why "fierce advocate's" newfound populism is nothing more than hollow rhetoric...

AUGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH
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WASHINGTON — White House officials and Senate leaders predicted on Sunday that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will be confirmed for a second term.

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said a new four-year term for the central bank head is needed to ensure stability in the financial system. Lawmakers would send a bad message to financial markets by "playing politics in any way" with Bernanke's nomination, Gibbs said.

hey GIBBS, POTUS... pull your heads out of your A$$ES and LISTEN TO THE PEOPLE. sending a "bad message to financial markets" sends an even WORSE message to the AMERICAN PEOPLE (you know, us little folks that actually VOTE?)!!!

right. being "confident" that the EPIC FAIL that is ben bernanke should continue to head the fed is POPULISM OVER CORPORATE INTEREST, EXACTLY HOW, Mr. PRESIDENT?

yet another example of 48-hours of "damage control" being thrown out the window like the baby with the bath water.

HOWARD DEAN 2012?

YES. WE. CAN.

(now THAT would be CHANGE i could BELIEVE.)

three things "O" could do to regain some credibility:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/23/biden-us-to-appeal-dismis_n_434417.html
1.) speak out forcefully re: US justice dept. appealing the dismissal of the blackwater case

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/23/obama-weekly-address-vide_n_434082.html
2.) the day after your SOTU address, introduce a firm plan with time lines to undo the corporatization of democracy by the activist supremes.

http://baselinescenario.com/2010/01/23/paul-krugman-for-fed-chair-crazy/
3.) express a lack of confidence in geithner and announce your support for krugman to take over at the fed.

of course, i would like to see something happen on glbt civil rights issues, but i don't even dare to presume that any of our issues will be seriously considered in the "rebranding of a president" that will take place leading up to and in the days after the SOTU address. since i'm accepting that's not going to happen, these are things i would like to see REAL ACTION (not just rhetoric) in the next 90-days.

an unabashed liberal can hope, can't he? what 3 things would you choose?

i *heart* bernie sanders...

...tell it like it is, bernie, tell it like it is!!!

"As a result of the greed, irresponsibility and illegal behavior of Wall Street our country has experienced the worst economic decline since the Great Depression," said Sanders. "Mr. Bernanke was head of the Fed and the nation's chief economist as this crisis, driven by reckless speculation, developed. Tragically, like the rest of the Bush administration, he was asleep at the wheel during this period and did nothing to move our financial system onto safer grounds."

"As the middle class of this country continues to shrink, we need a chairman of the Federal Reserve who is more concerned about expanding the productive economy -- increasing decent-paying jobs for all Americans -- than continuing to fan the flames of Wall Street greed and outrageous compensation packages."