Sorry, Barney Frank, You Can’t Be Trusted
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on November 5th, 2010 4:31 am by HL
Sorry, Barney Frank, You Can’t Be Trusted
Margery Eagan, Boston Herald
After 30 years, Barney Frank finally lost my vote.On election night, he lost my respect as well.Frank's road rage acceptance speech was an out-of-body experience.There was the congressional king of anger, vituperation and vitriol lashing out at the Herald and Fox 25 for, in his words, "anger, vituperation . . . and vitriol."What, does he not own a mirror? Is he incapable of introspection? Has he never seen YouTube's collection of his best TV hissy fits?Barney seemed to have forgotten: He won. Big. And he was lucky he did.The contrast between a nasty, bitter Frank…
GM, Corporatism and the Slippery Slope
Mickey Kaus, Newsweek
Netrootsy partisan Alan Grayson blames the weather for his loss. Why didn't I think of that? … P.S.: At least blame a server crash, or something Webby … 6:45 p.m.___________________________Annals of Corporatism: Another $45 Billion Gift to General Motors? Any time you have a firm that's "too big to fail" you have a form of corpratism, by definition, no? The government will step in to save the failing firm, and inevitably"”to avoid disruptions"”be forced to keep on some of the highly paid managers who drove it into…
