ThinkFast: February 10, 2009
ThinkFast: February 10, 2009
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) was the only Senator not to vote yesterday on the economic recovery package. (Judd Gregg had recused himself.) “He was at a New York gathering of prominent media conservatives and Wall Street Republican donors called the Monday Meeting, held at the Grand Hyatt hotel in Midtown Manhattan.”
The New York Times reports that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner “prevailed” against several top Obama aides in “opposing tougher conditions on financial institutions” in the debate on the bailout. Geithner successfully blocked “more severe limits on executive pay for companies receiving government aid” and replacing top bank executives and wiping out “shareholders at institutions receiving aid.”
Yesterday, the struggling General Motors announced that vice chairman and product chief Bob Lutz will retire at the end of 2009, capping off a 46-year career. Lutz came under criticism last year, after declaring that global warming was a “crock of sh*t.”
Just weeks before leaving office, former President Bush appointed a number of top aides and GOP lawyers to “potentially lucrative” jobs at an “obscure World Bank agency” that “attempts to broker international finance disagreements.” Bush “made more than 100 such end-of-term appointments to a constellation of presidential boards and panels…many of which will outlast President Obama’s current term.”
During a closed-door speech at the House Republican retreat last month, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said that “with George W. Bush, Karl Rove and Tom DeLay out of the picture,” voters would embrace Republicans again. One lawmaker in the room later called Gingrich’s singling out of other Republicans “gratuitous.” Gingrich’s office refused to “confirm or deny the comments attributed to the ex-Speaker.”
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon “appealed to President Obama to attend a hastily planned summit here in late March to promote international efforts to stem the pace of climate change.” Officials at the U.N. “are concerned that the world’s richest countries, including the United States, may withhold funding for environmentally friendly programs…because of the financial crisis.”
Yesterday, Obama “ordered a 60-day review of the nation’s cybersecurity to examine how federal agencies use technology to protect secrets and data.” Run by former Bush administration aide Melissa Hathaway, the review will examine “all the government plans, programs and activities underway to manage large amounts of data.”
The FBI raided the offices of a defense lobbying firm, PMA, founded by a former aide to Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) and specializing “in winning earmarked taxpayer funds for its clients.” “PMA is the second company with close ties to Murtha to be raided by federal agents recently”; combined, the “companies reportedly have received over $100 million in earmarks, thanks to Murtha’s efforts.”
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad “made a conditional offer of dialogue to the Obama administration” today, saying that Tehran was ready for “talks based on mutual respect and in a fair atmosphere.” Ahmadinejad’s comments come on the heels of a press conference last by President Obama, in which he said that “Now it’s time for Iran to send some signals that it wants to act differently.”
And finally: “The head of state was a little bruised” yesterday after President Obama “misjudged either his height or that of the door to a waiting helicopter.” After waving goodbye to crowds, he attempted to board Marine One but instead hit his head in the doorway. Watch video of the incident here.
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Bush “made more than 100 such end-of-term appointments to a constellation of presidential boards and panels…many of which will outlast President Obama’s current term.”
Ok, my question is, what happened to the people who had these jobs in the first place?
February 10th, 2009 at 9:02 am202 456-1111
Call the WHitehouse and tell OBAMA to NO TO STATE SECRETS FOR GITMO TRIALS.
Would be a wake up call to hear lots of these messages today after last nights first presser.
NO TO TORTURE!!!!
February 10th, 2009 at 9:03 amPlease Newt, just go away.
February 10th, 2009 at 9:03 amSen. John Cornyn (R-TX) was the only Senator not to vote yesterday on the economic recovery package. (Judd Gregg had recused himself.) “He was at a New York gathering of prominent media conservatives and Wall Street Republican donors called the Monday Meeting, held at the Grand Hyatt hotel in Midtown Manhattan.”
Demonstrating conclusively who he cares about the most…
February 10th, 2009 at 9:08 am“During a closed-door speech at the House Republican retreat last month, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said that “with George W. Bush, Karl Rove and Tom DeLay out of the picture,”
Of course Newt is the only one who can still see these scum0sucking piece of filth, historically called humans. Newt is the only entity slimy snough to slither under the rocks to where these scumsucking vermin have hid.
How is it in the cold, dark, damp recesses that must be Tom Delay’s life Newt???
