Late Late Night FDL: Kashmir
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on April 14th, 2010 4:52 am by HL
Late Late Night FDL: Kashmir
Lucia Micarelli and Jethro Tull — Kashmir.
Lucia Micarelli and Jethro Tull — Kashmir.
What’s on your mind?
Early Morning Swim: Paul Krugman Talks Financial Reform with Keith Olbermann
So, the Republicans don’t want anything to do with Obama’s proposal. No one could’ve predicted…
So, the Republicans don’t want anything to do with Obama’s proposal. No one could’ve predicted…
“The fact is, this bill wouldn’t solve the problems that led to the financial crisis. It would make them worse,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said of legislation that recently passed the chamber’s banking committee on a party-line vote. “This bill not only allows for taxpayer-funded bailouts of Wall Street banks; it institutionalizes them.”
McConnell’s remarks offered a glimpse of how Republicans might frame their opposition to the far-reaching legislation as it heads toward the Senate floor, even as members of both parties continue to work behind the scenes on a potential bipartisan agreement.
Consumer groups, taking note of the minority leader’s recent trip to New York, quickly sent e-mails with headlines such as, “McConnell slams financial reform bill after meeting with hedge fund managers and other Wall Street elites.”
The GOP dropped their ‘populism’ pose pretty quickly, didn’t they?
In retrospect I can see what Michael Steele was up to
Michael Steele, most popular with the de-base.
Lesbian Bondage Clubs are probably a good way to get those popularity ratings up (especially if you “make it rain”), after all, like most things, it is more popular than Michael Steele:
None of the Republican Party’s individual leaders get very good marks either. 25% of voters have a negative opinion of John Boehner to 15% who view him favorably. Mitch McConnell’s numbers are almost identical with 26% seeing him unfavorably to 15% with a positive take. RNC Chair Michael Steele is particularly unpopular with 33% of Americans holding a negative opinion of him to only 10% with a favorable one.
Those numbers are worse than Nancy Pelosi’s or Harry Reid’s (and good luck with that in Nevada Harry). But in fairness to Steele, all those negative numbers are only as important as who shows up to vote in a mid-term election and HE is not on any ballot (other than the V.I.P. list at Scores). I’m also sure the near unanimous polling response to the name of DNC Chair Tim Kaine would be “Who?”.
