The Geithner Plan

At the end of his piece at Firedoglake on Timothy Geithner’s toxic asset plan, James K. Galbraith writes, “I hope what I’m driving at, here, is clear. …” Well, no, it’s not. But that’s not Galbraith’s fault. It’s mine. I am so economics-challenged that...

Ask the President: Single. Effing. Payer. NAO.

Sarah posted this at her other pad, and I thought I’d do the same here: As a Canadian for whom universal single-payer coverage is a given, health care is a big one for me. The fact that my American friends have to go through such fucking bullshit regarding their fucking HEALTH CARE? That is on the...

F*ck Me with a Freshly Sharpened Pitchfork.

On today’s episode of Fareed Zakaria GPS, an ‘expert panel’ was convened to discuss ‘populist’ outrage in the wake of AIG and other recent scandals related to the global economic crisis. Via email, I bet Sarah a dinner at IHOP (because we be keepin’ it real like that in this economy) that the...

The State or Quality of Being Depressed

Scott Johnson and Victor Davis Hanson are depressed. Says Scott: I feel utterly powerless to do anything about the fellow in the Oval Office who combines infantile leftism and adolescent grandiosity in roughly equal measures. It seems to me that every day he is responsible for assaults on the freedom and...

Question of the day

When will Obama’s honeymoon with the Left end?  And when it does (the answer to this question does not begin with “if”), can the date of separation be traced back to yesterday, March 21, 2009 — a day when John Cole said this: If these guys are right [about Obama's bank/bad debt...