February 10th, 2009 at 9:09 amDuring a closed-door speech at the House Republican retreat last month, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said that “with George W. Bush, Karl Rove and Tom DeLay out of the picture,” voters would embrace Republicans again.
Sure, they might be out of the picture (temporarily, pending investigation) but look at who is stepping into clear focus as the “new and improved” GOP:
Palin, Rush, Steele, JoeTheNobody, Cantor…
And thank you, President Obama, for stating clearly last night in response to Leahy’s “truth commission” question that, if there is evidence of wrongdoing, there will be consequences. Indeed, no one is above the law.
PEACE
February 10th, 2009 at 9:10 am“Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) was the only Senator not to vote yesterday on the economic recovery package. (Judd Gregg had recused himself.) “He was at a New York gathering of prominent media conservatives and Wall Street Republican donors called the Monday Meeting, held at the Grand Hyatt hotel in Midtown Manhattan.”
Note to self: Re-target Cruis Missile
February 10th, 2009 at 9:11 amYesterday, the struggling General Motors announced that vice chairman and product chief Bob Lutz will retire at the end of 2009, capping off a 46-year career.
Good riddance. I hope your golden parachute fails…
February 10th, 2009 at 9:12 amcaption….
“Voting?… for what?….WHERE?”
February 10th, 2009 at 9:13 amIranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad “made a conditional offer of dialogue to the Obama administration” today, saying that Tehran was ready for “talks based on mutual respect and in a fair atmosphere.”
Where are the conservative trolls? I wanna say “We told you so!”
February 10th, 2009 at 9:13 amGood morning, campers.
Geithner blocked tougher limits on executive pay and blocked firing of top execs.
We now see he is more interested in protecting and rewarding those who created this morass than the American people. INEXCUSEBLE!
February 10th, 2009 at 9:14 amunb;
February 10th, 2009 at 9:15 amconsider it already said. :-)
Geithner successfully blocked “more severe limits on executive pay for companies receiving government aid” and replacing top bank executives and wiping out “shareholders at institutions receiving aid.
Corporafornication remains alive and well. Those executive salary restrictions don’t apply to TARP 1. Will they impact TARP 2 (which uses the same shadow banking system that got America into financial crisis)?
Bend over for another public-private partnership!
February 10th, 2009 at 9:16 amObama needs to step up and stop equivocating on past WH led criminal activity. That means no weasel wording on investigating and prosecuting past actions, if warranted. No more state secrets for keeping trials from being transparent. If not, we are not getting any CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN.
February 10th, 2009 at 9:16 amAnyone thinking about embracing most Republicans would be well-advised to first have all their vaccinations up to date (and suck on a lot of lemons to ward off scurvy).
February 10th, 2009 at 9:18 amMore tap dancing from the Obama camp. Geithner is revising Obama’s statement about limiting executive pay for companies that take OUR money. This from a tax evader who only paid because he was suddenly in the spotlight. He wants to protect his buddies.
February 10th, 2009 at 9:19 amDuring a closed-door speech at the House Republican retreat last month, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said that “with George W. Bush, Karl Rove and Tom DeLay out of the picture,” voters would embrace Republicans again. One lawmaker in the room later called Gingrich’s singling out of other Republicans “gratuitous.” Gingrich’s office refused to “confirm or deny the comments attributed to the ex-Speaker.”
The presumptuous sit-and-wait in lieu of actually doing the work to get in touch with average people and make them the focus of economic growth and security, will add to GOP woes of 2006 & 2008. Who are people going to choose, the party that bums around and feels entitled to the electorate, or the party that tirelessly cares about our state of the union?
The GOP is stuck on the botton of President Obama’s shoe as of this morning. That was quite the tackle by the president last night.
February 10th, 2009 at 9:20 amUncle Ho Says: unb;
consider it already said. :-)
If only it mattered ;)
Perhaps then we’d finally marginalize the Republicans in America once and for all…
February 10th, 2009 at 9:20 amDo NOT open the powerman link at #1. He should be banned.
February 10th, 2009 at 9:38 amWARNING!!!
When I clicked the link to the video of Obama hitting his head, my anti-virus program alerted me that it removed a trojan.
