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 | Is it just me or has anyone else noticed that there is a pattern with Congress passing legislation that the American people do not want and know is not in their interest? First they kick it around a little and then have a vote or two that fails to pass the proposed bill. Then they tweak the bill a little while some of the [...] From Roll Call this morning: The White House today is drumming up extraordinary pressure on Congress to approve its plan to enact a $700 billion mortgage bailout fund, suggesting the markets cannot wait much longer and dispatching Vice President Cheney and other top officials up Pennsylvania Avenue to jawbone lawmakers. … But Bush himself continues to do little to explain his plan, and [...] that Henry Paulson gave up his position at Goldman Sachs in order to be in the position to take the economic reigns at precisely this moment in history, to be able to bail out the system – at taxpayer expense – that he helped bankrupt? Why would the man known as “The Hammer” give up CEO compensation of $38 million a year (making [...] I don’t watch much teevee, so my exposure to Sarah Palin has been largely audio. Every time I hear her speak, I’d swear it’s Julia Sweeney channeling Lynn Cheney. But really it’s just Tracy Flick, all grown up and ready to take over the world. Palin last night with Charlie Gibson (who at least from the transcript didn’t suck quite as much as [...] Image via Wikipedia Although I am enforcing a news blackout on what is happening inside the DNC in Denver, Glenn Greenwald and Jane Hamsher are doing a good job of showing us a little bit of how the corporate oligopoly runs our legally bribed government over at Salon.com from outside of the convention: Armed with full-scale Convention press credentials issued by the DNC, I [...] |      | ||||
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