The panel announced for ABC’s This Week should have been a warning: “Danger: Really Stupid and Dishonest Comments Likely.”

The House Banking Committee is going to have hearings on the NY Fed’s orders to AIG to make material misstatements on its 8-K filings to the SEC.

Yeah, this is pretty rich. Here’s a guy who promised to woo African American voters with fried chicken, refused to criticize Glenn Beck for saying that the president was a “white culture”-hating racist, and who just a few days ago dropped the Native American equivalent of “nigger” on national teevee.

At this late date, no one knows whether insider trading is permitted in credit default swaps.

Implicit in the contemporary American health care system is a threat: Conform and spend your life behaving yourself in limited jobs or we will deny you insurance and put your health and your family’s future at risk.

With the news from the top intelligence officer in Afghanistan that the local insurgency can sustain itself indefinitely, time is running out for the dubious counter-insurgency strategy favored by the United States to work. The Taliban insurgency has a shadow government system set up in 33 of the 34 provinces in Afghanistan, and the network is often more able to deliver more resources to the locals than the government.

Saturday, DDay pointed out that the NYT, after issuing a fairly pointed correction revealing Jonathan Gruber’s ties with the Administration, then used a quote from Gruber without disclosing his role in the Administration. DDay was focusing on the NYT’s actions.

http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2010/01/09/hillary-mann-leverett-pwns-jeffrey-goldberg/

Brr! A frosty good morning to you all. That thirsty hummingbird is a reminder of warmer days to come. Talking Heads today: the terror of our economy, and the economy of our terror. Enjoy, heh.

A Car-Tune Portrait. The cartoon was released on June 26, 1937, and features Franz Liszt‘s Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in C-sharp Minor.

Presented by Adolph Zukor. Produced by Max Fleischer. Directed by Dave Fleischer. Written by Dave Fleischer, Izzy Sparber, and Dave Tendlar. Vocal characterizations by David Ross (Lion). Animation by Nick Tafuri, Dave Tendlar, Eli Brucker, Herman Cohen, Joseph Oriolo, and William Sturm. Music Arranged by King Ross. Musical Supervision by Lou Fleischer.