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Daily Archives: November 19th, 2008

Compassion for the downtrodden

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

My wife told me about this. She is an honest person, as everyone knows, but I couldn’t help think that she was delusional: The governors of Connecticut, New York and New Jersey are asking the federal government for a $48 million emergency grant to help thousands of financial industry workers who are losing their jobs.…The […]

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Fool them thrice, or more

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

From the New York Times: The Treasury secretary, Henry M. Paulson Jr., on Tuesday rejected pleas to use money from the $700 billion bailout program to help homeowners avoid foreclosure or to stave off bankruptcy by Detroit’s Big Three automakers. Facing a barrage of complaints from Democratic lawmakers that he was ignoring the will of […]

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Update

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Last night I claimed victory in the Lieberman bet I made with a friend so many months ago. (To recap: I bet that the Dems would not bounce Lieberman as committee chair even if they got 57 members in the caucus.) Last night, I invited my opposite number to concede defeat. Well, yesterday I was […]

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