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Pretty funny video by SNL characters bringing back a host of former Presidents to advise Obama to protect consumers from the banks.

See the behind the scenes video and the Dana Carvey Dream Sequence too.

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Last summer, I heard from a source close to the Obama Administration that the public option was mostly a bargaining tool and that the Obama Administration would only use it in order to pass healthcare reform. Translation: the Obama Administration never supported a public option. While the Obama Administration has never admitted as much, many [...]

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Below is the text of the brief EU statement on Greece debt crisis.
All euro area members must conduct sound national policies in line with the agreed rules. They have a shared responsibility for the economic and financial stability in the area.
In this context, we fully support the efforts of the Greek government and their [...]

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The money line comes right at the end.

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See also Supreme Court Ruling Spurs Corporation Run for Congress First Test of “Corporate Personhood” In Politics. 
Watch out Chris Van Hollen. We’ve got a new ‘person’ in the hunt for Maryland’s 8th district. That’s my Congressional District.

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If you are interested in politics, then this is a definite must see theater. It will give you a much greater appreciation of the personalities and positions. Better audio kicks in after a minute or so. The whole thing runs 66 minutes.

Location: Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel, Baltimore, Maryland

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Of all the coverage of last night’s State of the Union address, the video below stands out.
Now, I’m sure Matthews will have a defence for this piece of analysis i.e. “he was so good that all the talk about Obama and race slipped my mind for that brief moment while he spoke.”  But, of course, [...]

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As I indicated in my post Grading Obama’s economic policy after one year, I see the President as a triangulating center-left politician of the Bill Clinton variety. The reason we have seen public policy which has been favorable to big business and reactive to events on the ground during this economic downturn owes much to [...]

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This comes from Ryan Chittum of the Columbia Journalism Review:
Whatever Tim Geithner’s New York Fed was trying to hide in the AIG backdoor bailout was so volatile it was deemed worthy of national-security-like classification, and the Fed reacted to media FOIA requests for information by withholding more information.
Reuters, gets the scoop on emails that detail [...]