President Obama’s dilemma was born of America’s past acceptance of elite control of politics and the economy. To restore confidence, he turned to “acceptable” insiders who helped cause the crash.

Comes now James K. Galbraith’s “No Return to Normal,” which might well be the most important primer for understanding how this nation should and should not be responding to the world economic crisis. Suffice it to say that Professor Galbraith—he holds the Lloyd M. Bentsen, Jr. Chair in Government at the University of Texas at Austin—is largely in agreement with the, by now, well-known views of Nobel economics prize laureate and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman. Both see the crisis as larger and more systemic—and in need a vastly larger and more systematic response on the part of government (Think: New Deal II)—than is remotely suggested by anything Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has said in public so far.

America’s Lil’ Ray of Rageshine, Michelle Malkin , reports that there were “Tea Parties” all over this great land of ours…but you’d never know it because the MSM is keeping the truth from us. The truth being small gatherings of disaffected middle-class white people with poorly made signs milling about and looking like they’re waiting for the fried dough stand to open before they go to the livestock exhibition.

Conservatives have their tidy whiteys all twisted because (ZOMG) the nation’s most popular dictionary has updated the definition of marriage.

teeVee Talking Heads — lineups and more

Warner Bros. Pictures Inc and Merrie Melodies present tonight’s cartoon – A Sheep In The Deep starring Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog.  This 1962 classic was co-directed by Chuck Jones and Maurice Noble.  Story by Chuck Jones. Voices by Mel Blanc.  Music by Milt Franklyn.   Animation by Tom Ray, Ken Harris, Richard Thompson, and Bob Bransford.  Layout by Corney Cole.  Editing by Treg Brown.  Backgrounds by Phillip DeGuard and William Butler.  

What’s on your mind tonight?

The problem with the American media is not so much the abject stupidity, but their utter inability to grasp just how stupid they are. Take for instance this appallingly stupid AP “analysis” piece by Liz Sidoti, where Sidoti decides to explore all of Obama’s “broken” campaign promises. Which would be fine — if all the examples she comes up with weren’t either carping or wrong.

In his weekly address last Saturday President Obama announced two superb appointments to head the FDA. He also confirmed reports that his Administration will create a Food Safety Working Group: here the good news is who won’t be running the show. For weeks food safety activists and organic growers had campaigned against Obama transition team member Michael Taylor’s rumored appointment to head the FSWG.

IDF soldiers tell of war crimes while others print up unit t-shirts with images of “a pregnant Palestinian woman with a bull’s-eye superimposed on her belly, with the slogan, in English, ’1 shot, 2 kills.’”

Some more details have come out on the administration plan to take toxic assets of the banks hands. There are three parts to the plan, of which we have mostly the details of the first part, in which the FDIC will form “private/public” partnerships to buy up assets. The plan has the FDIC loaning up to 85% of the cost of purchase as a non-recourse loan which is backed