Tag Archives: Rick Santelli

Spazzy White Guys in Lower Manhattan (and Chicago)

Posted on December 28, 2012 at 11:12 am by Bob Cesca

In the Mail Bag this week, I mentioned the freaks who control our financial system on Wall Street and how their instability often screws us all. Here’s a great example of the spazziest of the Spazzy White Guys in Lower … Continue reading →

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Spazzy White Guys in Lower Manhattan

Posted on October 9, 2012 at 4:56 pm by Bob Cesca

The Dow is inching closer to 14,000 — up from 6,600 when the president took office. And yet they’re so completely pissed about the Obama presidency, they’re accusing him of an impeachable conspiracy to fabricate the unemployment numbers. Rather than … Continue reading →

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Futility

Posted on November 1, 2010 at 7:16 am by Bob Cesca

Krugman on beating one’s head against a wall of tea bags: And if you point out that their arguments don’t add up, they fly into a rage. Try to explain that when debtors spend less, the economy will be depressed … Continue reading →

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Deficit Shocker

Posted on July 15, 2010 at 7:20 am by Bob Cesca

It turns out the media-fueled Washington meme that Americans are freaked out about the deficit and want Congress to “stop spending” is mostly untrue. Fifty-two percent of voters told CBS that Congress should extend unemployment benefits “even if it means … Continue reading →

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Mixed Jobs News

Posted on July 2, 2010 at 8:59 am by Bob Cesca

Unemployment rate drops to 9.5 percent. But we lost 125,000 jobs. But we added 83,000 private sector jobs. And this clearly means no “double-dip” for now. But contrary to Rick Santelli and the deficit hawks (who vote for corporate welfare … Continue reading →

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'Stop Spending!'

Posted on June 30, 2010 at 9:43 am by Bob Cesca

The Republicans, whose whole thing is to question the patriotism of Democrats and liberal support for the troops, blocked the Homeless Women Veterans and Homeless Veterans With Children Act yesterday. Benen reports: It was approved in committee with bipartisan support, … Continue reading →

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The Coward Rick Santelli Defends AIG Bonuses

Posted on March 17, 2009 at 12:00 pm by JumpyPants

No, really. He did. Today. Yep. This from the patron saint of the tea bag revolution. You know what? Come to think of it, the Sons of Liberty should’ve put the finances of the East India Company into perspective, too. … Continue reading →

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Santelli

Posted on March 13, 2009 at 12:01 pm by JumpyPants

Jon Stewart deserves a Pulitzer Prize for last night’s show. That’s a fact. But Jim Cramer deserves some sort of kudos for taking it like a man. Put another way: where the crap is Rick Santelli? Why is Santelli being … Continue reading →

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The Rick Santelli Nexus

Posted on February 28, 2009 at 6:53 am by JumpyPants

This is a fascinating investigation by Mark Ames and Yasha Levine into the “spontaneousness” of Rick Santelli’s Star Wars Kid moment. It turns out that Santelli’s contract apparently runs out in a couple of months, and suddenly there are websites … Continue reading →

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Blaming Poor People

Posted on February 24, 2009 at 10:26 pm by Bob Cesca

Following the president’s address, Chris Matthews mentioned that no one is blaming poor people for this economic mess. Unless I’m missing something, Rick Santelli is blaming poor people. Why don’t you put up a website to have people vote on … Continue reading →

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