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longnow commented on the blog post Presidential Power Observed: Dems on Catfood Commission II Want Bigger Deficit Package
The President has a lot of power…
The rest of the sentence might be “so why didn’t he get single payer insurance with
a Democratic majority? The answer would be that Big Insurance took care of that
by guaranteeing that key conservadems were reelected. The elimination of SP
was taken off the table by lobbyists years b4 Obama took office. Obama succeeded
where Hillary did not b/c she could not.Also, how did Obama get START passed? Unemployment insurance extended
again and again? The debt ceiling raised? By giving away the store b/c he had to.
I know, I had to tack on those last four words. I’m contradicting the approved narrative.
I hear Jonathan Chait even sold out for a piece in the NY Times. I don’t blame him.
I’ll vote for Hill if she gets the nomination. -
longnow commented on the blog post Fox: Administration Has Settled on 3,000 Troops in Iraq Past 2011 Withdrawal Date
Are you a professional commenter or volunteer?
Why do you sound like a spambot?
Disappointed in “Barry”? Consider the alternatives…
but then again there’s always Hillary. -
longnow commented on the blog post Schneiderman Begins Probe of Bank of America Securitization Fail
All BofA has to do is wait the NY AG out & hope a Romney administration
will nullify everything like Bush did in the beginning of the banking crisis.
I hope he forces BofA into a deal that brings them under control.BTW, I do not want the system to unravel. Citi & BofA had to eat junk
assets like Roland Arnall’s Ameriquest Mortgage and Mozillio’s Countrywide
to keep the system afloat. None of this is black and white.The banks blackmailed Cheney bush & the taxpayers of the world
but it was Cheney Greenspan (Bush was out that day)who let it all happen when they rejected
the AG’s from 50 states AND the FBI who both reported that predatory
mortgage lenders like Arnall were out of control and a threat to the economy
back in 2003-4. Cheney’s response? 30-1 credit reserves by the “independent”
SEC in 2004 (who were about as independent as the Fed Reserve under the
de facto presidency of Richard Cheney which is to say nothing was independent) -
longnow commented on the blog post Early Morning Swim: Why Didn’t Rick Santorum Call for John Ensign’s Resignation Wonders Rachel Maddow [VID]
But there were pictures…
The one article that stands out in my mind about the WSJ, pre-Murdoch,
was the last paragraph of a long article that i didn’t read. Ken Auletta
was quoting a senior editor of the WSJ not long after the Clinton scandals.
It was similar if not exactly like this: “If a conservative is caught in adultery
we will defend them. That’s not fair, but life isn’t fair”The whole conservative hypocrisy laid bare except for the fact that everyone knew about it
before he *laid it bare*. Republicans are special, Gov. Sanford is special, Ensign is special,
Vitter is special, Arnold is Arnold, Bob Barr, Limbaugh, that Gingry fella, they’re all
covered ahead of time under the banner of heaven and bla bla bla. -
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