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balloon-juice.com » Balloon Juice - Nov 10, 2008
Here: The financial world was fixated on Capitol Hill as Congress battled over the Bush administration’s request for a $700 billion bailout of the banking industry. In the midst of this late-September drama, the …
Also tagged: domestic affairs
balloon-juice.com » Balloon Juice - Nov 6, 2008
Reading about the celebrations in Kenya over the election of Obama, I came across this reminder: Mr Obama’s victory is being celebrated across the continent. South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu said it showed “that …
Also tagged: politics, foreign affairs
balloon-juice.com » Balloon Juice - Oct 31, 2008
Just like Sarah Palin’s denial that she didn’t violate state ethics laws when, in fact, the report specifically said she did, we now have Ted Stevens, denying reality. “I’ve not been convicted yet,” Stevens said …
Also tagged: assholes, clown shoes
balloon-juice.com » Balloon Juice - Oct 20, 2008
Ross Douthat: For a week or so now, I’ve been listening to smart conservatives suggest that Obama’s “spreading the wealth” remark might really, really hurt him – “talk about playing into the most extreme stereotype of …
Also tagged: election 2008, clown shoes
balloon-juice.com » Balloon Juice - Oct 18, 2008
Cause: John McCain, third debate: We need to know the full extent of Senator Obama’s relationship with ACORN, who is now on the verge of maybe perpetrating one of the greatest frauds in voter history in this country …
Also tagged: election 2008, assholes, did you know john mccain was a pow
balloon-juice.com » Balloon Juice - Oct 15, 2008
Speak of the devil. The Bush administration issued a pair of secret memos to the CIA in 2003 and 2004 that explicitly endorsed the agency’s use of waterboarding and other interrogation techniques against al-Qaeda …
balloon-juice.com » Balloon Juice - Oct 14, 2008
Eugene Robinson is, of course, completely right: After eight years of the Bush administration, the Republican Party—to put it bluntly—is a mess and a fraud. There is an intellectual case to be made for the economic …
Also tagged: election 2008
balloon-juice.com » Balloon Juice - Oct 10, 2008
This scenario, while frightening, is really implausible. Nothing like it would ever happen, and certainly congress and the American people would put a stop to it. PS- The episode of Life I am currently watching is …
balloon-juice.com » Balloon Juice - Oct 10, 2008
From the guy who led the prosecution of the Weathermen: Re “Politics of Attack” (editorial, Oct. 8) and “Obama and ’60s Bomber: A Look Into Crossed Paths” (front page, Oct. 4): As the lead federal prosecutor of the …
Also tagged: election 2008, general stupidity
balloon-juice.com » Balloon Juice - Oct 9, 2008
Looks like it is time to add Comrade back to my name again: Having tried without success to unlock frozen credit markets, the Treasury Department is considering taking ownership stakes in many United States banks to …
Also tagged: politics, war on terror aka gsave, the war on your neighbor aka the war on drugs