Seems like everyone is calling for bipartisanship. Voters, Democrats, Republicans… well almost everyone. Apparently for Republicans, bipartisanship means do it our way. Witness Mitch Mc Connell’s take on the elections. After essentially calling the President a complete failure, and denying that he had a mandate of any kind, he said: Now it’s time …
Sometime later this Century, a writer will sit down and attempt to document how his or her grandparents’ generation could have all but ignored the greatest disaster humanity has ever faced. It won’t be a pleasant world she lives in. Cities and countries will be locked in an expensive battle …
When Obama took Office on January 20th, 2009 the stench of failure hung over the conservative’s economic philosophy like a mushroom cloud. For the second time in a decade, deregulation had produced a huge speculative bubble, fed largely by unregulated hedge funds operating in secret and “irrational exuberance” fed in part …