February 10th, 2009 at 9:39 amThe New York Times reports that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner “prevailed” against several top Obama aides in “opposing tougher conditions on financial institutions” in the debate on the bailout. Geithner successfully blocked “more severe limits on executive pay for companies receiving government aid” and replacing top bank executives and wiping out “shareholders at institutions receiving aid.”
Anybody who believes that Geithner is gonna act against the interests of his bosses on Wall Street is outta their fuukin mind.
Are you ready yet to admit the ‘record’ of appointments matters?
Or are you gonna say Obama ratified the decision of HIS Treasury Secretary???
Makes me feel reel guud either way..
February 10th, 2009 at 9:40 amTim Geithner is a Federal Reserver- a private banker who is protecting his friends and his career options after 4 or 8 years.
I’ve seen this quote somewhere before, but it is appropriate: “If elections changed anything, they’d be illegal.”
You want to help America? do some research on the Federal Reserve system, its history, and the banks that preceded it.
watch the last 45 minutes of Zeitgeist movie- it is the best explanation of how the Federal Reserve works- and it is not in the country’s best interest.
http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com
the whole movie will change the way you look at society, the last 45 is only about the Fed.
February 10th, 2009 at 9:41 amThe second movie, Addendum, is the follow up.
Obama made it pretty clear to the general public last night – republicans are the obstructionists placing party over people.
February 10th, 2009 at 9:41 amMarie Says:
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Do NOT open the powerman link at #1. He should be banned.
Flagged.
February 10th, 2009 at 9:47 amditto #27
February 10th, 2009 at 9:47 amI’m not sure how the rest of you feel but I have a very bad feeling that the reasons why Geithner prevailed is not a good sign for those of us on “Main Street”.
They are STILL looking for the banks to be the saving grace for stopping deflation. They just don’t seem to understand that the reason for this implosion is there are no jobs and that they continue to protect the purchasing power of the “investor” class.
Welcome to the Great Depression of 2009 extending into probably 2015. Just like the coming crisis in the globa warming you best get prepared. This ride is going to get ugly.
February 10th, 2009 at 9:50 amI’m not a big fan of Geithner either, but I take Obama at his word that the change will come through him. Pay caps in itself are a refreshing addition to the bailout terms.
In the future, I’d like to see all companies’ shareholders given the power of the vote on matters such as compensation. We can’t expect to use every line of progressive policy to enact real reform, though that would be especially good for the country. You can rattle the dime-a-dozen crowd even when the terms and conditions don’t apply to them.
February 10th, 2009 at 9:51 ammy anti-virus program alerted me that it removed a trojan.
That sucks, but not for Mac users!
February 10th, 2009 at 9:58 amDuring a closed-door speech at the House Republican retreat last month, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said that “with George W. Bush, Karl Rove and Tom DeLay out of the picture,” voters would embrace Republicans again.
The Republican’t party isn’t going to get voters to embrace them until such time as they have some kind of a coherent plan to help this country recover from the damage they did. As long as they continue their “it’s all about me” philosophy, they will continue to turn off voters, not attract new ones.
February 10th, 2009 at 9:58 amhark, some sad lamb lost in the wilderness….
February 10th, 2009 at 10:17 am“Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) was the only Senator not to vote yesterday on the economic recovery package. ”
How about we change the rules to say that if you wish to continue a filibuster, you must MUSTER 40 votes. Make the obstructionists show up and demonstrate their committment to gridlock. I’m tired of this whole bit of blocking crucial legislation while simultaneously trolling for campaign cash. Make them lie down in front of the bull-dozers 24-7 … on the cold, hard ground … in the rain.
February 10th, 2009 at 10:17 amAh…Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Iran’s Bush. An outspoken, deeply religious man with a blustering foreign policy and no clue on how to run an economy.
With luck, this reactionary fool will be booted from office this year and someone like Khatami can find his way back in. His term was marked by peace, dialogue, and relative economic prosperty.
February 10th, 2009 at 10:20 amsheeple Says:
‘The One’ warns of crisis turning into catastrophe
He said the recession has left the nation so weak that only the federal government can “jolt our economy back to life”
The fear monger using this crises to play out his misguided policy philosophy.
Ahhh, poor sheeple with his zany lil “news” items. Hey sheep, remember that last president who went on about the “next smoking gun being in the form of a mushroom cloud?” and all those horror stories about the WMD’s in Iraq? That was based on lies. The numbers of our economy aren’t lying. Obama is being honest – which understandably would be hard for you to wrap your mind around.
