Saturday, March 19, 2005
Mr. Magoo goes to the World Bank
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Bush cites Wolfowitz's Pentagon experience in choosing him to head the World Bank. Considering his atrocious track record at Defense, the Bank should get ready for an epidemic of waste, fraud and corruption. (full article "Head scratcher" by Joe Conason at Salon.com)
The problem with Paul Wolfowitz isn't that he's an evil genius. It's that he has been consistently, astonishingly, unswervingly wrong about foreign policy for 30 years. (full article "Mr. Magoo goes to the World Bank" by Micheal Lind at Salon.com)
Related: Europeans Resist Wolfowitz for World Bank (Washington Post)
Enron: Patron Saint of Bush's Fake News - Frank Rich kills 'em again.
Private Accounts are the social security "lockbox"?! Alan, is you fccking crazy? I definitely can't ride with you on that redonkolous idea especially after you got it so wrong in a very major way at least once before.
Despite having a pretty good run as a capable and seemingly impartial Federal Reserve chairman, I think duke needs to hang it up and go schtupp his wife who y'all know I'm not a fan of either. Greenspan seems to be getting increasingly partisan about the policy positions he endorses with an inverse relationship to how on point he ends up being the result we all have to suffer and live with. (reg' or log-in may be req'd for The Sydney Morning Herald link)
