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Owlet

(1,248 posts)
Thu Feb 9, 2012, 07:17 PM Feb 2012

Who's in charge, anyway?

1. Why in the world did the Admin. pick this contraception fight now? Did Katherine Sebelius just wake up one morning and figure it was a good day to piss off some Catholic bishops? What was supposed to be gained by raising this issue now?

2. One day the NY and CA A.G.s are opposed to the bank mortgage deal, the next day they're signing it, letting banks who ripped people off to the tune of $7 trillion squirm out from under civil prosecution by paying a piddling $25 billion - maybe.

3. The Defense Secretary says the Iranians are just months away from getting The Bomb, the Director of National Intelligence says they're not a threat. A few days later the two of them, Panetta and Clapper reverse field and basically adopt each other's positions.

Sometimes I think that this Administration's campaign slogan out to be: "Hey, we know we suck, but we're not as sucky as them."

Go ahead. Flame away. It's just all very discouraging.

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Who's in charge, anyway? (Original Post) Owlet Feb 2012 OP
No flaming here---politics today is no better than a cesspool. virgogal Feb 2012 #1
NY and CA Attorneys General MrCoffee Feb 2012 #2

MrCoffee

(24,159 posts)
2. NY and CA Attorneys General
Thu Feb 9, 2012, 07:20 PM
Feb 2012

NY held out to make sure his vanity MERS suit was exempt from the settlement.

CA gets $16 billion of the settlement. At least she got her money's worth.

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