Politicians, Their "Savvy" Banker Friends, and the Hackery from NYT Andrew...
As far as I know, I'm still allowed to demand honest journalism these next six months so here we go. Apparently it's not enough that Andrew Ross Sorkin is obviously not in it for anyone else besides...
View ArticleThe Importance of Dissent in the Netroots, and I'll be Seeing You at Netroots...
That's right. Thanks to DFA and your vote I will be going to Netroots Nation next week in Providence, Rhode Island from June 7th-10th. I am what is called an unemployed starving artist(except for my...
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Netroots Nation 2012: Unrest, DK Bonding, and The priceman Experience
Well hello again, Daily Kos. Last week was quite a week given that it was my first Netroots Nation ever. I enjoyed myself quite a bit in Providence, Rode Island staying at the Westin Providence.Right...
View ArticleYour Tired, Your Poor, Your Jobless Masses: They Don’t Want to Talk About You...
Cross posted at our new beta site Voices on the Square. That’s right; the tired huddled masses yearning for a living wage need not apply for real representation in 2012. Many do not want to talk about...
View ArticlePresident Obama, Mitt Romney, and Congress: Fiscal Cliffs, Deficit Terrorism,...
Cross posted at our new beta site Voices on the Square As you all know it''s election season, and for that reason I am advised by some Democrats to shut up about the dire issues of the day that all of...
View ArticleOur Treasury Secretary Was Chosen to Represent Bankers. Not You.
Cross posted at our new beta site Voices on the Square. That’s right, and it was clear to everyone who opposed the pick of Tim Geithner from the start. In his testimony yesterday on the NY Fed’s...
View ArticleA 2012 Victory Won't Bring Back the Economy: Only a Private Debt Jubilee
Cross posted at our new beta site Voices on the Square and The Starz Hollowz Gazette Yes, this is true. It's not a popular saying, but I'm not here to make everyone feel good for 2012 electioneering...
View ArticleWhat to Do When Liberal SCOTUS Justices Think Corporations are People Too
Cross posted at our new beta site Voices on the Square and The Stars Hollow Gazette I don't know what to do. This is pretty daunting and I think half of the Democratic electorate still thinks that most...
View ArticleHonest Questions All Democrats Must Ask Themselves
Cross posted at our new beta site Voices on the Square and the Stars Hollow Gazette Ever since last weekend, I've been seeing Paul Ryan's mug everywhere and it is all anyone can talk about. I can't...
View ArticleWhen the Next Crash Comes Remember Which Side You Were On and Learn
Cross posted at our new beta site Voices on the Square and The Stars Hollow Gazette Yes, another crash is coming. I can't predict precisely when as that would be a fool's errand, but much closer than...
View ArticlePeople That Excuse Wasting the Crisis in 2008 Don’t Get to Lecture Anyone
Cross posted at out new beta site Voices on the Square and The Stars Hollows Gazette. In lieu of meaningless political convention coverage, my title is absolutely still true. Decades and decades of...
View ArticleCan You Accept Simpson Bowles-Sh!t and Still Call Yourself a Democrat?
Cross posted at our new beta site Voices on the Square and the Stars Hollows Gazette. No, unless you somehow think RW DLC and third way Democrats forever have the right to dictate their failed policies...
View ArticleLooking Beyond Reelection: Can We Now Stop Bombing Women and Children?
Cross posted at Voices on the Square and The Stars Hollows Gazette Yes, anything can happen, but with the latest open disdain for 47% of the people in this country by Mitt Romney, it's looking like a...
View ArticleIgnorance Won't Fly. Stop the Lies. No War With Iran. Period.
Cross posted in Voices on the Square and The Stars Hollows Gazette Recently, President Obama gave a speech at the U.N with a recurring theme I found disturbing. The whole bluster involved with the U.S...
View ArticleThe President Agreed With Mitt Romney on Social Security in the Debate
Cross posted at Voices on the Square and The Stars Hollow Gazette And it's not just people like me that support the Democratic Party Platform over any politician that noticed this. It was one of the...
View ArticleThe Missing Debate Within the Debate
Cross posted at Voices on the Square and the Stars Hollow GazetteOur fate, for one, but I know that is really depressing(why I don't write about it as much as I should) because as a whole no party...
