Showing posts with label Rick Santelli. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rick Santelli. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 23, 2019

10 years after Santelli's rant against Obama's proposed bailout of your neighbor's mortgage, National Review pretends it was about deficit spending

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You will search in vain in this article for the word " mortgage ". If the Tea Party had been about any one thing, it was about ...
Thursday, November 1, 2012

It Takes One To Know One: Carl Bernstein Smells Radicalism In The Air

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Carl Bernstein of Woodward-Bernstein fame thinks he's caught a whiff of radicalism in Mitt Romney and the Tea Party, here  at The Daily ...
Thursday, September 13, 2012

Obama's Best Unemployment Number Ever: Initial Claims At 297K

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Initial claims for unemployment, not-seasonally adjusted, has fallen below 300,000 for the first time ever in the Obama presidency. Obama sh...
Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Neil Barofsky Calls Geithner And Obama Two-Faced Housing Bailout Liars

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'[I]n 2009, $50 billion in TARP funds had been committed to help homeowners through the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP), a p...
Friday, October 7, 2011

Rush Limbaugh Says The Banks Were Victims, The Bailouts A Success!

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And the Tea Party got all hot and bothered over what, exactly? Santelli's rant against the $75 billion mortgage bailout program called H...

Capitalism's Idea of More Efficient Regulation Than the Government Kind

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"Failure." -- Rick Santelli, on The Laura Ingraham Show this morning
Thursday, October 6, 2011

Rush Limbaugh's Mission Accomplished: Tea Party Absorbed by Republican Party

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Otherwise, Rush would not have tried so hard today to disagree with a caller who suggested the Tea Party was born of outrage over the bailou...
Tuesday, July 12, 2011

The Tea Party Began With Moral Outrage Over Mortgage Bailouts

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Ron Klain provides a needed reminder of the forgotten origins of the Tea Party movement, here : Although we now associate the Tea Party with...
Friday, December 10, 2010

The Religious Origins of the Income Tax's "Standard Deduction"

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The standard deduction was designed to make it easier for people to claim their charitable contributions, without itemizing them. Note how t...
Saturday, May 8, 2010

"Menopause Was Change Enough For Me"

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In "Moms to the Barricades," which appeared here , Michael Graham explores the idea that mothers' instincts to protect their c...
Friday, February 19, 2010

Santelli's Rant, One Year Later

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A year after Rick Santelli's heated objections in February 2009 to the moral hazard posed by government efforts to bail out troubled mo...