The same way that there is a vague implication that if the Democratic caucus takes away Holy Joe Lieberman's Homeland Security Committee chairmanship he will do something drastic, like cutting off his nose, there is a vague implication that Wall Street executives might get angry and so something to spite their faces if they're bonuses become part of a plan to bailout the economic mess their unabashed greed and stupidity caused. -- For Many At The Top The Economic Crisis Isn't Cramping Any Style
Sooner or later someone is going to remember where those guillotines were stored.
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... Right now the people of the United States cannot afford to have its ruling party wandering around in delusional grandiosity.
The great danger to all this vividly sparkles before us with Lieberman and the bailout, not a mere slap in the face to the little people, more like anal gang rape to everything the blogosphere bled and sweated for in our politics: accountability, fairness, equality, due process, democracy. The election’s over, little people, some of us will see you in two years, thanks for the donations! ...
--Who We Are by paradox, The Left Coaster
... What [he, former high-level Clinton DOJ official Robert Litt, is] doing is expressing the core premise of America's two-tiered system of justice: we imprison more of our population than any other country on the planet and move increasingly towards ever harsher and more merciless criminal justice rules for them, while exempting our highest political leaders entirely from consequences for lawbreaking.
--Post-partisan harmony vs. the rule of law by Glenn Greenwald, Unclaimed Teritory, salon.com
Unions have put themselves out there time and again for Democrats. When the economy goes south, they don't expect to be told to "suck on this" by a Democratic majority.
--Stickin' It To The Unions by digy, Hullabaloo
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