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‘Left, Right & Center’: Dems Doomed? Should Geithner Go?

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Posted on Jan 8, 2010
Left, Right & Center
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The gang’s all here for this week’s episode of “Left, Right & Center,” and it’s a good thing, considering the, er, sheer amount of material to cover. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s not exactly winning the hearts of millions these days, but should he step down? Plus: bad news on the employment front (sigh); the Democratic outlook for 2010; and what big banks are (and aren’t) doing for customers—and what Americans can do about it.

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By christian96, January 10, 2010 at 6:22 pm Link to this comment

I’ve been thinking again.  If “con” is the opposite
of “pro”, is CONgress the opposite of PROgress?

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By Sonya Smith, January 9, 2010 at 3:19 am Link to this comment
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Left, Right, and Center has become a total waste of time.  Whenever a decent
discussion starts, Matt Miller won’t allow it and says we have to move on.  Why is
that?  I thought the point of the show was to discuss the issues, not just start a
topic and then move on.

Another reason I will no longer be listening is I’ve had it with that climate denier
and that annoying snicker, laugh, or whatever thatsound he makes after he
speaks.

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By John, January 9, 2010 at 12:24 am Link to this comment
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Blankley was way off base in trying to counter Arianna about derivatives.

Proof:

http://www.occ.treas.gov/ftp/release/2009-114a.pdf (That’s the Web link to the latest Comptroller of the Currency report on derivatives. Go to page 23, where you’ll see that our top banks have around $290 trillion—yes, trillion with a “T”—in these toxic “assets” bogging them down.)

Wells Fargo, Bank of America and Goldman Sachs are among the culprits.

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By W Fay, January 8, 2010 at 9:06 pm Link to this comment
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Robert Scheer is wrong about Dennis Kucinich.
1) Hawaii did not have a primary in 2008, it had a Caucus on Feb 19 and
2) my recollection is that Kucinich did best in Maui, but he did not beat Obama.
3) Obama got 3 out of 4 votes
4) Kucinich didn’t get one delegate to the state convention
I was an alternate to the state convention and volunteered in DPH headquarters.
The Kucinich people were treated with kid gloves because they were doing so poorly.
The results were Obama had 28,347 votes, or 75.7% Clinton had 8,835, or 23.6% Kucinich maybe 270 or 0.7% (total ~37,500 in 2004 the total was ~9,000)
http://archives.starbulletin.com/2008/02/20/news/story01.html

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