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The Hoover-Palin Ticket

Robert Scheer | Posted 11.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Robert Scheer, Herbert Hoover, Phil Gramm, Campaign '08, Bailout, Barack Obama, Truthdig, Sarah Palin, Pornography of Power, Fdr, Wall Street, Roosevelt, John McCain, Politics News

The hero of the hour is FDR, as the essential wisdom of his New Deal is now embraced by most Republicans as well as Democrats.

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Boston Tea Party, 2008

Robert Scheer | Posted 10.31.2008 | Politics

How dare you throw that tea into Boston Harbor! Such is the anti-democratic arrogance of telling us if we don't instantly give Wall Street $700 billion, then we are destroying America.

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McCain Repeating Keating Era Mistakes, Regulator Warns

HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 10.31.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, McCain Keating, Charles Keating, Phil Gramm, Mccain Keating Five, McCain FDIC, Carly Fiorina, FDIC Insurance, Keating Five, Politics News

As the stock market recovers from its biggest single-day drop since the crash of 1987, a former federal regulator who had a front-row view of John McC...

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John McCain: Economic Disaster

Robert Greenwald | Posted 10.31.2008 | Politics

Read More: Freddie Mac, Phil Gramm, Depression, John McCain, Bailout, Meltdown, Economy, Rick Davis, Financial Crisis, George Bush, Wall Street, Recession, Wall Street Crisis, Politics News

McCain is being deceitful with his sudden populist message and support for regulation; his economic policies still favor our nation's wealthy elite.

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There Will Not Be an October Surprise

Matt Littman | Posted 10.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Paulson, October Surprise, Palin, Phil Gramm, Mccain, Obama, Iraq, Bin Laden, Spain, Greenspan, Rothschild, Politics News

No, this campaign is going to come down to Obama vs. McCain, mano a mano. And right now, momentum is going Obama's way.

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Nancy Pelosi Doesn't Need a Timeout to Fix the Economy

ZP Heller | Posted 10.26.2008 | Politics

Pelosi has made a difference in negotiating this bailout while still managing to speak directly with the public (imagine that!).

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Obama Needs to Stay The Course On Friday's Debate Schedule

Dwight Dunkley | Posted 10.26.2008 | Home

Read More: Phil Gramm, Bailout, Mc Cain, Economic Crisis, Republican, Election 2008, Campaign, Democrats, Barack Obama, Commander-in Chief, Socialists, Home News

A Commander-in-Chief needs to have the killer instinct to understand you destroy your enemy, thoroughly; you do not let up to give him time to breathe when he is flailing.

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Oh, HELL NO!

Joe Cutbirth | Posted 10.25.2008 | Media

Read More: Vintage Rove, 2008 First Debate, Mccain Postpone Debate, Ole Miss Presidential Debate, Karl Rove, Presidential Debate, John McCain, George Bush Economics, National Economy, Economic Crisis, $700 Billion Bailout, Mccain, Obama, Presidential Debates, McCain-Obama Debate, Barack Obama, Charile Black, 2008 Presidential Debates, Presiential Campaign as Conversation, Phil Gramm, Stock Market, Steve Schmidt, 2008 Presidential Campaign, 2008 McCain-Obama, Gramm-Mccain, American Idol, Media News

How many times will national reporters let themselves be cowed by the pack of consultants that has steered the Bush machine and polluted national politics with this strategy for more than 30 years?

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Flashback: McCain Debated While Gramm Negotiated Deregulation

HuffingtonPost.com | Nico Pitney | Posted 10.25.2008 | Politics

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John McCain's push to postpone Friday's debate is being met with wide skepticism from pundits, the American public, and even fellow Republicans. Here...

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Wall Street Crisis Gives Preview of McCain Under Pressure

Andy Ostroy | Posted 10.25.2008 | Business

Read More: Aig, Merrill Lynch, Sec, John McCain, Lehman Brothers, Chris Cox, Wall Street Crisis, Today Show, Phil Gramm, The View, Financial Crisis, Carly Fiorina, Joy Behar, Wall Street Bailout, Barack Obama, Democratic Convention, Business News

The meltdown on Wall Street last week wasn't the only one. We got a glimpse of McCain under fire, and it wasn't pretty. America needs a president who provides a steady hand under pressure.

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McCain, Palin Would Push Us Over The Edge

David Schrader | Posted 10.25.2008 | Home

Read More: Republican, Phil Gramm, George Bush, John McCain, Election 2008, Economy, Home News

If the McCain/Palin ticket is somehow able to sneak into the White House - essentially completing the circle Bush started of fooling not quite all the people all of the time, (but just enough), then the door will finally be closed to pull us back from the abyss.

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A Fox to Protect the Henhouse?

Robert Scheer | Posted 10.24.2008 | Business

Read More: Robert Scheer, Fascism, Congress, Phil Gramm, Henry Paulson, Mortgage, Goldman Sachs, Mccain, Economy, Pornography of Power, Foreclosure, Socialism, Wall Street, Business News

The marriage of highly concentrated corporate power with an authoritarian state that services the politico-economic elite at the expense of the people is more accurately referred to as "financial fascism."

