Joe Nocera, “The Big Lie.” Must read. Gail Collins is pretty good today, too.
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Joe Nocera, “The Big Lie.” Must read. Gail Collins is pretty good today, too.
GAK!
I almost spit out my coffee reading Gail Collins’ column.
I didn’t realize she wrote “Pets With Newt” as the name of his new website – I thought it was “Petting With Newt,” and thought getting sex tips on how to get from 1st base all the way to home plate from serial philanderers to be a tad vulgar, especially at Christmas time.
And as for Joe Nocera:
THIS!
This was I thought you would be a great choice for the Op-ed page.
NOW – MORE OF THIS!
I found http://petswithnewt.com/ — but there are no pets and no Newt. I want my five seconds back.
Nocera and Taibbi ought to be all over the tv and interviewed/quoted/reprinted by newspapers all over the nation. It is so obvious! Carter’s 1970’s housing programs, with mortgages long paid off, are still being blamed for the current situation. It is so easy for the racist talk radio people to sell this to their racist anti-Obama listeners that the simple math doesn’t even occur to them.
BTW, Newt’s announced failure this a.m. to make the VA primary ballot because of lacking signatures should be no surprise. Newt is just in this as a giant book tour promotion, and what could make it more obvious? Wonder what will be in Callista’s Tiffany’s box this year?
And, for your Christmas Eve pleasure – a little Matt Taibbi:
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/a-christmas-message-from-americas-rich-20111222
There’s no singing, but he comes loaded with a lot of great verbal gifts.
Uhm, so I guess they didn’t inform you that Newt and wife 3.0 don’t HAVE a pet at the present time.
And, yet again, no, you CAN’T make this stuff up!
Bill, you’re so right about Newt – he’ll probably also be able to double his speaking fees.
Up note on the giant sub-prime mortgage fraud. It seems that a few banks/lending agencies, in the process of shredding sub-prime mortgages and hiding them, among other places, in Sub-prime backed Securities have lost/shredded/at least not duly recorded transfers so have no Deed of Trust which allows them to claim ownership of a house (collateral in a Deed.) The result, in a few cases has been a few homeowners who are behind in their mortgages have challenged the lender to prove ownership of the property which lenders have been unable to do.
The result? These lucky homeowners now own their houses outright, un-mortgaged, free and clear. Pretty nice Xmas present.
Thanks for the links, Maha.
I’m heading out for the evening, so Merry Christmas all!
Wonder what will be in Callista’s Tiffany’s box this year?
I hear she’s getting a diamond studded belly chain.
Swami, I think she could keep up with Newt without the diamonds on the chain.
Kind of makes you miss the Nixons and Pat’s good Republican cloth coat, doesn’t it?