Or rather, he feels sympathetic to rich people getting richer. It’s so hard to tell the difference.

Ok, tactically, I suppose I understand, as Brad Delong does. But it still smells really, really, bad and given that no matter how you look at it he’s being “two-faced” and then which face is the real one?

In any [...]

Taken from a post I made at another site:

In my mind intelligence and even wisdom have little quarter in politics. I know vastly smarter and even wiser people than me who have bought into one party or another’s dogma and will not be dissuaded by even their lying eyes. Really it is [...]

Yada, yada – whatever…

I’ve seen this on a bumper sticker and now a t-shirt (see image to right):

I point it out, not because it’s particularly egregious in what it says, but because it encapsulates well those that are against Obama.

You see, it’s like a caricature of what you’d think a liberal would be, [...]

In 2004 CBS told Reuters that during the SuperBowl, “We have a policy against accepting advocacy advertising.”

Oh, Really?!

CBS allows on a “pro-life” ad:

http://www.focusonthefamily.com/press/pressreleases/a000001434.cfm

But not of course MoveOn.org or Peta ads:

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0116-01.htm

If the media were anymore “liberal” it would be shameless!

At last they have succeeded at their greatest triumph. Let the Rapture begin…

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/01/21/supreme-court-sides-hillary-movie-filmmakers-campaign-money-dispute/

“money quote” from the dissent (Justice Stevens):

In the context of election to public office, the distinction between corporate and human speakers is significant. Although they make enormous contributions to our society, corporations are not actually members of it [emphasis added]

For more [...]

Taibbi hits the nail on the head again in this article:

http://trueslant.com/matttaibbi/2010/01/04/fannie-freddie-and-the-new-red-and-blue

The money quote however is:

For what we’ve learned in the last few years as one scandal after another spilled onto the front pages is that the bubble economies of the last two decades were not merely monstrous Ponzi schemes that destroyed [...]

The always excellent Matt Taibbi hits the nail on the head:

Anyone who wonders why the Obama administration seems to be bending over so far backwards to appease conservatives and industry leaders in the health care debate and Wall Street in the financial regulatory reform debate can find their answer there: those groups make Obama pay [...]

A post by the always excellent Brad Delong got me thinking about anti-stimulus arguments.

A common argument on the right is that it was WWII that ended The Great DepressionTM not New DealTM stimulus, and therefor claiming the efficacy of New Deal stimulus is not an argument for modern stimulus. On the face of it it’s [...]

With all due respect to the President, I’ve got a question to ask:

When has this worked?

I admit I have a degree of ambivalence – I do think Colin Powell’s “Pottery Barn Rule” applies (ie: “You break it, you bought it”)(somehow incidentally I doubt they have that rule). We put our foot in it [...]