Yeppers, V(ictor) D(avis) Hanson is actually partially right about Barney Frank (except for the anti-gay homophobic innuendo part).
Hey, I agree with Frank’s idea for more regulatory reform of our nation’s financial system. (Of course, VD Hanson doesn’t, so he’s down to about 25 percent right, now.)
But, Frank would be even more legitimate if he and other Members of Congress gave back old AIG campaign donations. THERE, old VD is as right as post-coital drip or something.
OK, VD, you got that part right. Time to go back to being 100 percent wrong.
March 17, 2009
Massachusetts faces harder choices on public healthcare
Can the Bay State and Gov. Deval Patrick really rein in healthcare costs?
The Democratic legislature and GOP Gov. Mitt Romney punted tough choices down the road when they adopted, at the state level, the first American attempt at “national” healthcare.
Will avoiding fee-for-service payment to doctors help enough? Or even more emphasis on wellness? Or is it time to regulate hospitals and clinics away from buying ever-greater amounts of ever-more-expensive diagnostic equipment and such?
In other words, is the time for what wingers call “rationing” here?
The Democratic legislature and GOP Gov. Mitt Romney punted tough choices down the road when they adopted, at the state level, the first American attempt at “national” healthcare.
Will avoiding fee-for-service payment to doctors help enough? Or even more emphasis on wellness? Or is it time to regulate hospitals and clinics away from buying ever-greater amounts of ever-more-expensive diagnostic equipment and such?
In other words, is the time for what wingers call “rationing” here?
If you don’t trust Obama on AIG…
You certainly shouldn’t trust him on civil liberties, presidential powers and “presidentialism,” and a whole raft of related stuff.
“Enemy combatants” are still that in everything but name.
John Yoo should be let off the hook because we allegedly didn’t know torture was wrong five years ago.
Hey, Obamiacs, when will you take him off the pedestal and your collective craniums out of your collective rectums?
“Enemy combatants” are still that in everything but name.
John Yoo should be let off the hook because we allegedly didn’t know torture was wrong five years ago.
Hey, Obamiacs, when will you take him off the pedestal and your collective craniums out of your collective rectums?
Brad Sherman pegged Tim Geithner
Here’s more of why you shouldn’t be surprised Geithner let himself get punked.
California Democratic Rep. Brad Sherman told Bloomberg last week that AIG should be put into receivership.
(Further Goldman Sachs connection – AIG CEO Liddy was on Goldman Sachs’ board of directors when Henry Paulson was its CEO.
Now, Sherman tells Talking Points Memo Treasury ALREADY has the power to void the bonuses.
Sherman adds that this is why he voted against the original bailout: he didn’t think Treasury would use that power.
And, why does TPM disable user comments on this story? C’mon, Josh.
If you want to cut off the AIG gravy train, Jane Hamsher has a petition drive.
In the meantime, don’t believe Obama’s claim to be an everyman on this issue until he proves it.
Or, here’s another way Sherman put it:
Someone give this Congressman a cigar!
California Democratic Rep. Brad Sherman told Bloomberg last week that AIG should be put into receivership.
(Further Goldman Sachs connection – AIG CEO Liddy was on Goldman Sachs’ board of directors when Henry Paulson was its CEO.
Now, Sherman tells Talking Points Memo Treasury ALREADY has the power to void the bonuses.
Sherman adds that this is why he voted against the original bailout: he didn’t think Treasury would use that power.
And, why does TPM disable user comments on this story? C’mon, Josh.
If you want to cut off the AIG gravy train, Jane Hamsher has a petition drive.
In the meantime, don’t believe Obama’s claim to be an everyman on this issue until he proves it.
Or, here’s another way Sherman put it:
“The problem now isn't too big to fail. It's too well-connected to fail.”
Someone give this Congressman a cigar!
Useful Idiot Watch, aka GOP Blonde Bimbo Alert
Awfully nice of Laura Ingraham to give me the first half of the post’s title, lifted directly from her latest attempt to out-Coulter Ann Coulter by once again attacking Meghan McCain.
First, with Coulter, since she’s the GOP Blonde Bimbo poster girl.
