Who would have guessed that we have an opposition party in the US? Yet, all of a sudden — now that Bush appears so very very weak — all of a sudden it appears that we do: TPMCafe || Power Shifts. And see the videos here and here.
Earlier post: Spontaneous Generation Observed in Nature (I).
Kevin Hayden of The American Street offers up some quotes and links on the subject of $9 billion dollars. More than one set of $9 billion at that.
Yes, Sen. Dirksen, it’s real money.[1]
And it used to be ours, too.
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A New Moment of Truth For a White House in Crisis:
John D. Podesta, who was chief of staff to Clinton, said Bush may be more constrained by his troubles than Clinton was by his. Noting that Clinton’s approval ratings remained above 60 percent throughout the impeachment battle, while Bush’s are in the low 40s, Podesta said, “When Clinton said, ‘I’m going back to do my work,’ people cheered,” Podesta said. “When Bush says, ‘I’m going to do the job I’ve been doing,’ people say, ‘Oh, no.'”
It’s the gang that can’t shoot (or even lie) straight. People are fairly mad at FEMA down here, although the screwups being reported are just upsetting not life-threatening.
100% lifted from Stirling Newberry at The Blogging of the President just because it’s such a fun idea:
Paul Krugman for Senate: I’m going to believe that Jon Corzine will win the governor’s race in New Jersey. But who should be the Senator? There is one outstanding resident of New Jersey who has both demonstrated intellectual saavy, and now partisan political chops in getting the word out to the public: Paul Krugman.
If progressives want to take the mantle of “the party of ideas.” This would be a sure fire way to do it: appoint Krugman to the seat that Corzine, knock on wood, will be vacating when he becomes governor.
Two years later, I'm no more optimistic than I was when I wrote Rose Burawoy, Political Scientist. Less, rather.
Sort of funny, sort of tragic.
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