Independent and Democratically-aligned U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman has been beyond the pale for Democrats for a long time. He recently ratcheted things up while supporting Republican John McCain over Democrat Barack Obama for President, attacking Obama with scurrilous, false and personal attacks during the campaign. As an added bonus for Democrats, Lieberman also […]
I’ve been asking myself how Bill Ford for years could tout the ‘future environment’ of more environmentally friendly cars - and the company he largely controls could ignore the environment to its current peril.
Here’s a take on how it happened.
Sometimes you hear something repeated as a talking point that’s so obvious you wonder why they bother. Here’s Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson’s carefully designed $700 billion Wall Street bailout that later was only slightly elaborated in a three page proposal to congress:
Clearly there’s no room for “auto industry” in the plan.
Over the past week plus I’ve been thinking about the incredible irony of a company forced to produce it’s future, determined to destroy it’s future, and succeeding - leading to its destruction. In the 1990’s GM killed an electric car it was forced to produce by California. Today Deutsche Bank declared GM stock […]
I was originally against the $700 billion bailout because of a profound lack of trust in the Bush Administration. I regret to say I was right.
The two major objections I had were that the real costs of the bailout would be hidden and that while asking for new powers the Bush Administration would hide […]
Rob and Nicole Freedman (pictured just below) took the shots
The crowd
Obama
Not since 1988, when Republican George H.W. Bush won the presidency by about 7%, have we had a presidential election won by a clear majority. President Clinton served eight years with a plurality of votes, and George W. Bush served eight years with less than a majority the first term, and at best a […]
Congratulations to all the candidates of all parties this cycle. Democrats locally worked harder than I’ve ever seen before, and their efforts made major headway, with an unprecedented number of competitive races. Congratulations to incoming President Barack Obama, who I’ll talk about more in another post.
Congratulations to the re-elected incumbents: U.S. Senator […]
I was looking at the results in the Daily Herald and found this:
I found this so amazing I double-checked - and House Minority Leader Cross won 60-40. Go figure.
I expected it, but WOW. What an incredible feeling.
