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SqueakyRat commented on the blog post Sen. Merkley Speaks Out on the Volcker Rule and the Fail Whale Trade
What is this “federal regulatory apparatus” that gets to rewrite legislation to suit its future employers on Wall Street? Names, please.
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SqueakyRat commented on the diary post George Will Makes It Up to Go After Public Sector Workers by Dean Baker.
Your data from CEPR on expected returns to pension investments were given in nominal $$, not inflation-adjusted ones. Could make a difference.
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SqueakyRat commented on the diary post Sorry, Bishops, But the Answer Is No by Peterr.
Making them forfeit their federal funding is not coercing them to anything.
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SqueakyRat commented on the blog post Turkish PM Could Invoke NATO Right to Collective Self-Defense Against Syria
NATO is a military alliance. It would be pointless without a commitment to collective self-defense.
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SqueakyRat commented on the blog post Late Night FDL: Controlling Young Women
Great post, but . . . I wonder if men — especially young men — can ever change. Most men don’t rape, but we’re all aware of the beast. Even loving, affectionate sex has its savage edge. I just don’t see a world where women won’t have to be cautious. Sorry.
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SqueakyRat commented on the diary post From Cadillacs to Pickups: Are Conservatives Swapping Black Scapegoats for Working-Class White Ones? by Phoenix Woman.
The GOP think-trough is much richer than the Dems.
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SqueakyRat commented on the diary post From Cadillacs to Pickups: Are Conservatives Swapping Black Scapegoats for Working-Class White Ones? by Phoenix Woman.
I’ve read this a few times now. Still don’t get it.
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SqueakyRat commented on the blog post The Blowback Begins on Ex-Goldman Exec Greg Smith
Go back to sleep, muppets.
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SqueakyRat commented on the blog post Twitchy Lady To Fill Rush Limbaugh’s Enormous Gaping Openings
Doesn’t she know what “twitch” is (old) slang for?
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SqueakyRat commented on the blog post The Actual Problem With Income and Debt Has Nothing to Do With Wall Street
Wall Street people don’t save their money because there’s always going to be more more more.
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SqueakyRat commented on the diary post Saturday Art: The 1930s by Crane-Station.
But look, they got a car! Probly a fridge and a flat-screen in there too.
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SqueakyRat commented on the diary post Has Obama Decided To Start A War With Iran To Assure That He Wins The Election? by Masoninblue.
On the internet, you are what you present yourself as, Doremus. And you presented yourself as a cheap, shallow cynic.
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SqueakyRat commented on the diary post Has Obama Decided To Start A War With Iran To Assure That He Wins The Election? by Masoninblue.
I’m dead set against war with Iran, but how does it turn into WW3?
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SqueakyRat commented on the blog post Cat Fud
I expect Jon was calling Mittens lucky for the quality of his GOP competition. As for Dole, he did get off a funny line once in a while.
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SqueakyRat commented on the blog post Didn’t You Used To Be Somebody?
Does she have the taste to hang it up when she finds herself opening for a puppet show? Doubt it.
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SqueakyRat commented on the diary post For Sale: The Desperate States Of America by Rania Khalek.
People will be much more efficient if the dead weight of regulation is removed from their internal organs. Stands to reason.
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SqueakyRat commented on the diary post For Sale: The Desperate States Of America by Rania Khalek.
Meanwhile, the parking regulations enforcement, which is the only thing that gives the meters their financial value, will of course continue to be paid for by the taxpayers of Chicago.
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SqueakyRat commented on the blog post As Coalition Prepares for Longer War in Libya, Administration Defends Authority to Strike
@Mike Diaz #19
you can’t trust everything you read on twitter.
Now wait a damn minute, Mike! What are you saying?
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SqueakyRat commented on the blog post Armey Tries to Stop Tea Party Tide He Latched Onto
780,000 years ago? That’s some sharp observin’!
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SqueakyRat commented on the diary post It’s Time to Regulate the Number of Aborted Votes in the Senate by Jim White.
The change in the rules that made the filibuster so abusable was that, when the cloture requirement was reduced from 2/3 to 3/5, it became 3/5 of the full membership of the Senate. Before it had been 2/3 of the members actually present in the chamber. At that point the filibuster became basically effortless — [...]
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