big Oil has tens of billions of barrels of oil yet to find and retrieve from the Gulf of Mexico leases that were opened up two years ago.So McCain's claim is spin wrapped in a lie wrapped in a hoax.If there is no penalty i

Tuesday, July 29, 2008
If Iran Attacks It Might Really be Israel says CIA Officer
Some intel types are concerned that the Israelis might do something completely crazy to get the US involved. There are a number of possible "false flag" scenarios in which the Israelis could insert a commando team in the Persian Gulf or use some of their people inside Iraq to stage an incident that would make it look like Iran was the pepetrator

Tuesday, July 29, 2008
White House Predicts $482 Billion Deficit
The White House predicted Monday that President Bush would leave a record $482 billion deficit to his successor, a sobering turnabout in the nation's fiscal condition from 2001, when Mr. Bush took office after three consecutive years of budget surpluses.

Monday, July 28, 2008
Obama promises efforts to revive economy
Obama has specific recommendations. John McCain wants austerity for the poor to balance the budget, but more of the same policy failures that put us where we are now.

Sunday, July 27, 2008
Republican Hagel Blasts McCain Attacks on Obama
(1 comments) Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb, criticized two attacks his friend, fellow Republican, and fellow Vietnam veteran Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., launched against Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, this week. On CBS's Face the Nation this morning, host Bob Schieffer asked Hagel about McCain's claim that "Senator Obama would rather lose a war in order to win a campaign." Hagel replied, "I think John is treading on some very thin ground

Sunday, July 27, 2008
Mainstream media lacking in journalistic integrity
Republican spin machine says the media is too liberal, but not so fast. In fact, the opposite is true: the notion of fairness in journalism has been guided by a miscalculated rule that in order to report good news about a liberal or a liberal success, news reporting has to be counterbalanced either with unearned praise for conserva

Saturday, July 26, 2008
GETTING TO KNOW YOU (THE REAL JOHN MCCAIN)
Due to a huge national double standard, John McCain never seems to have to pay for his foul-ups and bad behavior. The mythical John McCain as affable, straight-talking, moderately conservative war hero is still spread around by the press. This is the image the public has of McCain, not the down and dirty demgague and radical right wing conservative.

Saturday, July 26, 2008
Veterans Respond to McCain's "Obama Wants to Lose" Remark
Here is a bunch of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans who are feeling insulted by John McCain's claiming that Obama "wants America to "lose" the war if it would help him (Obama) win a political campaign" is nothing short of slander and is scurrilous political rhetoric; an insult to vets who have fought in both Iraq and Afghanistan

Saturday, July 26, 2008
McCain's Double Standard on Campaign Visits to Military Bases
TMcCain campaign is being dishonest in criticizing Obama for following the same Pentagon rule as McCain followed this last April. Of course, there was no outcry from McCain's campaign at the time over it. So this seems to be just a simple cheap shot at Obama, in the hopes that the media won't Google this and ferret out the deceit of McCain's campaign.

Thursday, July 24, 2008
The Oil Man Cometh
(4 comments) What 80-year-old T. Boone Pickens says, in a $58 million campaign, is that we can't drill our way to lower gas prices. By implication, anybody who tells you otherwise - including the fellow Texan he helped put in the White House - is a fraud.

Thursday, July 24, 2008
Why John McCain's "Surge" Success Story is a Lie
McCain is doing a major revisionist editing job on recent Iraq history. He ignores the timeline of the surge vs. the Anbar Awakening and says it depends on how you define "surge". (Reminds me of Clinton's verbal gymnastics). Mccain gives himself credit for advocating a surge strategy that wasn't even articulated when the slowdown in violence began taking place. Now he declares the "surge" was basically his idea.

Tuesday, July 22, 2008
The Press Talks About an Obama Bias, All While Giving McCain Special Treatment
Nobody in the history of modern politics has been a bigger media sweetheart than John McCain. And in this campaign, he is allowed to virtually say or do anything without being called on it. It's bad enough that John McCain's campaign is making the bogus claim of press favoritism toward Obama, but now the mainstream media are reporting this as if the slant towards Obama were established fact.

Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Big Oil profits steered to Investors
Oil companies insist they're using record profits to explore and develop new oil fields that might help bring down gas prices, but the actual money they spend on exploration is nothing compared with what they spend on stock buybacks and dividends. This may be good news for shareholders but no help to average Americans already making drastic cutbacks to offset the high cost of fuel.

Monday, July 21, 2008
CEO Salaries Weather Mortgage Crisis
(8 comments) CEO Salaries Weather Mortgage Crisis CEOs of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac last year reaped roughly $30 million in salary, incentives and other perks, despite setting their banks on courses which now require government bailouts. This is corporate welfare at it's finest. Companies have all the resources to make educated decisions but if they are foolish and wasteful the taxpayers are forced to bail them out.