I don’t think she’s that good looking. More like a hammerheaded roan horse who stays thin by gargling two packs of Marlboros a day.
Back to the link, though.
Note to Ms. InGraham Cracker: Rush IS Fat. Meghan McCain ain’t anything but normal. And, you may gargle with two packs of Marlboros a day too, for all I know, to stay thin. As for you being a peroxide blonde, we would really be lucky if you and Ann were peroxide lesbians, therefore removing you from the rest of the relationship and gene pools.
First, with Coulter, since she’s the GOP Blonde Bimbo poster girl.
I don’t think she’s that good looking. More like a hammerheaded roan horse who stays thin by gargling two packs of Marlboros a day.
Back to the link, though.
Note to Ms. InGraham Cracker: Rush IS Fat. Meghan McCain ain’t anything but normal. And, you may gargle with two packs of Marlboros a day too, for all I know, to stay thin. As for you being a peroxide blonde, we would really be lucky if you and Ann were peroxide lesbians, therefore removing you from the rest of the relationship and gene pools.
March 16, 2009
Do you trust Geithner-Summers on AIG?
I don’t. Whether through stupidity, or willing cooperation, Geithner let himself get punked by AIG, as a letter to him AIG CEO Edward Liddy shows.
Remember, AIG’s No. 1 bailout pass-through beneficiary is Goldman Sachs of Geithner-Summers background and massive Obama campaign donations.
So, you have Summers claiming AIG bonus contracts are inviolable. Of course, Glenn Greenwald calls bullshit on that idea, with counter-examples.
And, if AIG doesn’t like that, we can either take back the bailout money or nationalize it.
(If you think Geithner-Summers will actually do either one. A reader snarks at the end of Glenn’s post, that Obama could just give AIG immunity similar to the telecom immunity he flip-flopped on last summer.)
Obama SAYS he’s telling Geithner to find a way to reign in the bonuses. Uhh, sure.
In the next breath, Obama says he ISN’T planning on taking AIG to court. Like with the stimulus package, he’s starting from a position of compromise.
Here’s more of why you shouldn’t be surprised Geithner let himself get punked.
California Democratic Rep. Brad Sherman told Bloomberg last week that AIG should be put into receivership.
(Further Goldman Sachs connection – AIG CEO Liddy was on Goldman Sachs’ board of directors when Henry Paulson was its CEO.
Now, Sherman tells Talking Points Memo Treasury ALREADY has the power to void the bonuses.
Sherman adds that this is why he voted against the original bailout: he didn’t think Treasury would use that power.
And, why does TPM disable user comments on this story? C’mon, Josh.
If you want to cut off the AIG gravy train, Jane Hamsher has a petition drive.
Remember, AIG’s No. 1 bailout pass-through beneficiary is Goldman Sachs of Geithner-Summers background and massive Obama campaign donations.
So, you have Summers claiming AIG bonus contracts are inviolable. Of course, Glenn Greenwald calls bullshit on that idea, with counter-examples.
And, if AIG doesn’t like that, we can either take back the bailout money or nationalize it.
(If you think Geithner-Summers will actually do either one. A reader snarks at the end of Glenn’s post, that Obama could just give AIG immunity similar to the telecom immunity he flip-flopped on last summer.)
Obama SAYS he’s telling Geithner to find a way to reign in the bonuses. Uhh, sure.
In the next breath, Obama says he ISN’T planning on taking AIG to court. Like with the stimulus package, he’s starting from a position of compromise.
Here’s more of why you shouldn’t be surprised Geithner let himself get punked.
California Democratic Rep. Brad Sherman told Bloomberg last week that AIG should be put into receivership.
(Further Goldman Sachs connection – AIG CEO Liddy was on Goldman Sachs’ board of directors when Henry Paulson was its CEO.
Now, Sherman tells Talking Points Memo Treasury ALREADY has the power to void the bonuses.
Sherman adds that this is why he voted against the original bailout: he didn’t think Treasury would use that power.
And, why does TPM disable user comments on this story? C’mon, Josh.
If you want to cut off the AIG gravy train, Jane Hamsher has a petition drive.
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