25 days and counting – a who’s who of greed

“I keep wondering why the relatively few people — namely bankers who decided to put personal or institutional profit above all considerations of honesty and social responsibility — have been able to remain anonymous. It is thanks to them that we, and people all around the world, are now condemned to anxiety and even poverty.”

26 days and counting – harold pinter, true

“How many people do you have to kill before you qualify to be described as a mass murderer and a war criminal? One hundred thousand?” he asked, in a hoarse voice. — Playwright Harold Pinter, who died Wednesday at the age of 78.

36 days and counting – senate links bushco to murder

Make no mistake: Blagojevich is a boil on the ass of Illinois. But a far bigger boil remains in office and continues to shirk responsibility for starting an immoral war that has cost many hundreds of thousands of lives. Don’t look to TV’s talking heads to take the White House to task for murder. Nor will the House of Pelosi take a stand. While many in our media have decided that Iraq is old news, reporters elsewhere disagree. 36 more days before this war criminal finally gets the boot.

39 days and counting – union busting, republican style

Here’s an idea: Instead of abandoning the bailout bid and the automakers’ employees, can we instead abandon the southern lawmakers — including Kentucky’s Mitch McConnell, Tennessee’s Bob Corker, and Alabama’s Richard Shelby — who continue to exhibit such hypocrisy? Nowhere have they mentioned that their states provide major tax concessions to the foreign automakers that have set up shop there, making these automakers more economically viable, and that they work on these foreign companies’ behalf to prevent union organizing.

42 days and counting – dumbass of the day

Today’s Daily Dumbass™ is White House spokesman Carlton Carroll, who actually said the following: “…We feel the president’s many accomplishments haven’t been given the attention they deserve and in some cases have been purposely ignored.”

44 days and counting – an ideology caused this crisis

The Rethugs are never ones to let truth get in the way of grand lies and a rewrite of history. Krugman is right to insist on a true accounting of who did what and to whom. This is as true for the economy as it is for the Iraq war and any future indictment of Bush et. al. for war crimes. Krugman further makes the point that the GOP, the “Got Ours Party,” may soon be responsible for pushing another 10 million Americans below the poverty line. Wealthiest nation on earth, huh?