Saturday, July 19, 2008
Why Karl Rove Should Go To Jail
(5 comments) The courts have made clear that no one, not even the president, is immune from compulsory process. Any person who scoffs at the law and who has committed an offense that is punishable by jail time should be put in jail. This includes Karl Rove.

Thursday, July 17, 2008
A Developer, His Deals and His Ties to McCain
Mr. McCain, who has staked two presidential campaigns on pledges to avoid even the appearance of dispensing official favors. And yet one special donor, Arizona mega-real estate developer Donald R. Diamond, is a recipient of multiple, high powered official special favors from John McCain. Diamond is one of the elite fund-raisers the McCain campaign calls "Innovators", having raised more than $250,000.00 so far.

Wednesday, July 16, 2008
HALF OF MCCAIN'S CAMPAIGN CASH CAME FROM 500 BUNDLERS
HALF OF MCCAIN'S CAMPAIGN CASH CAME FROM 500 BUNDLERS Senator John McCain released an updated list of his top money collectors on Tuesday, revealing that nearly ONE FIFTH of those brining in the largest amounts for him--totalling more than $500,000 each-- ARE LOBBYISTS OR WORK FOR FIRMS THAT ENGAGE IN LOBBYING.

Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Obama Campaign Manager Airs Cash Woes In Video
The RNC has been quietly gathering funds at private events. The Democratic National Committee, meanwhile, was broke by the end of last year and still lags far behind. The McCain campaign, collecting huge checks from Washington lobbyists and special interest PACs, raised more money than ever before in June. Combined with the Republican National Committee, they now have more than $95 million in cash on hand.

Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Wall Street's Great Deflation
It took both parties over thirty years to create the unregulated financial mess we have today. Mammoth tax cuts for the wealthy weren't enough. Now we have to have mammoth bailouts at taxpayer expense for these same rich people who got the tax cuts. It looks like the job of the U.S. government is to trickle down our national resources into the pockets of the rich, but to protect these same most powerful interests from the

Friday, July 11, 2008
For McCain, Another Problem Fundraiser
A former investment banker, Oregon venture capitalist Craig Berkman, admitted to "loaning" himself millions from his client's accounts without their knowledge. John McCain thinks that is OK, because Craig Berkman is now a fundraiser and donor for the McCain presidential campaign and the Republican party. "Corruption fighter," McCain gas poor ethical judgment when it comes to the people he surrounds himself with.

Thursday, July 10, 2008
The Flip Flopper on Iraq? John McCain
(2 comments) John McCain told the Council on Foreign Relations in 2004 that we'd respect an Iraqi government request, saying if they wanted us to set a timetable, should that occur we would have no choice but to leave. Well, I see that yesterday Iraqi Prime Minister Al-Maliki said it's time for the US to leave, or set a timetable to leave.Now McCain says we need to stay forever with permanent occupation. Which is it?

Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Progressives Must Guard Against Helping to Promote Republican Narrative That Alleges Obama "Flip Flops"
If Democrats can't become smarter than spoiled children wanting everything exactly their own way, they'll LOSE by cutting the ground out from under Obama with carping at a time when he needs their support. Can Democrats put up with two thirds of a loaf, or will they help another Republican get elected by fragmenting Obama's campaign?

Monday, July 7, 2008
Court Orders YouTube to Give Viacom Video Logs
This needs to be appealed by Google. The American people need to weigh in on this violation of Internet privacy. This goes beyond copyright. I don't know about anyone else but I'm contacting my elected representatives about this one. This is a real infringement of privacy rights. This is a threat to average citizens and needs to be appealed.

Sunday, July 6, 2008
Veterans Group Plans Ad Campaign Touting Iraq War
(1 comments) Heads Up Dems:__ John McCain, who has made support for President Bush's troop buildup in Iraq the centerpiece of his presidential campaign, is getting from help from a veterans group that's launching a national TV ad campaign next week. "Vets for Freedom" is spending $1.5 million on ads that will run on national cable television and in five states in July - the first set of ads in a multimillion dollar campaign to smear Obama

Saturday, July 5, 2008
As Gas Prices Soar, Elderly/Disabled Face Cuts in Aid
(1 comments) Faced with soaring gasoline prices, agencies around the country that provide services to the elderly say they are having to cut back on programs like Meals on Wheels, transportation assistance and home care, especially in rural areas that depend on volunteers who provide their own gas. We've got money for Iraq, but not for our own people.

Saturday, July 5, 2008
Cause for Alarm
America still celebrates the rituals of July 4th, but selfishness, partisanship, class warfare and lack of political will at the top to solve problems seem to be putting our country on the fast track to decline.

