Paul Krugman does a hell of a job dissecting the Republican party’s failures and where it has left them. One part of his latest column that really sticks out is this: The fault, however, lies not in Republicans’ stars but in themselves. Forty years ago the G.O.P. decided, in effect, to make itself the party […]
And they want this idiot to be our vice-President? Speaking before voters in Colorado Springs, the Republican vice presidential nominee claimed that lending giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had “gotten too big and too expensive to the taxpayers.” The companies, as McClatchy reported, “aren’t taxpayer funded but operate as private companies. The takeover may […]
Jake Tapper has posted a great blog entry bringing up some key points about the McCain campaign’s response to McCain not being in the “cone of silence“: 1) The McCain campaign’s vitriol against NBC’s Andrea Mitchell is odder still when you consider that the McCain campaign’s blogger Michael Goldfarb was quoting her very same reporting […]
So you thought John McCain was done with Phil Gramm? Well you were wrong: After Sen. John McCain publicly repudiated his close friend and adviser Phil Gramm’s comments about a “nation of whiners” and a “mental recession,” the two old political comrades patched up their relationship. Gramm apologized to McCain for his remarks that gave […]
Look at all these whiners lined up to get their money out of IndyMac. Don’t they know it’s all in their head, according to Phil Gramm and many Republicans?
When you complain about paying $4.00+ a gallon for gas and can’t afford health care, food, the mortgage or vacations, you are being “mental” and “whining”. That according to McCain’s economic guru, and one of the key players in this mortgage crisis (as well as husband of someone closely tied to the Enron scandal), Phil […]
According to director of national intelligence, Mike McConnell, it is so the telecom companies can survive: “It’s true that some of the authorities would carry over to the period they were established for one year. That would put us into the August, September time frame. However, that’s not the real issue. The issue is liability […]