Why Alan Grayson is right and O’Donnell is wrong in defending Obama
SOURCE: The Last Word: 12.8.10 — See our related commentary on this video below.
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PREFATORY COMMENT: Note how Lawrence O’Donnell (left) acting as another Democratic party booster at MSNBC, a Beltway insider for many years, rudely rips into Congressman Alan Grayson for suggesting the Obama tax deal with the Republicans is a rotten deal for the masses.
Boston on November 7, 1951; the son of Frances Marie (née Buckley), an office manager, and Lawrence Francis O’Donnell, Sr., an attorney.[1] He attended St. Sebastian’s School and graduated from Harvard College in 1976.[2] While at Harvard, he wrote for the Harvard Lampoon and was popular among its members due to his wit and sarcasm.[3] In 1994, O’Donnell married television and movie actress Kathryn Harrold, best known for playing movie legend Lauren Bacall in the 1980 made-for-TV movie Bogie. From 1989 to 1995, he was a key legislative aide to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan.[2] From 1989 to 1991, he served as senior advisor to Moynihan. From 1992 to 1993, he was staff director of the United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, then chaired by Senator Moynihan. And then from 1993 to 1995, he was staff director of the United States Senate Committee on Finance, once again under Senator Moynihan’s chairmanship. He thus led the staff of the Senate’s tax-writing committee during the consideration of President Bill Clinton‘s first budget, which Congress enacted in the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993.
[6] O’Donnell won the 2001 Emmy award for Outstanding Drama Series for The West Wing, and was nominated for the 2006 Emmy for the same category.[7]
First Monday. And in 2003, he was creator, executive producer, and writer for the television drama Mister Sterling.[6]
Valerie Plame scandal by naming Karl Rove as the primary source for Matt Cooper‘s story. He is well known for his strong dislike of California’s current governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Marc Thiessen on Morning Joe that became so heated that Scarborough took O’Donnell off the air.[8][9][10] Also in 2009 and 2010, O’Donnell began appearing frequently as a substitute host of Countdown with Keith Olbermann, particularly when Olbermann’s father was ill in the hospital.
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Why Alan Grayson is right and O’Donnell is wrong in defending Obama
More on Obama’s Capitulation and Betrayal – by Stephen Lendman
http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2010/12/obama-capitulates-to-republicans.html
The Civilian Works Administration (CWA) supplied over $3 billion for various work and transient projects, created temporary jobs for over 20 million. The Works Progress Administration (WPA) then replaced it.
The National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) established the National Recovery Administration (NRA) as an initiative to revive economic growth, encourage collective bargaining, set maximum work hours, minimum wages, at time prices, and prohibit child labor in industry.
The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) restricted production by paying farmers to reduce and/or destroy crops and kill livestock to decrease supply and raise prices, inappropriately at the wrong time when millions were impoverished and hungry. It ran counter to vitally needed policy to produce low-cost food, make it affordable for millions, and relieve hunger. It also subsidized owners, not tenant farmers or sharecroppers badly needing help.
The Farm Credit Act helped farmers refinance mortgages over an extended time at below-market rates. By so doing, it helped them stay solvent. It also created the Farm Credit Administration to make loans for the production and marketing of agricultural products as well as regulate and examine banks, associations, and related Farm Credit System entities. It was a network of borrower-owned financial institutions to provide credit to farmers, ranchers, other agricultural interests, and rural utility cooperatives.
The Emergency Farm Mortgage Act provided refinancing help for farmers facing foreclosure.
It cut unemployment from 25% in May 1933 to 11% in 1937, before spiking after Roosevelt declared victory too soon. War production then restored economic growth, created full employment, and ended the Great Depression.
A Final Comment
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