mccain repeats keating era mistakes, regulator warns

Disturbing news via HuffPo:
 
As the stock market recovers from its biggest single-day drop since the crash of 1987, a former federal regulator who had a front-row view of John McCain’s role in the Savings and Loan scandal says he is repeating some of the same mistakes.
William Black — a deputy director of the Federal Savings [...]

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palin tries to rewrite alaskan history

and Alaskan Representative Les Gara tries to set it right again. An excerpt from his full (though by no means exhaustive! there’s so much ground to cover) account of Palin’s record over at Mudflats:
 
Here’s what else I know about my state.  We have the third worst children’s health insurance program in the nation.  The Governor wouldn’t [...]

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the russians are coming! the russians are coming!

“As Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where do they go? It’s Alaska.” –Sarah Palin

from Kos.
 
If you don’t know your comedic history, you are doomed to repeat it. Yesterday’s subs are today’s . . . big Putin head in our airspace.

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david brooks has some choice words for house republicans

The man takes the House GOP (not exclusively, but they get the brunt of it) to task:
 
And let us recognize above all the 228 who voted no — the authors of this revolt of the nihilists. They showed the world how much they detest their own leaders and the collected expertise of the Treasury and Fed. They [...]

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rachel maddow wonders who’s in charge of the GOP

Maddow beautifully skewers the Republicans’ political blame game and b.s. today. Like Countdown, her whole show is strong on today’s sad, sad state of affairs, including the little problem I’m calling Palinitis.
 

more about “Speaker Pelosi Should Have Brought Re…“, posted with vodpod

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countdown: paul krugman on the failed bailout vote

 
more about “Countdown: Krugman on the Bailout Fai…“, posted with vodpod
 
Thank heavens for Paul Krugman, a voice of sanity and knowledge giving the hoi polloi some understanding of the tangled economic-political mess that is the bailout.
 
If I could figure out how to post MSBNC clips directly from msnbc.com I would, but it doesn’t seem to [...]

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more palin gaffes with couric. set them free!

According to Politico.com today,
 

Of concern to McCain’s campaign, however, is a remaining and still-undisclosed clip from Palin’s interview with Couric last week that has the political world buzzing. The Palin aide, after first noting how “infuriating” it was for CBS to purportedly leak word about the gaffe, revealed that it came in response to a [...]

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palin on biden: “he looks pretty doggone confident”

Of course! He incorrectly predicted a ballgame outcome, so he’s sure to tank in the debate (sheesh.) From NYT Caucus blog:
 
“And I do look forward to Thursday night, and debating Senator Joe Biden,’’ said Ms. Palin, whose uneven performance in interviews and unscripted events have sown seeds of doubt in recent days among some conservative [...]

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get your palin name and palinisms here

This one’s been around for awhile; but now that everyone who reads Mudflats has probably already had their fling with it (and hilariously started to use their Palin handles in comments), and in honor of Palin debate week, I will duly post it here. Go get your own Palin name if you have not yet. Yrs, Tarp [...]

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krugman: the (economic) 3 a.m. call

Read the whole thing here.
 
It’s 3 a.m., a few months into 2009, and the phone in the White House rings. Several big hedge funds are about to fail, says the voice on the line, and there’s likely to be chaos when the market opens. Whom do you trust to take that call?
I’m not being melodramatic. [...]

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