Comments on: Late Late Nite: Congratulations On the Oscar, Sidney and Rob

By: amberglow

amberglow — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:11:32 +0000

ot, sorta, but don’t forget about Freeheld — Documentary on lesbian police officer’s struggle gets Oscar

(and they left Whoopi out of all the montages–wtf? i hear it was one of the lowest-watched ever)

By: wesgpc

wesgpc — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:25:42 +0000

If you are still here: You are correct that the FEC is not functioning, but TPM has said that the FEC Commissioner is still functioning, and wrote letter to McCain saying he was in violation of the law. So that is the letter I was referring to, not Dean’s letter: Here is the rundown from TPM. A later post discusses McCain’s response to the FEC Commissioner’s letter:

McCain’s FEC Problem
By Paul Kiel - February 22, 2008, 1:17PM

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpoi.....roblem.php

By: ThingsComeUndone

ThingsComeUndone — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:30:52 +0000

We need our Dems to return all the cash they got from companies that have screwed our troops we have plenty of cash and if we do it all at once we protect ourselves from GOP charges of they did it too! Plus we get a positive newsstory out of it and we can hammer the cash desperate GOP for not returning the money they got.
We do not need more of the same to be the GOP’s catchword about us Change begins at home.
The GOP has to discredit Change to beat us it is their next logical move. The thing is will things really be different this time or are we fooling ourselves?
Only we can apply the pressure!

By: prostratedragon

prostratedragon — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:22:14 +0000

More commentaries on the Alan Blinder article are at Brad DeLong’s blog. Where Blinder supports a buyout of loans by the Federal Govt (as proposed in the Senate by Dodd), Lawrence Summers is in line with another Senate proposal that would use the bankruptcy process to adjudicate lower principle amounts for borrowers who apply for Ch.13 relief, an action popularly known as a “cram-down” of the loan.

Both of these proposals are likely to enter debate this or next week in the Senate. FWIW, I greatly prefer the second for several reasons, a biggy being that the bankruptcy court would evaluate an applicant’s financial situation including ability to pay —indeed, applicants are likely to self-select with a bias toward actual need— making it more likely that relief is handed out fairly on the consumer side. On the business side I think the educational potential to have to absorb both credit and operational losses from courtside piecework is also greater than from a bulk government purchase, which might help delay the Next Time, a little. More later.

By: ThingsComeUndone

ThingsComeUndone — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:07:19 +0000

I want Senators Warner and John McCain on TV saying I didn’t know, it wasn’t my job/fault etc. I want round the clock hammering on this issue until the election.

By: ThingsComeUndone

ThingsComeUndone — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 09:55:42 +0000

We need managers not delegators the whole Harvard School of Business MBA program that treats labor as a cost is a disaster. We need army cooks, we need more freakin auditors for the army when a war happens because that is when the army spends more money. The phrase Pennywise Pound Foolish sums up the entire Bush Presidency.

By: ThingsComeUndone

ThingsComeUndone — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 09:49:33 +0000

John McCain thinks that we can win in Iraq well where the hell was he when the Pentagon cut the number of auditors? Oh right free markets will save us by saving money…and infecting just how many of our troops with Hepatitis A?
Kevlar helmets that are defective! How long did our troops wait for the new armored vehicles and before that armored humvees and bullet proof vests!
If the Armed Forces Committee doesn’t do its job then our troops can’t do theirs. They need enough troops and equipment to do the job right the first time.
Cause like a cake if you mess up on the ingredients the first time its real hard to salvage anything edible…that tastes like a real victory.
This tastes like Crow Senator and I believe the meal is yours and your BFF Bush.

By: ThingsComeUndone

ThingsComeUndone — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 09:38:51 +0000

Fine if we can’t end the war lets put some of the people who made a profit shortchanging our troops into jail! We can make the GOP beg us to end the war if we threaten enough of them. Remember they care about money above all and after that image/pride lets take that from them then.

By: ThingsComeUndone

ThingsComeUndone — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 09:35:23 +0000

WASHINGTON DC – Senator John Kerry wrote to Department of Defense Inspector General, Charles M. Kicklighter today, to request that he report on sub-standard armor inside protective helmets that were distributed to troops over the last twenty years, including those fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. The DoD contractor, Sioux Manufacturing of Fort Totten, recently settled a $156 million suit alleging that Sioux knowingly manufactured helmets for American troops below critical minimum safety requirements. Despite reports of wrongdoing, the DoD recently awarded Sioux a new $74 million contract to make more helmets. This news is especially disturbing, considering the horrible toll head injuries have taken on American troops.

“The possibility that a company knowingly put troops at greater risk is unacceptable, but reports of the Pentagon’s inadequate response once these allegations surfaced are even more troubling,” said Kerry. “We need an investigation, not to dwell on the wrongdoing of the manufacturer, but to guarantee that our troops are never put at risk because their government can’t inspect the equipment meant to protect them. The lives and health of our troops are too important to be lost to negligence or bureaucratic foot-dragging.”

http://kerry.senate.gov/cfm/record.cfm?id=292642

Time to stop being nice Senator Kerry nail some GOP Senator heads to the wall punish one teach a thousand. But get the big guys first I suggest Senators Warner and McCain!

By: ThingsComeUndone

ThingsComeUndone — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 09:32:43 +0000

Morning Biodun Iginla!