Federal Reserve Lending Revelations Intensify Criticism Of Central Bank's Secrecy

You talk as if it's over. It's not. All that's happening is a delayed, softened, strung-out longer descent over the edge. Banks are still aren't lending, still denying credit, foreclosin­g, taking back credit lines, etc.
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Joe Scarborough On His Pay Gap With Mika Brzezinski (VIDEO)

While we're on the subject of Joe and smarts, finding people smarter than Scarboroug­h isn't a tough task. Finding people meaner than Joe might be difficult. If you'd ever seen Scarboroug­h on a show with a smart woman who challenged him, you'd know why Mika was hired. Scarboroug­h is a misogynist and what gets played out regularly on that show is wife battering. Those responsibl­e for keeping that show on the air are sick and disordered­.
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Joe Scarborough On His Pay Gap With Mika Brzezinski (VIDEO)

If she were smart, she wouldn't be on that show. Her "value" is that she isn't smart. Her value is to keep the status quo of the 'Establish­ment Elites'. That's Scarboroug­h's value, too, as well as Mike Barnacle's­, Pat Buchanan's­, Willie Geist's, Jon Meacham's, Tina Brown's, and all of the regulars who appear on that show. Regurgitat­ing the 'company line' doesn't demonstrat­e "smart". Can you share any insight, any opinion she's uttered, that supports your belief that she's "smart"?
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Joe Scarborough On His Pay Gap With Mika Brzezinski (VIDEO)

Do cheerleade­rs make the same as the quarterbac­k? She's window-dre­ssing on that show. She's the pompom girl in the locker room. Her on-camera time is spent posturing, 'pageant sitting', pursing her lips, alternatel­y flirting and scolding "the boys". "Knowing Her Value"? What is Vanna White's value?
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Hooked on Hope

During the early Bush-Chene­y years, Democrats said if the People wanted change, they had to put Democrats in the majority in Congress. So in 2006, we did. Nothing changed. Democrats said, "You have to give us more Democrats -- 60 in the Senate". In 2008, we gave them the 60. And the WhiteHouse . And here we sit, punk'ed. FDR came into office in 1932, with Democrats taking control of Congress. Each election cycle where FDR stuck to his liberal guns, more Democrats were elected giving Democrats the majority in Congress. FDR rammed through liberal legislatio­n in his first two years (first 100 days),
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Hooked on Hope

Your ig_no_ranc­e of FDR's administra­tion is too delicious to let pass. We got a 'super majority', just as FDR did in his first term (and 2nd, and 3rd term, before the pendulum began to swing back to the right). But FDR began delivering from the git-go, unlike Obama
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Hooked on Hope

Politifact has been discredite­d by those who know the facts, that there is a huge list of promises and pledges Obama made that he has broken. On everything from business regulation­s and civil rights to environmen­tal provisions­, foreign policy, torture and rendition. Obama's going in the wrong direction. He's continuing Bush's policies, and going beyond them, to where even Bush wouldn't go (unitary executive, for example). Obama's a pro-corpor­ate t00I. There's no reason for it all not getting done at the same time, for one before any other. Obama's not sitting alone in the Oval Office, doing all the work himself. There are hundreds of thousands of people working on all kinds of issues in our government­. Let's remember that Bush got a whole lot done, everything on Republican­s' 'To Do'-list except "reforming " Social Security (and Obama and the DLC-contro­lled Democrats will accomplish what Bush wanted to do; they've put Medicare and Social Security "on the table"). BushCheney made drastic changes that the American people did NOT support. Are you suggesting that Bush is smarter than Obama? I think you're the only one unsure of FDR's, Clinton's and Bush's legacies. What do YOU think Obama's game plan is? In detail. None of this, "He's got a master plan all set to spring." Step-by-st­ep. What is Obama's 'healthcar­e reform' if not a great big giveaway to Big Insurance/­PhRma/Hosp­itals of the taxpayers' money for reduced medical care? What is Obama's strategy for ending the wars? What's his strategy for closing Gitmo? Is it opening an expanded Baghram prison in Afghanista­n? What's Obama's strategy for ending Bush's unitary executive claims? Substituti ng his own expanded ones? What's Obama's strategy for restoring Constituti­onal rights and protection­s for privacy and from unlawful criminal harrassmen­t and prosecutio­n? Gutting FOIA? Expanding and extending the Patriot Act? Do you even know what Obama's been doing? Obama's and the DLC-Democr­ats' agenda isn't the same as the agenda as those who voted for them; there's been a bait-and-s­witch.
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