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Here’s Mitt’s big problem:
Last year, he’s quoted basically saying “I would have let GM and Chrysler die”. Incidentally while he isn’t visiting Michigan.
Now, he’s running adds, writing OP-EDs, and giving interviews saying “the bailout worked and the President followed my advice and suggestions” for how GM and Chrysler were handled. While he is motoring around the state.
Mr. “I’ll Say Anything to Get Elected” has to understand that even though us Michiganders maybe aren’t as slick as the rest of the country, we tend to remember when someone suggests cavalierly that we have 25% of the state’s population lose their jobs.
But then again, I wouldn’t vote for any of those idiots.
Gary Younge, The Guardian
Very long, must read.
Mike Lofgren, a Republican congressional staffer for 28 years, retired in June.
Great. That’s like approving a former Bear Sterns exec to sit on an advisory committe regarding Wall Street. Wait a sec…The person who may be responsible for more food-related illness and death than anyone in history has just been made the US food safety czar.
Wow.
A former Monsanto exec and lobbyist as the US FOOD SAFETY CZAR?
Are you KIDDING?
When does a Shell exec get his Department of the Interior post?
Fuck.
Talking and yet not Walking
A little blurb on the Wisconsin recall elections…
District 22 GOP Primary: Jonathan Steitz vs. Fred Ekornaas to face Democrat Senator Bob Wirch
Attorney Jonathan Steitz has railed against the influence of out-of-state money in Wisconsin and said he’s the candidate to “attract business to stay here.” Steitz works just across the border in a Chicago law firm.
Orly?
Health Care Reform Haiku
Blood in the urine
A tingling down the left arm
Walk it off, Grandma
– Stephen Colbert
(via savingpaper)
Hypocrisy without irony: a hallmark of a great politician.
Would we actually expect anything less of our elected officials?
Thrown under the bus
I was designing a brochure that would show transitions from old computer technology to new to show how far the company I was working for had come and how “cutting edge” it was(n’t). In one part of it I had used an illustration of an old computer that had a black screen with green type on it. My supervisor had never said a word about it the entire time and encouraged my design stating that it was brilliant. I was brought into a meeting to present it to his boss…
Me: “So here is the design [I proceed to explain it]”
Boss: [laughs a little] “How did you come up with this? No Computers have EVER had screens that were black with green text!”
Supervisor: “YEAH, what were you thinking?” [laughing hysterically]
I stared at both of them blankly and left the room after they were done mocking me.
Later on I approached my supervisor…
Me: “So, I didn’t want to embarass you both at the meeting but…” [I hand him a paper with a list of models of computers that had this “feature”]
Supervisor: [Turns red] “Yeah, I knew that I didn’t want to say anything.”
Me: “…”
I had similar experiences at my previous employer…