Author: rootless2

Speaking Ass Clowns

Since this seems to be the term de jour over at OpenLeft, I’d like to give a round of applause to this bit of ass-clownery from OpenLeft’s Paul Rosenberg – truly a classic of the kind. Is Obama just a (way)...

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Just like Bush

Start with Department of Justice news and then onto department of labor and just for. January 2010 (crossposted at kos http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/1/16/825766/-What-the-Democrats-do-for-us ) U.S. Files Suit Against...

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Fiduciary duty and legal ethics at AIG

In the context of the financial crisis, a couple of measly million is chump change, but on the face of it the severance bonus for AIG’s Anastassia Kelly has super outrage leverage per dollar.  The main stockholders...

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Nobody could have predicted: Atrios Economics

Duncan snidely references this Bloomberg article without noting it refutes and frankly shows up as ludicrous his and Krugman’s predictions on the Treasury PPIP program. When PPIP was announced, both Krugman and Atrios...

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How the "base" betrayed us

People who claim that President Obama betrayed the base are, at best, deeply confused. The Democratic Party had primary elections in 2007/2008. In those elections, there was a moderate reformer named Dennis Kucinich who...

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