Hah! This is hilarious. Look at the photo. There must be a bunch of assholes at that event with their cellphones and notebooks out.

Voitures et cafe?

Yeah, that whole “We’ll negotiate all of the details in secret with the CEOs and money people and then the Senate will vote on it lock, stock and barrel as a package deal, but, trust us, you’ll like it” bullshit seemed to not have the best interests of the American people in mind.

At one point, she supported the TPP (secretary of state) and at another she was against (candidate for President), depending on who she was pandering to that day. I forget the timeline, but I remember the flip-flopping.

Ah, here it is: She called the TPP “the gold standard in trade agreements.”
http://www.npr.org/section…

“I’m not sure if that’s sad or funny.”

Alternative reality? Ronald Reagan was president in 1986.

Amen. Was it the 2002 season that came down to the last turn on the last lap of the last race? That shit was truly epic, a word woefully overused.

Well... almost twins. On your second point, the Wall Street crooks shower both parties equally with money. The Democrats had eight solid years with oceans of evidence to put some of these thieves away and they failed to take any action save fining companies who signed consent decrees that invariably “admitted no…

Well, you could make a case for Alberto Gonzales and the torture memos, but, I think he was White House counsel when he signed off on that shit.

I still find it unfathomable that bank after bank after bank after bank (some repeat customers—Bank of America and Wells Fargo come to mind) have been found criminally liable…

Hmm... “blind rant?” Ooookay.

Don’t forget that the Cummins can only be optioned in the heavy duty, three-quarter and one-ton trucks, which operate on a different, commercial-grade plane of existence compared to light-duty passenger vehicles.

They have a totally different standard to meet. It should be noted, however, that even those standards are…

Too bad the people running the EPA were not running Treasury or the Justice Department from 2006 through 2011 or so. We might have had a few more bankers behind the bars they deserve to be seeing the world through.

Those not-new rules would require an act of Congress, essentially, to single out that employee and actually vote for that individual to have his salary reduced. I highly doubt they would actually be that vindictive. Then again, the Republican leadership has made it their favorite sport to shut down the government just…

Bingo!

When did I say it was a one time deal?

Alas, this is not “one moment of bad judgement.” This sounds like systemic bad judgement repeated over and over again throughout the unit. This was not a one-shot deal (no pun intended).

Well, on Ford’s site, they are lopping $2,250 right off the top of the Platinum to begin with, so I suspect that the dealers will like have a fair bit to give as well.

Have you priced an Explorer lately? They “top out” at $53,235 for the Platinum model—plus options, though my guess is that your actual out-the-door price would be quite a bit cheaper.

CP, because of the price.

But, I bought my first car, a 1969 Dodge, from a junkyard, so I approve that avenue of car purchase. It was the Eighties. It cost $300 and they even found four wheels and tires (at least a couple mounted with some rock-hard Seventies snow tires) and I drove it home.

Then my brother did a…

Pretty god damned close. When the Pacifica came out, DaimlerChrysler called it a “Sport Tourer.” When the R-Class came out around the same time, DaimlerChrysler call it a “Grand Sport Tourer.”

Only marketing hacks with MBAs in “brand management” could up with bullshit like that.