Dolt.
February 10th, 2009 at 10:22 amBetsy McCaughy, member of the Hudson Institute:
The Hudson Institute is supported by donations from companies and individuals. Corporate contributors include Eli Lilly and Company, Monsanto, DuPont, Dow-Elanco, Sandoz, Ciba-Geigy, ConAgra, Cargill, and Procter & Gamble.[6]
Now sheep, why on EARTH would she be opposed to Health Care Reform?? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?????
February 10th, 2009 at 10:25 amdynamo=sheeple=braindead troll=ignore
February 10th, 2009 at 10:26 amObama “throws Biden under the bus” brought to you by the Daily Telegraph of London! Formally owned by convicted criminal and Conservative Conrad Black, and now owned by the Barclay Bros. – twit and twhat!
The Daily Telegraph has been politically conservative[11] in modern times. The personal links between the paper’s editors and the leadership of the Conservative Party, also known by the term Tories, along with the paper’s influence over Conservative activists, has resulted in the paper commonly being referred to, especially in Private Eye, as the Torygraph.[11]
Sheeple – you are a true road apple.
February 10th, 2009 at 10:31 amIsn’t a road apple an osage orange?
February 10th, 2009 at 10:49 amGood morning to my friends here! I watched President Obama’s news conference last night, and oh my, was it ever wonderful to hear complete sentences, nuanced answers and big fat juicy words again!!
I have to say, if the wingnuts are so completely unhinged after only 3 *weeks* of Obama’s presidency, it’s going to be very entertaining to watch the meltdowns over the next 8 YEARS!
February 10th, 2009 at 10:50 amTP says: During a closed-door speech at the House Republican retreat last month, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said that “with George W. Bush, Karl Rove and Tom DeLay out of the picture,” voters would embrace Republicans again. One lawmaker in the room later called Gingrich’s singling out of other Republicans “gratuitous.” Gingrich’s office refused to “confirm or deny the comments attributed to the ex-Speaker.”
I’ll be a happy camper the day the repugs realize that the ONLY ones who will EVER “embrace” them are paid–in one way or another–to do so.
February 10th, 2009 at 11:11 amObama’s been in charge now for all this time and the country is still a mess. Just goes to prove that dems can’t get anything right. Unemployment still rising thanks to dems in charge. No help for main street. Two wars still killing our troops and innocent civilians. Gitmo still open for business. Possible renditions left on the table. National debt still rising, with no end in sight, and more spending on the way. No pictures of dead soldiers allowed. No investigations of the prior administration. Appointing corporate friendly people to important positions. Stuffing his press conference with lefties, and giving them choice front row seats.
By this point in his presidency Bush was doing so well, with a surplus of money and all, that he was able to take a vacation at his ranch. None of this list of problems was at Bush’s feet at this point in his presidency, but the dems just can’t handle running the country.
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There. Have I covered the reich’s lame points of idiocity?
Glad to see that they hold Obama to the exact same standards that they held Bush to. Good to see that the left’s cries of “rightwingers are hypocrites” are totally unfounded.
Also interesting to note how RABIDLY they lambast Obama, three weeks in, on these items, but were complicitly silent to vehemently in favor of these things when Bush was in.
Republicans/neocons/conservatives truly have NO ideas: they ONLY have their political party, and NOTHING else. Pathetic anti-American scum. Leave. Go to Russia. Your goddess Palin can see you from her house if you live in Russia.
February 10th, 2009 at 11:12 amIsn’t a road apple an osage orange?
They call osage orange(s) horse apples hereabouts, which, of course leads to the confusion…
February 10th, 2009 at 11:14 amWe used to use horse apples, osage orange for fenceposts, it doesn’t rot.
Osage is a tribal name in Okla.
February 10th, 2009 at 11:19 amGeithner is speaking and I believe we owe him an apology.
February 10th, 2009 at 11:21 am“…former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said that “with George W. Bush, Karl Rove and Tom DeLay out of the picture,” voters would embrace Republicans again.”
