And continuing from last thread, Goldberg responded to Imus that no, this economic mess didn’t start with the current “horrid” [Imus’ word] administration…it started with Reagan, then Bush 41, and even Bill Clinton was too cosy with the billionaires.

Danny Goldberg was singin’ my song this morning on Imus.

ewww, Imus, he’s a “shock jock”!

Good morning BT.
This is an interesting bit from your WSJ link:

The U.S. financial system resembles a patient in intensive care. The body is trying to fight off a disease that is spreading, and as it does so, the body convulses, settles for a time and then convulses again. The illness seems to be overwhelming the self-healing tendencies of markets. The doctors in charge are resorting to ever-more invasive treatment, and are now experimenting with remedies that have never before been applied. Fed Chairman Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, walking into a hastily arranged meeting with congressional leaders Tuesday night to brief them on the government’s unprecedented rescue of AIG, looked like exhausted surgeons delivering grim news to the family.

I believe the technical term used in the health profession to describe the current status of our financial system would be “circling the drain”.

Jim White,
More like D.N.R.

So, what’s going to happen today?

O/t……but is “swim” a no o/t zone? :-)

8-18-08 example of CNN’s f&b policy:

Fact check on O’s claim that mcsame voted with bush 90% of the time:

Why, yes, Virginia………that does appear to be true.

but…..but….but…… Biden voted with bush 52% of the time and Obama, 40% of the time.

(think irc the %s)

So now the Dems are gonna have to vote against bush 100% of the time to be politically correct?

SPIT!

Palin=Parrot

Polly wanna Cracker!?

Have you heard anywhere this morning about D’s and some R’s being pissed they weren’t consulted about the AIG decision?

Jessie Jackson Jr doing a superb job on scar.

awful, isn’t it….

When he gets too shocking we just switch to the Beeb or Sunrise Earth. Scar Free Zone hereabouts.

Could this be a reason for Obama’s rising poll numbers??

On the campaign attacks underway now, with a flurry of negative ads flying: “You can’t underestimate the wisdom of the people of America. They’re seeing through the rhetoric, and they’re seeing through a lot of the political cheap shots, also. And they’re getting down to the facts and the voting records that are going to show that stark contrast.”

Not all Americans are stupid!

Bring them home

Frieda !

are any of the bobbleheads talking about the “foreign policy expert”’s huge Zapatero gaffe ??

Yep. The economic pain is trickling up. Economy been beat over the head and left for dead.

The headlines I’m seeing have the R’s mad. I haven’t gotten around to reading the articles yet.

For some great fun, Glennzilla just put up a great post on the right-wing hand-wringing over the hacking of Palin’s email. Gonna be funny in the comments, too. One winger already demolished and I’m sure they’ll send lots more our way over the course of the day.

Jessie Jackson Jr doing a superb job on scar.

P.S. -

Forgot to mention that Jackson Jr. also made a big point about what would have happened??? had Social Security been privatized and this week happened. Boy! howdy, do the Dems need to hammer *that* one into the ground!

Ho hum…….Just another bright shiny. Scar was in a total snit this morning whining on about “imagine if Biden’s e-mails had been hacked? It’d be all over the NYT and other media.” Not a direct quote but near enough so’s ya get the flavor.

“Bring ‘em on”……..if the Lake ain’t taught me nothin’ else, it’s how to pretend the crazies don’t exist. At least at *this* URL. :-)

I hope the whining over the e-mail breach reminds the voters that we have no privacy, the government has been getting all access all the time. . .the government however does not do the courtesy of informing us when it is done.

CSPAN
Rep. Nick Rahall (D-WV), Natural Resources Cmte., Chairman
oil & gas royalty abuse

Those poll numbers are great. The movement in the numbers appears to be tied to the crashing of the economy. That may mean that as the situation continues to deteriorate, more and more people will realize that the “de-regulator” was cheering on the creation of this disaster. The good news is we could get an Obama presidency. The bad news is that we may be all the way back to a barter economy by then.

Morning all,
Not sure what is going on w/ FDL this am or is it me. Things are just not lining up on page. Side bar and blog links etc under threads and response block, reply not working, etc

Lynne Cheney is on Scar hyping a book on the constitution for children.

Really.

There are so many jokes/snarkaism there I don’t know where to begin, but when she was asked about Palin, she said she was surprised at her nomination.

Wasn’t she selected? Or did I miss something?

have you tried clearing your cache?

Or did I miss something?

You did indeed. If you are looking for truth then stop watching/listening/reading MSM and it is only going to get worse as the RWNFs see their life span ebbing away.

This is the time for the Ds to have a presser and discuss what would have happened to SS if the R’s and the Masters of the Universe got their paws on the SS trust fund. We all need to have control over our investments - make some $$ playing the market.

Any R’s wanna discuss this is a Town Hall meet up?

great. economic crisis. mccain and Palin are clueless and say so. and people (not here. out there) wanna talk about Palin’s e-mail. great. hoe we get back to issues soon. enough bullshit distractions.

OMG! I assume that’s you over there assisting in the slash and burn. *smooch* for the h/t and makin’ my day……will return frequently in the next 24 for further installments.

