Republicans in Disarray

Jane Hamsher asks the one million dollar (which, at the rate we’re going, may buy you a gallon of milk in a couple of weeks) question; if McCain can’t even lead his own party, how can he lead the nation? I don’t think for one second that America is buying the cognitive dissonance induced...

Four Trillion Dollars

That is how much George W. Bush has added to the national debt in the eight years he’s been in office. It’s the biggest increase under any president in U.S history. On the day President Bush took office, the national debt stood at $5.727 trillion. The latest number from the Treasury Department shows...

The – 777.68 Point Plunge

Bailout compromise bill fails. Dow subsequently plummets by a record figure (nine-eleven-shmine-eleven). TSX also plummets by a record figure, throwing a wild card onto the Canadian election table. All this capped off a day in which global markets took a major league ass-whipping (most of which, it should...

That’s Rich

First McCain took credit for the bailout bill, then it failed.  In a fit of irony the likes of which I had never seen before, instead of owning up to a damn thing, McCain blames the whole mess on Obama.  Even though the real reason the bill failed was due to the very same House Republicans that McCain was...

Palin Induced Head Injury

I have to admit, I have been, secretly, among those who believed that the calamitous performances by Sarah Palin on the stump and in interviews (specifically the Katie Couric interview) were all a clever and complex attempt at the most ambitious lowering of expectations ever. And then she endorsed Hamas. I...