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Very happy Obama is keeping my fellow high school dude Pat The Fitzgerald. Good one BAM.

So who do I call and rant at if I want to attempt to influence the stimulus bill in conference?

Anybody see Crist introduce the Prseident yesterday. Bragging how “we’ve balanced our budget without raising taxes. So could you please give us a shitload of federal money to pay for our legislature’s cowardice and stupidity.” Or something like that. very pleased with the reception for the Prez in Ft. Myers.

Geitner may be Obama’s Browne. I appreciate the desire to get a stimulous package but I was wondering if Obama can sit on a one legged stool.

Well, I know Nelson (the Nebraska one) is dumb as dogshit on this. Maybe you can learn him a thing or two. Then again, maybe that’s a hopeless waste of time.

Try here..

http://www.congress.org/congre…..n/letters/

Geithner’s a real loser.

I can’t even see how he can have a job so high in finance and be a tax dodger. Considering that these jerks have more than enough money to pay their taxes and more than enough money to pay tax preparers and consultants to make sure they are clean to have such a gaping hole in one’s economic life AND be in such a “responsible” position is a contradiction I cannot abide.

But on top of that reason for him to be dismissed, he is a dim witted apologists for a failed system. He is guilty of nepotism and cronyism and so patently trying to save his buddies on Wall Street and a shill for the flawed belied of trickle down rubbish, that if the banks are healthy than Main Street can follow on in their prosperity.

This myth holds that Wall Street is the top dog and get the crumbs when they are feeling good.

This trickle down way of viewing the world has to end and Obi is proving he has drunk the Kool Aid of his finance buds. All of them are damaged goods – Rubin, Summers, and Geithner. Not one has advanced a decent idea for change we can belief in. It’s all more of the same old same old.

YUCK.

Well it became rather obvious that taking care of homeless families wasn’t one of the priorities of your legislature or Gov.

Good morning all. Thanks for the great line-up BT

I am going to blog whore for a moment and ask if anyone would be willing to come over and read my diary on the Homeland Security National Infrastructure Reinvestment Bank. This is going to happen and I think we need to begin to talk about in the blogosphere. The diary is about to get “kicked,” so, the sooner the better, to come and read.

Thanks in advance.

correct and i have no idea what their priorities are. funding a functional government is not one of them.

Sen. Collins insists that the cost be kept to $800 billion.

Where’d she get that number? Pulled it outta her……. hat? Totally arbitray.

The Vatican speaks..
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” The Vatican has admitted that Charles Darwin was on the right track when he claimed that Man descended from apes.

A leading official declared yesterday that Darwin’s theory of evolution was compatible with Christian faith, and could even be traced to St Augustine and St Thomas Aquinas. “In fact, what we mean by evolution is the world as created by God,” said Archbishop Gianfranco Ravasi, head of the Pontifical Council for Culture. The Vatican also dealt the final blow to speculation that Pope Benedict XVI might be prepared to endorse the theory of Intelligent Design, whose advocates credit a “higher power” for the complexities of life. “

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/t…..705331.ece

arbitrary

Update on Henrietta & Julio:

Henrietta has been offered a home to stay in.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/polit…..hughe.html

And Julio has been offered an internship & a job.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29128020/

i’m Catholic and this is what I’d always been taught and I’m not exactly young. the rank and file church (so to speak) goes ahead without Vatican proclamations. Sometimes they get it right. sometimes wrong.

Thanks for the link! I guess my problem is I don’t really understand who is on this “committee” that is working out the “compromise”. Is this the finance committee? The full house?

that’s good news. problem, of course is all the others like her who didn’t get called on or make it in. But just because there are others is no reason to ignore this wopne person and i’m glad she got help. happy for her. will be happier when this happens to others.

Gosh the catholic church is catching up to the nineteenth century. Now if they could get that other foot out of the 1st century BC

I think appointed by Speaker and majority leader. Not sure about that but here they are:

http://neinuclearnotes.blogspo…..ittee.html

This is very sad and of course if one gets to embarrass the nation in front of the POTUS you will get the attention you need. But no one else will – they are just numbers and no one sees them or cares.

We have a really really bad problem in the nation with disenfranchising the poor and banishing them from sight and making it almost impossible to get anywhere but a place called nowhere at all.

America is full of poverty and has a huge underclass which is being ignored. But bankers are getting another leg up because if they fail we all fail. Ha???

We all HAVE failed and this women is the evidence.

I’m not sure that Jesus fellow would be too pleased with the church.

i have alot of problems with the church but i don’t think that’s fair. i know that was tongue in cheek. well, i think it was. but as I said, I have never been taught that religion and science are incompatable. just the opposite. While the Vatican is behind the times, it doesn’t mean the church is day-to-day. I’m Jesuit educated and would stack them up against any educators.

from Automatic Earth comment:

“Had to LOL on reading the perception that Geithner ” fudging” the details on the bail out budget. Would one expect anything else from one who fudged his tax return? Deceit is his style, his nature.”

