The "Designer Dynasty" - All competition eliminated. The Paulson dictatorship.

The entire global 'economic' structure changed under Bush/Cheney. It was 'driven' into disaster during the final two years of Republican influence after Paulson took over Treasury.

When attempting to 'recover' the USA and the economy the 'before' and 'after' pictures of eight years of Bush is more than startling.

Denials (click title to entry - thank you)
...Mr Paulson, in prepared congressional testimony, said that the merger was in the best interest of the US and the two firms, adding that remarks he made during discussions of the deal were "appropriate".
He added that it would be "unthinkable" for Bank of America to walk away - a step he described as "destructive action for which there was no reasonable legal basis and which would show a lack of judgment".
His comments are expected to take the pressure off the chairman off the Fed's chairman, Ben Bernanke.
Two weeks ago, Mr Bernanke repeatedly denied the accusation that he had told Mr Lewis that he would be fired if he backed out of the Merrill deal.
Nor did he instruct Mr Paulson to threaten Mr Lewis, he said.
Congressmen believe Mr Lewis's job had been threatened after he expressed second thoughts about the takeover.
Stress tests
Bank of America agreed to buy Merrill for $29bn (£17.5bn) last September, a deal that happened with Fed approval.
In the same weekend, the US central bank declined to bail out Lehman Brothers, which subsequently collapsed....

Defeating the Obama Administration. Could these be the White Men that make poorer decisions than a Wise Latina Woman? I think so. They proved it.

Yesterday, the White Republicans of the Judiciary Committee failed in their honest assessment of a Supreme Court Nominee.

Seventeen years. That was seventeen years in decision making and what does Jeff Sessions and Lindsay Graham focus on? One sentence made, NOT IN A COURT ROOM, but in a classroom.

Two centuries of White Male Oppression of the American populous, including the past eight years of nothing but exploitation of the fiscal systems of the USA and what did the White Guys 'pull' yesterday? A political stunt and nothing more.

Yesterday, Sessions and Graham, among others, attempted to create a 'Wedge Issue.' A political wedge issue. They took one sentence spoken years ago to a group of legal students and handed the 'simpletons' of the Republican electorate a 'bone to gnaw on.' One that would last clean on through 2010 to create 'doubt' in the 'militant' administration in the White House. Militant per the Republicans that oppose EVERY measure of the Obama/Biden Administration.

Their focus and loathing of Judge Sonia Sotomayor was nothing but a racial slur to the justice the Judicial Committee was supposed to conduct, yesterday. When a 'political wedge' issue takes shape based on racial bias it adds nothing but bigotry to the 'conversations' of the electorate. Today, across the Republican media there are statements about 'reverse discrimination.' The White Guys are attempting a coup against Affirmative Action and Women's Rights.

If Lindsay Graham ever made a statement that indictated he was superior to a Latina woman he would make headlines and would be scrutinized. Why? Because over 200 years of oppression of women and minorities as 'chattel' requires justice.


Sen. Lindsey Graham has told Sotomayor that she would be confirmed "unless you have a complete meltdown." (click here)

So, what did the White Man try to do? He tried to get Judge Sotomayor to meltdown. Cry. Beg. Plead for mercy. While he 'rolled the dice' on a wedge issue. Bigot. Definately a bigot. For the 'permission' his statements gave his constituency to 'carry on' as usual, he is a definative bigot.

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"Oops, there it is."

7. In 1986, he was the second judicial nominee in 48 years whose nomination was killed by the Senate Judiciary Committee. The committee refused to let the nomination come to the Senate floor for a vote, accusing Sessions of "gross insensitivity" to racial issues. (click here)