(…) So … they now had a complete picture. The two bucket swingers just had to be co-conspirators in a dirty bomb plot.

Thanks for clarification on the bucket brigade.

On the stimulus and bank bailouts, he could have Stiglitz and Krugman and Roubini in the mix – but he’s opted for less Nobel Prizey and more centristy.

centristy to what… wall street investment banks?

The ties for the two as “co-consirators” for a “dirty bomb” attack are, on the one hand, Zubaydah’s comement on Padilla:
http://www.antiwar.com/prather/?articleid=11501

…that Abu Zubaydah had dismissed Padilla as “a maladroit extremist.” He told his interrogators that Padilla “was ignorant” and believed he could “separate plutonium” to make a real nuke from other nuclear materials by “rapidly swinging over his head a bucket filled with fissionable material.”

while on the other hand, Mohamed, who had booked a flight on the same plane as Padilla when both had fled to Pakistan and both were trying to get out of Pakistan after the invasion, was discovered by the CIA to have confessed to visiting the hydrogen bomb bucket swinging website. The one they never could figure out did exist and was a spoof.

So … they now had a complete picture. The two bucket swingers just had to be co-conspirators in a dirty bomb plot.

On the stimulus and bank bailouts, he could have Stiglitz and Krugman and Roubini in the mix – but he’s opted for less Nobel Prizey and more centristy. Oh well indeed.

62 – “Come on people. It’s been 3 weeks.”

(…)These aren’t “new” or “suddenly discovered” issues. They are at the heart of what has been out there for years – at the heart of why people wanted to be rid of Bush and vote for “Change”

He has known these issues were on the table for years and has had policy advisors to work with him on them for years.

That’s sure how I see it… fully agree.

Same judgment applies to his wish-washy stimulus/recovery proposals as well.

I watched his entire presser, would have been mildly encouraged if I was not aware of underlying realities which he (sort’a kind’a) addressed. He used a lot of words to generalize w/out meaningful specifics (IMO) on most critical subjects.

His statement in response to Sam Stein suggests concerns all of stated here (and elsewhere) over torture/secrets/prosecutions are well founded.

Putting his clout behind “stimulus” package… invoking all the economists who say something must be done, ok fine. But his speficics on that one as well… I didn’t hear ‘em. And his comparison of current econ crisis to 90’s Japan: poor analogy, and inaccurately described. Meaningless AFAIC.

Oh well…

The “scoop” on the bucket swinging to create nuclear fission plot and the degree to which the CIA and Bush admin bought into that.

what are you referring to here?

What was it that AG Eric Holder kept repeating during his confirmation hearings
no one is above the law”

yeah right

By the way, I hear people are starving in Alaska; coming soon to YOUR neighborhood. Alaskans Starving While Palin Mugs For Camera

O isn’t gonna substantially change a thing. The stimulus is crap and won’t work.

I think we can all be assured that The Shock Doctrine worked and the USA is now a third world country being dictated to by the IMF and the World Bank. No wonder they wanted Wolfowitz in there. Good thing he’s gone, I guess.