Blitzer.

Of course, he's all excited.

Boy firefox hates this link...v.i.

UPDATE: 'Reaction to the report':

Geithner was vindicated! No he wasn't! It's a whitewash!

Six, count 'em, six.... sitting Supremes.

I find that marginally scary but everyone should be thinking imbalanced,

at least?

Well, Keynes it sez here... for starters.

Very nice, Mr. Leonard. [And kudos to Mr. Sidelsky.]

In 2008, 28.4 percent of Americans were covered by either Medicare or Medicaid, totaling 45.6 million people between them.

I love my VA, they do SO good.

..these aged brats are selfish about EVERYthing.

signed

Old White Guy [we're the worst of the bunch]

-and not particularly enthralled or privileged by my own 70 years

or my decadal cohort which is so good at whining

...to all the little people who (actually) fill them.

thnx

And yes...even.

Baut'n paid for.

"Comparable" pay is a ridiculous standard to begin with, and the argument that $10 million, or even $7 million, is necessary to keep talent is absurd on its face. I needn't remind you that over the last several years Wall Street has exhibited a truly astonishing lack of talent.

But it shouldn't. That we buy this even momentarily speaks to our National (selfish and) Stoopid. Wouldn't be the first time that prevailed.

But also very poor grammarian.

Barely puts two words in english in the correct order. Slimes around, language-wise. [Noticed that about Yoo, too. And, of course, equivocator-in-chief..Gonzales]

And perversely sort of grateful for this nasty torture-lover sort of creature.

IF he is the influence which brought Obama to renege on FISA, then he is also the influence which brought Obama to show his own true colours, as the sort of will o' th' wisp when it comes to holding fast (and not so loose) to principle....which he seems to be.

Blows my mind...this really nice guy; Obama, is also a Constitutional Law Professor! And gives in to all this? WTF.

..mandated end of life. Period. Screw the consultations.

That'll take care of this...

white, largely working-class .. that .. tend to skew older and more conservative than the actual population..

totally nutzo~'fraidy cat demographic which can so easily be made terrified of ANY frikkin' thing.

signed

oldwhiteguy

dare I say? 'Devotion' was demographic.

The Old Confederacy/our South is geographic, the culture existing thereupon.

Apples and oranges, Michael; but point well made nonetheless.

It's never mandated, dictated or forced.

They do it because they like it.

They whine too because they like to.

F* 'em.

We now apparently believe that Presidents are free to break the law as long as they can find a low-level DOJ functionary to write a memo justifying that conduct in advance.

The absolute kicker, the take-home, the bottom line and ...well said!

...or threats, sometimes of physical violence, directed to that end.

It certainly sounds like that is what is happening to Mr. Barofsky.

But I wondered too on reading this...from Simon Johnson

-- and a lot of back and forth with people you trust -- to really change minds on something this big. Or, .... perhaps you need to worry about the consequences for your own well-being.

[from Fix the Economy? Curb corporate America

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/07/24/economic_crisis_part_three/index1.html]

If Simon Johnson, who is NOT in Government as we speak, has also been leant on? Inappropriately.

If so, how awful and thuggish and so unexpected from a purportedly Enlightened regime and/or its Banker-owners?

You folks have any idea the sorts of income transfer that goes into resuscitating way preemie infants who might rather and likely better -and in the day- found their gently smothered ways into quiet buckets on operating room floors.

Mega-

[For the lifers who quail at that thought; get out your pocket books, open your homes, surrender your lives and wait for the deluge because we're gonna make YOU responsible]

Not enough that Frankenstein's monster* knows about pitchforks,

or has even become chary of them.

Altogether essential that he have them embedded deep into flesh, the guts of things, feels the metallic bite of tines in several important parts. Hurts! Keeps on hurting.

[*With apologies to the poor monster; he wasn't nearly the existential

evil we've spawned on The Streets of New York and London.

He DID have a redeeming feature or six..these f*ckers [and their system] got none.]

..in hospital with 'an infection'.

Interesting terminologythat ..portent(?)

Worrisome at least.

...was an excellent piece.

A precis of a very confusing era (I'm 70ish), morphing into current similar debacles.

But who is it that might be the villain, the perp; or do we think that these horrors are just the currents, cross- and otherwise of human history.

Can't we do better? Are we doomed to stupid?

It is so much better than everyone and everything else that even to suggest that we have flaws comparable to others is to engage in "false moral equivalencies."

Nothing's too good for the Wall Street greed mongers. I'm thinking a tactical nuclear strike....on the place.

Only the Goldman-Sacks gamer, schemer, scammer thugs to be physically chained into their work? places...

The rest of the demographic will be allowed to flee...

To work-farms. [Scheduled releases only after 2 years hard labour -callouses must be evident.]

With this place (and the City of London) razed/radioactive; We will be reminded Horoshima/Nagasaki-wise to never return to the bad old ways ...or places.

I would expect this corrective to be effective over say..at least, a decade.

Then other dirty places will pop up needing expungation/fumigation decontam. A regular spring cleaning kind of thing, y'see.

[ Now, can you tell us how you really feel about all this , has_te?]

An exquisite bio-marker for all of that ugly systemic malevolence.

Brennan et al, of course.

[That single person just CAN'T be the devil incarnate all by hisself, now can he?]