Back in October in a post titled The Rape Of The American Taxpayer, when the government’s bailout of Wall Street was already in high gear, I wrote: Having been brutally raped by a Wall Street gang, aided and abetted by Bush and his congressional cronies, Americans are now being required to buy the rape kit, as well as bear and …
Hey mighty brontosaurus Don’t you have a message for us You thought your rule would always last There were no lessons in your past… Walking in your footsteps Walking in your footsteps -Sting/The Police From the Wall Street/DC Axis of Evil, the Treasury Department-– oh hell, let’s just call it what it is: a wholly owned subsidiary of Goldman Sachs— …
Timmeh Geithner getting a grip on Obama’s balls Spring has sprung a leak. From Paul Krugman’s New York Times Blog March 21, 2009, 7:12 am Despair over financial policy The Geithner plan has now been leaked in detail. It’s exactly the plan that was widely analyzed — and found wanting — a couple of weeks ago. The zombie ideas have …
Matt Taibbi nails it over at Rolling Stone:: The best way to understand the financial crisis is to understand the meltdown at AIG. AIG is what happens when short, bald managers of otherwise boring financial bureaucracies start seeing Brad Pitt in the mirror. This is a company that built a giant fortune across more than a century by betting on …
Apparently, disgraced former president George W. Bush is being given a $7 million dollar advance to write a memoir of his disastrous eight years in office, titled Decision Points. Two suggestions for W. First, since you have no credibility outside your small circle of narcissist enablers, you should consider a subtitle that has at least has an air of truth …
The Colbert ReportMon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30cStephen’s Angry Mob Will Crush AIGColbert Report Full EpisodesPolitical HumorRap BattleNASA Name Contest Four hundred million years of evolution and Congress still doesn’t know how to GROW A SPINE!?! Stand up to these assholes at AIG and Goldman Sachs and the rest of the banking mafia, or get the hell off the Hill!
Keith Olbermann just spent 10 minutes (beginning 10 minutes after the hour) discussing the “Steps to Financial Cataclysm Paved with Industry Dollars” report I mentioned in the comments section. As always, he weaves it into a compelling narrative well worth viewing.
