What’s Going On: News Roundup
Posted on October 3rd, 2008 by ecthompson md
Here’s the Friday morning news roundup:
- Senator Barack Obama is coming to Asheville on Sunday. Details can be found here.
- Let’s all stand up and give Governor Sarah Palin a round of applause. For some reason, commentators seem to have been under the impression that she might spontaneously combust under the pressure on stage. I suspected she was going to be well rehearsed. She was. Unfortunately, she is tied to bankrupt philosophies: Tax cuts for the rich, the endless war, and “drill baby drill.” Americans, for the most part, have moved on.
- I’m in the process of filling out the paperwork so that I, too, can apply to the Federal Treasury for a bailout. There seems to be an endless list of banks and other financial institutions with their hands out. For instance, Detroit has their hand out. They just received $25 billion. Did you miss it? It appears, too, that the state of California is trying to jump to the head of the line. However, they are only looking for $7 billion.
- The New jobs report has just been released. Employers cut 159,000 59 thousand more jobs than forecasters had predicted. The Economic Policy Institute shows a state-by-state trend and it isn’t pretty.
- A judge in Anchorage, Alaska refused to halt the Legislature’s investigation into Governor Sarah Palin’s in Trooper-gate.
- It appears that the Senator John McCain campaign is writing off Michigan. They’re pulling out. More polling information can be found here. Could it be that the RNC’s bottomless pit of money is really drying up?
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margaret