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Ah, but are they really “out of the picture”? Fortunately, we haven’t heard much from Dubya or Tom DeLay, but Rove just won’t STFU. And why wasn’t Cheney mentioned? He, probably more than anyone else, represents the old GOP way. Furthermore, if the GOP is really bent on a new, improved party, they need to get Gingrich out of the picture as well. Why is Newt still relevant? He doesn’t hold office anymore — he doesn’t even write a column.
But what about the new faces of the GOP that Americans are supposed to embrace? Sarah Palin? Joe the Plumber? And the same old faces of Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity? Doesn’t look like much of an improvement to me.
February 10th, 2009 at 11:23 amOsage wood was, and still is, the premier North American wood for making bows.
February 10th, 2009 at 11:23 amFolks make duck calls out of 100 plus year old osage fenceposts, beautiful colors from being stuck in the ground all those years.
Like a meadow muffin…
February 10th, 2009 at 11:25 amNevar Says:
Isn’t a road apple an osage orange?
They call osage orange(s) horse apples hereabouts, which, of course leads to the confusion…
I thought a road apple was horsesh*t
February 10th, 2009 at 11:25 amI was thinking the same thing about Newt misshusseinmolly. Funny that he doesn’t realize he’s as heinous as the rest of them. Also, the trolls and Malkin and Limbaugh and the rest certainly seem to be getting their talking points from Rove. And Cheney should be chastised every day for his fear mongering.
February 10th, 2009 at 11:30 amAnd beautiful, multi colored knife handles….etc. It polishes up nicely.
February 10th, 2009 at 11:30 am“Lutz came under criticism last year, after declaring that global warming was a “crock of sh*t.”
Man, you guys will never, ever, ever, ever forgive him for that, will you? Look at the full context of the quote. After that s-bomb, he then goes on to say that he’s more interested in cars like the Chevy Volt helping to reduce our dependence on foreign oil. National security and all. That doesn’t excuse the foul language, but look at the whole quote first.
Besides, he gave the world the Dodge Viper, and you can’t take that away from him.
February 10th, 2009 at 11:31 amGeneral Motors said Tuesday it would cut 10,000 white-collar jobs this year as part of a restructuring plan the struggling automaker submitted to the government in exchange for a bailout.
GM said it expected the headcount reduction to reduce its salaried workforce to about 63,000 in 2009.
Gee, if only they had gotten a tax-cut!
/snark
February 10th, 2009 at 11:32 amIt is.
February 10th, 2009 at 11:36 amWell, there’s 10,000 who just got a tax cut – no more payroll taxes!
February 10th, 2009 at 11:38 amIn the midAtlantic Osage was planted along roadside which in hindsight was sort of stupid based on the fallen fruits all over the roads. Hence the colloquial term “road apple”. It sounds a little Martha Stewarty but we used to make those weird fragrant hang in your closet things out of them when we were kids with cloves and crap. I suppose it was just one of those bs things my folks had us do to keep us busy
February 10th, 2009 at 11:39 amXisithrus Says:
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General Motors said Tuesday it would cut 10,000 white-collar jobs this year as part of a restructuring plan the struggling automaker submitted to the government in exchange for a bailout.
That is truly horrible news. A provision of the bailout SHOULD have been that they are not allowed to make any layoffs. We should be hearing stern warnings that businesses laying people off are ADDING to the financial problems — they are driving the recession into a depression. You want your company to be patriotic? Then you make no layoffs, even if it means that you don’t get all the profit you’d like.
Layoffs in a recession are anti-American and unpatriotic: serving only greed (unless the company is already running in the red and no one is making profit).
February 10th, 2009 at 11:40 amWell, there’s 10,000 who just got a tax cut – no more payroll taxes! -=BNF=-
Aint GOP-O-Nomics great?
February 10th, 2009 at 11:41 amGM to the US Gov’t: “Look, if you give us some welfare money we will put 10,000 people on the street to join the unemployment lines. Then that welfare money will go even farther. k?”
February 10th, 2009 at 11:45 am59 – “tinkle-down” economics.
February 10th, 2009 at 11:46 amWe used to put them under the house and in the dog houses. Termites, fleas, etc. don’t like to be near them.
February 10th, 2009 at 11:47 amIn Oklahoma they call it “bow dark”, a corruption of the French ‘bois d’ arc’; translation: wood for bow
February 10th, 2009 at 11:49 amAnother common name is hedge apple.
god I hate to admit this because it is such a red state….maybe you will feel my pain. I live in Ok. and you are right about the other names…..they are common usage.
