Mike's Blog Roundup
By Mike Finnigan Saturday Dec 13, 2008 8:30amAngry Bear: GM press release. Here's a bailout plan those GOP Senators could support
TPM Election Central: Al Franken's prospects improved significantly yesterday. Norm Coleman is headed to court for a Florida/2000-style attempt to stop ballot counting. However, getting re-elected may be the least of Coleman's problems.
Ta-Nehisi Coates: Pragmatism and evil
Center for Constitutional Rights: CCR appeals ruling that government can keep secret whether it spied on Gitmo attorneys
Political Irony: Support an executive
Bob Geiger: The Saturday Cartoons
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This is a fascinating read, and sort of wrecks my hope that Obama would govern "pragmatically from the left", though to my way of thinking now, the term, "left", would be applied to a return to America's Constitution as the right screamed in fury and outrage. I don't even think Obama plans to do that, given his vote on telecom immunity, and many of his public statements lately, the most disappointing about not prosecuting anyone in the Bush administration for crimes committed.
I DO think he wants to rebuild America's infrastructure and do something about health care, since that seemed to be his leaning before the economic collapse nearly buried us. So he has to fold that problem into his prior goals. I think most Americans really want a return to our Constitutional guarantees and rights, but I don't think Obama will do it.
Coates's statement at the end expresses my beliefs, too:
When george was complaining about faulty intelligence, he wasn't throwing George Tennant under the bus, he was throwing God under the bus.
Remember? Bush said God told him to invade Iraq. So he is saying his God gave him false and misleading information when he was talking to him.
Finally we have some accountability for Iraq.
MANAMA (Reuters) – The United States lacks the intelligence needed to pursue the fight against pirates on Somali soil, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Saturday.
Is it me, or is that an astonishing statement? We can't get "intelligence" to fight PIRATES? (And I'm not suggesting we necessarily get into that fight) Do you realize how much money goes to the Intelligence community?
We are truly on the way to becoming a banana republic.
If the US would join with other countries and share intelligence information, it would not be such a problem. Gates wouldn't have to tell us US intelligence agencies can't get the intelligence we need. This thing about ultra-secrecy and the resultant isolation and ignorance that is its issue just seems futile to me. Of course, for such information-sharing to work toward the best end, politics could NOT be part of the stew, though I'm not saying that is the case here.
Doesn't that make US the pirates?
AHOY MATEE!
But isn't intelligence usually reserved for nations, or groups within nations?
Piracy generally is just thieves and cutthroats that work only for themselves.
Except I seem to remember Capt. Morgan being coopted by the British to attack enemy ships, and even getting a large parcel of land in return after the hostilities were over.
This Norm Coleman thing needs to be a solo topic.
and she thinks Al Franken is the LOWEST kind of skumbag... of course all her information has come from Norm Coleman's advertising campaign. I'm rooting and hooting for Franken to pull this rabbit out of the hat. It will be good for Minnesota, and good for my poplitical neophite-of-a-sister too.
Compare the GOP's worries (HYPOCRICY) between working American assistance, and Wall Street criminals!
American workers asking for pennies on the dollar compared to Wall Street - screw you, you haven't suffered enough yet!
Paulson 3 page request for $700,000,000,000 for Wall Street:
Page 1: Give us $700,000,000,000 dollars!
Page 2: Don't ask any questions!
Page 3: Dick Cheney say's fuck you!!!!
Their government had tons of cash to bailout their banks and industry too....now they are performing slash and burn welfare reform....with the idea behind it that all single parents, and others on welfare, are only on it because they are too lazy to work. Do a search and you'll be flabbergasted.
you always give us gold... your blog and this website. ty
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