Finally some restrictions on the stimulus/bailout money or saving a seagull which is all we’re saving these days.

It seems like our representatives are finally looking to formally place restrictions on how the taxpayer money can be spent by the banks/companies that get some of it.
It was sheer insanity to just hand over money to businesses that ran their own companies into the ground.
Self regulation indeed. “We thought they would exhibit restraint and [...]

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No republican votes for Obama’s economic stimulus. Seriously not one?

I know it’s mostly a political pissing contest  posturing power conflict and that the republicans are trying to recoup it’s lost authority but… seriously not one vote for Obama’s stimulus package?
I don’t pretend to understand the complexities of the economic mess we’re in but I do know what I think:
It doesn’t matter what economic theory you [...]

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Is congress really serious?

I absolutely hate to be right when it’s something that I was hoping I was just too cynical about and was really wrong…
But- So much for the bipartisianship. No, I didn’t think in a million years it would happen but I figured I could hope anyway.
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Rush Limbaugh hopes Obama fails because he disagrees with [...]

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Obama’s Treasury Secretary Geitner is approved. Welcome to the economic disaster!

In the wake of Madoff’s “undiscovered until it was too late” Ponzi scheme that ripped off so very many.
I hope he understands what a corrupt capitalist weasel he is sitting in his penthouse with help, food and drink and a ankle bracelet but I doubt he gets it. None of them really seem to.
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John Thain [...]

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No more countdown. What’s with Paterson?

I said I wasn’t surprised that Paterson picked Kirsten Gillibrand previously.
However that doesn’t mean I agree with his choice.
First off she’s fairly conservative for a democrat, well ok so that’s not the end of the world.
But she’s not a strong backer of gay rights and is endorsed by the NRA, and quite a bit of [...]

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Two days into the new Obama administration.

Hillary Clinton the new Secretary of State.
VP or President would have been better but I think Obama stands the best chance to get us out of some of this mess.
There will be time for a woman president (and there will be one).
Approval for new position for Hillary 94-2.
Looks like Geithner will be approved dispite the [...]

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Our new President Barack Obama. A new day.

A new page in the history of the United States of America. A new day. Let everyone work together to make this the nation it could be, it should be… It won’t be easy, it won’t happen overnight. But we can make it happen if we don’t lose faith in ourselves and our [...]

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Tomorrow! Finally it’s tomorrow! Inauguration Day is upon us!

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G’bye George Bush!  I’m not at all sorry to see you go.  Hello President Barack Obama, very happy to see you and good luck with the mess we’re in.
 
Did catch up with all the news I missed yesterday due to my playing in the snow!  I’m heartened by the changing of the guard as are [...]

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Only two days left of GW Bush I can’t believe it!

Jealous of Eldest son that lives in DC… He went to the concerts at Lincoln Memorial today with friends!
Bruce Springsteen and all the others. :sigh:: Cold but it sounded like fun.
So two days left till Obama is officially the president of the USA and “Thanks for the  nightmares memories” George W. Bush.  BuhBye.
Haven’t found the time to [...]

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Three days until president elect Obama becomes President Obama!

I understand why the incoming administration doesn’t want to create a ruckus in the republican and democrat camps about the idea of looking into the Bush Administration’s illegalities over the past 8 years.   I really do.  I get that it would create a media firestorm and has the possibility of a three ring circus-like [...]

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