Is There a More Hypocritical Figure in American Politics Than Joe Lieberman?
Nope.
Alan Grayson Is the One Democrat in the House Who Relishes Calling the Republicans on Their Bullshit
And how do his fellow Dems in Congress reward him for his toughness? They trash talk him when speaking to the Republican-backed Washington Web site Politico.
Tim Geithner Always Has the Time to Talk to Those Who Matter
And they would be the CEOs of Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, and Goldman Sachs.
The Most Transparent Administration Ever! Not So Much
A British citizen was tortured by the CIA and by countries we "rendered" him to for the specific purpose of having him tortured. And waterboarding was one of the more defendible things done to him. Obama now says we shouldn't be allowed to know about it because it would make us look bad if other countries became aware that we did such things.
Could Dianne Feinstein's Hawkishness Have Anything to Do With ...
... the fact that her husband is part of the military-industrial complex?
And Could Evan Bayh and Joe Lieberman's Opposition to Health Care Reform Have Anything to Do With ...
... the fact that their wives have been paid buckets of money by health insurers and drug companies?
The New Confederacy of Republicans
Michael Hittleman writes at truthout that the GOP of today is like the Southern Democratic Party of the 1860s: racist, defiant, and oligarchical.
New Jersey Is Still Paying Goldman Sachs for Protection Against Rising Interest Rates on Bonds That No Longer Exist
Bloomberg News's Dunstan McNichol writes that the agreement that led to this debacle was made while "gay American" Jim McGreevey was governor—not Jon Corzine, the former Goldman Sachs boss who just got his ass handed to him by repulsive Bushie Chris Christie.
Who's Losing While Goldman Sachs and Wells Fargo Win Billions?
On interest rate swaps. And why do people still think Larry Summers is a genius?
Insurance Companies Are Not in the Health Care Business; They Are in the Risk Business
William Fisher reminds us of some very important truths about the health insurers.
"It's Hard to Fight People You're Trying to Squeeze Money From"
Robert Reich says Wall Street reform is going nowhere because Obama and lawmakers are too tight with the banksters. Mr. Hopey Changey hosted a fundraiser with banking bigwigs last month that brought in $2 million.
A Goldman Sachs Adviser* Says Jesus Was Really Telling Us to Make Shit Tons of Money at the Expense of Others When He Was Talking About Loving Others as Ourselves
I say that if someone were to punch that guy (the bankster, not Jesus) repeatedly in his weasel fucking face, the angels in heaven would be high-fiving each other.
He's a Maverick Against the Internets
John McCain wants to kill Net neutrality. He says that trying to prevent the telecom/cable companies that own him from fucking with our ability to access what we want online when we want it is tantamount to a "government takeover of the Internet." If you pay a U.S. senator enough money, you can get him to say the most outrageous lie without batting an eyelash.
We Could Use Another Teddy Roosevelt Again
The inimitable Frank Rich on the Obamans and their too-close-to-do-what-needs-to-be-done connections with, yeah, Goldman Sachs.
Pat Robertson Lies
About the U.S. Hate Crimes Act. He scoffs at the notion that it would ever cover religious beliefs but it has for decades.
Liz Cheney Lies
About everything.
McClatchy Has Been Covering the Shit Out of Goldman Sachs
And finally, Dean Baker, in praising the newspaper chain's three great stories on the company that rules our world, wrote that "if Fox went over Goldman with the same energy it pursued Acorn, no one in Congress would go within a mile of its lobbyists."
*This adviser is the guy Robert Reich referenced at the beginning of his blog post I linked to in the item above this one. Sadly, Reich didn't advocate physically assaulting him. I'd love to see that cute, short, Jewish academic open up a can of whup-ass on that goddamn limey bastard.
Will you hate me if I tell you that my mom used to be at Goldman Sachs AND that the first firm I worked for was their primary outside counsel?
LOL.
Posted by: Stash | November 09, 2009 at 03:49 PM