When I was taught by the nuns I too was taught science but don’t apply the principles of science to the dogma of the church,

Geithner’s a real loser.

Unbelievably poor presentation yesterday; I agree with the critics that say he should’ve had specific details to offer.

Why can’t they just press the button on mortgage relief; they are sitting on 350 billion he could’ve put to work yesterday. Until that happens, the ‘average’ person will continue to feel like they are on the outside looking in at a Wall Street money grab.

And what’s with his ears?

Perfect! Now to get to work!

I’m guessing she got that number from Obama. That was his target.

really. see this is the problem with The Vatican. It needs to lead and it doesn’t or when it does, it’s fucked-up. It shouldn’t be hit-or-miss that some people are taught right and some taught wrong.

Morning all from warm,foggy,rainy MI (strange weather!)
Completely OT, but is anyone watching these folks?

‘Richard wants tax credits directed at keeping Monsanto in Missouri
By Chad Livengood • clivengood@news-leader.com • February 8, 2009

In recent weeks, at least one right-wing Missouri blogger has suggested that if confirmed by the Senate, Gov. Jay Nixon’s nominee for economic development director would be in a position to shower her former client with state tax credits.’
http://www.news-leader.com/art…..9/90208017

But i don’t know how they’r chosen. if it is the majority leader in teh senate, then Reid chose homself and that probably ain’t good. there might as well be 3 R’s. What’s interesting (to me) is that none of the Gang of Fools is on the conference committee. But it may well be that they will drive the train and no matter what the committee does, those people will essentially have veto power.

If so, that sucks.

And what’s with his ears?

What do you mean? They don’t seem particularly weird to me…

Christy’s up with
Margins Of Terror: Just How Unsafe Is Our Food Supply?

The Senate side has Reid and the chairmen and ranking members of appropriations and finance. The House has four dems and one repub.

When I first read the Draft Stormy Daniels story, I wondered why that name sounded familiar. Then I remembered reading about her & others in the same line of work in “The Book of Vice: Very Naughty Things” by Peter Sagal, host of NPR’s “Wait, Wait..Don’t Tell Me”.
Sagal writes about the dinner he & his wife had with Stormy & others famous in the field.
Sagal is a hysterically funny writer. Many LOL moments in his book.

What do you mean? They don’t seem particularly weird to me…

Then obviously it’s just me; I think ‘Keebler’ every time I see him.

I wouldn’t be too tough on Geithner. He is trying to square a circle, and we all know how hard that is. In fact, we (and he) ought to know that it’s impossible. A big piece of the banking system is insolvent, and there’s no way past that 900-pound gorilla that doesn’t involve somebody somewhere taking the hit. Right now, the hit is like a hot potato. Everybody wants to shovel it off on somebody else, and nobody wants to be the last person to handle it.

I think Joe Stiglitz had it right in his interview on TPM. The government should just let the banks go into title 11, screw the shareholders and the lenders, and let the refinancing take its own course. Good work for lawyers, too. Depositors will be protected, but unfortunately not the pension funds (which belong to you and me). The hit is going to hurt people all across the social spectrum. I could accept socializing the losses, if the marginal tax rates on incomes above $500,000 were back at 90 percent. There’s no reason why the poor should pay for this fiasco. But whatever the case, somebody is going to have to take the hit.

did you listen to yesterday’s hearing? if not you might give today’s a listen. geithner is as bad as any of the bush cronies. he didn’t tell us the banks are insolvent – even though we all know that must be the case. instead he’s demanding that we pick up the tab, but we don’t even get to know why or much of anything else.

it’s a massive crime. but worse he setting us up to fail. i see no way his plan can work – but i do see him bankrupting the rest of us in the process. oh, and did you hear him say that spending all this money will require us bringing down the cost of SS and medicare? entitlement reform is on the table.

but he did go to the mat to make sure the zombie bankers could all keep their nice jobs and fat bonuses. i wish i knew how to describe how much i despise geithner.

Snort! Now that you mention it…

Sheer, et al. cited in above-linked article have it bang-on.

Moreover, the banks should not only reorganized on a pre-Graham-Belisle basis , but the government should take over the investment banks that emerge from this reorganization. But first, Geithner should be sacked. Get rid of all insiders in the new government. That, you could call change. Otherwise, Obama is bullshitter extraordinaire.

DIGG is open (better late than never)

pup34

In Ft Myers, FL yesterday Obama prooved he is still a fine orator and campaign politician; yet to be proven is whether he has the right stuff to also be a statesman who can and will govern. (just my opinion)

If Collins, et. al. voted for closure on an $828 billion Senate bill, how can they then insist that the final package be below $800 billion?