Tonight’s debate “moderator” in the tank for Obama
October 1, 2008 by Laura · 3 Comments
Tonight’s debate “moderator” is in the tank for Obama:
PBS anchor Gwen Ifill, who will moderate Thursday’s only vice presidential debate. Try as she might to deflect questions about her impartiality, her biases — and her conflict of interest — are clear. But don’t you dare breathe a word about any of this. You know what will happen if you do…
RACIST!
But Fox News (excuse me, Faux News) is absolutely untrustworthy and if a Democrat chooses to boycott it, he’s just speaking truth to Murdoch. Standing up against The Man. Refusing to legitimize the Rethuglican propaganda machine.
The Decline of the West
September 30, 2008 by Laura · Leave a Comment
Well, the criteria seems to have been met. Read more
The Benefit of the Doubt
I recently complained that Barney Frank’s behavior was denying me the ability to offer the Democratic leadership the benefit of the doubt. I wrote,
For a long time, my premise has been that they just don’t know any better. They really don’t understand the consequences of what they espouse. Barney Frank, in particular, is now disabusing me of this idealistic notion.
I had no idea how deep that rabbit hole goes, but it’s well documented: Read more
LA Times Blames Clinton For The Economic Crisis
September 25, 2008 by Laura · 13 Comments
The LA Times blames Bill Clinton for the economic crisis. No, really. It does. Of course, when they printed this article in 1999, they were bragging about it. Read more
Obama’s Katrina Moment
September 25, 2008 by Laura · 6 Comments
Today was Obama’s Katrina moment and an example of great leadership by John McCain. This contrast was telling and will matter.
That would be true, if the media actually covered it, even in a perfunctory way, much less the way they hammered us with babies-raped and cannibalism and Bush-hates-black-folks Katrina stories. But that’ll never happen.
Cynical, but completely, sadly, true.
The Anchoress nails it:
McCain is about to learn that almost no one in Washington actually values his efforts toward bi-partisanship and coalition-building, that most of them have only payed lip-service to the notion, and that Congress’ sincerity about “putting politics aside in order to work together” is as big and fat an illusion as the press’ former love for him. McCain has a lot of noble illusions. They’re all being burst. Nobility is not really what Washington is about, anymore.
Fannie, Freddie, and Fingerpointing
September 22, 2008 by Laura · Leave a Comment
Aside from the fact that Carter’s CRA was a bad idea, aside from the fact that Clinton and a Republican Congress expanded it, aside from McCain’s campaign manager lobbying for F/F and Obama’s finance chair being one of the architects of the subprime crisis… this financial mess could have been stopped. There was a chance to steer the economy away from this iceberg. And the Democrats asked, “What iceberg?” and stubbornly held course, and the Republicans rearranged the deck chairs. Read more
The Politics of Change? Obama Bought Off By Fannie Mae
September 18, 2008 by Laura · 11 Comments
So much for the politics of change - this isn’t change, it’s checks. Big ones. The Fannie Mae CEO admits, back in 2005, that there were serious problems - in the same speech he calls Obama and the rest of the CBC members of the “family.” Obama was being sworn in; he was new to Congress. But he can’t deny he knew there were problems at Fannie because he heard it directly from the CEO - just before he started to take money from him.
What else was going on in 2005? John McCain was trying to pass legislation to reform Fannie Mae. GayPatriot notes McCain’s record of trying to reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and says that if it were Barack Obama, it would be front page news. Karl’s post at Patterico’s has lots of linky goodness, and blasts WaPo for it’s alternate reality of trying to pin this problem on McCain. Read more
