Sen. Merkley, please champion TARP oversight bill!

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Friday January 16, 2009 · 10:30 PM PST

2009/01/16 · 22:30

I plead as a progressive Democrat that someone on our side of the isle asks for accountability in the face of the awesome responsibility of the stewardship of our nation's wealth and fiscal future.

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Thursday January 15, 2009 · 9:29 PM PST

2009/01/15 · 21:29

I Declare Shenanigans On This Whole Carnival.

I have had it. I have had it with the Socialism is coming people. I have had it with the bailout for Wall Street is fine anybody else is SOL. I can not stand the Democratic Congress leadership and the Republicon Lizard People. I can not listen to our cheerleading propoganda promoting corporate media. I Declare Shenanigans On This Whole Carnival.

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What was the worst scandal of the Bush Jr years?

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What was the worst scandal of the Bush Jr years?

The 2000 SCOTUS decision that ended the Florida recounts

9 votes

Allowing 9/11 to happen

2 votes

Failing to follow up in Afgahnistan while Al Qaida and the Taliban were almost done

1 vote

Everything before invading Iraq. Intelligence/planning and lack thereof

3 votes

Everything after invading Iraq

1 vote

The Valerie Plame scandal

0 votes

The Bush tax cuts

0 votes

The Enron/Worldcom/Adelphia scandals and lack of response

0 votes

Alberto Gonzales/Harriet Meiers/Good job Brownie appointments

1 vote

Trying to sell our port security to the United Arab Emirates

0 votes

Destroying our Constitution

11 votes

Katrina

2 votes

The Wall Street bailout

0 votes

All of the above

37 votes

Any one of the hundreds of other scandals not mentioned above

5 votes

Team Obama - carrying out policy, not inventing it ( So chill )

PatriotsFightTheIronHeel

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Wednesday December 17, 2008 · 10:29 PM PST

2008/12/17 · 22:29

When John McCain and Sarah Palin lost their bid to bring (chump)change to America and Obama/Biden were declared winners I knew that no matter how bad things would look at first, in the 9th inning America, all of us, would be in good hands. By the professional, intelligent and classy way that the Obama campaign was ran I knew that we would not be duped with uniter/divider malarkey. We were never brushed off with fuzzy math answers, if Obama was confronted with a question he would do his best to answer, hell, even Joe the Plant/Plumber got a fair shake. Though usually I am a skeptic, so far I have high hopes.

More after the fold.

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Which cabinet apointee will have the biggest personal impact in their new job

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Which cabinet apointee will have the biggest personal impact in their new job

Doesn't matter Obama is in charge

7 votes

SoS Hillary Clinton

5 votes

Sec of Commerce Bill Richardson

0 votes

AG Eric Holder

5 votes

Sec of Trans Ray LaHood

0 votes

SecDef Robert Gates

1 vote

Sec of Energy Steven Chu

5 votes

Ed Sec Arne Duncan

0 votes

Sec of HHS Tom Daschle

4 votes

Sec DoH Shaun Donovan

0 votes

Interior Sec Ken Salazar

0 votes

Doesn't matter Obama NOT BUSH is in charge

7 votes

We are lucky Bush didn't get brained (Seriously)

PatriotsFightTheIronHeel

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Sunday December 14, 2008 · 9:46 PM PST

2008/12/14 · 21:46

For a moment I laughed and wanted to cheer when I heard this news. I was glad that someone had the cojones to stand up to Bush and push back for once.
What a fool I was for that moment.

Obviously It is despicable to use Violence as the means to an end in Politics ( I just know there is a word for this, just can't remember it. ), and even though Pres. George Bush Jr is an incompetent stupid jerk he is still a human being. No person should ever be threatened with violence for any reason. This concept alone is what seperates the civil person from the criminal.

All the same though, we should all thank whatever it is you thank (God, Scientology alien ghosts, Joe Pesci) that Bush dodged this international incident. (I know, fiction writers couldn't make this up. )

Here's why

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Seriously, secretly you wished

178 votes Vote Now!

Seriously, secretly you wished

Bush would duck

7 votes

Bush would get brained

53 votes

It would finally knock some sense into him

27 votes

Still waiting for the other shoe to drop

6 votes

Still trying to tie the first shoe back to Al Qaeda

5 votes

Please just make him go away already

80 votes

If you don't know why it's broke how do you fix it?

PatriotsFightTheIronHeel

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Monday December 08, 2008 · 7:59 PM PST

2008/12/08 · 19:59

After listening to every expert on every form of traditional media pontificate on our current World Wide Economic Collapse I was convinced that the sky was going to fall tomorrow morning and the moon would be black and everlasting night was about to set in. I was told that if Congress will not approve a federal bailout/rescue plan that the problem would only get worse and harder to solve. Oh wait, that was three months ago.
On and on the pundits and experts proclaim that things certainly look bad. We are given this bit of "news" as if our own eyes could not affirm this. The American public is given about that much credit for its' own intelligence, but from there it all goes downhill.
More after the fold...

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20 votes Show Results

I will know the economy is really getting better . . .

20 votes Vote Now!

I will know the economy is really getting better . . .

When I get a good paying job

3 votes

When I get a good raise with my current job

2 votes

When I get a good bonus for performance

0 votes

When my stocks go up

1 vote

When my company's stock goes up

0 votes

When the stock market goes up

0 votes

When Jim Cramer says so

1 vote

When the Chairman of the Federal Reserve says so

0 votes

When the traditional media says so

1 vote

When Simon says so

1 vote

When whatever Republican taking credit for doing it says so

1 vote

When I get my fair share of the PIE

6 votes

On inauguration day

4 votes

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Sen. Merkley, please champion TARP oversight bill!

Bush farewell: I Declare Shenanigans!

Team Obama - carrying out policy, not inventing it ( So chill )

We are lucky Bush didn't get brained (Seriously)

If you don't know why it's broke how do you fix it?