February 26th, 2012
By Frank Glenn --
Rick Santorum said in a speech this week that people in the Netherlands are afraid to go to the hospital there because 50% of them are involuntarily put to death when they go there -- for any reason. The Dutch just can't believe this guy is considered a serious political candidate in the United States. Welcome to Uncle Cracker land, guys!
This guy is certainly a liar -- but he is also either stupid -- or crazy!
Maybe he all three. Liar. Stupid. Crazy. Anyway -- he's history now. I can't even imagine a warped billionaire would bet millions on a double-loser lame political horse. Santorum probably thinks he enhanced his chances of being a serious candidate next Presidential election. I can't really see him working another job, either. But -- truthfully --
I think he spent this whole year proving to the American people that he is an untrustworthy, unstable, tone-deaf ideologue who has not place within 5,000 miles of the White House. In other words - he should be out of the country -- but who would have him?
February 26th, 2012
By Frank Glenn --
If the Federal Reserve had taken the $16 trillion dollars it used to bail out Wall Street banks and giant corporations and bailed out Middle Class homeowners instead, it could have paid off every mortgage owed by everybody in America and still had enough money left over to buy anybody who didn' t have a house but wanted one -- a free and clear house.
Think of it. All the banks, their credit swap insurers, and anybody else who was on the hook for mortgage loans that went bad -- would have been saved!
It would not have cost a dime more. And everybody in America owned their homes "free and clear" -- and would have had tons of equity to do whatever they wanted -- and the economy would have been booming! I repeat -- it would not have cost one penny more than the Federal Reserve already loaned out. Just used it differently!
Too bad they didn't use the money that way. The recession would be long past. And even the 1% would be raking in    the money like legal bandits they have always fancied them to be. And the license to steal would again have become the license to strike it rich -- legally. Only they would have had to do it the old-fashioned way. Work for it and earn it.
Maybe that would have taken too long?
February 26th, 2012
By Robert Sexton --
None of the GOP ideas for the economy and the middle class in the last 30 years have worked for anybody but them and their rich friends. Â And now everyone knows it.
What would you do if you were a Republican? Hate women, abuse children, harass Latinos, blacks, and other minorities?
Freak out about homosexuals, fight gay marriage, ban abortion and contraception and family planning. Repeal healthcare, minimum wage, unemployment insurance, workmen's compensation, pre-natal care, and child labor laws. Break unions, kill public education. Outlaw every religion except your own. Ban all the rest. Oh, yes, and lower taxes on your campaign contribution sugar daddies, end regulation, and profiitize every government function you can -- and then abandon all all the rest of government except the part that gives the no-bid contracts that over pay you and the economic royalists you shill for. Sound like the perfect world? By all means, do vote Republican next November, then!