Monthly Archives: September 2008

Deliberation on Bailouts

September 26, 2008 – 11:38 am

Newt Gingrich speaks truth to… well I’m not sure who to, exactly, but the point is Newt Gingrich speaks truth! Congress was designed by the Founding Fathers to move slowly, precisely to avoid the sudden panic of a one-week solution that becomes a 20-year mess. And so we’ve now reached the point where I’m in [...]

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The Friday Show

September 26, 2008 – 11:34 am

I was reading this widely referenced interview with Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart (well worth 10 minutes), and I was struck by just how much they get the fabled ‘it’. I think if I was the President, from either party, I’d have these two talk to me for half an hour every Friday. I’d ask [...]

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Cancelling the debate

September 25, 2008 – 8:31 am

McCain reportedly wants to rush back to Washington (once he’s finished campaigning all day Thursday) to solve the bailout issue. Letterman was apparently unimpressed, but rather than link to the video (which I’m sure is out on YouTube) I will, for the first and probably last time ever, link to The Drudge Report. In its [...]

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The Power of Money

September 20, 2008 – 4:41 am

It is an interesting card for Senator McCain to play, given that his campaign manager, Rick Davis, was paid by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac several hundred thousand dollars early in this decade to head up an organization to lobby in their behalf called The Homeownership Alliance. … Davis, was president of the Homeownership Alliance, [...]

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Feel the Burn

September 19, 2008 – 7:55 pm

I’ve cycled to work each day this week, after a 3 week layoff, and to say I’m tired might be an understatement. You know that burning sensation you get when the lactic acid has built up in your muscles after exercising hard? Well this afternoon I felt that after the enormous physical effort of standing [...]

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