I forgot the Cantwell link:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/16/sen-maria-cantwell-savage_n_323868.html

And MSM is beating the drums about the DEFICIT being anathema to recovery. That also means that they are circling the wagons to prevent a true jobs stimulus package, yes? Boogers and farts.

Crony capitalism you know. I imagine Geithner asked for the guy. Change we can believe it - the corporate takeover of the United States continues apace.

X**~`^v
(splat of dishrag hitting the wall - thrown in disgust)

Link with photo:

http://www.huliq.com/8682/87734/sec-taps-adam-storch-first-ever-chief-operating-officer

I hope to God he is secretly Spiderman.

Oh, honey, don't say that; we will need you.

Smell the glove, America.

Hey, but at least TPM is covering the really important stuff, like American Police Force, the Teabaggers and Oily Titz. And the MSM has our backs with wall-to-wall coverage of that essential helium-filled spaceship story.

This country is doomed.

A link to bring comfort to your unemployed family, friends and neighbors:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/17/business/economy/17wall.html?_r=1&hp=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1255791739-delrnz4K/mzINW7frXv2zA

Somebody, try again to explain the differences between Plutocrat Party A and Plutocrat Party B.

PR. The paychecks come from the same pay masters.

Maybe. But I'm thinking it may take more than a war of words before this shit gets straightened around. Been there done that and don't want to do it again. Vietnam was enough for one lifetime. Not to mention nobody listens to old people who don't have a pot to piss in. I've been thinking about this and there is a limit to how many people can be living off an economy without actually contributing to the productivity of any real goods or adding real value to services.

Wall Street is a ponzi scheme where they make money from money in a shell game but don't make one damn thing of useful value. Washington is thinking they can base an economy on that model but you can't eat money or drive to work in it or live in it. In the end it becomes intrinsically valueless. Wall Street likes this model because there is no hassle with procuring raw materials and having a labor force and because it's easy. The control is highly centralized and not subject to external sources of contribution.

We have to figure out we must return to a manufacturing base if we are going to sustain this economy. And that means essential services like healthcare, energy, transportation and communication absolutely must be cost competitive with our global neighbors. And that means investing heavily in our public infrastructure which was built during the post depression era. And that means spending money, sacrificing some profits and changing the scheme of taxation for at least a couple of decades. None of this will happen though. Congress is too dumb to see the forest for the trees. They have no plan and no clue.

Exactly right. Your solution is correct, but Congress is corrupt and broken. Only some sort of mass strike ferment will scare them into doing the right thing. Up till now people have been happy to tune out, busying themselves with their favorite opiates. The question is - will this all-too-obvious looting of the country's wealth by the oligarchy finally open the eyes of the soma-tose masses to the virtual anal raping we are enduring on a daily basis? Its hard to believe it won't, but I have been disapointed time and again. The American people seem to have an undiminished ability to be diverted away from fighting for their own self interest, into dead ends like teabagging, birtherism, partisan bickering in which both sides are fighting silly, wrong-headed battles over less important issues. The death of the the Monetarist world system is ongoing and will result in a civilization-wide collapse without a complete bankruptcy reorganization of the monetary system. Forget all the other petty (in comparison) issues for now. Failure to defeat the economic royalists now - now, not in a year or a decade, will mean a new dak age for the human race.

Yes, but Bernie isn't a Dem. Maybe we should join him!

Beautiful! Bernie gets it. However he is 1 of 50 and in a unique position. The "centrist" traitors like Reid, Dodd, Pelosi, Frank, et. al. are firmly in the trall of the financial oligarchy. Nero Obama fiddles and basks in adulation while the country burns down to its foundation. Only by becoming the party of FDR once more can the Dems hope to rescue the republic from economic death at the hands of the corporatists.

I like that ticket! Grayson was on Bill Mahr last night. Good guy. We can't wait till 2012, however. Can't wait for 2010 for that matter.

I don't know if Obama is "good" or not. I can't see into his heart. Of course I voted for him - what choice was there? The hope was that he would use his mandate to reinstate the necessary FDR reforms into our govt's regulatory structure. The Summers appointment, among others, dashed that hope. The Goldman takeover of economic policy making in the US shows that Obama is either hopelessly ignorant on economic matters or a willing dupe to these predators. Either way, evil is the result of his admin's policies. Get over the fact that he is "Not Bush", that its nice to have a Prez who can speak in whole sentences, can say all the right things in nice speeches. Actions and policy are the real reality. He must be opposed on substantive grounds by progressives or all the well meaning words don't mean shit. We have to force out the Wall Street crowd and compel Obama to be FDR or the country is toast.

That's good.

I don't think you could compel him to be something he doesn't believe in. He uses Reagan as an example far more often than he does FDR. I honestly do not think he has any idea how bad things are out here for us little people and I'm not sure he cares all that much. His economic policies don't demonstrate that he gets it and his talk of deficit reduction in the face of a "jobless recovery" demonstrates he doesn't.

I don't think he has any interest in getting it. I think he figures he's got a future like Bill Clinton's touring the world making mega millions off speeches and picking up honorary degrees and awards.

I think you have a good point few have the stomach to mention which is that he's just taking care of himself and ensuring the good life after the White House. I want to think he's better than that, but it's hard not to come to that conclusion given the ineffective response he is making to our new depression and his total lack of effort in doing anything to prevent it happening again in a few years.