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HIllary won Kentucky,Bernie, Oregon

By Flavius on Tue, 05/17/2016 - 11:47pm |

That's all. Just think those results should appear here.

Bernie's Wall Street problem (and ours)

By Flavius on Tue, 05/17/2016 - 11:17pm |

Seven years ago, the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department bailed out the largest financial institutions in this country because they were considered too big to fail...If any were to fail again, taxpayers could be on the hook for another bailout, perhaps a larger one this time.

-- Bernie Sanders

Reminds one of what Mary McCarthy said about Lillian Hellman: "Every word she writes is a lie, including if, but and 'the'."

Yeah, they have more money

By Flavius on Sat, 04/30/2016 - 11:56pm |

Hemingway's famous reply to Fitzgerald's "the very rich are different from you and me"

Does being part of the 1% make you evil?

Of course not. But it calls attention to the fact that we 99% are stupid. Not because we haven't executed our current versions of  Marie Antoinette. That  didn't provide any cake for the Paris poor.But because we've permitted the tax code to degrade to the extent that when a Susan Wojcicki earns an extra thousand dollars she'll pay the same $300 or so as her secretary.

Who's Susan  Wojcicki?  I thought you'd never ask.

STELLA !

By Flavius on Tue, 04/26/2016 - 11:58pm |

The campaign will be a three month revival of "Street Car".

Trump represents Joe Lunchpail (R)  and scorns the Washington leadership.

Hillary knows what Nancy Pelosi is going to say before she does. But thinks his millennial  women  worked  for Bernie to meet guys. (OK, I know that's what  Gloria and Madelyn think )

One is terrifying  and the other's pushing  her "sell by" date. 

Heaven help us! At least Hillary knows better than to rely on the kindness of strangers,

Anyway, I'm glad she won.

A walk down memory lane

By Flavius on Thu, 04/21/2016 - 7:07am |

 

How we got into this fix

                 Maximum tax rate  for         

                    Ordinary Income     Capital Gains       Corporations  

                                                                                                  what else was happening

Ike                     91.0                        25.0                     52            Interstate highways program

Carter                 70.0                        39.9                     48

Ice cream. And Newtown

By Flavius on Wed, 04/20/2016 - 12:53am |

In the April 18th Financial Times, Edward Luce (Hillary Clinton's Missing Theme) lamented the fact that Hillary seems diffuse: Either in that same oped  or in one a few days earlier he essentially said  ask anyone, and they can tell you in 30 seconds what Trump or Cruz or Bernie intends to do. But Hillary, she just kind of suggests she'd do a better job of what Bill or Barak were doing..

Not slamming her, lamenting, because he mostly agrees with her positions. Was he listening tonight I wonder?

Nonsense about Hillary

By Flavius on Tue, 04/19/2016 - 9:47am |

For both of my readers, here's my list of the most nonsensical attacks on Hillary. Since it's important she win today I figure I should speak now or forever hold my peace- which I would certainly hate doing.

1. She's hiding the contents of her speeches  to various bunches of investment bankers.?  Let's see. How many people were in the room?  And why haven't some of them spilled the beans?  Do you think every banker in the room was an FOH? Hasn't the media asked? The reason the contents haven't  been reported is because 'there's no there, there'.

Thank God ......or Bernie

By Flavius on Sat, 04/09/2016 - 12:02am |

“Sure I will,” he said, when pressed by CBS News’ Charlie Rose in an interview. “Look, as I said a million times, I think the idea of a Donald Trump or a Ted Cruz presidency would be an unmitigated disaster for this country. I will do everything in my power and work as hard as I can to make sure that that does not happen. And if Secretary Clinton is the nominee, I will certainly support her.”

 

 

Hillary won Arizona

By Flavius on Wed, 03/23/2016 - 12:02am |

When we get Utah and Idaho  I'll post that here.

Trump won Arizona. There are unofficial rumors that Cruz is doing well in Utah.A fact is that Cruz won the most Mormon  county in Arizona according to  538  and that may be an indicator of his performance in Utah.

In Utah  Sanders has a wide lead over Hill. And I'm going to bed.

The same friends who voted for Nader

By Flavius on Sun, 02/28/2016 - 7:19pm |

in  2000 now plan to vote for Bernie. I guess you could say "figures".  But...

At least in 2000 they could  argue Gore was going to  carry their heavily democratic states so not only was  there no down side to a Nader vote but it served to signal  there were votes available to the left. 

Clearly at this point it's too soon for that. The primary  margins influence voters down stream so we can't avoid considering that, sadly,   any one of the remaining republicans candidates could be inflicted on the nation if we get it wrong..

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