MOTU Jamie Dimon, enduring a high profile US government inquiry as only a supreme narcissist can You know, being called to testify before a Senate committee on a matter fraught with danger for one’s career, and perhaps one’s very liberty, would usually have the testifier sweating bullets. Not so for the man who has been called Wall Street’s most …
What Digby said: Good God. I had missed Huckleberry Graham’s specific language in his comments about repealing the 14th amendment. He said “they come here to drop a baby” as if they’re farm animals. And he delivered it with his patented dead-eyed reptilian stare and sneering drawl. No real surprise there. Slave labor built Huckleberry’s state into a tobacco, cotton, …
A Dire Straits message for President Obama Is President Obama suffering from Stockholm Syndrome brought on by the D.C. culture of Regulatory Capture corruption he inherited? Regulatory capture occurs when a state regulatory agency created to act in the public interest instead acts in favor of the commercial or special interests that dominate in the industry or sector it is …
On her show Thursday night, Rachel Madow interviewed Mother Jones correspondent David Corn (two of my favorite people). The tag line describing the clip above, “Lack of an honest opposition lamentable”, while accurately describing the content, doesn’t come close to capturing the depth of the problem they address. Lamentable means “bad, unfortunate.” As I read the numerous socio-political-economic crises facing …
