Maggie's Farm

knuck, this is Peter Schweizer's book, Throw Them All Out:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0547573146/thedaibea-20

His previous book:

http://www.amazon.com/Do-As-Say-Not-Hypocrisy/dp/0767919025


...a body could do woise with twenty minutes than reading the reviews on the two sites. Lord how we need a gigantic broom.

oops, missed one:

Architects of Ruin: How big government liberals wrecked the global economy---and how they will do it again if no one stops them

http://www.amazon.com/Architects-Ruin-government-liberals-economy/dp/B003IWYGUC/ref=pd_cp_b_1

Here's the publisher's blurb:

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Book Description

Publication Date: October 6, 2009

Was the financial collapse caused by free-market capitalism and deregulation run amok, as liberals claim?

Not on your life, says Peter Schweizer. What we are really witnessing is a massive failure of social engineering by liberals.

Architects of Ruin, bestselling author Peter Schweizer describes in riveting detail how a coalition of left-wing activists, liberal politicians, and "do-good capitalists" on Wall Street leveraged government power to achieve their goal of broadening homeownership among minorities and the poor. The results were not only devastating to the economy, but hurt the very people they were supposedly trying to help.

The story begins in the 1960s with Saul Alinsky, the legendary Chicago rabble-rouser who trained his acolytes in highly aggressive techniques of community activism. Alinsky's disciples—along with race-baiting activists like Jesse Jackson—seized on the "redlining" controversy of those years to argue that banks were guilty of racial discrimination. In the 1970s, with the help of liberal senators like Ted Kennedy and William Proxmire, legislation was passed that put bankers under the thumb of local activists.

In the Clinton years, a new generation of liberal technocrats came to power in Washington and on Wall Street. Schweizer describes how a powerful phalanx of elite liberals, including Bill Clinton, Robert Rubin, Andrew Cuomo, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Janet Reno, Deval Patrick, Henry Cisneros, Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Ted Kennedy, Charles Schumer, and many others, aggressively pushed banks to make trillions of dollars in loans to individuals who should never have received them.

Meanwhile, Clinton forged a new form of state capitalism in which the big Wall Street financial companies were repeatedly bailed out—with their profits intact—from a series of costly errors, leading them to take ever larger risks. Both financial policies had profoundly distorting effects. The result was the bursting of twin bubbles in mortgages and mortgage-backed derivatives, in turn leading to a global economic collapse.

This tale of liberal "Robin Hood capitalism run wild" has never been told. But more than just a story about the past, it is also an urgent warning about the future. For today, the very same people who planted the seeds of the collapse are back in Washington, tasked with cleaning up the mess and determined to use the crisis they caused as cover for a massive overhaul of the American economic system.

These people have learned nothing from their past mistakes and are busy applying the same methods to other sectors of the economy—health care, the auto industry, real estate (again!), and above all the promotion of "green" technologies—inflating bubbles that are sure to bring about another crisis. Ordinary Americans who foot the bill for the last state-capitalist bubble have reason to be afraid—very afraid—of the inevitable result.

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Tragic. That we are so helpless, and know it, is pure essence of tragedy.

blert! So glad you've noted how a few of those things have played out --"Macondo the name" finally broke out --see Peter Maas NY Review of Books, "What Happened at Macondo", the final paragraph. And just today, the Key (with-a-capital-'K') witness still won't ('can't') talk:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/bp-official-seeks-to-avoid-medical-exam-questions-over-oil-rig-blowout-that-led-to-spill/2012/03/06/gIQALSxJuR_story.html


...and there's a fish story, too, a real one, involving ship ramming at sea, industrial warfare apparently beyond the ken of the police. More later when it taint so late and sleepy --

(PS, we who are no flukes salute thee who is no flipper) groan

--as for me, i've never listened to RL and know only that he is an invaluable describer of the threadbare leftist imperial raiment, and that he recently publicly lost his temper at yet another astonishingly mendacious staged demonstration of the left's astonishing mendacity.

Had Ingraham engaged the occasioning of Schultz' utterance via anything equally scurrilous 'n spurious, then and only then, IMHO, would the two events (RL & ES) be sufficiently equivalent to serve as equivalents.