People United Means Action
From the category archives:
Debt Ceiling Primer: How does the debt ceiling work and why does it matter? Next time we hear them talk about compromise, go buy some KY Dakinikat at Skydancing Debt Ceiling Hobbits Versus The ‘I’ Of Sauron – Why We Indeed Do Need An Election Year Debt Ceiling Debate Congress’ mishandling of debt ceiling and [...]
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The Chamber of Commerce says the White House attacks on it are backfiring. If that’s true then it’s not surprising obama’s sudden rise in popularity on Friday was as real as leprechaun’s gold. He’s back down to -12 this morning. Another one from the surprising (not) file: obama golfs more often than Bush. Also fitting [...]
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Obama’s Glorious Economic “Recovery” has stalled. It’s hard to blame Third Wave feminists for voting for obama. They are pretty dumb. Sen. Max Baucus ($5 million from the Medical Industrial Complex) is new gatekeeper for troubled Obamacare effort. There is something so wrong about a President on a Permanent Campaign. After tonight’s propagandafest for [...]
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What Cinie said: “For some reason, the internal power struggle between Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Mir Hossein Mousavi is being represented by Americans via the blogosphere, even by some writers whose opinions I deeply respect, as a clasic battle for the hearts, minds, and souls of the Iranian people in their valiant struggle for freedom, fairness, truth, justice [...]
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The ballot initiatives in California have gone down in flames. The state now faces a $50 Billion shortfall. As dwp pointed out, California governors have been recalled for shortfalls less than one twentieth of that size. Is Ahnold about to become the Surrenderator? California has the world’s seventh largest economy. What happens in our Golden [...]
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From Rasmussen, via headclunker, “35% of the nation’s voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty-two percent (32%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of +3, his lowest rating to date (see trends).” You are probably wondering HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN to the greatest press-ident [...]
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H/t to Bostonboomer for the neologism. Sacramento’s tent city grows by the week, and as BB points out, in Elkhart, Indiana, more than 1,600 people lined up for food provided by the charity Feed the Children. You may remember Elkhart — it’s the town O’logo used as a publicity backdrop when he was making televised [...]
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It’s going to be a bumpy Friday. Rumors abound that Citigroup and maybe Bank of America are going down today. O’Logo wants to mess with Social Security. Krugman says that everything O’logo is doing is necessary but none of it is going to help regular people today, tomorrow, or for the next 5 to 10 [...]
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RACISTS: Looks like Eric Holder needs to brush up on his job description. Pssst! Eric, Honey, you’re the Attorney General of the UNITED STATES. You can’t go around insulting half of us when you’re supposed to be serving us. All of us — the browns, the yellows, the whites, the in-betweens, the blacks, the bi’s [...]
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(We’re still reading and summarizing H.R. 1, the Stimulus Package. Please join our efforts or read our summaries HERE. We are also still in the midst of our Winter Fundraiser. Please contribute HERE, and THANK you.) Don’t call it suffering Mr. Johnson! You and your wife were both laid off from your jobs last week [...]
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