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TimJ's comments
Posted Mon, Nov 21, 8:32 p.m.
Please! This analysis presumes the Supercommittee was anything other than the Kongress Kabuki it so obviously was. This group was formed out of frustration at the debt ceiling impasse, and served as an attempt to resolve the impasse. The debt ceiling impasse itself was kabuki of a high order of ...
MOREPosted Fri, Feb 11, 7:54 p.m.
Anyone who was around when Reagan was elected understands the Republican party was in a shambles after Goldwater and Nixon. Reagan, the Commie fighter, was seen before election as a dangerous old demagogue cold warrior in an age of detente. He came in, managed credibly, put a kindly face on ...
MOREPosted Fri, Feb 11, 7:11 p.m.
An almost unbearably absurd and history bereft mythologizing of the "Reagan legacy." The antidote to this toxin is to understand that almost everything said or written about Reagan at this point is designed to either reinforce or refute Republican memes. Reagan raised taxes 11 times, and he did so to ...
MOREPosted Thu, Nov 11, 8:40 p.m.
Rasmussen is all about building the narrative. The narrative then becomes a marketable item they can then sell. Good observations about the narrative here perhaps being the "illegal" nature of the Obama agenda. I expect the poll wasn't designed to be analyzed off the other side by a narrative-builder like ...
MOREPosted Mon, Aug 30, 7:28 p.m.
serial_catowner: WC doesn't have county commissioners. It speaks to your outlier's dismissal that there is a history and a nuanced context to this issue. There's a tendency to polarize issues of this kind from either the frame of sympathy for the aggrieved plight of the Indian (as you seem to ...
MOREPosted Mon, Aug 30, 11:42 a.m.
Another informative article by Bob Simmons. The tragedy of this story is that a lease price was never formally negotiated by either side--every staff discussion was "off the record" until LIBC officials sent their letter curtly withdrawing from further negotiations. The first official indication of what the price of the ...
MOREPosted Sat, Jan 9, 12:19 p.m.
Bob-- Good summation. I continue to have doubts this outcome may be favorable to opponents of Chuckanut Ridge. FDIC's order stopped the local bank from pursuing development. The local bank is now dissolved, thereby removing the restriction. The asset has been acquired by another better capitalized bank, a bank unrestricted ...
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