Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Funny or Die PSA: protect insurance companies
Key to putting insurance reform in perspective: sarcasm, irony and understatement!
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
S Carolina rep ID'd as Obama heckler
Just when you thought politics couldn't get any worse, Obama's speech to Congress interrupted by a Congressional heckler yelling "You Lie."
AP identified him as one of South Carolina's reps. So much for southern gentility, I guess.
AP identified him as one of South Carolina's reps. So much for southern gentility, I guess.
Whatever happened to the art of the Great Compromise?
I'd like to think the health debate is leading to a grand compromise that can win support across a wide swath of politics. But afraid there's just no interest anymore in statemanship winning out over partisanship.
Sarah Palin, in an apparently never-ending search to create relevancy, is at it again raising the bogus death panel argument and the Wall Street Journal shamelessly lets her get away with it in an op-ed also published today.
I keep waiting to here the better way that conservatives supposedly have tucked away in their back pockets. But all I see are efforts to delay and obfuscate in hopes that deadlock will return the GOP to the driver's seat.
Sarah Palin, in an apparently never-ending search to create relevancy, is at it again raising the bogus death panel argument and the Wall Street Journal shamelessly lets her get away with it in an op-ed also published today.
I keep waiting to here the better way that conservatives supposedly have tucked away in their back pockets. But all I see are efforts to delay and obfuscate in hopes that deadlock will return the GOP to the driver's seat.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Bouncing off the TARP
Interesting story in the NY Times today about whether US will be leaving potential profits on the table by selling back warrants that it received in exchange for TARP funds.
While some banks were reportedly forced to accept "bailout" funds, others seemed all too ready to sip at the public trough until they found out it came with a bit of scrutiny over pay practices and other issues.
Hindsight is 20-20, but if you think back to the days when it seemed like the banking system was on the verge of collapse last fall, the financial industry was clamoring for government action.
I'd just as soon have the government out of the banking business as soon as possible, but with assurance that government won't let the frankensteins of financial engineering remain hidden off the books.
Let these banks pay back the TARP funds, but let's make sure we know what they're doing once they've reprivatized themselves.
While some banks were reportedly forced to accept "bailout" funds, others seemed all too ready to sip at the public trough until they found out it came with a bit of scrutiny over pay practices and other issues.
Hindsight is 20-20, but if you think back to the days when it seemed like the banking system was on the verge of collapse last fall, the financial industry was clamoring for government action.
I'd just as soon have the government out of the banking business as soon as possible, but with assurance that government won't let the frankensteins of financial engineering remain hidden off the books.
Let these banks pay back the TARP funds, but let's make sure we know what they're doing once they've reprivatized themselves.
Friday, May 15, 2009
Thursday, May 14, 2009
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