Category Archives: Economy
Bye Bye, Barney
We won’t have Barney Frank to kick around any more and vice versa – here’s Dana Milbank on Barney the Bully.
This was inspired by one of my favorite Don Wright cartoons. Unfortunately I can’t seem to find a link to it. The cartoon featured a Vietnamese family standing in a landscape of bomb craters waving thanks to American jets as they flew away at the end of the war.
I’ve always considered Barney Frank just as much a friend to the poor as we were to the Vietnamese.
Buy it Now
The administration has asked the Supreme Court to rule on the constitutionality of the Obama Care individual mandate to buy insurance, right away.
Meanwhile, Obama Motors is offering free loaner cars if your Volt bursts into flames.
Happy Thanksgiving
Not long ago the big brothers and Big Sis’s of the Obama administration took to referring to themselves as the “federal family”. Embrace your kin – the most dysfunctional family ever. Happy Thanksgiving!
Newt Loot
As surprise front-runner Newt Gingrich begins unpacking his baggage in Iowa the first item up for inspection is his $1.8 million dollar punched ticket on the Freddie Mac gravy train.
The figures in the chart for Franklin Raines and James Johnson are from IBD. Gorelick’s $26 mil came from CNSnews.
Watch Your Step
Jon Stewart explores inequality inside Occupy Wall Street. OWS didn’t quite achieve a classes society but it can point with pride to a few classless people. You can watch one here but it’s kind of gross.
