Jamie Dimon admits that financial crises are a regular feature of capitalism. What he doesn’t admit is that banks don’t care: they know the government will bail them out,

Well, I don’t know that for a fact. But I do know that the publication of Marc Thiessen’s propagandistic claims about Pelosi on the WaPo’s editorial page says more about the WaPo’s editorial page than it does about Pelosi.

Should we conclude that the 51 Democrats in the Senate who said they support a public option when 60 votes were needed were all full of shit, now that the bar is down to 50 and they’re still not moving?

Here is a list of the 51 Democrats who said they support a public option:

Yesterday, the League of Conservation Voters designated Blanche Lincoln one of it’s “Dirty Dozen” for her opposition to the climate bill.

Scott Roeder, the man who killed abortion services provider Dr. George Tiller, has been found guilty of first-degree murder in a Kansas courtroom today.

It’s not exactly a sign of strength that Bloomberg’s objections were enough to disrupt plans that DoJ had for months. Needless to say, the newly forthright post-SOTU Presidency isn’t off to such a bold start.

Per the Hill, the White House is asking for tougher restrictions on lobbyists just as the President said in the State of the Union speech the other night. Which is a very good thing.

In the same week that Vice Admiral Harward claims that the US no longer has secret prisons in Afghanistan, the UN has published a report with extensive documentation that multiple secret prisons have been employed. Whether they still are in operation is hard to determine.

Tony Blair testified today at the Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war, and while it sounds like he didn’t admit any huge lies, his answers were riddled with inconsistencies. As the Times points out, for example, Blair told Parliament Saddam’s WMD programs were growing. His weapons of mass destruction programme is active, detailed and growing. [...]

Shorter wingnuts: leave W. alone! Conservatives, who often complain that Obama blames former President George W. Bush too much, did not appreciate Obama’s recitation of the facts. “The blaming of the past administration is pathetically unpresidential,” blogged National Review’s Kathryn Jean Lopez last night. On Fox News this morning, Brian Kilmeade asked former Bush adviser [...]