Hold Fast

Cross posted at AMERICAblog Campaign for a Fair Settlement, a liberal housing group which formed to pressure state Attorneys General like California’s Kamala Harris to not agree to a bad robosigning settlement deal, has released a poll that paints a brutal picture of how voters in swing states view President Obama’s handling of the housing [...]

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I’ve been traveling for work, so I haven’t had the opportunity to write about President Obama’s decision to evolve already and personally come out in support of marriage equality. This is a tremendous step forward for equal rights in America. What the President of the United States thinks on an issue such as marriage equality [...]

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At Newsweek Peter Boyer and Peter Schweizer ask: Why Can’t Obama Bring Wall Street to Justice? Because he doesn’t think they did anything illegal. President Barack Obama, October 6, 2011: The financial sector is very creative and they are always looking for ways to make money. That’s their job. And if there are loopholes and [...]

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Yves Smith has a post at Naked Capitalism which focuses around a speech by Robert Fitch about President Obama and what we know about him based on his time as an organizer in Chicago. The speech was given in November 2008 to the Harlem Tenants Association. Fitch, an academic and a journalist, goes particularly hard [...]

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In his series building up to the announcement of his Wanker of the Decade, Atrios has declared Joe Klein the third runner-up. That post includes a link to a Greg Sargent piece wherein Sargent eviscerates Klein’s casual accusation of Atrios as an “ideological extremist,” with no explanation of what ideas make Atrios extreme. To highlight [...]

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Apparently President Obama gave a speech today attacking the Ryan budget. In the Q&A he went after the GOP for making rightward shifts which prevented them from finding common ground. Jed Lewison writes: Obama continues hammering Republicans for moving so far to the right. “Cap and trade was originally proposed by Republicans … now they [...]

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The Democratic establishment is out guns blazing today. Is it in response to the Washington Post report yesterday that President Obama would still take a deal that exchanged some modest (and imaginary) revenue increases for cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security? No, of course not. Predictably, it’s about Congressman Paul Ryan’s Version 2.0 budget. [...]

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The Washington Post has what will surely be a much discussed piece about the negotiations between the White House and House Republican leadership to produce a “grand bargain” (read: elite orchestrated transfer of wealth from the 99% to the 1%). It’s a long, interesting read and the reporters certainly slant in the direction of Boehner’s [...]

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Well, here’s the David Guggenheim-directed, Tom Hanks-narrated seventeen minute re-election video for President Obama. My first impulse was to describe this as propaganda, but that’s not fair. It’s a video produced by an electoral campaign to support an election. It is what it’s supposed to be. Given the attention that Kony 2012 has received, with [...]

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Abigail C. Field has a very important post, looking at the mortgage settlement and how the deal and changes to mortgage servicing will be monitored by regulators and law enforcement. Field identifies a series of thresholds and tolerance levels the federal government and state law enforcement set for how the well the servicers have to [...]

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