If Chrysler goes into bankruptcy rather than merges with Fiat, it may mean 210,000 additional jobs lost.

Nothing good can come of this:

According to a tipster, infamous GOP dirty trickster and Brooks Brothers Riot puppet master Roger Stone is on the ground in NY-20. Our tipster informs us that Stone dined at Loporto’s in Troy Friday night with a woman and three men in suits. They were marking up Excel spreadsheets over some calamari and “speaking low.”

Our tipster asks “Why is he here?”

I’d say that’s rather obvious, no?

I didn’t think it was physically possible, but over the weekend, the performance artist known as Michelle Bachmann out-crazied herself.

Jim Cooper, habitual deficit hawk who is always whining about earmarks, pork barrel projects and government spending, is upset because funding for the Nashville federal courthouse didn’t make the cut in the stimulus bill. He is forming a “Congressional Courthouse Caucus” to address this massive injustice.

Let’s just recap:

First House vote on stimulus bill, which included the Nashville courthouse:

Forty two years ago, Martin Luther King joined his voice with the opponents of the American War against Vietnam and called for a breaking of the silence and a raising of voices against the war. Today we hear few voices speaking out, speaking against the escalation of the American War in Afghanistan.

Norm Coleman spoke behind closed doors to a bunch of powerful Republicans in DC the other day. He didn’t say much about what, publicly.

Obama committed the US to $100 billion in aid to the IMF, part of the $1.1 trillion stimulus package agreed to by G20 leaders.  The funds will be devoted to poorer nations, many in Eastern Europe, and the market  rallied on the announcement.  

But in order to get around the limitations of pay-go, Congress will have to approve the aid in the form of a supplemental appropriation.   Which gives them the opportunity to attach some strings.  Before I went on I asked Naomi Klein what she would recommend on that front, and here’s what she said:

Dahlia Lithwick had a Slate piece this week on Harold Koh that deserves a careful read. In it, she brings up an issue that has been troubling me for some time: having philosophical differences with someone with whom you can disagree, but not feel the need to destroy.

• A deadly quake in Italy.
• $5.2M for a couple years — nice work if you can get it.
• Good news.
• Unprecedented GOP Senate confirmation tactics. 
• President Obama, America hater.
• American exceptionalism?
• Small town — “real America” — values.

Fear of a Leader in a Grey Jumpsuit, not what it used to be.