Liberal Talk Radio

I’m staggered by the scope and the scale of the bailouts announced today.  The Federal government — led by a Republican administration — has effectively nationalized the consumer banking industry.  This is unprecedented in our lifetimes. What’s more, they’ve effectively just used the savings of the American middle class to bailout the shareholders of the [...]

Check out how much more converage McCain has received so far in September. “Liberal media”, my a**. [Thanks to listener Curt for the link.]

Recently, the feds have bailed out Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Bear Sterns and AIG, all on the grounds that they were “too big to fail.” Here’s my question: why do we let these companies get too big? Seriously. The feds routinely review mergers between companies on anti-trust grounds. But do they ever say halt a [...]

That’s the personality profile of the Pacific Northwest. Which goes a long way towards explaining why rousing us to great causes or movements is nigh on impossible. (via)

Drill, Baby, Drill (in more ways than one), Lehman Brothers goes belly-up, and finally, our outdated transportation infrastructure finally catches up with us.

Before Ike hits: Oil analyst Peter Beutel says residents in the greater New York area will see a raise of 50 cents a gallon in the next 72 hours. Beutel is also predicting the Chicago area will see a 75 cent raise and Houston area will be hit with a $2 increase. Beutel says Hurricane [...]

This is completely absurd. I’ve thought for a while now that America today resembles nothing so much as Rome in the 3rd or 4th centry, when they all turned into hedonists just before they were sacked by the Visigoths. Now read this and judge for yourself: The report says that eight officials in the royalty [...]

As Bruno and I predicted, the Dems have sent the hounds after Palin’s records: Democrats have airdropped a mini-army of 30 lawyers, investigators and opposition researchers into Anchorage, the state capital Juneau and Mrs. Palin’s hometown of Wasilla to dig into her record and background. My sources report the first wave arrived in Anchorage less [...]

Jaw-dropping hurricane of House leadership not getting it, as dday points out over at Digby’s place. From the NY Times article: WASHINGTON — Congressional Democrats have scrapped plans for another vote on expansion of the Children’s Health Insurance Program, thus sparing Republicans from a politically difficult vote just weeks before elections this fall. Before the [...]

I don’t think Olbermann had the right response, but the Republican Party’s exploitation of 9/11 last week — while sadly nothing new, was beyond gross.