Comments on: Obama Financial Team to Taxpayers: You’ll Get Nothing, and Like It http://firedoglake.com/2009/02/02/obama-finanacial-team-to-taxpayers-youll-get-nothing-and-like-it/ Firedoglake weblog Sat, 20 Mar 2010 13:59:52 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Otay http://firedoglake.com/2009/02/02/obama-finanacial-team-to-taxpayers-youll-get-nothing-and-like-it/#comment-1816247 Otay Tue, 03 Feb 2009 03:04:14 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/02/02/obama-finanacial-team-to-taxpayers-youll-get-nothing-and-like-it/#comment-1816247 <p>This is what we get with Summers and Geithner advising Obama. Failures profiting all around (including Summers and Geithner).</p> This is what we get with Summers and Geithner advising Obama. Failures profiting all around (including Summers and Geithner).

]]> By: Phoenix Woman http://firedoglake.com/2009/02/02/obama-finanacial-team-to-taxpayers-youll-get-nothing-and-like-it/#comment-1815851 Phoenix Woman Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:31:08 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/02/02/obama-finanacial-team-to-taxpayers-youll-get-nothing-and-like-it/#comment-1815851 <p>Yup. But this is what happens when you have conservatives controlling the news sources that for half a century most Americans used more than any other up until recently, and which are still very potent brain-shapers: The evening TV news and drive-time radio. </p> <p>That’s why the Cons wanted — and got — the Fairness Doctrine killed in 1987. They had Rush Limbaugh ready and waiting to go national, which they started by all but giving his show away to small stations, most of them rural early on, in need of cheap programming. Only the Fairness Doctrine stood in their way. Once it was gone, Limbaugh and other well-financed hate-radio jocks swarmed the AM dial, and FOX News followed less than a decade later.</p> Yup. But this is what happens when you have conservatives controlling the news sources that for half a century most Americans used more than any other up until recently, and which are still very potent brain-shapers: The evening TV news and drive-time radio.

That’s why the Cons wanted — and got — the Fairness Doctrine killed in 1987. They had Rush Limbaugh ready and waiting to go national, which they started by all but giving his show away to small stations, most of them rural early on, in need of cheap programming. Only the Fairness Doctrine stood in their way. Once it was gone, Limbaugh and other well-financed hate-radio jocks swarmed the AM dial, and FOX News followed less than a decade later.

]]> By: barbara http://firedoglake.com/2009/02/02/obama-finanacial-team-to-taxpayers-youll-get-nothing-and-like-it/#comment-1815808 barbara Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:57:51 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/02/02/obama-finanacial-team-to-taxpayers-youll-get-nothing-and-like-it/#comment-1815808 <p>aka shitwiches</p> aka shitwiches

]]> By: coloradoblue http://firedoglake.com/2009/02/02/obama-finanacial-team-to-taxpayers-youll-get-nothing-and-like-it/#comment-1815765 coloradoblue Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:29:52 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/02/02/obama-finanacial-team-to-taxpayers-youll-get-nothing-and-like-it/#comment-1815765 <p>C’mon, we’ve been eating shit sandwiches for 30 years. You should be used to them by now.</p> C’mon, we’ve been eating shit sandwiches for 30 years. You should be used to them by now.

]]> By: Jane Hamsher http://firedoglake.com/2009/02/02/obama-finanacial-team-to-taxpayers-youll-get-nothing-and-like-it/#comment-1815762 Jane Hamsher Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:28:28 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/02/02/obama-finanacial-team-to-taxpayers-youll-get-nothing-and-like-it/#comment-1815762 <p>Yeah and maybe while we’re at it let’s get the Fed to tell us WTF they’ve been pouring money into:</p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj0JAfq4esk" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj0JAfq4esk</a></p> Yeah and maybe while we’re at it let’s get the Fed to tell us WTF they’ve been pouring money into:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj0JAfq4esk

]]> By: wildethyme http://firedoglake.com/2009/02/02/obama-finanacial-team-to-taxpayers-youll-get-nothing-and-like-it/#comment-1815743 wildethyme Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:04:04 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/02/02/obama-finanacial-team-to-taxpayers-youll-get-nothing-and-like-it/#comment-1815743 <p>If politics is the art of the possible, seems democracy is doing itself in, here is the USA.</p> If politics is the art of the possible, seems democracy is doing itself in, here is the USA.

]]> By: barbara http://firedoglake.com/2009/02/02/obama-finanacial-team-to-taxpayers-youll-get-nothing-and-like-it/#comment-1815741 barbara Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:02:40 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/02/02/obama-finanacial-team-to-taxpayers-youll-get-nothing-and-like-it/#comment-1815741 <p>(((Demi))) LOL</p> (((Demi))) LOL

]]> By: demi http://firedoglake.com/2009/02/02/obama-finanacial-team-to-taxpayers-youll-get-nothing-and-like-it/#comment-1815737 demi Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:52:33 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/02/02/obama-finanacial-team-to-taxpayers-youll-get-nothing-and-like-it/#comment-1815737 <p>Oh ha. But, I was waiting for Barbara to say “Humble Pie”.<br /> See you upstairs.</p> Oh ha. But, I was waiting for Barbara to say “Humble Pie”.
See you upstairs.

]]> By: selise http://firedoglake.com/2009/02/02/obama-finanacial-team-to-taxpayers-youll-get-nothing-and-like-it/#comment-1815734 selise Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:48:51 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/02/02/obama-finanacial-team-to-taxpayers-youll-get-nothing-and-like-it/#comment-1815734 <blockquote><p>Or, Accountability Pie with a huge dollop of Transparency on top.</p></blockquote> <p>oh, that sounds really good. do you have a recipe? *g*</p> <p>…</p> <p>p.s. jane up with a new post: F<a href="http://firedoglake.com/2009/02/02/fiscal-conservatism-blue-dog-style-much-love-for-banks-tough-love-for-taxpayers/" rel="nofollow">iscal Conservatism, Blue Dog Style: Much Love for Banks; Tough Love for Taxpayers</a></p>

Or, Accountability Pie with a huge dollop of Transparency on top.

oh, that sounds really good. do you have a recipe? *g*

…

p.s. jane up with a new post: Fiscal Conservatism, Blue Dog Style: Much Love for Banks; Tough Love for Taxpayers

]]> By: selise http://firedoglake.com/2009/02/02/obama-finanacial-team-to-taxpayers-youll-get-nothing-and-like-it/#comment-1815733 selise Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:46:42 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/02/02/obama-finanacial-team-to-taxpayers-youll-get-nothing-and-like-it/#comment-1815733 <p>don’t disagree in the slightest - my problem in imagining a fair and transparent accounting via nationalization is that geithner et al. would be in charge of it.</p> don’t disagree in the slightest – my problem in imagining a fair and transparent accounting via nationalization is that geithner et al. would be in charge of it.

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