Thursday, July 3, 2008
75% BLAME BUSH'S POLICIES FOR DETERIORATING ECONOMY
The figure includes large numbers of dissatisfied Republicans and represents a sharp increase in pessimism over the last year.

Thursday, July 3, 2008
China Earthquake caused by U.S. HAARP weapon?
Is it possible there is a link between the China earthquakes and the chain lightning of over 4,000 strikes (unheard of) in N2orthern California and the unusual flooding in the Midwest? Perhaps I am paranoid and have no proof, but I have never seen so many 'freak' weather patterns concentrated in such a short time. Where there's smoke, there may be fire. I wouldn't put it past the Pentagon to be doing such a thing.

Monday, June 30, 2008
U.S. Advised Iraqi Ministry on Oil Deals
(3 comments) Now we see the real reason for the Iraq invasion. The gloves are off and Bush plans to exchange the blood shed by hundreds of thousands for lucrative oil contracts.

Monday, June 30, 2008
Report: Iran preparing to fire missiles at Dimona
British Times quotes defense sources as saying Tehran has moved ballistic missiles into launch positions following reported large-scale IAF exercise. Former Mossad chief says Israel has only one year to stop Iran from developing nuclear bomb

Sunday, June 29, 2008
U.S. escalating covert operations against Iran according to report
The headline speaks for itself.

Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Loving John McCain (i.e., How Media Adoration Runneth Over for "The Maverick")
"No candidate since John F. Kennedy, and perhaps none since Franklin Delano Roosevelt, has enjoyed such cozy relations with the press."(Quoted from this article)

Monday, June 23, 2008
Now That We've 'Won,' Let's Come Home [And Quit Bankrupting the Country]
Now That We've 'Won,' Let's Come Home [And Quit Bankrupting the Country]

Sunday, June 22, 2008
Battle shapes up over future of U.S. in Iraq
The truth finally comes out: the real reason President Bush wants to stay in Iraq: i.e., longterm U.S; hegemony over oil supplies. Not 'democracy', not anti-terrorism. Here is the bare-knuckles rationale: the U.S. wants to be on the ground floor of Iraq's oil exporting future and the Sunni countries in the area want to have the U.S. as a hedge against Iranian influence. .

Saturday, June 21, 2008
Bomb Iran? What's to Stop Us?
(8 comments) It's crazy, but it's coming soon – from the same folks who brought us Iraq

Saturday, June 21, 2008
Israeli Warplanes Practice for Raid on Iran Nukes
(1 comments) It may well be coming, folks! The unthinkable "he wouldn't dare" may just be in the offing. And it would be a bigger disaster than imagined. World oil supplies disrupted, massive sabotage of Western interests, pan-Micdle East spike ierrorism; American troops in Iraq put in danger by Iranian retaliation. It just gets better and better, folks. Watch Bush do this right before the election.

Thursday, June 19, 2008
McCain 'C-Word' Moment Becomes Fodder For Satirists
I don't know why McCain would get votes from either women or evangelicals. He's misogynist and has a filthy, cursing mouth. Not exactly your family man in his personal life either.

Thursday, June 19, 2008
The Big Pander to Big Oil
President Bush's call to relax restrictions on offshore oil drilling is based once again on hot-button emotional sloganeering, not solid facts or policy.

Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Oil Companies Have Unused Leases on Public Land Already
Conservatives are screaming "Dems won't open public lands for oil drilling!" This article shows that oil companies have more than enough access to public lands leased by the Federal Government to them, but they refuse to drill on two thirds of that land that they have already. This is another conservative red herring employed by Republican spin and smear-doctors to beat up on Democrats with more of their hot-button slogans.

Wednesday, June 18, 2008
McCain Sets a New Record: 10 Flip-Flops in Two Weeks
(1 comments) Is John Kerry a novice in comparison? Will this be an issue with McCain like it was with Kerry in 2004? I wouldn't count on it. He's a Republican and the media won't let it become an issue this time. If's OK to make an issue for a Democrat but Republicans get a free pass. All the slogans will be about something else.

Saturday, May 3, 2008
Republicans Crossing Over to Vote in Democratic Contests
Old guard Republicans are so disenchanted with Bush policies they are crossing over to vote in Democratic primaries

Friday, January 18, 2008
Chamber of Commerce vows to punish anti-business candidates
(2 comments) Alarmed at the increasingly progressive and populist tone of the 2008 political campaign, the president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce vows to spend millions of of corporate dollars to defeat candidates of both parties deemed to be anti-business.

Sunday, September 23, 2007
NORTHCOM Plans 5 Day Martial Law Exercise
Possible preparations for implementation ofmartial law in the event of an 'emergency.'