I had no idea just how powerful these moderate cross-over Senators had become. It’s gonna be a long four/eight years for hardliners like Cornyn, Inhofe and McConnell.
There’s corruption — then there’s corruption.
Apparently, Republicans in Alaska think every day is their birthday.
Republicans rejoice because they cannot do the math: they are convinced that they are down in the polls by 8-14% because 3% of all new registrations are fraudulent.
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$700,000,000,000
Seven Hundred Billion Dollars and No Pennies. That answers that question.
That’s the 12 figure limit on the Proposal to bailout the mortgage securities markets. That’s on top of what some [...]
Unfortunately, while we were all dreading the Rovian October Surprise, like bomb, bomb, bombing Iran using predator drones with smart bombs and minimal collateral damage; the real thing was an attack on Wall Street using predator lending by dumb investors with minimal collateral period.
A couple of days ago I half jokingly asked if we could [...]
Note: We all should know by now that “Sub Prime” really means, Really Bad Risk!
If you want to know what the hell a “derivative credit-default swap” is, or an english version of what the hell just happened and where we might end up, I’m directed to TIME and the Wall Street Journal. For some gawdawful [...]
By Mark Adams
This one’s huge. From Politico’s Mike Allen (Hat Tip: TPM):
“The White House had concocted a fake letter from [Iraq's former intel director] Habbush to Saddam, backdated to July 1, 2001,” Suskind writes. “It said that 9/11 ringleader Mohammad Atta had actually trained for his mission in Iraq – thus showing, finally, that there [...]
By shep
“The threat of mass death on a scale never before seen residing in the hands of an unstable madman is intolerable — and must be preempted.”
- Charles Krauthammer, October 2002
“With its oil, its urbanized middle class, its educated population, its essential modernity, Iraq has a future. In two decades Saddam Hussein reduced its GDP [...]
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