Posted on December 19th, 2008 by Stuart O'Neill
George Bush came through with a 17.4 billion dollar loan to GM and Chrysler. $13.4 billion will come from TARP funds in December and January. $4 billion will be available in February assuming the Congress authorizes the second half of the original $700 billion rescue package.
[Here's the White House 'Fact Sheet' on the loan package. [...]
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Filed under: ABC News, Autos, Barack Obama, Bush Admin, Congress, Credit Crisis, Economy, George W. Bush, In The News, Stuart O'Neill
Posted on December 18th, 2008 by Stuart O'Neill
On the heels of GM closing 20 US plants for a couple of weeks and Chrysler shutting down all plants for a full month, President Bush has said, and Dana Perino, Press Secretary confirms, that Bush is considering an ‘Orderly’ bankruptcy for the Big 3. In a very detailed AP report, Bush admitted there were [...]
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Filed under: AP News, Autos, Barack Obama, Bush Admin, Congress, Constitution, Courts, Credit Crisis, Economic News, Economy, Recession, Stuart O'Neill, US Manufacturing
Posted on December 4th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Is greater relief at the gas pumps finally in sight? If Gulf Oil CEO Joe Petrowski is correct it could go down to $1.00 a gallon or lower by next year. I for one am hoping he’s right. I just filled my tank up here in rural Maine yesterday paying $1.99 a gallon. A further [...]
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Filed under: Big Oil, Bush Admin, Consumers, Corporatism, Credit Crisis, Economic News, Economy, Energy, Gas Prices, In The News, Opinions, Pamela Leavey, Paul Krugman, Political News, Politics, Recession
Posted on December 2nd, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
The latest USA TODAY/Gallup Poll has found that Barack Obama is earning “high marks” with the American public for his “handling of the transition and his choices for the Cabinet.”
Even with the bleak outlook over the economy and the news that we are officially in a recession, the USA TODAY/Gallup Poll shows that “[M]ore than [...]
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Filed under: Barack Obama, Bush Admin, Cabinet, Democrats, Economy, George W. Bush, In The News, Pamela Leavey, Political News, Politics, Polls, Recession, Republicans, Sen. Hillary Clinton
Posted on November 26th, 2008 by Michael Stickings
He may be the lamest of lame ducks, but George W. Bush is still doing immense damage. Consider:
As the Bush administration prepares to issue its ruling on whether to limit greenhouse gases, it’s sending out a message to some of its allies: Tell us how much you don’t want us to regulate emissions linked to [...]
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Filed under: Climate Crisis, George W. Bush, Global Warming, Michael Stickings, White House
Posted on November 25th, 2008 by Stuart O'Neill
This is too sad for long comment. You wonder why Tom Friedman today suggested moving up the swearing in to Thanksgiving? He didn’t have this video in mind but if he’d seen it he would have puked.
Sphere: Related Content
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Filed under: Bush Admin, Economy, Foreign Policy, George W. Bush, International, Stuart O'Neill, World News
Posted on November 18th, 2008 by Stuart O'Neill
Jeffrey Feldman’s Frameshop is a must read for anyone who want to see thoughtful concepts and ideas about the reading of the day. His post for today is ‘Rust Covered Car Exec’s? Kick ‘em To The Curb’ My comment on his blog follows as I’ve seen some of trouble when a major industry is destroyed.
Jeffrey, [...]
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Filed under: Activism, Bush Admin, Congress, Consumers, Economy, Energy, In The News, Small Business, Stuart O'Neill, Wall Street
Posted on November 16th, 2008 by Stuart O'Neill
First let me preface by saying that I’ve spend 29 years full-time, that is full time when I wasn’t working one campaign or another, in the real estate profession either as a salesperson/consultant or as a mortgage broker. I’ve lived through 4 recessions. I’ve seen it get bad before yet never have I seen a [...]
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Filed under: Bush Admin, Congress, Consumers, Credit Crisis, Economy, Stuart O'Neill
Posted on November 10th, 2008 by Michael Stickings
A new CNN poll finds that Bush is “the most unpopular president since approval ratings were first sought more than six decades ago,” with disapproval ratings above 70 this year.
Which makes him more unpopular than Nixon… and Truman.
Yes, yes, I know, look what happened to Truman: Vindicated by history, now considered to be one of [...]
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Filed under: George W. Bush, History, Michael Stickings, Polls
Posted on October 26th, 2008 by Stuart O'Neill
“The reason the Republicans found Joe the Plumber was to find someone hanging around a toilet other than Larry Craig.”
– James Carville, quoted by Politico.
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Filed under: Barack Obama '08, Bush Admin, Election '08, In The News, John McCain '08, Politics, Stuart O'Neill
Posted on October 25th, 2008 by Stuart O'Neill
Rep. Michelle Bachmann screwed the pooch on Chris Matthews Hardball last week suggesting that the press investigate the Congresspeople who were Anti-American. She was also concerned that Obama himself was Anti-American. (Anti-American members of Congress?) That charge started a deluge of donations for her opponent, Elwyn Tinklenberg, of over $1.4 million cash being now used [...]
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Filed under: Barack Obama '08, Bush Admin, Campaign Ad, Congress, Election '08, House of Reps, In The News, John McCain '08, MSNBC, Presidential Election, Stuart O'Neill
Posted on October 24th, 2008 by Hart Williams
There are two astonishing liars out there. One of them lasted for 24 hours. The other remains America’s Sweetheart™. And one wonders: what has happened to the old concept of “truthfulness.” (And of “Truth” itself among the self-proclaimed moral mavens of the bloviating class.)
“special” wardrobe needs
Greg Mitchell, editor of Editor & Publisher (the newspaper industry’s [...]
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Filed under: Bush Admin, Election '08, Gov. Sarah Palin, In The News, John McCain '08, McCain-Palin '08
