We’re listening to Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R) explain that the economic crisis was caused by the Democrats because the Democrats controlled Congress from January 2007 on.
Late Update: Here’s the video:
That ‘take this job and shove’ letter in the Times today was one example. But it’s been a trend over the last couple weeks. A growing chorus of bankers and financiers, who’d largely been keeping their heads down, piping up and telling Washington and pretty much everybody else that they’re back, have new cigars and generally aren’t going to take any more of your crap.
We round up the recent examples in this new post.
We shouldn’t let the day pass without noting, for the record, that the Minnesota Senate race saga has now (or will as of the end of the day) set the record for longest unresolved election drama in the state’s history.
Sounds like we will soon have Michael Steele to kick around some more.
Top Obama EPA nominee withdraws amid “scrutiny” of his work with scandal-plagued non-profit.
We’ve linked to a number of criticisms of the Geithner bank plan. So I wanted to flag the piece penned today by Dr. Doom, Nouriel Roubini, the guy who predicted a lot of the mortgage-driven financial collapse. He’s cautiously supportive.
Michael Steele just did an interview on CNN. And in addition to speculating about a possible future run for president, he seemed to say that his blow-up with Rush Limbaugh was actually a strategic decision to see, or rather smoke out, who would stand up and criticize him if he did something really stupid.
I guess he got his answer: a lot of people.
A bunch of right-wing sites are crowing about a speech by the President of the European Union harshly criticizing President Obama’s Stimulus spending and claiming his policy is paving a “road to hell.”
The Czech Republic currently holds the six month rotating EU presidency. And thus the president is Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek. But is he really Prime Minister? Apparently one of the triggers for Topolanek’s outburst was that fact that just one day earlier the Czech parliament had ousted his government with a no-confidence vote. And his high-profile freak-out was a way to demonstrate his continued relevance.
And remember, with Topolanek’s government tossed into the ash heap of history, that leaves the next decision to Czech President Václav Klaus, who is one of world’s most outspoken global warming deniers, and darling of right-wing websites everywhere. Earlier this month he was the keynote speaker at a big global warming deniers ho-down in New York.
Whatever happened to Vaclav Havel? Can they bring him back?