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An Issue Ignored: I'm Asking For Your Vote to Help Get $ Out of Politics
Cross posted at Voices on the Square and The Stars Hollow Gazette Like other issues, the issue of money in politics is what will speak to what is or is not done in the next Congress more than the...
View ArticleThe Election is Essentially Over and Spoiler Alert: Wall Street Won
Cross posted at Voices on the Square and The Stars Hollow Gazette I know it. You know it, so who are we kidding? I suppose anything can happen, but essentially the election is over and our President...
View ArticleDear Mr. President, Social Security and Medicare are Not Grand Bargaining Chips
Cross Posted at Voices on the Square and The Stars Hollow Gazette Yes, the grand bargain is coming up before the deadline by December 31st, 2012. Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid will be on the...
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Warning: Swallowing the President's Bitter Pills May Cause Harsh Austerity
Cross posted at Voices on the Square and The Stars Hollow Gazette We are being told that the mess this President caused when he helped pass the Bush tax cuts in exchange for 1 year of unemployment...
View ArticleLaboring Under This Administration's Anti-Labor Ties
And no, I'm not talking about the past anti-labor ties like former COS Rahm Emanuel who called labor unions "f-ing retarded" and condescendingly opined about "where are they going to go?" if they...
View ArticleWH Advisor David Plouffe and Goldman Sachs CEO Agree That Medicare and...
Cross posted at Voices on the Square and The Stars Hollow Gazette Yes, it's true. If the White House would like to disavow David Plouffe's words now is the time. Time is running short but it's pretty...
View ArticleNo, This Fiscal Scam Won't Be Different Than 2011. Stop Deluding Yourselves
Cross posted at Voices on the Square and The Stars Hollow Gazette Of course that can be easy to do with corporate media hacks parading around as "journalists" basically working to preserve the corrupt...
View ArticleObama and Boehner’s Grand Betrayal: Gullible Democrats Buy Into Good Cop, Bad...
Cross posted at Voices on the Square and The Stars Hollow Gazette Yes, we know what is driving the latest performance behind this fiscal sham. It's basically good cop, bad cop; or bad cop, worse cop...
View ArticleChained CPI is a Cut. You Either Care About People or You Don't.
Cross posted at Voices on the Square and The Stars Hollow Gazette And when one make excuses for chained CPI without doing any research because they'll blindly follow whatever a politician proposes...
View ArticleIt's Not 11th Dimensional Chess. The President Wants Working People to Clean...
Cross posted at Voices on the Square and The Stars Hollow Gazette Once we realize there is no fiscal cliff and the whole premise is a myth, you think about why it was created. It was created so we can...
View ArticleMr. President, Mint that Coin and Keep that Option. Don't Sell Us Out
Cross posted at Voices on the Square and the Stars Hollow Gazette We know by now that fake tough talk from the President on letting the Bush tax cuts above those making $250,000 expire being an...
View ArticleThe White House Rejects Solutions to the Mess it Made. We Will Pay for it...
Cross posted at Voices on the Square and the Stars Hollow GazetteThat’s right. It’s now undeniably pathetic or immoral assuming this is what they want and it probably is. The Trillion Dollar Coin and a...
View ArticleFAIL! There Will Be Austerity Kabuki Every 3 Months
Cross posted at Voices on the Square and the Stars Hollow Gazette There seems to be a lot of celebrating without actually understanding much of what has happened as of late. One reason is that it looks...
View ArticleGrover Norquist is Winning Thanks to a Debt Ceiling Crisis Every Few Months
Cross posted at Voices on the Square and the Stars Hollow Gazette That's right. I don't know in what world some people are living in, but they should pay attention. Yes they should actually pay...
View ArticleJohn T. Harvey: "The Coming Recession: How Fiscal Responsibility is Economic...
As you might have heard the economy is contracting while unemployment remains high inching higher especially in real terms again while Washington is too stupid or corrupt across the board to notice. I...
View ArticleThe Real SOTU: The White House Subverting the Rule of Law
Subverting the rule of law? How dare I? Well the 4th amendment, due process, kill lists, and the NDAA also speak to my title. Yes, they speak to it despite those that decided politicians were more...
