This is reform is nothing like the reform following the excesses that led to the Great Depression. No one on Wall Street is out. The big banks will continue to suck money directly from taxpayers and good, decent ‘Murkins. The rich will continue to get richer and the poor (the remaining 90 percent of...
Republican senators (well, Shelby of Alabama) went on the TeeVee Box this morning to say, well, they MIGHT vote to regulate the derivatives trade. Of course, they’ll have to explain to their benefactors why they could suddenly read the hand-writing on the wall and, well, while they like that direct Wall Street-to-Capitol Hill cheese...
Earth Day really isn’t really about saving the planet so much as saving its inhabitants. The planet will survive – it may be a dead rock – but it will survive. It’s the people and animals and plants we have to worry about. And we especially have to worry about the people…’cause it appears...
The White House, in preparing for the summit to be broadcast live from Blair House, spent the better part of the past week arguing with Republicans over the size and shape of chairs, the size and shape of tables, the color of lamp shades and drapes and which incense to burn during scheduled guided...
The people of this great land voted us in because they wanted change. Grow a pair and give them the change they want.
