Economic Ramble

Politics and humor not appropriate for CEO Economic Update http://pbp.typepad.com/economy/

Monday, December 31, 2007

Fred finally admits he really doesn't care all that much about being our next President

"I'm only consumed by a few things and politics is not one of them," He also said he "will not be devastated" if he doesn't win the election.

http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/2007/12/thompson-not-pa.html

Of course he now claims to be misquoted, here's the video

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/12/30/frederick-of-hollywood-fire-in-his-belly/

Like I told you when I started tracking Fred, he is only in it for one reason. To raise his profile to get his next lucrative job.

Friday, December 28, 2007


How many minutes have the candidates had?


Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Fred refuses to answer question on Global Warming,
to be fair he probably doesn't know what this refers to...

In today’s GOP presidential debate in Iowa, Fred Thompson refused to answer whether or not global climate change is a “serious threat and caused by human activity.” When the moderator asked to see a show of hands from the candidates, Thompson became combative and declared, “I’m not doing hand shows today.” At least four other candidates raised their hands.

When the moderator refused to give him a full minute to answer the question, he replied, “Well, I’m not going to answer it.” While McCain and several other candidates followed up and outlined their energy plans, Thompson stayed silent. (video in link)

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/12/12/thompson-global-warming-debate/

Thursday, December 13, 2007

Fred's going all in on Iowa

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/12/12/fred-thompson-putting-all-his-eggs-in-the-iowa-basket/

Friday, December 07, 2007

KO's special comments


http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/01/31/countdown-special-comment-on-fisa-and-telecom-immunity/



We have either a president who is too dishonest to restrain himself from invoking World War Three about Iran at least six weeks after he had to have known that the analogy would be fantastic, irresponsible hyperbole — or we have a president too transcendently stupid not to have asked — at what now appears to have been a series of opportunities to do so — whether the fairy tales he either created or was fed, were still even remotely plausible.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/12/06/countdown-special-comment-the-nie-reflects-an-unhinged-irrational-chicken-little-of-a-president/



Keith tears into President Bush for firing a true patriot that spoke out against torture, while cowardly and simultaneously ordering others to commit the very same heinous crime.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/11/05/special-comment-george-bushs-criminal-conspiracy-of-torture/



Olbermann blasts the president for his cowardly and un-American behavior of pimping General Petraeus as a political hack and hiding behind him to deflect criticism
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/09/20/countdown-special-comment-the-president-of-hypocrisy/


Water-boarding, he said, is torture.
Legally, it is torture.
Practically, it is torture.
Ethically, it is torture.
And he wrote it down.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/11/05/special-comment-on-countdown-tonight/


Keith absolutely lays waste to President Bush’s lies and rhetoric about the surge. He contrasts his callous disregard for the truth and the troops between his six hour photo op in Iraq and the interview with Draper released this weekend.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/09/04/countdown-special-comment-you-have-no-remaining-credibility-about-iraq-sir/


Keith delivered a powerful special comment about the leaked Bush Administration letter that blames Senator Hillary Clinton and all war dissenters for President Bush’s own failures in Iraq.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/07/19/special-comment-keith-blasts-bush-scapegoating-this-is-your-war/


Olbermann lets the Secretary of Homeland Security, Michael Chertoff, know how insecure the homeland must be if we are to rely on his “gut.”
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/07/12/special-comment-on-michael-chertoffs-gut/


The ramifications of Bush’s commutation of Libby’s sentence
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/07/03/keith-olbermanns-special-comment-you-ceased-to-be-the-president-of-the-united-states/


Keith gave a scathing commentary on the compromise struck by the Democratic Party over the war supplemental. he also flames Bush over his childish stand.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/05/23/special-comment-the-only-things-truly-compromised-are-the-trust-of-the-votersfriends-and-family-in-iraq/



Keith delivered a scathing Special Comment tonight about the rank partisan fearmongering speech Rudy Giuliani gave before a New Hampshire Republican meeting yesterday (CSPAN stream).
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/04/25/olbermanns-special-comment-on-giulianis-fearmongering-how-dare-you-sir/

Monday, December 03, 2007

Fred's Folly

Wall Street Journal
November 30, 2007; Page A16

On Fox News this Sunday, Fred Thompson laid out the most creative tax proposal yet in the race for president. It should have been an important moment, the point at which GOP aspirants finally dug into a core issue and went a few rounds over marginal rates and corporate levies.

Instead, nothing. The Thompson plan inspired little fanfare, less press and didn't even merit time during this week's GOP debate. The black hole says everything about the mess that is the Thompson campaign, and just as much about today's intellectually bereft Republican primary campaign.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119639003590409042.html

OUCH! Ok, so the WSJ doesn't like you either, who does?? - Mike