Reporting on the House’s passage of the Wall Street bailout today, CNN’s Frank Sesno relates the mood of the country: the salient public emotion about the current situation is anger: “Anger at Wall Street, anger at Washington, anger at the Congress, anger at the White House.” People certainly aren’t going to be angry at themselves,...
New Obama Ad Highlights McCain’s Plan to Tax Health Benefits as Economy Sinks
Ready to pay more for less healthcare? Of course, the ad assumes that those who are being taxed still have jobs: The government is out with more bad economic news this morning: The job market began to deteriorate even before the financial crisis reached a more serious stage two weeks ago. Employers cut 159,000 jobs in September, more than twice as many as in...
John McCain’s Disastrous Spending Freeze Proposal
Last week, John McCain proposed a freeze on all federal spending (with some exceptions): Most of the post-debate focus was on Barack Obama’s quick response, in which said that McCain wanted to use a hatchet where a scalpel was indicated. My History Can Beat Up Your Politics picked up McCain’s freeze proposal and (at about minute 3:20) briefly...
You Don’t Say: British Eating Weird Stuff
It’s apparently due in part to the credit crisis: Embedded video from CNN Video This, of course, is nothing new: On a related note, and to the extent it applies to you, enjoy the brisket and tzimmes and shana...
RNC Attacks McCain’s Bailout Position
In an ad released today, the RNC attacks Congress and Barack Obama for bailing out Wall Street. This, despite the fact that their presidential candidate supports the plan: The ad was released before the bailout failed, but while McCain’s surrogates were taking credit for its passage: Contrast the RNC’s confused bile with Obama’s two...
