davidl on June 9th, 2011

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With the departure of chief economic adviser Austan Goolsbee, that’s the number of members from the original Obama economic team still working for the administration, not quite three years into the first term.

Rats, say goodbye to the ship of

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davidl on October 1st, 2010

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Dumbo is Delusional.  Alas too many cocaine parties and not enough sober study.  Proof that the Obama administration is demented.  Barack Obama had called Fox News destructive, but his administration has lauded the clowns Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow

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davidl on September 30th, 2010

The Rajun Cajun, James Carville made famous the quip, “It’s the economy, stupid!”  Well some eighteen years later, Carville’s quip may come back to bite the ‘Rats as the Obama economy continues to flounder.

However, inspired by Carville,

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Eric Florack on October 15th, 2009

Welcome one and all to the most intense nightly read anywhere on the ‘sphere… The BitsBlog Nightly Ramble

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  • THE GOVERNMENT AND MUSLIMS: Well, folks, it went down as I said it would. Some government mucty-mucks have decided to send this

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davidl on March 25th, 2009

This what Fidel Castro did circa 1950:, via  Steve Gilbert, Sweetness &  Light:

The Obama administration is considering asking Congress to give the Treasury secretary unprecedented powers to initiate the seizure of non-bank financial companies, such as large insurers,

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davidl on March 17th, 2009

Barack ObamaI am neither a lawyer, play one on television, nor give press conferences pretending to me one.    In other words, I am not Barack Obama,  Helene Cooper, New York Times:

WASHINGTON – President Obama vowed to try to stop

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davidl on March 16th, 2009

The basic problem with the Obama administration is  simple incompetence.  Michael Goodwin, New York Daily News:

Not long ago, after a string of especially bad days for the Obama administration, a veteran Democratic pol approached me with a pained

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Eric Florack on March 5th, 2009

The New York Post, today:

There was Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, boldly testifying Tuesday before Rep. Charlie Rangel‘s Ways & Means Committee – promising that the Obama administration intends to propose “a series of legislative and enforcement measures to

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davidl on February 11th, 2009

DavidL's Breakfast ScrambleGeithner:

Administration officials were greeted with sarcasm and laughter Monday night when they briefed lawmakers and congressional staff on Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner’s new financial-sector bailout project, according to people who were in the room.

The laughter was at

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davidl on January 29th, 2009

Charlie RangelFrom the office of Representative John Carter, Texas Thirty One:

 All U.S. taxpayers would enjoy the same immunity from IRS penalties and interest as House Ways and Means Chairman Charles Rangel (D-NY) and Obama Administration Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner,

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