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Archive for March, 2009

Done right, earmarks have given legislators the opportunity to direct federal money to worthy projects that benefit people in their districts

And that’s why I’ve opposed their outright elimination

I’ll leave it up to you to find his speeches stating he was against earmarks (hint: there’s more than just a few).

Why don’t you mind your goddamned business?

The best thing that could probably happen to General Motors, in my view, is they go into Chapter 11

I don’t want to nationalize them, I think we need to close them

Close them down, get them out of business

If they’re dead, they ought to be buried

We’ve experienced great trials before

And with every test, each generation has found the capacity to not only endure, but to prosper – to discover great opportunity in the midst of great crisis

That is what we can and must do today. And I am absolutely confident that is what we will do

Never waste a good crisis … Don’t waste it when it can have a very positive impact on climate change and energy security

The good news is that Las Vegas has become a synonym for a good time for adults

Let me not say adults, I’ll say grown-ups, I don’t want to give the wrong impression

The bad news is that because it is a place for a good time, President Obama says that he doesn’t want taxpayer’s money to go there

Rep. Jared Polis made the remarks last weekend at a Denver event sponsored by Netroots Nation, a progressive political group. The News published its last edition Friday.

I have to say, that when we say, ‘Who killed the Rocky Mountain News?’ we are all part of that, we truly are.

For better or worse, and I argue that it’s mostly for better

Media is dead, and long live new media, which is all of you

The president’s budget increases taxes on every American, and does so during a recession

In hindsight, it was a tactical mistake because it put us in the same category as Citigroup

We could still have had 8 per cent tier 1 capital after a $15bn loss but we wanted a cushion

I want to repay the Tarp money before I go anywhere, and by then I think we will be seeing the success of the Merrill Lynch acquisition

It would be very easy to disappear into the sunset but we have to slug through this