New York Post Chimp Cartoon Compares Stimulus Author To Dead Primate

02-19-2009 • New York Post

A cartoon likening the author of the stimulus bill, perhaps President Hussein Obama, with a rabid chimpanzee graced the pages of the New York Post on Wednesday.

Obama Commits $275 Billion To Slow Foreclosures

02-18-2009 • Michael Shedlock / Mish

How many people will become unwitting interest slaves for the rest of their lives by signing up for one of these "loan modifications"? That is likely to happen if non-recourse loans become recourse loans.

Denver Anti-Stimulus Rally: Photo Essay

02-18-2009 • slapstickpolitics.blogspot.com

"No More Pork!" (Now the Republicans get principled???) But then the people had their say too.

Obama, Geithner, and Summers: Three Stooges Destroy World Markets

02-17-2009 • Market-Ticker.Denninger.net

Consider "ring-fencing" the United States, pulling all swap lines and protecting ourselves. We cannot backstop the world; we don't have the money and can't raise it. We are tying an anvil to our ankles and jumping into the water,

Keyes: President 'Has Something to Hide' About Eligibility

2-17-2009 • WND via e-mail

"Madison wrote, 'Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It will be pursued either until it be obtained or until liberty be lost in the pursuit.'"

Michael Hudson: The Oligarchs' Escape Plan

02-17-2009 • CounterPunch.com

To “save” the economy is to “save the banks,” along similar lines to the West trying to save its banks from their adventure in the post-Soviet economies. This is the basic neoliberal economic plan, after all. The U.S. economy is about to be “post-Sov

Obama's Justice Department standing by 'George Bush secrecy'

02-17-2009 • Rawstory.com

"This case cannot be litigated," Department of Justice attorney Douglas Letter argued. "The judges shouldn't play with fire in this national security situation."

U.S. Army War College: Economic Unraveling Threatens U.S. Security

02-17-2009 • TruthDig.com

The military must be prepared, the document warned, for a “violent, strategic dislocation inside the United States,” which could be provoked by “unforeseen economic collapse,” “purposeful domestic resistance,” “pervasive public health emergencies” ..

Denninger: Assets are Illiquid Because of Government Intervention

02-17-2009 • Market-Ticker.Denninger.net/

I think Karl Denninger hit the nail on the head.

The Obama Administration and The Banking Oligarchs

02-16-2009 • pbs.org/moyers/journal/

"The economy will turn around. Things will get better. The banks will be worth a lot of money. And they will cash out. And we will be paying higher taxes, we and our children, will be paying higher taxes so those people could have those bonuses.

Revealing Words of an Israeli Columnist: Obama Owned by the Israeli Lobby?

02-16-2009 • AfterDowningStreet.org

We were warned about the Israeli lobby by writers like Justin Raimondo for over a year before Barak Obama became president.

So Long, Car Czar

02-16-2009 • Slate

Obama drops plan to name a single "car czar" to oversee the restructuring of GM and Chrysler. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and National Economic Council Director Lawrence Summers will oversee the Presidential Task Force on Autos

To Fix Detroit, Obama Is Said to Drop Plan for ‘Car Czar’

02-15-2009 • NY Times

President Obama has dropped the idea of appointing a single, powerful "car czar" to oversee the revamping of General Motors and Chrysler and will instead keep the politically delicate task in the hands of his most senior economic advisers

Justin Raimondo: Inauguration Day, 2009 - A Day of Mourning

1-19-09 • Antiwar.com/justin/

At a time such as ours, the spectacle of jeweled and gowned courtiers feasting on inaugural canapés is beyond tacky. The Bourbons partied, too, right up to the eve of the French Revolution.

Obama team weighs government bank to ease crisis

01-18-2009 • Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The incoming Obama administration is considering setting up a government-run bank to acquire bad assets clogging the financial system, a person familiar with the Obama team's thinking said on Saturday.

