Simon Johnson on the vindictive absurdity of Republican plans to slash unemployment benefits: The jobs crisis was caused by recklessness in the financial sector, made possible by irresponsible deregulation (including a period when Republicans controlled Congress and the White House) and resulting in...
Double shot of Rachel this AM, as everyone’s fav cable news anomaly does her best Mitt Romney impression in a blistering attack on Politifact over it’s curious inability to fully credit Obama’s totally, wholly, completely factually correct private sector job creation numbers, cited during...
I don’t want to say I reluctantly voted for Obama. I was never totally enamored with him, but during the 2008 campaign I can’t say I didn’t feel the hope, either. Finally, a younger candidate who wasn’t bred out of the older, Clinton and Bush-esqe generation of national politicians...
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tas on Jun 2, 2009 in
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The boys and I at Prognostication Nation have run some computer models, and we think we know what today’s news will look like tomorrow … for wingnuts. Headline #1: Based off this story — By 2011, GM aims to shrink its U.S. work force to 38,000, which is less than one-tenth of what the...
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tas on Mar 17, 2009 in
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Yesterday, I emailed the CFLF crew and told them I’m cutting back on my blogging here mostly because of time constraints, but also because I want to take a broader look at the Obama administration to determine exactly what they’re doing. Day to day blog commentary requires one steeping...