Scott Walker's record

Rachel lays it out for us. What Scott Walker had done in Milwaukee and wants to do to Wisconsin. What the rising stars among GOP governors are trying to do elsewhere.

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Attention must be paid!

--the BB

No No Keshagesh - Buffy sings again

Ghost Dancers

Cree Indian folksinger Buffy Sainte-Marie has a new album, Running for the Drum. She has not stopped singing for justice. Here is "No No Keshagesh." As I read at Meteor Blades' post:

The lead song is called "No No Keshagesh." In her native tongue, Keshagesh means "greedy guts." "It's what you call a little puppy who eats his own and then wants everybody else's."

--the BB

Damn their eyes!

WASHINGTON — The Senate handed a victory to the banking industry on Thursday, defeating a Democratic proposal that would have given homeowners in financial trouble greater flexibility to renegotiate the terms of their mortgages.

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Twelve Democrats joined all the Republicans in voting against it.
--NYT

Of course we live in a fucking corporatocracy. Did you ever doubt it?

It would be nice if these asshats remembered that they are supposed to be working for the American People. (I know - terminally naive.)

"And the banks -- hard to believe in a time when we're facing a banking crisis that many of the banks created -- are still the most powerful lobby on Capitol Hill. And they frankly own the place."

--Senator Durbin

The blunt acknowledgment that the same banks that caused the financial crisis "own" the U.S. Congress -- according to one of that institution's most powerful members -- demonstrates just how extreme this institutional corruption is.

The ownership of the federal government by banks and other large corporations is effectuated in literally countless ways, none more effective than the endless and increasingly sleazy overlap between government and corporate officials.

--Glenn Greenwald

h/t to Turkana at Daily Kos

--the BB

Government policies

--bink at Daily Kos