View ArticleAnother Bailout Since Dodd Frank Debunks the Lies
Yes, unlike what was sold to us about Dodd Frank, there are in effect already backdoor bailouts before our very eyes if we care to look. This one involves the most important regulator of our entire...
View ArticleThe Sequester: Bipartisan Craponomics at Its Worst
Yes, because no one listened to those that warned(including myself) this would happen in 2010 with the Bush tax cut sellout leading to the debt ceiling debacle in 2011 to now, it looks like the...
View ArticleYes, the Sequester is President Obama's Fault. These are facts.
This won't be FP material everywhere, but it's the truth. That is, unless one just hasn't paid attention to the events and Congressional deals facilitated by this administration in response to said...
View ArticleThe Sequester: Lies, Damned Lies, and Libel Against Critics on the Left
Lately there have been some rumors about me that I feel need to addressed. Because I have more class than some people spreading nonsense about me and others, I am not going to name names or link to...
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Protecting Social Security from Inaccurate Accounting with an Agenda
I have referenced this before, but there hasn't really been enough of a movement on the this issue, and it's an important one. It's specifically important right now when Washington DC is completely...
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Hell No! Chained CPI is a Cut. You Either Care About People or You Don't.
And when one makes excuses for chained CPI without doing any research because they'll blindly follow whatever a politician proposes regardless of the consequences, that is a choice of action taken....
View ArticleBoston: The Unraveling and a Plea for the Healing of Our Society
I find it hard to write about anything after this happened. Boston is a great city I had the pleasure to visit on a field trip in 2006 while I was in school. There was so much life in that city and...
View ArticleThe Reinhart and Rogoff Errors Discredit the Obama Administration and Austerity
Yes they do. I have heard a statement that bugs me a lot lately and that statement is that this was the go to analysis for the Republicans as if Democrats have never referred to it in any way. I'm here...
View ArticlePresident Obama's Austerity Does Not Make Him a Keynesian
It's really sad it has come to this. There are many people that have jumped to branding President Obama as the second coming of famed economist John Maynard Keynes in what has become a rather sad...
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Denying the Data Today Won't Make President Obama's Austerity Go Away
That's right. Remember my last diary where I did prove without a shadow of a doubt that the austerity that this administration has put forth right now, and in effect right now, does not make this...
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To Those Celebrating Their Proud Ignorance of the President's Austerity
Oh your temerity has turned into outright hilarity, so I can no longer give this kind nonsense any charity. You see, these are issues I go to great lengths to cover for the Daily Kos community. Most...
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John T. Harvey: Austerity Leads To... Austerity!
In the real world and the reality based community, there is talk about austerity from people who understand the nuances of it and macroeconomic accounting identities. They point out the undeniable fact...
View ArticleWhen You Support George W. Bush's Policies, like Obama, I Get to Call You a...
Worse than a Republican; I get to call you a fawning sellout with even less principles than the Republican security soccer moms of 2004 that we all remember before. They really believed back then, and...
View ArticleHistorian Rick Perlstein Uses the Nation to Whine About My Tweet
I have to admit, I was surprised to be notified that Historian Rick Perlstein of Nixonland fame, devoted an entire column in the Nation to two tweets replying to him; one from myself and one from...
View ArticleWhat We Really Should be Yellin About When it Comes to Who Runs the Fed
Effective regulation, and on that note, it is a positive thing that the Summers of our discontent can finally be laid to rest. After all the damage Larry Summers has caused in being one of the...
View ArticlePresident Obama Gave Speaker Boehner the Debt Ceiling to Play With in 2010
And here we are again! It started in 2010. The Bush tax cuts were about to expire. There was leverage to negotiate a debt ceiling raise or to just let them expire. How do I know there was leverage? I...
View ArticleGo Ahead, Celebrate — You're Celebrating Failure
Well it seems this continuing debacle every 3 months has ceased, for now. However, I really can't get over this pathetic celebration over the really low bar involved with regard to avoiding what I call...
View ArticleDo You Want an Echo Chamber at Daily Kos? Just Admit It.
It appears that a certain segment of this site, from top to bottom, want to redefine the mission of this site for such a purpose. It's pretty clear that a lot of people here share a genuine hatred for...
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