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Economy, David Paul in HuffPost: With Wall Street Shorting the Dollar, It is Time for Congress to Pursue Fundamental Change
Yeah, I'm sure they'll get right on it.
Related, Matt Taibbi in Rolling Stone: Obama's Big Sellout -- The president has packed his economic team with Wall Street insiders intent on turning the bailout into an all-out giveaway
It might be helpful if we had an actual "loyal opposition" in the USA. But the most visible and active Republicans are busy chasing after strawmen, like the Obama the Muslin Commie Terrorist Kenyan, and "Obamacare", a Sinister Plot to Murder Your Grandmother. I guess that's easier than putting a partisan spin to the actual worst things the Obama administration has been doing, which are mostly continuing the worst things the Bush administration did.
On a lighter note, satire from "The Onion": Members of the earth's earliest known civilization, the Sumerians, looked on in shock and confusion some 6,000 years ago as God, the Lord Almighty, created Heaven and Earth.
Must have been even more confusing than watching the end of the world in 2000 was.
Yeah, I'm sure they'll get right on it.
Related, Matt Taibbi in Rolling Stone: Obama's Big Sellout -- The president has packed his economic team with Wall Street insiders intent on turning the bailout into an all-out giveaway
It might be helpful if we had an actual "loyal opposition" in the USA. But the most visible and active Republicans are busy chasing after strawmen, like the Obama the Muslin Commie Terrorist Kenyan, and "Obamacare", a Sinister Plot to Murder Your Grandmother. I guess that's easier than putting a partisan spin to the actual worst things the Obama administration has been doing, which are mostly continuing the worst things the Bush administration did.
On a lighter note, satire from "The Onion": Members of the earth's earliest known civilization, the Sumerians, looked on in shock and confusion some 6,000 years ago as God, the Lord Almighty, created Heaven and Earth.
Must have been even more confusing than watching the end of the world in 2000 was.
