Today in irony, we bring you this nugget from millionaire Republican, former Goldman Sachs executive, and $700 billion bank bailer-outer Neel Kashkari, who's challenging California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) in November. In Thursday's Wall Street Journal, Kashkari described in an ...read more
"First of all, any white guy anywhere, rich or poor, who steps out in public wearing the mantle of 400 years of black suffering instantly shoots to the very top of the world asshole pyramid. Most white people grasp this instinctively. If they don't already teach it in ...read more
By Ben Cohen: On our 'Video of the Day' section, we put up a clip of CNBC host Maria Bartiromo engaging in a nasty spat with Current TV's Eliot Spitzer on the AIG/Hank Greenberg scandal. It's an entertaining back and forth and Bartiromo comes off particularly badly in her ...read more
So this is kind of interesting. Rasmussen has been pushing a lot of polling in a GOP-friendly way. And the right, especially in the blogosphere, has been clutching their pearls over the AIG bonus tax because it means the evil Democrats are going to tax their babies or something. ...read more
God, the contempt for average Americans is so pathetic. Time to storm the Bastille, it feels like sometimes with these guys. ...read more
There's been a lot of handwringing by the GOP and their representatives in the media - Rush, Hannity, CNBC - about the measure passed in the House by the Democrats to get the people's money back from the robber barons at AIG. Now, that legislation was pretty broadly written, for ...read more
Party discipline? The wide margin of victory came despite sharp Republican attacks calling the legislation a ploy to paper over Obama administration missteps. Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, said the bill was "a political circus" to divert attention from why the ...read more
He's standing up for the little guy. The little guy with the giant fortune. ...read more
First Rush Limbaugh came out and defended the bonuses being paid out to AiG's executives (at least 73 of them got at least $1 million), and now his brother in arm on Fox, Glenn Beck, also supports the robber barons. As I've said before - I want more of this from conservatives. ...read more
When the Washington Post writes stories like this ("An Imperiled Agenda: Anger Over Firm Depletes Obama's Political Capital"), coming on the heels of them publishing a clearly fraudulent column by George Will, a survey of Washington opinion spanning the right to far-right, and ...read more
On Meet The Press, White House Council Of Economic Advisers Chairperson Christina Romer said that Sec. Tim Geithner is "urging" AIG on the bonus issue. We - the American people - own 80% of the company. We're past the point of "urging". We need to TELL those bastards what to do. ...read more
