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- robotron3k0
The Repubs secret weapon is ready, he's just about 5 years too early to cause damage... maybe in 2012
- ********0
Have a nice weekend angry people.
- tommyo0
I love the angry liberal asshat talking heads. Paul Ryan is a pretty smart cookie though, handled it well imo.
- this guy is full of shit,
how about the bush spendingsGeorgesII - liberals on squawk box? gimme a break.DrBombay
- rock county wisconsin is a tiny shithole in my state btw.DrBombay
- GeorgesII, what exactly does Bush have to do with this?tommyo
- how about 2 war and an economic collapse, you can blame obama for everything but he didn't dig the hole,GeorgesII
- Bush has everything to do with this. His leadership, supported by the party, discredited their message.IRNlun6
- You guys are lost in a sea of twisted logic. These are NEW policies, Obama policies. Where they issues they addresstommyo
- stem from is semi besides the point. Bush was a fuckup, yes. So we can't hold new policy to scrutiny because of that? Silly.tommyo
- Hardly semi-besides the point when much of his policies are still in place... but agree that any major piece of legislation deserves some form of scrutiny.IRNlun6
- ... deserves some for of scrutiny.IRNlun6
- this guy is full of shit,
- designbot0
It seems people are finally catching on.....the Washington State Legislature recently introduced a bill demanding Congress end the Federal Reserve and restore currency backed by gold and silver.
"Preventing unprecedented losses in the value of take-home pay, retirement income, insurance policies, and investments as a result of the federal reserve's ongoing inflation of un-backed paper money."
- designbot0
Almost 20 states have either passed or are preparing to introduce "Sovereignty" declarations, reminding the federal government that any laws passed by Congress which exceed constitutional limits are invalid and will not be recognized by those states.
Washington
http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/…New Hampshire
http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/…Arizona
http://www.azleg.gov/FormatDocum…Montana
http://data.opi.mt.gov/bills/200…Michigan
http://legislature.mi.gov/doc.as…Missouri
http://www.house.mo.gov/content.…Oklahoma
http://axiomamuse.wordpress.com/…California
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/93…- Possibly: Colorado, Hawaii, Pennsylvania, Montana, Arkansas, Idaho,
Indiana, Alaska, Kansas, Alabama, Nevada, Maine, Illinoisdesignbot - Indiana, Alaska, Kansas, Alabama, Nevada, Maine, Illinoisdesignbot
- Great. Now let's see them turn down the stimulus money when they are going bankrupt:)ukit
- better do this while that blacks folks rules our country..the constitution was RAPED during bush and now is the time for revolution??Mirpour
- revolution??Mirpour
- "liberals"IRNlun6
- neatrobco
- Possibly: Colorado, Hawaii, Pennsylvania, Montana, Arkansas, Idaho,
- TheBlueOne0
"How did a minor-league TV figure, whose contract with CNBC is due this summer, get so quickly launched into a nationwide rightwing blog sensation? Why were there so many sites and organizations online and live within minutes or hours after his rant, leading to a nationwide protest just a week after his rant?
What we discovered is that Santelli’s “rant” was not at all spontaneous as his alleged fans claim, but rather it was a carefully-planned trigger for the anti-Obama campaign. In PR terms, his February 19th call for a “Chicago Tea Party” was the launch event of a carefully organized and sophisticated PR campaign, one in which Santelli served as a frontman, using the CNBC airwaves for publicity, for the some of the craziest and sleaziest rightwing oligarch clans this country has ever produced.
Within hours of Santelli’s rant, a website called ChicagoTeaParty.com sprang to life. Essentially inactive until that day, it now featured a YouTube video of Santelli’s “tea party” rant and billed itself as the official home of the Chicago Tea Party. The domain was registered in August, 2008 by Zack Christenson, a dweeby Twitter Republican and producer for a popular Chicago rightwing radio host Milt Rosenberg—a familiar name to Obama campaign people. Last August, Rosenberg, who looks like Martin Short’s Irving Cohen character, caused an outcry when he interviewed Stanley Kurtz, the conservative writer who first “exposed” a personal link between Obama and former Weather Undergound leader Bill Ayers."
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/200…
Welcome back vast right wng conspiracy. It's real and it's spectacular.
