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ProPublica, a great independent website that helps cut through all the political spin, has a Bailout Tracker, which follows the flows of funds from the bailout.  Here's their latest summary: The Bailout ScorecardLast update: Aug. 29, 2012Altogether, accounting for both the TARP and the Fannie and Freddie bailout, $604 billion has gone out the door--invested, loaned, or paid out--while $319 billion has been returned.The Treasury has been earning a return on most of the money...

President Obama yesterday in New Hampshire:<br />"They have been trying to sell this trickle-down snake oil before. It did not work then. It will not work now. It's not a plan to create jobs. It will not reduce the deficit. It will not move the economy forward. It's the wrong direction for America." Yes, more of this please. ...

Frankly. I've had it. With Mitt Romney and his surrogates ratcheting up the "Obama as other" rhetoric on a daily basis, I.ve had it. I've had it up to here ( hand to top of forehead) with the cries of "foreign" and "doesn't understand how America works" and "doesn't understand the American system" and "needs to learn how to be American."Doesn't understand America and how America works? Needs to learn how to be American? The...

I tried to get through a Jonah Goldberg column this morning. It's a semi-regular exercise in futility I try when his columns appear in the Chronicle. For those that want to try the same game I will give you a leg up here. Since most of you likely don't have the stomach for it, I'll provide the reader's digest version.The source of frustration began with the whole story that Mitt Romney supposedly hazed a fellow...

MUST WATCH:  Last night, President Obama was on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and slow jammed the news about student loan interest rates:...

Rick Santorum is picking up steam these days in spite of himself and some ardent supporters. After all, I think the whole aspirin between the knees bit is a bit worn out. Santorum suggested there was a double standard in how Obama was treated following the Jeremiah Wright flap. Apparently, Obama was given a pass. I don't seem to remember it that way, but let's just take the man on his own words.He said that...

The  Washington Post has some poll numbers that sadly confirm what I've suspected for some time was the case. All the weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth from Democrats when Bush and Cheney were running the Constitution and the Bill of Rights through the paper shredder had nothing to do with those rights and liberties being taken away, it was all about the party affiliation of the president who was doing the taking:"The survey...

Perhaps you've heard. Our CongressNerds are doing the "gavel in/gavel out" thing and holding pro forma sessions trying to prevent the POTUS from making recess appointments for positions which have been vacant for months.From Wiki: "The term pro forma is a term applied to practices or documents that are done as a pure formality, perfunctory, or seek to satisfy the minimum requirements or to conform to a convention or doctrine."The use of the pro forma...

As most of us know, the Buffet plan is a simply plan that calls for millionaires to pay the same percentage in actual income as those in the middle class. It is inspired by billionaire Warren Buffet who actually believes he should pay more. However, considering that the avid Fox viewer has the political acumen and knowledge of a rabies infected dog, here is how I think they should play it. I will borrow from...

I was out playing golf the other day and came inside to beat the heat. My father and I had the silly notion that we could walk 18 holes in 90+ degree temperatures. So, when I entered the 19th hole I was a bit woozy. So, when I saw that the station was on Fox News I sat down and listened for awhile. Who knows how much I heard was reality and how much was...