Cheney, Party of Evil? Now Seating Cheney, Party of Evil. @10:00 AM
In D.C., there's always room for one more. So the news that Mary Cheney wants to go into business with her family at a new firm is unsurprising, because, well why not go face-down into the trough, you pigs? Said a coworker of Mary Cheney's: "It's going to be a firm like Kissinger Associates." (Oh yes, the firm at which Tim Geithner spent the mid-late 80s!) This is amusing, because one has many reasons—eight long years of reasons, including the discovery that Dick Cheney was still a private industry operator even while he was residing in the Naval Observatory—to suspect that the Cheneys, in their marvelous, brash way, most definitely lack the fingerspitzengefuhl of Kissinger. 8
Clinton Pal Lanny Davis: Busy Bee, Honduras Operative @3:57 PM
Hey, what is Clintonista lawyer Lanny Davis up to these days? Oh wait, he's what? "He is just bad, for the country. And not just our country! He is now being bad for Honduras, where the military recently seized power, on behalf of the business elite, who were worried that some of their wealth might be redistributed to that nation's poor." I miss the old days, when we'd just go south of the border and shoot people. Oh wait, we still do that too? 0
Rich People Things: The Great New PR Campaign For Traders And Their Friends @2:19 PM
It was easy to miss amid last week's great celebrity die-off, but while a nation turned its lonely eyes to the departing shade of Billy Mays, the securities industry moved into what it ominously termed the "execution phase" of its campaign to roll back "populist" resentment against the lords of the paper economy. READ MORE 6
Opinions That Don't Make Any Sense @9:33 AM
Oooh, so the head of the Consumer Electronics Association has revealed himself to be a very confused man. Because of the TARP that is hanging over us, and because the President is drowning us in debt (um, unlike the Bush administration!), he claims: "The next generation won't have a Bill Gates, a Steve Jobs or a Mark Zuckerberg because the budding American entrepreneur won't be able to secure the financing to create the next dynamic technology company that would have energized the economy." Oh no, a generation without a Mark Zuckerberg! In the end, very little of this makes any sense. 0
