Author: rootless2

Previously published here. I’m inclined to award this to Michael Tomasky for his “Fire Holder”  article in which he gives the following hilarious advice to President Obama: And if Obama permits these...

In 2013, year to date, Treasury has received additional income of $1.5 billion from the PPIFs. As a result, Treasury has now fully recovered its original investment of $18.6 billion in the PPIP program – plus a positive...

Previously published at the People’s View. Mike Konzcal’s contribution to the world of Obama condescension  appears (where else?) in The Nation and takes the standard form of a finger wagging lecture as if from...

Cross posted at ThePeople’s View. Forty years after the Powell memo outlined a plan for right wing power in America, the permanent Republican majority is in sight. The packed Supreme Court seems ready to invalidate the...

A friend sent an email with a number of the standard complaints liberals have about President Obama and, although I knew it wouldn’t work, I sent back some factual corrections. The response was “those sound like...