Liz Warren: If AIG, Giant Banks Are Too Big to Fail, Why Aren’t We Breaking Them Up?

By: Scarecrow Tuesday March 10, 2009 8:00 pm

Liz Warren is a dangerous women, because she says what everyone else seem too afraid to sy: We may have to break up those institutions “too big to fail.”

Former Cochran Aide Pleads Guilty to Abramoff-Related Charge

By: Christy Hardin Smith Tuesday March 10, 2009 7:00 pm

Does this mean more to come in the ever-widening Abramoff probe? One can only hope.

Howard Fineman’s Lament

By: Eli Tuesday March 10, 2009 6:01 pm

Shorter Fineman: Asshole presidents are AWESOME!!!

With Chas Freeman Out, Who Really Loses?

By: Spencer Ackerman Tuesday March 10, 2009 5:00 pm

So, if Chas Freeman loses by winning. . . .

Talking Economic Accountability With Rep. Alan Grayson

By: Jane Hamsher Tuesday March 10, 2009 4:00 pm

You probably know Alan Grayson for his greatest hits collection on YouTube. It was Alan’s questioning of Fed Vice Chair Donald Kohn that alerted the public to the fact that the Fed had a $1.2 trillion slush fund and they wouldn’t reveal where the money was going. Then there was his questioning of Citi’s Vikram Pandit, where he claimed that the deal that the Fed made with Citi was

Ben Nelson isn’t the Employee Free Choice Problem–Mike Johanns is

By: Jane Hamsher Tuesday March 10, 2009 3:10 pm

There’s a rather misleading headline over at the Huffington Post:Ben Nelson Opposes Employee Free Choice Act

“I’m not in favor of the bill as it — I haven’t seen exactly what was put in, but if what was put in is the same as it’s been described, I’m not in support of that,” he said.

Talking Economic Accountability with Economist James Galbraith

By: Christy Hardin Smith Tuesday March 10, 2009 1:30 pm

One of the constants in the last few months of economic meltdown has been the attempts at projecting an aura of calm certainty by various public officials and rabidly rose-colored financial reporters whose fondest wish was to not spook investors, whether or not conditions ought to have made them more wary.

Franken-Coleman: Clues for the Clueless

By: Phoenix Woman Tuesday March 10, 2009 12:40 pm

Coleman’s chances of ekeing out a win — or even of dragging this out for much longer than the two to three weeks mentioned by Al Franken — were never that good and haven’t been getting any better; anyone who’s been closely or even sporadically following the case knows this.

So, what possessed the Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza to do yet another he-said-she-said “balance” piece that puts the rock-solid statements of Franken attorney Marc Elias on the same level as the nonsense-filled hallway press conferences of Swift Boat and Florida 2000 troll Ben Ginsberg?

Get out of Jail Free? Statute of Limitations on Bush’s 3/11/04 Illegal Wiretap Expires Today

By: emptywheel Tuesday March 10, 2009 11:40 am

The statute of limitations on the allegedly criminal wiretapping of Wendell Belew on March 11, 2004 expire today.

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