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Video about the (failed) auto bailout, for anyone interested in the issue:
Link, since LJ won't let me use their embedding format...
And One More Thing...
Update: Bush to the rescue! Look, he's doing something right! Still working out the details, but, in a sudden (and pretty much total) reversal, he says they're going to use some of the $700B in TARP bailout money, after all. Our blue collar workers, manufacturing base, unions, and all the related industries (parts manufacturers, metal refineries, stores and services used by auto workers, etc etc) actually have a chance!
Bush makes an end run around a congressional decision, by making unilateral use of some of the unchecked power he's gained from fear-mongering, and... it's a good thing. Wow. So that's how it feels.
By my count, this brings the total number of things he's done right in over eight years to... let's see... three.
In other news, a bit more on torture, and in specific, a report from a bipartisan Senate panel (cowritten by John McCain). From the Washington Post:
(Emphasis mine)
Link, since LJ won't let me use their embedding format...
And One More Thing...
Update: Bush to the rescue! Look, he's doing something right! Still working out the details, but, in a sudden (and pretty much total) reversal, he says they're going to use some of the $700B in TARP bailout money, after all. Our blue collar workers, manufacturing base, unions, and all the related industries (parts manufacturers, metal refineries, stores and services used by auto workers, etc etc) actually have a chance!
Bush makes an end run around a congressional decision, by making unilateral use of some of the unchecked power he's gained from fear-mongering, and... it's a good thing. Wow. So that's how it feels.
By my count, this brings the total number of things he's done right in over eight years to... let's see... three.
In other news, a bit more on torture, and in specific, a report from a bipartisan Senate panel (cowritten by John McCain). From the Washington Post:
"The abuse of detainees in U.S. custody cannot simply be attributed to the actions of 'a few bad apples' acting on their own," the report states. "The fact is that senior officials in the United States government solicited information on how to use aggressive techniques, redefined the law to create the appearance of their legality, and authorized their use against detainees."
The report is the most direct refutation to date of the administration's rationale for using aggressive interrogation tactics -- that inflicting humiliation and pain on detainees was legal and effective, and helped protect the country. The 25-member panel, without one dissent among the 12 Republican members, declared the opposite to be true.
The administration's policies and the resulting controversies, the panel concluded, "damaged our ability to collect accurate intelligence that could save lives, strengthened the hand of our enemies, and compromised our moral authority."
(Emphasis mine)