Fundamentally a deregulator for 26 years: McCain now calls for “regulation”
SEPTEMBER 2008, ECONOMIC GROUND-ZERO: MCCAIN CALLS FOR “REGULATION”?
By September 2008, economic signs of perilous and dramatic decline finally awakened John McCain to the reality that our nation is in crisis. Contrary to his contentions that the “fundamentals of the economy are strong”, John McCain officially launched a campaign of change — change of his core [...]
McCain (18 times) “fundamentals of the economy are strong”
By Jim Stratton, Orlando Sentinel
September 16, 2008
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Amid near-chaos on Wall Street, John McCain on Monday told an Orlando audience that the U.S. economy is “in crisis,” sounding a new note of urgency in a campaign that’s preferred until now not to talk much about the economy.
The Republican’s shift in pitch came as Democrat Barack [...]
Obama’s definition of change…”A government that doesn’t let banks and oil companies rip off the American people”
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Hannity explodes on air, calls guest ‘fool’ and ‘idiot,’ tells him to get off set.
Yesterday on Fox News, Sean Hannity and The American Prospect’s Robert Kuttner had a tense exchange about the election. As Kuttner offered advice for Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL), Hannity interrupted, saying Obama is “hiding” his associations with Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright. “Stop it. Stop it. This is — this is garbage you’re spewing,” Hannity [...]
57 MORE DAYS OF PROMISING CHANGE AND DOING NOTHING? AT WHOSE EXPENSE?
Our government is willing to bailout and support businesses, at the same time neglecting it’s people by allowing foreclosure evictions and poverty wages?
It has recently come to me while watching national and regional news programs: Television news has one purpose, to generate advertising dollars for it’s corporation. Helping it’s viewers just doesn’t pay, so why [...]
Palin Speech Excerpts
The country is in an economic tailspin, wars waged throughout the world that the Republicans have no intention of ending, and what does their party offer: a pipe-laying PTA hockey mom to our rescue.
On her experience as a public servant:
“I had the privilege of living most of my life in a small town. I [...]
Excerpts from Mitt Romney’s RNC speech
Mitt Romney’s speech tonight is shaping up to be a republican panic attack, filled with scare tactics and catch phrases in an attempt to “unify the conservative base”. We can expect the same ambiguity we were spoon fed last night, and again, no mention of what a “smaller, meaner government” will offer the American people.
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Fake Palin Photo Surfaces On The Internet
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Katrina recovery still not complete. Either “Brownie” or Bush must still be in charge.
KATRINA INDEX: Who’s getting the money?
• Pre-Katrina affordable rental housing units in Hancock, Harrison and Jackson counties, the three hardest-hit Mississippi counties: 25,234
• Post-Katrina affordable rental housing units in those same three counties: 19,535
• Community Development Block Grant dollars allocated to repair/rebuild rental housing in Mississippi after Katrina: $260,000,000
• Community Development Block Grant dollars disbursed to [...]
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