Saturday Night Live could not have done this any better. Sarah Palin on Russia. It’s hilarious and infuriating.
Category: Policy (Page 27 of 28)
Sarah Palin can ramble on with the best of them. I’ve heard athletes who speak better than her.
Have you ever seen a more painful interview? Sarah Palin’s interview with Katie Couric is even worse than her interview with Charlie Gibson.
As Kos noted, she actually makes Bush look good. Really.
Joe Biden has been a gaffe machine over the past several days. He said he didn’t approve of one of Obama’s ads about John McCain, and he jumped the gun saying that the government shouldn’t bail out AIG.
Fortunately, Biden has rebounded impressively this morning, with a powerful speech on foreign policy. He delivered a blistering attack on John McCain’s foreign policy positions while providing a very persuasive argument for a new approach under a Barack Obama administration. More importantly, he attacked McCain’s judgement, explaining how McCain’s bluster is counterproductive. He also ripped Bush and McCain for ignoring al Qaeda and Afghanistan. We must find and kill Bin Laden, and Biden made that absolutely clear.
The themes in this speech were clear and powerful. I suspect Obama will be repeating all these themes on Friday in the first presidential debate.
Democrats aren’t the only ones asking questions about the latest bailout plan. Newt Gingrich has some tough questions, and he offers some suggestions as well.
Watching Washington rush to throw taxpayer money at Wall Street has been sobering and a little frightening.
We are being told Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has a plan which will shift $700 billion in obligations from private companies to the taxpayer.
We are being warned that this $700 billion bailout is the only answer to a crisis.
We are being reassured that we can trust Secretary Paulson “because he knows what he is doing”.
Congress had better ask a lot of questions before it shifts this much burden to the taxpayer and shifts this much power to a Washington bureaucracy.
Imagine that the political balance of power in Washington were different.
If this were a Democratic administration the Republicans in the House and Senate would be demanding answers and would be organizing for a “no” vote.
One of Newt’s proposals includes repealing Sarbanes-Oxley. It’s not a bad idea.
The AIG bailout was probably necessary to avert a complete meltdown. The new proposal from Paulson deserves much more scrutiny.
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