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The next bailout foretold

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Looks like we may have another bailout coming: Widespread problems in how U.S. lenders documented foreclosures could spark a wave of legal challenges resulting in massive losses to banks and serious new troubles for the housing market, a federal watchdog warned on Tuesday. … In the worst-case scenario, the panel said banks may be unable […]

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Call me paranoid, but…

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Not that it really matters whether the establishment right wing crazy or the tea party right wing crazy wins the day in Alaska, but… I was intrigued by the fact that Joe Miller is making an interesting article in his federal lawsuit challenging the way ballots are counted in Alaska. He is claiming that any […]

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Yet another example of IOKIYAR

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Imagine this guy a Democrat and imagine the hyperventilation on Fox, aided and abetted by the rest of the media. But this will be little noted nor long remembered. n one of the Tea Party’s biggest victories, Florida’s Allen West defeated incumbent Democrat Ron Klein in a rematch of their 2008 race. West, an Army […]

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Things to come?

Thursday, November 4, 2010

This is interesting: The third candidate in the race could be the spoiler in the eyes of Republicans and Foley supporters. Tom Marsh, who started out in the Republican primary field before dropping out to run as the nominee of the Independent Party, won 17,223 votes, the AP reported. It’s probably the case that we’ll […]

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Eating their own

Monday, October 25, 2010

It’s something of a truism that revolutions eat their own, which is further proof, if proof be needed, that the American Revolution was a horse of a different color-a rebellion, but not a revolution. It appears that even billionaire funded faux revolutions may follow the same pattern, as Karl Rove is finding to his discomfiture. […]

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A mystery explained

Saturday, July 24, 2010

I love the Washington Monthly’s blog (Political Animal). I consider it required reading, and I think Steven Benen does some great reporting. Still, I marvel that a guy who has been following politics so long seems constantly mystified at the fact that neither the press nor politicians behave rationally; that politicians so often say things […]

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Non sequiturs

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Yesterday I wrote a post, the thrust of which was that we are living in a world made largely fact free by the right wing echo chamber. I mentioned the fact that a friend of mine got an email from a right wing friend in which she claimed that Obama had spent his term blaming […]

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Chicken Republicans

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

The Republican Senators are all bragging about how they had Obama reeling when he came to lunch with them today. Of course, they insisted that it be closed door, so that no one can contradict them, but does anyone believe that the likes of John McCain or Bob Corker could shake Obama’s cool?

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Pigs lining up at the trough

Sunday, February 28, 2010

Steve Benen, at the Washington Monthly, points out that there are more Republicans leaving Congress than Democrats, though you’d never know it, given the press accounts of Demcrats heading for the hills. The latest, a Georgia Congressman named John Linder, is from a safe seat, so it’s not likely that it will create an opportunity […]

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They can dish it out, but they can’t take it

Thursday, December 3, 2009

The Republicans are still whining about the fact that mean old Al Franken made them vote in favor of rapists a few months back. This from the party that has made a habit out of proposing resolutions designed solely to force Democrats to cast votes that can be easily misrepresented (or, to be fair, that […]

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