While the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is busy airlifting executives into Washington to protest Blanche Lincoln’s derivatives plan, it is also singing her praises on Arkansas TV. (via Salon)
Adding to Alex’s fine work here, Barbara Kiviat over at the Curious Capitalist blog, writes a post called, “Goldman Execs Still Don’t Get It.” It is long and worth reading. And excerpt: After the mania ends, it is easy to look back and understand how behavior got out of hand. Three years after the credit [...]
For more than five hours, Senators laid into the four current and former Goldman execs sitting on the first of three panels today. The inquisitors took markedly different approaches. Democratic Sens. John Tester of Montana and Mark Pryor of Arkansas adopted a softer tone, and at times Tom Coburn, the ranking minority member of the [...]
From the White House photo blog. The photo was taken today in Iowa, as the President toured a Siemens plant. Your best caption is requested in the comments below.
I am trying to work through the odd series of events that led San Mateo police to raid the home of a Gizmodo blogger this week: Someone leaves a cell phone in a bar. It is a special secret cell phone. The person who finds the cell phone sells it to Gizmodo, a technology blog, [...]
There is a reason Congressional hearings are relegated to C-SPAN: they can be soul-crushingly boring. There’s only so long one can watch rich people berate richer people for being greedy. The Goldman hearing has conformed to a familiar pattern. Senators begin with pointed questions and descend into demagoguery; the bankers force stoic stares, and then, [...]
There are some delicious contretemps going on over at Atlantic.com, home of the mega-watt blogger. Joshua Green doesn’t think Palin will run for president. Andrew Sullivan does. But that’s not all. Sullivan accuses Green of dangerous complacency, and willful myopia. [W]here the f— have you been this past year? It doesn’t matter whether she’s uneducated, [...]
On a secret flight to Kabul a few weeks back, Gen. Jim Jones, Obama’s National Security Advisor cracked a joke at the expense of Afghan president Hamid Karzai in an on-the-record briefing with reporters. The White House opted not to put out a transcript of the conversation, so I transcribed the relevant part here on [...]
My esteemed colleague Jim Poniewozik weighs in here on the current dilemma facing CNN and I agree with much of what he says. But I’d add another thing: We are not talking about huge audiences here. Cable news is essentially a boutique operation: Fox may get 3 million viewers for its highest rated demagoguery; CNN [...]
