eschatonblog.com - 12/12/2008
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Republicans to Detroit: if only you could figure out a way to pay your executives and not your workers, we might help you. Do I have that right? --Molly I.
redstate.com - 12/13/2008
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redstate.com —
Did you know that last night we were
getting more traffic at once than we ever had...
before? <a href=”http://www.redstate.com/ben_domenech/2008/12/11/the-short-honeymoon/”>Ben Domenech was linked on the front page of AOL.com</a>, and we were getting crazy numbers of hits ...
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americablog.com - 12/8/2008
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americablog.com —
Good morning. So David Gregory did get the
job as host of "Meet the Press." Wow. There...
truly is a dearth of talent at that network if he's the best they can get. He just strikes me as the kind of guy who really knows how to kiss up to his bosses. And, ...
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Monday Morning Open Thread
moonbattery.com - 12/12/2008
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moonbattery.com —
BHO and a guy with whom he had
no contact . Via Verum Serum ; on a...
tip from forest.
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Yep
Suburban Guerrilla —
Molly Ivors:
Republicans to Detroit: if only you could figure out a way to pay your executives and not your workers, we might help you.
Do I have that right?
You only give me your funny papers
The Sideshow —
... They haven't bothered lately, of course, since they've been brazenly open about the fact that what they want is cheap labor and that depends on reducing the availability of decent jobs, I admit. But, still, the fact that they are making it clear that they are prepared to destroy the American car industry in order to break what's left of workers' rights is something that a good opposition party would really make hay out of. Sure wish we had one. To Molly Ivors: Yes, you have that right. What's interesting about this guy Madoff, about whom my ...
Veto Points and the Bailout
Lawyers, Guns and Money —
... , the GOP doesn't seem terribly concerned about much more problematic things like the disgusting, virtually no-strings-attached re-re bailouts of Citigroup and AIG. Rather, Republican senators want to drive down wages for American autoworkers and create competitive advantages for their right-to-work states so much that they're willing to inflict massive blows to the American economy to do so. (As Molly Ivors cracks, if there was some way of putting together a bailout that would pay executives and not workers, the bailout might have had a chance.) ...
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