The bankrupt right

Submitted by James on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 1:12pm

Given all the legislative "successes" achieved by the GOP in Raleigh this year, you'd think they'd be touting their accomplishments on behalf of the people of North Carolina. Instead, they've spent the past week playing gotcha over a silly joke. It's easy to understand why.

The over-reaching by Pope, Berger, and Tillis has been a case-study in bad government on every front. Their assaults on personal freedoms, public education, women, and the environment reached epic proportions, and we have only just begun to witness the aftershocks of their actions. The cost of defending lawsuits alone will cost North Carolina taxpayers millions of dollars. And the impact on our state's reputation as a good place for business will make economic recovery even harder. The only winners are a handful of rich, white Republican corporatists.

Bev Perdue may not be great at one-liners, but she's working her ass off to keep North Carolina from going down the tubes. Meanwhile, the Puppymaster and his pack of lapdogs do nothing but destroy. It's sickening.

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Speaking of bankrupt

Submitted by James on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 1:42pm.

Bank of America continues to be one of the worst managed companies in the world. Its latest move to charge customers for using their debit cards was so poorly handled that it makes the rest of their boneheaded actions look as if they almost make sense.

Dear Bank of America investors:

Your stock gets to wear the Dow’s Biggest Loser tag for the third quarter. Hooray?

U.S. stocks are set to close out the worst three-month stretch since the nadir of the financial crisis. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Nasdaq each are down more than 10% for the third quarter, as of Thursday’s close. The S&P 500 slipped 12%. Bank of America is “leading” the third-quarter blue-chip carnage, down 42%, followed by Alcoa’s 37% slide and the 35% stock-price decline for Hewlett-Packard.

This is the second quarter in a row that BofA has claimed the Dow Dunce cap. In the three months ended in June, BofA shares lost 18% of their value, compared to J.P. Morgan’s 11% fall.

Do good. Be nice. Have fun.

They lost tens of millions (if not more)

Submitted by scharrison on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 6:38pm.

because they didn't want to lose a fraction of that. Pure stupidity.

Rob Christensen weighs in on the joke

Submitted by James on Sun, 10/02/2011 - 8:56am.

and says nothing of interest.

The Perdue administration went into damage control. It first said she was using hyperbole - they never said she was joking. The next day Perdue said she was using sarcasm.

For the humor-challenged Capital Press Corpse, hyperbole, sarcasm, and joking form a Venn diagram. Perdue's off-hand comments were spot on in the center.

Read more: http://www.newsobserver.com/2011/10/02/1532848/whoa-stop-the-revolution....

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It's the trouble with snark

Submitted by loftT on Sun, 10/02/2011 - 12:03pm.

It doesn't always come across as intended, especially in print or digitally. I'd bet most of the rabid reaction hasn't actually seen the video.

Progressives are the true conservatives.