Sunday, February 15, 2009
One of the interesting ironies about the economic stimulus bill that just passed is that by most any measure it is the largest tax cut in US history. It includes $282 billion in tax cuts over two years. In comparison, Bush’s largest tax cuts (in 2004/2005) totaled $231 billion. So why did the Republicans just […]
Sunday, February 15, 2009
“Well, today, the heads of the eight largest banks testified before Congress. Bank C.E.O.’s in a room full of politicians — they had to flip a coin to see who’s going to tell the first lie.” -Jay Leno “You know, this Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner? He gave testimony on Capitol Hill today, but it drew […]
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Two days ago I posted a story about a Republican Congressman who claimed that FDR caused the Great Depression though his deficit spending (“borrow and spend”) — which would have been a neat time-travel trick since FDR didn’t get elected until almost four years after the Great Depression started. But as we know, most “big […]
Saturday, February 14, 2009
“Last night, Barack Obama held his first press conference as President of the United States, and it was fascinating because his press conferences are very different than the George Bush press conferences in many ways. There were verbs. There were syllables. There were complete sentences.” -Jay Leno “Obama said he still believes in bipartisanship and […]
Friday, February 13, 2009
Japanese TV is totally bizarre: from Huffington Post.
Friday, February 13, 2009
“How about President Barack Obama’s first primetime press conference last night? He was cogent, eloquent, and in complete command of the issues. I’m thinking to myself, what the hell am I supposed to do with that?” -David Letterman “Oh, here’s a bad sign. In Hawaii, a billion dollar Navy warship has run aground. They can’t […]
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Tennessee Republican legislators kick out their own Republican speaker, turning over control to the Democratic Party. And in Virginia, the Republicans plan a coup, but one of their own lets the tweet out of the bag. Rachel Maddow reports all the sordid (and ironic) political details:
Thursday, February 12, 2009
According to Ohio Republican Congress-critter Steve Austria, FDR caused the Great Depression: When [President Franklin] Roosevelt did this, he put our country into a Great Depression. He tried to borrow and spend, he tried to use the Keynesian approach, and our country ended up in a Great Depression. That’s just history. Unfortunately for the Republican version […]
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Is this comic satire like the original Obama New Yorker cover, or is it really arguing that the Stimulus bill is socialism? You decide! © Mike Lester