- republican-rightwing... do not care about America.Mirpour
- robotron3k0
oh yeah Crisis of Credit EXPLAINED
- ukit0
Interesting take on the crisis. Every single economic era that we have gone through - rural society to an industrial one, then shift from industrial to services oriented - has been accompanied by a crash and then rebuilding, and the cause of the era's destruction often a byproduct of its own success. Is what we are going through just the natural end of a 30 year economic cycle and the move to something else?
- BattleAxe0
""Given the systemic risk AIG continues to pose and the fragility of markets today, the potential cost to the economy and the taxpayer of government inaction would be extremely high," Treasury said in its announcement."
http://www.wpxi.com/news/1881858…scare tactics never grow old
- and all these stories in the media about "Ways to Save Money" so many mixed messagesBattleAxe
- TheBlueOne0
Actually AIG underwrites a shitload of corporate and state Chinese pensions, you can bet dollars to donuts that China is letting the US government know that AIG cannot fail or else....
- ..or at least that's what some of the more paranoid economic blogs are saying. Not sure on the truthiness of it..TheBlueOne
- Although AIG (AIA) does have insurance business in China in the low billions..TheBlueOne
- BattleAxe0
whatever the case , this whole too big to fail basically redefines the whole principals of capitalism which it pretty ceases to be at that point.
if the first try produced shit results why keep trowing money away at it ,
i would rather see that money go directly to the hands of down on luck citizens and I could care less if I received any of it myself ,
- ********0
Will someone please shoot this fucktard.
- Why? What moronic thing did he say now?TheBlueOne
- http://politicaltick…********
- I found Steele attacking Limbaugh as great political theater...TheBlueOne
- http://mschaut.files…SillyBilly
- designbot0
hahha (sorry if it's been posted already) pretty funny.
- such a big deal, yet no one is there, fuck em allBattleAxe
- http://mschaut.files…SillyBilly
- waterhouse0
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn…
I didn't realize Oxycotton could make you insane.
- I assume this is a setup, a theatrical stage setup by the GOPTheBlueOne
- Ooo look, the black guy is arguing conservative values with the white guy! We're chock full of diversity!TheBlueOne
- ********0
I really am glad that this fat asshat (along with Hannity) is the public voice and face for their party.
- Yeah, it's like when Michael Moore became the face of Liberals...for better or worseTheBlueOne
- TheBlueOne0
Dow closed down -299.64 to end up at 6,763.29, Citigroup closed down .30 at $1.20. Man, am I glad the US Govt bought the common stock at what $3.65 or something. Fuck yeah. Just nationalize the fucking shit.
- ********0
ok , another thing. I am so sick of hearing about this Stimulus Plan concocted by a Dem. Pres. that is going to break this country.
Don't people get it that if McCain was in there, he would of had a Plan as well? WTF.
Not to mention the $601,389,681,289 wasted (and still counting) on the Iraq war the last Republican regime put on our tab.
- I agree, there is no guilty party here...and both presidents would have done the same thing. It's shit imo, but it's not Obama.designbot
- the psychotic fuckers just don't get it.Mirpour
- wait till an increasing number of Americans are raging with anger...it's time for the government to once again realize they are working for us.designbot
- they are working for us.designbot
- tommyo0
hhaha seriously Franz Kafka couldn't even write the shit this well at this point ...
AIG Sues U.S. Government to Recover $306 Million in 1997 Taxes
2009-02-27 21:22:57.859 GMT
By David GlovinFeb. 27 (Bloomberg) — American International Group Inc., the insurer in talks to restructure its federally funded $150 billion bailout, sued the U.S. government to recover $306 million in taxes.
In a 52-page complaint filed today in Manhattan federal court, AIG said the U.S. government “erroneously and illegally” assessed taxes, penalties and interest on the company for several complex transactions in 1997.
The suit comes as the U.S. considers restructuring a bailout to include a government backstop protecting AIG against further losses on credit-default swaps and help it stave off bankruptcy, a person familiar with the matter said yesterday. The company is preparing to disclose a record fourth-quarter loss of about $60 billion, the person said.
The case is AIG v. U.S., 09-cv-1871, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan).