February 10th, 2009 at 11:54 amFred Says:
Tweedster Says:
I thought a road apple was horsesh*t
It is.
Thanks for clearing that up Fred! It’s too bad trolly didn’t have to prairie oysters to stick around and discuss his silly news items…on second thought, disregard that last statement.
February 10th, 2009 at 11:55 amTweedster
February 10th, 2009 at 12:06 pmtrolls aren’t sticking around much these days. They are kinda like road apples in a traffic jam….
Well Fred, I feel a little better about Oklahoma now I know you’re there.
February 10th, 2009 at 12:17 pmThat’s a very nice compliment, thanks.
We are fighting the hard fight here. We have been joining churches and taping their sermons and if they inject politics we have been filing compaints with the IRS:
http://www.irs.gov/irs/article/0,,id=178241,00.html
we have had some success and some failures……
Also trying to stop the right from controlling the dialog here the best we can…..Fred66049 is me:
http://cfc.ktul.com/forums/viewmessages.cfm?Forum=24&Topic=54429
It’s an uphill battle but we persist.
February 10th, 2009 at 12:30 pm“Pukes” put the interests of ‘party’ ahead of those of ‘the people?’
Yeah. And…
I mean, that’s what parties do, Dims no less than Pukes.
Which is why Washington warned gainst them 230-odd years ago.
And which is why, at least, there should ALWAYS be more than two or three of them.
We have one party, with two competing wings: the Right wing and the VERY Right wing, of the single Party of Property and Privilege. They do not differ in the ends they sek, only in the means they apply to achieve those ends–which are: more surveillance, more corporatism, more militarism, more globalism; less service, less liberty, less autonomy.
February 10th, 2009 at 12:32 pmFred, where in Okie-dom do you reside?
I usta live in Norman. I taught at OU for 6 years.
The longest six years of my life.
Did you know Norman was a sun-down town, until pretty recently (the last 25 years, or so)…And LaVerne, out in the panhandle, still was, according to what a student told me, in 2000…
February 10th, 2009 at 12:36 pmtokin librul
yeah, social security aint shit is it tokin, or minimum wage, etc….
piss and moan should be your username.
February 10th, 2009 at 12:38 pmtokin, we have a saying in Okla. “you wouldn’t be happy if they hung you with a new rope”
That would be you.
February 10th, 2009 at 12:40 pmTokin, we have black Indians here too and many small towns still have sundown ordinances on the books.
It is a regressive state but it’s been home for generations. I’m not much of a love it or leave it type…..I change what I can and acknowledge what I can’t..
February 10th, 2009 at 12:45 pmTokin…..OSU alumni and all my children are OSU. Engineers and teachers.
Bitter rivalry but good parties even when mixed.
February 10th, 2009 at 12:48 pmFred, you are my soul mate!
February 10th, 2009 at 1:12 pmSix months ago, private equity firms couldn’t legally buy a bank. Today, Treasury Chief Tim Geithner talked about public-private partnerships, putting private capital to work to save failing financial institutions.
Dealbook reported The Carlyle Group is looking at BankUnited, a Florida bank.
The question is how much taxpayer money they’ll get and the value of loan or investment guarantees. Tim was quite nonspecific, other than mentioning a $1 trillion here, and a $1 trillion there.
February 10th, 2009 at 2:20 pmThe feeling is mutual Shayne….seems we have each others back a lot here.
February 10th, 2009 at 2:23 pmI believe that’s because we share a “sunny dispositio” Fred. ;-)
February 10th, 2009 at 2:29 pmShayne Says:
I believe that’s because we share a “sunny dispositio” Fred. ;-)
Not fair, Shayne–you just ruptured my rhetoric-loving funny bone!
February 10th, 2009 at 10:52 pmTimothy Geithner “prevailed” against several top Obama aides in “opposing tougher conditions on financial institutions” in the debate on the bailout. Geithner successfully blocked “more severe limits on executive pay for companies receiving government aid” and replacing top bank executives and wiping out “shareholders at institutions receiving aid.”
how could ONE person “prevail”? wtf is up with this, and can we go bang trash lids or something until the Obama kicks his ass? or something, really this is very disturbing, very!
February 11th, 2009 at 1:05 am