OT, but in my next life I want to come back as Courtney Hazlett of Morning Joe.

Must be nice to make cash pontificating about the upcoming weekends best movies, and giving my picks for the Emmys.

good comments gang. didn’t see scar but looks like JJJ did a good job focusing. that’s what we gotta do.

embarassing typo for the day. (jeez, i’m at it early)

“hope” not “hoe” in my 26

Between the financial fuck ups and the enforced premiums to medicare and that idiotic Part ‘D’ my retirement is soon going to necessitate un-retiring and my spouse is looking at another 10 years instead of 5 before she can contemplate the “good life” of retirement. And still people are thinking of voting for these bozos it boggles the mind.

well gotta run. just wanted to drop by and get a dose. be back tonight prolly. maybe some during the day.

i got one house. had one spouse.
si, se puede

Eliott @ 23 Thanks but still not working including respond

“In the 1930s, at the trough of the Depression, when Glass-Steagall became law, it was believed that government was the answer. It was believed that stability and growth came from government overriding the functioning of free markets.

“We are here today to repeal Glass-Steagall because we have learned that government is not the answer. We have learned that freedom and competition are the answers. We have learned that we promote economic growth and we promote stability by having competition and freedom.

“I am proud to be here because this is an important bill; it is a deregulatory bill. I believe that that is the wave of the future.”

Phil Gramm
Nov. 12, 1999

Remain calm, there’s nothing to see, move along.

-G

Voting on two idiots based on what? Their records? That Mc was a POW? Really what are they thinking? Oh, I forgot, they can’t think.

why are the R’s whining about AIG ??

from my barely informed seat, it was necessary to keep the entire system from crashing -

and can someone tell me, Where is the President of the United States ?!?!?

Speech by SEC Chairman:
Gramm-Leach-Bliley Seven Years Later
by
Chairman Christopher Cox
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Financial Services Roundtable 2006 Fall Conference Leadership Lunch
Washington, D.C.
September 21, 2006

http://www.sec.gov/news/speech…..2106cc.htm

He’s playing air guitar.

-G

A nurse at work told me last night that she has no choice but to vote for McCain, because there is no way she could ever vote for “that terrorist“.

Foothillsmike @ 33 Am having the same problems. Firefox?

“We are here today to repeal Glass-Steagall because we have learned that government is not the answer. We have learned that freedom and competition are the answers. We have learned that we promote economic growth and we promote stability by having competition and freedom.

“I am proud to be here because this is an important bill; it is a deregulatory bill. I believe that that is the wave of the future.”

Phil Gramm
Nov. 12, 1999

I pray someone has this on video; as I’ve said before, Obama’s campaign should hang this mess around Gramm’s (and therefore McBush’s) neck relentlessly from now to the election.

Extra bonus points if they can link it to any Repug that voted for it running for re-election to the Senate.

oldnslow @ 41 no internet explorer

Well, if nothing else, it *has* been a “wave”………of disaster.

OK, try logging out of FDL and restarting your browser.

did you try it in another browser such as firefox?

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Rove Tells the Truth: Palin “Not the Most Qualified”

Speech by SEC Chairman:
Gramm-Leach-Bliley Seven Years Later
by
Chairman Christopher Cox

What a find! Thanks for that.

Helps explain a lot, such as why Cox has been so late to this meltdown; he helped create the legislation!

Wasn’t that the “Gramm-Leach-Baily Bill”? As in Jim Leach who is supporting Obama?

make sure you remember you password!

and for reply to work, you have to wait for the page to completely refresh

from my barely informed seat, it was necessary to keep the entire system from crashing

If a company is “too big to fail” it is too big. We must somehow curb these vast “global” companies that become almost like separate states that we must become allied with and “defend” as though territory.

I can see Maine from my window, I think I’ll run for governor there.

Elliott @ 45 & 50 Done that been there

ohhh
hmm.

The lying and equivocation of McCain and every one of his surrogates, over the last three days, ought to be apparent to anyone who every tried to bull shit through an essay question.

The McCain-Zapatero interview suggests a nice opportunity for Ali G.

Chris Matthews beat the crap out of Republican Congessman Eric Cantor yesterday. He repeatedly accused the Republicans of trying to take their uniforms off and mix into the crowd.

If you have cleared you cache and still a problem it may well be that you will have to tune out of FDL for a while to let the cookies expire. I have no idea how long sessions last at FDL but 20 mins is frequently a default. They should expire at logout but sometimes the little gremlins that lurk in the tubes get corrupted…kinda like republicans.

Possibly deleting the FDL cookie would fix it?

Danny Goldberg replay now here.

Correct

Why does McSame hate Spain? Perhaps it’s because they kept shooting at him as he charged up San Juan Hill?

“Bring them home.”

Lets not be hasty here - Obama’s Serious plan is not to actually bring them home, but to bring them to Afghanistan, possibly Pakistan, probably Iran, or wherever the dynamic, expanding nebulous fronts of the Terror War take them.

Wouldn’t want to raise expectations too high that an Obama Administration would bring many troops home - disillusioned Hopesters who feel betrayed may not turn out in high enough numbers in 2012, a Very Important Election!