http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/11/18/determined-not-to-make-news-emanuel-speaks-of-era-of-reform/

Senator Joe Lieberman to keep Chairmanship of Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee.

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/Well-Great-Depression-2-2011/story.aspx?guid=%7BB28B49B5%2DEFD1%2D4941%2DB57E%2DA2BA1545BA09%7D&dist=SecMostRead

misshusseinmolly Says:

I, probably as much as anyone else, would dearly love to see these criminals who’ve been in power for the past eight years brought to justice.

Terrific article by Scott Horton in December Harper’s called “Justice After Bush” on just how to go about it without Obama risking too much too early. He is an attorney in New York and seems to have though it through. Sorry, I don’t have a link as I read the print copy.

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/Strategic-Buyers-Private-Equity-Players/story.aspx?guid=%7B8E862031-330F-4B5B-B5DC-69DE4F7056A8%7D

The Carlyle Group will have a speaker on the moderated panel. They meet a week after Obama’s inauguration.

So whatever happened to that “serving at the pleasure of the President” crap…?

First the telecom capitulation, then the drilling cave, now indifference to republican’s war crimes. Obama is turning his back on the bush charnel house and the butt-kissing supporters can’t make excuses for him fast enough.

Torture, blowning children to bits, roving deathsquads, billions unaccounted for, rape, murder, experimenting on low income children, Katrina’s murderous incompetence…

Nice of the Obama suck-ups to absolve our “new” boss of his responsibility to bring the bush war criminals to accountability; the most horrifically ruthless individuals this side of Ed Gein.

Obama hasn’t taken office yet, (yes, I voted for him) and he’s already signaling that he isn’t interested in holding serial criminals responsible, just sweeping the last 8 years under the rug, thinking that ignoring it is the same as starting fresh.

What an unqualified disgrace.

This is wonderful. I am glad to see Teddy return to the Senate and I hope he is recouped and well-rested.

A remodeled health care system is badly needed. Republicans and blue-dog dems will complain of the costs of implementing such a program, but I’d rather see the government take on the debt than see that debt burdening individuals who, in turn, lose their homes, their savings, and face skyrocketing premiums and deductibles. Government spending can pay for itself (a healthy populace able can work, provide for themselves and for their families and pay into the system). The government has more muscle to take on loads of debt, though it’s never advisable, and most individuals do not.

One of the really crazy things about the Big three is that through their European divisions they had and still have “turnkey” solutions to reverse their market losses due to competition and the new energy/economic climate.

Just where have you been keeping that impeachment table, Steny? Of note, “hard left” will be needed to iron out the damage done by the hard right. You govern can govern as if you’re afraid of republicans, but history has shown they don’t return any favors. Lighten up, the GOP is a third party now.

However, I also recognize that even Obama has a finite amount of political capital to spend during the critical beginning of his administration, and I figure he can spend it initiating programs that will benefit all Americans at a time when we badly need them, or he can spend it whacking the heads of our last regime.

He may not have a choice. If the whistle blowers come out of the woodwork after January 20, then the Bush crimes are going to be front-and-center. Obama may not be able to ignore the.

Sy Hirsch, our favorite and probably only investigative journalist left, was quoted as saying that most people he talks to say “Come back and talk to us after January 20. There are a lot of people in the government who want to be heard, but the threat of losing their jobs, benefits and maybe even their lives has kept them quiet.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/18/opinion/18paulson.html

So, how is a company that is in Chapter 11 Bankruptcy going to get the money they need to continue to operate. Who is going to buy a car from a company that is in bankruptcy.

Besides, you know that filing for Bankruptcy will give them an excuse to break their union contracts.

The only real solution is loaning them the money to keep them going coupled with requirements that they build fuel efficient cars and probably firing all the CEO’s that got them into this mess in the first place, since they were hurting before the economy imploded.

But…but…wasn’t the Bankster Bailout supposed to unfreeze credit so that businesses could borrow again?
Why aren’t the Big three asking THE BANKS and investors for the money?

The only possible jurisdiction rests in the international courts.

My understanding is that the laws passed by Congress which would allow these criminals to escape punishment are ex post facto laws themselves. I don’t believe the “War Crimes Act” was ever cancelled, and still stands as the original law. Unless Bush pardons everybody, I assume there may well be Constitutional challenges to the refusal to prosecute. If Bush does pardon everybody…well, I guess there’s the international courts.

If you’ve listened to Gingrich lately you’ll find he’s trying to blunt the evangelicals’ righteous sword in the party. He still thinks he’s got a shot at ‘12, if Obama can’t deliver, and as a twice-divorced “christian,” Newt doesn’t have a chance with them, anyway.

That’s because we have so many low-information voters in this country. If they realized the repercussions of allowing our auto industry to fail, many more would realize we really have no choice but to help the auto industry.