Center for American Progress SOURCE: CAP By Michael Ettlinger, Andrew Jakabovics | October 3, 2008 Congress did what it had to do today in passing the financial rescue package—with understandable reluctance by many of its members. The administration was much too late in moving past stop-gap measures to address the problems in the credit markets [...]
Archive for October 4th, 2008
4 Oct
Lessons for the next war
BOSTON.COM October 4, 2008 THE NEXT PRESIDENT will inherit a daunting set of national security problems. Captivated at the start by an illusory belief that the United States could, and should, impose its will on the world’s bad actors by shock and awe, President Bush, Vice President Cheney, and former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld drove [...]
4 Oct
The Hidden Cost of War: Watch How Fast $3 Trillion Adds Up
Posted by ZP Heller, Brave New Films at 11:43 AM on October 3, 2008. GOOD Magazine’s animated look at the ballooning dollar signs. In 2003, Donald Rumsfeld estimated a war with Iraq would cost $60 billion. Five years later, the cost of Iraq war operations is over 10 times that figure. And by the time [...]
4 Oct
Debate Was an Open Book Test for Palin
Posted by Liza Sabater, Culture Kitchen at 2:58 PM on October 3, 2008. Sarah Palin was reading off note cards? Nice. No wonder I was confused about Sarah Palin’s body language. She didn’t just sound like she was heavily scripted. She sounded like she was reading cue cards or even a tele-prompter. Because the cable [...]
4 Oct
Sarah Palin’s Debate Performance Tanked Among Women
By Linda Hirshman, TheNation.com. Posted October 3, 2008. Palin is a lot like a ’90s “Rules Girl.” She follows a playbook that men respond to — one that gives women indigestion. I have been feeling really guilty about not liking Sarah Palin. She’s independent, her husband helps raise the kids, she’s worked most of her [...]
4 Oct
The Bailout: How Capitalism Killed Democracy
By David Sirota, AlterNet. Posted October 4, 2008. We now face market forces uninhibited by democratic governance. The bailout is an aggressive attempt to trade democracy for autocracy. The marriage of American capitalism and democracy has always been a Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee affair — stormy and erratic since its hasty wedding. But during [...]
