Palin’s Debate With The Facts Last night’s match-up between Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE) and Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) was one “most highly anticipated vice-presidential debates in history.” The event at Washington University in St. Louis, MO, capped off one of Palin’s most high-profile weeks, in which she completed a series of interviews with CBS’s [...]
Archive for October 3rd, 2008
3 Oct
Debate Analysis: Why Biden Won
Sarah Palin did what I and many others thought she would do — she easily beat the extremely low expectations many had set for her. She did not have a meltdown. She did not faint or run off the stage. She only sometimes acted like Tina Fey’s impersonation of her. Palin looked right into [...]
3 Oct
Rescue bill 101: What it says
Here’s a rundown of key provisions of the final financial rescue bill. By Jeanne Sahadi, CNNMoney.com senior writer Last Updated: October 3, 2008: 1:49 PM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — After a tumultuous week of moral and fiscal debate over whether the government should take a very big role in the private markets, the House [...]
3 Oct
House passes bailout
After a week of wrangling, lawmakers give final approval to historic $700 billion bailout. NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — The House on Friday passed a far-reaching and historic plan to bail out the nation’s financial system. The vote for passage of the Senate-amended bill – 263 to 171 – was the result of strong lobbying on [...]
3 Oct
The Really Hard-to-Swallow Truth About the Bailout
By Joe Bageant, CounterPunch. Posted October 3, 2008. We somehow came to believe Wall Street’s success was ours too, and that the bills we owed were never going to come due. Well, they are now. Myriad cultural historians have noted the American belief that success is a sign of God’s favor. Over the past couple [...]
3 Oct
Palin Delivers, But Doubts Linger
By Dan Balz Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, October 3, 2008; Page A01 ST. LOUIS, Oct. 2 — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin spent much of the past two weeks on the defensive, hounded by critics over halting performances in television interviews and questioned even by conservative writers doubtful about whether she is ready to be [...]
3 Oct
Thanks to the Wing Nuts
By Eugene Robinson Friday, October 3, 2008; Page A23 We all owe a debt of thanks to the wing nuts and the populists, the soldiers of the far left and (gulp) the far right, the know-nothings and the know-it-alls, the income redistributionists and the free-market fundamentalists — all the skeptics who refused to be steamrollered [...]
3 Oct
Gilchrest Unloads On Know-Nothing Pols–And Us, Too
Marc Fisher The Washington Post The Cold Splash of Reality, With A Side of Sizzle Wayne Gilchrest, the nine-term Republican congressman who represents Maryland’s Eastern Shore and parts of Anne Arundel County, has had it, and he’s ready to talk. He’s had it with his own party, which he says “has become more narrow, more [...]