Obama: I 'always thought' Bush was a 'good guy'

01-18-2009 • RawStory.com

President-elect Obama must have either an enormous capacity for forgiveness, or a short memory. On Friday night, he told CNN's John King that he has "always thought" Bush was a "good guy."

Obama's Education Secretary Militarizes the Chicago Public Schools

1-18-09 • TomDispatch.com

Disturbing as well is the prominence of Duncan's belief in offering a key role in public education to the military. Chicago's school system is currently the most militarized in the country, boasting five military academies, nearly three dozen

Why all the hoopla over Obama's inauguration?

01-18-2009 • Christine Smith Blog

Obama doesn’t care about freedom - not yours as an American, and certainly not that of foreigners. He is neither benevolent or enlightened. So what’s to celebrate?

Secret List of U.S. Military Bases to Replace Gitmo

1-16-09 • ABCnews.go.com

The list -- which includes Camp Pendleton in California, Fort Leavenworth in Kansas; the Marine Air Station in Miramar, California; and the U.S. Naval Consolidated Brig in South Carolina -- has been circulated in a classified brief to members of Cong

Obama's Banker Bailout: Fool Me Once

1-16-09 • TruthDig.com

The New York Times reported this week that “the Treasury says there is no urgent need” for additional money. Somehow, forcing average $40,000-aires to keep giving their tax dollars to Manhattan millionaires is depicted as the only “serious” course of

Bush Declares Washington D.C. a Federal Emergency Area

1-14-2009 • Washington Times

[The designation clears] the way for the city to receive federal money to help cover the overwhelming cost of providing security for the inauguration events, the first time the designation has been used for anything other than a national disaster.

Obama Administration: Wall Street Robber Barons Ride Again

1-14-09 • TruthDig.com

This is our money we’re talking about. Why don’t we get to read the fine print in what will end up being trillions of dollars in taxpayer obligations? Because we are suckers, that’s why, and the folks who swindled us into this disaster can count on i

U.S. Budget Deficit May Exceed $2 Trillion for Fiscal 2009

1-14-09 • Reuters.com/

U.S. budget outlays through the first three months of fiscal 2009 topped $1 trillion for the first time ever, rising nearly $300 billion from the year-ago period.

"The Daily Show" On Obama's Press Conference:

01-13-2009 • HuffingtonPost.com

"He's Still Got A Lot To Learn" (A sample of how Obama will be treating the Press Corp)

Obama Dines With Conservative Opinion Leaders

01-13-2009 • marcambinder.theatlantic.com

...he is breaking bread with William Kristol and David Brooks. CBS News's Dan Raviv tells the press pool that the house, on Grafton Street in Chevy Chase, belongs to George Will. (Unless he's moved.) (CHANGE???)

Clinton Vows to Use Cabinet Position to Push for Climate Treaty

01-13-2009 • Business & Media Institute

At her confirmation hearing on Jan. 13, President-elect Barack Obama’s Secretary of State designate Hillary Clinton told the Senate Foreign Relations committee she would use the office to shape foreign policy that would fight climate change. (VIDEO)

Geithner's Past Tax Problems Throw Wrench in Confirmation

01-13-2009 • Wall Street Journal

WASHINGTON -- Timothy Geithner didn't pay Social Security and Medicare taxes for several years while he worked for the International Monetary Fund, and he employed an immigrant housekeeper who briefly lacked proper work papers.

Clintons Selected To Drop Times Square Ball On NYE

12-30-2008 • CBS - wcbstv.com

NEW YORK (CBS) Former President Bill Clinton and his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, will kiss 2008 goodbye on the world's biggest stage this New Year's Eve.

OBAMA WATCH CENTRAL: Eligibility remains focus of Supremes' conferences

12/29/08 • http://wnd.com/

A second conference has been posted on the docket for the U.S. Supreme Court over the issue of Barack Obama's eligibility to occupy the White House, this one scheduled a week after Congress is to review the Electoral College vote tabulation. The