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"Banksters" On Parade

Jackson Williams | Posted 09.09.2009 | Business

There once were usury laws in this country to limit such shamelessness. I wonder where they went?

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Fifty Chimpanzees or One Toothless Gorilla

Deborah Senn | Posted 10.24.2008 | Business

AIG's financial meltdown this past week was not the result of failed insurance regulation. (Go ahead. Read that one more time, real slow.)

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McCain Campaign Can't...Won't...Rule Out Gramm As Treasury Secretary

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Msnbc, David Shuster, John McCain, Phil Gramm, Tucker Bounds, Politics News

For those of you who have developed a fondness for Tucker Bounds-themed bondage and domination videos, here's another YouTube where David Shuster chor...

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Friday Talking Points [48] -- Throwing Out The Rulebook

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.20.2008 | Politics

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Back in Volume 36 of this Friday Talking Points column, I pointed out what seemed to me to be an obvious observation -- that the media was going a lot...

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Campaigns Go After Each Other's Economic Advisers

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Freddie Mac, Fredrick Raines, Obama Aides, Phil Gramm, Carly Fiorina, Ad Advisers, Mccain Aides, John McCain Ad, Jim Johnson, Barack Obama Ad, Fannie Mae, Campaign Advisers, Politics News

The tussle between the campaigns over economic matters has turned into a back-and-forth over friends and advisers. On Friday morning, the McCain cam...

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How Obama Can Demonstrate Real Leadership on the Economic Crisis

Arianna Huffington | Posted 10.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, McCain Economy, Obama Economy, Barack Obama, Don Imus, Robert Rubin, Phil Gramm, Barack Obama Wall Street Crisis, Mccain Phil Gramm, Laura Tyson, Financial Crisis, Paul Volcker, Lawrence Summers, Politics News

For Obama to show the kind of transformational leadership the crisis demands, he needs to do what so many of his critics have chided him for not doing: take a stand that puts him at odds with the establishment of his own Party. Read More WATCH: Arianna On The CBS Early Show Discussing America's Changing Perception of Sarah Palin The Palin Doctrine: Why the Neocons Are So Excited Sarah Palin may not have known what the Bush Doctrine was, but we're getting a pretty good idea of what the Palin Doctrine is. And what is it going to look like? Let's just say, it's going to seem familiar. Read More

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Carly Fiorina and Phil Gramm Dine Alone (Oh, Did You Want To Join Them?)

Jeff Danziger | Posted 10.19.2008 | Politics

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A Nation of Village Idiots

James Moore | Posted 03.02.2009 | Business

Read More: A Nation of Village Idiots, U.S. Economy, Phil Gramm, Mccain Phil Gramm, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Economy, Charles Keating, Enron, Financial Crisis, Alan Greenspan, John McCain Keating 5 Scandal, Commodity Futures Modernization Act, Keating Five, Savings and Loan Scandal, Socialists, Business News

Don't let them tell you this economic meltdown is a complicated mess. It's not. Our national financial crisis is readily understood by anyone who has seen greed and hypocrisy.

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John McCain: No Friend of the American Worker

James P. Hoffa | Posted 10.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: U.S. Economy, John McCain, Social Security, Workers, Writers Guild of America Strike, Unfair Trade, Housing Crisis, Financial Crises, Whining, Teamsters Union, Minimum Wage, Middle-Class, Jay Leno, Phil Gramm, James Hoffa, Unemployment Benefits, Overtime, Politics News

This is the same John McCain who's been kicking the crap out of American workers for the last 26 years. He voted to cut overtime. He voted against extending unemployment benefits.

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The Fiorina Follies: With Surrogates Like This, Who Needs Enemies?

Andy Ostroy | Posted 10.18.2008 | Politics

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McCain's insistence that the economy is strong should be the nail in his political coffin for anyone still doubting just how out-of-touch he is with the financial anxieties of average Americans.

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The Dead Core of McCain's Republican Party

Paul Jenkins | Posted 10.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Transportation, Immigration, Iraq, Race, Democratic Party, Sarah Palin, Stem Cell Research, Iran, Military, Phil Gramm, Carly Fiorina, Technology, Republican Party, African-American Issues, Abortion, Halliburton, Science, Free Trade, Hispanic Issues, Texas, Uzbekistan, Pennsylvania, Capitalism, Barack Obama, College, Oil, Health Care, Scranton, Energy, Gay Marriage, Economy, Politics News

Now that it has thoroughly discredited the market economy it was ostensibly pushing, the Republican Party is left with no clear, logical economic agenda.

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Earth to McCain: It's a Crisis

Robert Scheer | Posted 10.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Robert Scheer, Merrill Lynch, Phil Gramm, Campaign '08, Economy, Lehman Brothers, Deregulation, Aig, Pornography of Power, Obama, John McCain, Citigroup, Mccain Deregulation, Politics News

Gag me with a spoon, as Valley girls used to say. Did you see that McCain-Palin ad promising "tougher rules on Wall Street to protect your life savings, no special interest giveaways"? How dumb do they think we are?

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