In fairness to Bachmann, she exists in an alternate reality to which we are certainly not connected.

A cramdown measure was defeated in the House, thanks to Blue Dog Democrats and Republicans.

I'm not a huge Atrios fan, but dude's right about cramdowns being the best way to stop the foreclosure crisis (another wave of which will be hitting here soon).

Pardon my crassness here, but, it's patently fucking disgusting -- on a human decency level -- that Blue Dogs and the GOP are fine with allowing bankruptcy judges to adjust rates for a vacation house, but not someone's actual home.

It. Makes. No. Fucking. Sense. At. All.

None. Zero. Zilch. Nada. Nothin'.

And if you think the foreclosure crisis is bad now thanks to the subprime and CRE mess, just wait a few more months. That's when prime mortgages really kick into high foreclosure gear due to lack of jobs and income.

Things are going to get worse before they get better. A LOT worse.

It's been an interesting week in Lake Wobegon. There seems to be some upset in the Bachmann household...

/Keilor

Good question: "Why does the _______ allow ______ to continue to misrepresent ______?"

These things might have been good questions sometime in the past, but the answer is becoming increasing obvious.

No Politico.

Nice. :)

Thank you.

It passed with zero GOP votes:

Among those voting 'no', Kucinich, D, (D-OH) and Kaptur, M. (D-OH), side by side with other staunch progressives like Davis (D-TN), Ike Skelton, and the terrible Texas twins, Cuellar and Ortiz.

One assumes that if the vote were closer, Pelosi could have counted on the Immaculate Conception Caucus to switch their votes.

One assumes.

If memory serves, Blackwater also patrolled the streets of New Orleans in the aftermath of Katrina. Dick Cheney built himself quite a sinister little army on the taxpayers dime, didn't he?

"The latest retail-sales report looked pretty good."

Too bad a big chunk of it was merely a spike in gasoline prices.

Tim Fiernholz isn't really credible He was hired enitely TO BE an obama apologist.

Taibbi has spent his career afflicting the powerful. Tim Fiernholz has spent his career apologizing for them.

It's shameful the way half the so-called 'reporters' on the progressive side of the aisle have turned into the Democratic versions what George Will was for GWB.

It passed with zero GOP votes:
Among those voting 'no', Kucinich, D, (D-OH) and Kaptur, M. (D-OH), side by side with other staunch progressives like Davis (D-TN), Ike Skelton, and the terrible Texas twins, Cuellar and Ortiz.

That's because this legislation has been GUTTED by Congressperson Bean (D - Wall St):

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/11/house-passes-financial-re_n_389267.html

This will allow Wall St to fuck the middle class and give us an even bigger bill.

This is not change we can believe in...

* It passed with zero GOP votes: "More than a year after the near-collapse of Wall Street plunged..........

Uh, Steve, you linked to a Wapo article which said the vote was "largely along party lines" and R's voted "nearly unanimously in their opposition to the bill".

Funny, Ol' Timmy din't like him much about what Matt had to say despite pretty much agreeing with him in the coda.

Is this some sort of side-effect from the Kool-Aide?

And while we're at it Tim Ol' Pal...

...How's yer Habeas Corpus?

Tim Fernholz is a complete tool.

why in the world would you link to a douchebag like him ???

go take a look at the comments on that Fernholz post - he is getting savaged - just brutal.

read this post at kos - much closer to Reality and how People really feel.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/12/11/813110/-Taibbi-Strikes-Again

* It passed with zero GOP votes: [...]

My understanding is that it's so full of Beans, loopholes and exemptions, it's positively lacy, if not downright gauzy. I've heard that, by the time Sweet (Melissa) Beans was done with her Richelieu (also known as "eyelet") embroidery exercises, a slice of Swiss cheese was a solid entity by comparison.

* A cramdown measure was defeated in the House, thanks to Blue Dog Democrats and Republicans.

I wasn't aware there was a difference between the two. Take for example Heath Shuler, rep from NC. I used to check the voting logs to see how he voted. I don't anymore, he votes lock-step with the republicans

North American CO2 sink.

Their estimate is that NA sequesters about 1/3 of NA anthropogenic CO2.

Fan et al. in Science (1998, 1998) obtained a much larger estimate of the NA CO2 sink, and claimed that NA sequestered a little more CO2 than it produced.

Unless Fan et al come up with new evidence, or someone else does, then I suppose we have to accept the figure of 1/3.

Chris Matthews has a fiery piece on Global Climate Change:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036697/vp/34385342#34385342

Rather enjoyed it.

In his latest Rolling Stone piece, Matt Taibbi distills everything wrong with the Obama administration into two pithy sentences:

The point is that an economic team made up exclusively of callous millionaire-a**holes has absolutely zero interest in reforming the gamed system that made them rich in the first place.

There’s no other way to say it: Barack Obama, a once-in-a-generation political talent whose graceful conquest of America’s racial dragons en route to the White House inspired the entire world, has for some reason allowed his presidency to be hijacked by sniveling, low-rent sh*theads.

http://firedoglake.com/2009/12/11/two-sentences-by-matt-taibbi/

"The latest retail-sales report looked pretty good."

UPDATE:

Looks like when you exclude spending on groceries and at restaurants, spending at regular retailers in November actually dropped .8% from last November.

Yeesh.

go take a look at the comments on that Fernholz post - he is getting savaged - just brutal.

I remember when the left side of the blogosphere wasn't crammed full of self-important purity twats like those. It was kinda fun. Now I can't read a thread without wanting to eviscerate about 19 strangers who egg each other on over nothing and cheerlead each other's nonsense, following each other from blog to blog like a toothless yappy wolfpack or trustafarian gutterpunks. I might as well read the rightie blogs.

Taibbi has spent his career afflicting the powerful.

Oh, he's afflicted with something.

Matt Taibbi to replace Gibbs!
Now that would be some funny sh*t!
Either he tells it like it ought to be told or we see a severely muzzled mouthpiece.
Sorry, FliyurWhig, I love Taibbi. Snarkypants all day long. Like Jon Stewart, only with more comprehensive data and no team of writers.

I would say according to a poll published by the daily tabloid VG, 44% of Norwegians believe it was rude of Obama to cancel his scheduled lunch with King Harald, with only 34% saying they believe it was acceptable....

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I read Fernholz's critique of Taibbi's piece, and I found it pretty unpersuasive. Fernholz might be right, but if he is, he sure isn't doing a good job of showing it.

Bachmann needs an intervention. A public flogging, including a long list of particulars is in order.

I miss the days when corruption twats like flipyrwig were hugging in the streets as their beloved change agents took the graft baton from Bush and ran like hell. Now there's all these fucking literate people who pay attention as our phony reformer loots the fisc to save preening failures from ruin and it's no fun at all. I will laff & laff when the next foreclosure wave hits Obama's majority of whores and the blowjob crusaders take over. Couldn't happen to a nicer fake reformer.

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