Mike Papantonio

Stimulus-Hating Governors Need Money More Than Others

Mike Papantonio | Posted 03.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mark Sanford, Health Care, Haley Barbour, Bobby Jindal, Stimulus Package, Mike Papantonio, Recession, Rick Perry, Sarah Palin, Economy, Economic Crisis, Politics News
Mike Papantonio

Mississippi has one of the highest poverty levels in America, and yet Gov. Haley Barbour has joined the ranks of GOP governors who say they don't want any of Obama's stimulus money.

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The Bank Bailout Spending Spree

Mike Papantonio | Posted 03.20.2009 | Business

Read More: George Bush, Citigroup, Bank of America, Stimulus Plan, Mike Papantonio, Recession, Bailout, Mark Twain, Barack Obama, Corporate Welfare, Tarp, Economy, Ceos, Financial Crisis, Business News
Mike Papantonio

Mark Twain gave us some accurate insight into entities like Bank of America: "A banker is a fellow who lends us an umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain."

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GOP Has Been Left Home Alone

Mike Papantonio | Posted 03.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Michael Steele, Gop, Joe the Plumber, Air America Radio, Michael Medved, Rush Limbaugh, Mike Papantonio, Home Alone, Michael Savage, Politics News
Mike Papantonio

The lack of GOP leadership reminds me of the scene in Home Alone when Macaulay Culkin first realizes that he has been deserted. All the grown-ups have left the house.

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181 Reasons to Stop Compromising

Mike Papantonio | Posted 03.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Poll, Stimulus Package, Compromise, Mike Papantonio, Congress, Election, Republican Party, Democrats, Roosevelt, Barack Obama, Senate, Fdr, Politics News
Mike Papantonio

Obama was sent to Washington with a mandate to change failed policy rather than compromise with the architects of those policies.

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Limbaugh Needs a Lesson in Reality

Mike Papantonio | Posted 03.01.2009 | Media

Read More: Failure, President, Air America Radio, Unemployment, Rush Limbaugh, Mike Papantonio, Democrat, Recession, Manufacturing, Ring of Fire, Barack Obama, Economy, Veterans Affairs, Ann Coulter, Credit Crisis, Veterans, Sean Hannity, Prayer, Foreclosure, Media News
Mike Papantonio

If Limbaugh could step out of his 25,000 square foot home and see the pain of parents telling their children that they just lost their home, maybe then he would want Obama to succeed.

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Blackwater Expanding Domestic Reach

Mike Papantonio | Posted 02.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Murder, GoLeft.T, Mike Papantonio, Trial, Golefttv, Mercenary, Dick Cheney, Fallujah, Army, Erik Prince, Air America Radio, Blackwater, Iraq War, Hurricane Katrina, George W Bush, Ring of Fire, Contractor, Politics News
Mike Papantonio

The congressmen and advocacy groups that are trying to shut Blackwater down are being branded as un-American, unpatriotic liberals by the Prince family loyalists.

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The Dick and Dubya Show

Mike Papantonio | Posted 02.15.2009 | Media

Read More: Dubya, Chaos, Air America Radio, Wall Street, Torture, Beavis and Butthead, Mike Papantonio, Administration, Tv, Destruction, Writer, George W Bush, Ring of Fire, Dick Cheney, Right Wing Media, Right Wing, Golefttv, Right Wing Radio, Bush Administration, Media News
Mike Papantonio

An interesting narrative coming from the Right is that some day in the future historians are going to uncover presidential memoirs that will finally expose the true genius of the Cheney/Bush duo.

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Deficit Spending -- A Necessary Evil

Mike Papantonio | Posted 02.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Conservative, Infrastructure, Air America Radio, John Maynard Keynes, Mike Papantonio, Recession, Ring of Fire, Deficit, Depression, Barack Obama, Economy, Republican, Politics News
Mike Papantonio

As Obama steps into this quicksand economy, he seems to realize that short-term stimulus plans are only a Band-Aid solution for a gaping, almost mortal wound.

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8 Years and Still No Chemical Plant Security

Mike Papantonio | Posted 01.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Bomb, Environment, Wmd, Chemical, Mike Papantonio, 9/11, George W Bush, Attack, Terrorist, Terrorism, Chlorine Gas, Politics News
Mike Papantonio

There has been an effort to minimize the importance of a new congressional report about the probabilities of another catastrophic domestic terrorist attack.

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GOP Blames Unions for Detroit's Ills

Mike Papantonio | Posted 03.25.2009 | Business

Read More: GoLeft TV, Taxes, Mike Papantonio, Union, Recession, Fox News, Big 3, Neil Cavuto, Uaw, Bailout, Economy, Detroit, Automaker Bailout, Video, Automaker, Bailout Outrage, Business News
Mike Papantonio

The failures of the "Big 3" had nothing to do with union workers, as the GOP has been saying. It had to do with the fact that these industries didn't adapt to the times

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Unions Aren't To Blame For Automakers' Woes

Mike Papantonio | Posted 03.26.2009 | Business

Read More: Automotive Industry, Air America Radio, Mike Papantonio, Union, Recession, Detriot, Uaw, Organized Labor, Bailout, Ring of Fire, Union Busting, Economy, United Auto Workers, Detroit Bailout, Automakers, Walmart Unions, Economic Policy Institute, Gm, Automaker Bailout, Richard Shelby, The Big 3, Epi, Big Three Automakers, Jim Demint, Detroit Three, Ford, Afl-Cio, Cars, Detroit Automakers, Detroit Bailout Reaction, Chysler, Auto Industry, Bailout Outrage, Business News
Mike Papantonio

If the centralized, organized mouthpiece for labor is destroyed, then so is the only advocacy vehicle available to the nonunion worker.

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Obama Needs an FDR-Style Public Works Program

Mike Papantonio | Posted 12.20.2008 | Business

Read More: Auto Industry, Henry Paulson, Economic Policy, Barack Obama, Bailout, Mike Papantonio, Economy, Regulation, Recession, Main Street, Business News
Mike Papantonio

There is a fraternity-like mentality that exists among corporate CEOs. There is an illusory standard of what "moral" or "legitimate" actually means in decision making for that elite crowd.

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