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  1. O fares badly w/ white insecure voters. Worse with white upper middle and well off. Post poll washingtonpost.com/politics/poll-…
  2. Booker baffled by Bain. It's a chop shop: Bain wins even when workers, companies lose. huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/20/cor…
  3. Angelides gets it. Not a matter of if but when for next big bank blowup. huffingtonpost.com/phil-angelides…
  4. from WGer: Left anti austerity election rallies in disused swimming pools and derelict recreation facilities
  5. Sen Banking Chair Tim Johnson hauls Jamie Dimon in 2 testify. NTW, JP Morgan Chase is Johnson's biggest donor. is.gd/I6r0rM
  6. Break up the big banks. American Banker slide show shows 9 leaders in favor bit.ly/JzJ12t
  7. Europe is sinking under austerity. And Republicans are doubling down on it -- and Dems are tempted by it. My take huff.to/KcAPRa
  8. Boehner on America: "It’s a nation never content with the status quo and always on the make." historymusings.wordpress.com/2012/05/15/ful…
  9. Threat not JP Morgan's losses, but its $19b profits. Making big bets leveraged 200 to 1 that u guarantee. nakedcapitalism.com/2012/05/michae…
  10. Morgan's Ina Drew made 14 million last year, thenlost $2 bill. This isn't banking, it's gambling. nytimes.com/2012/05/15/opi…
  11. Know nothings. R's answer to lousy economy: kill the messenger that reports on it. nytimes.com/2012/05/14/opi…
  12. Tiabbi: how Wall Street killed reform. Now banks so big they are too big to save rollingstone.com/politics/news/…
  13. No excuse for no action on jobs. Krugman nytimes.com/2012/05/11/opi…
  14. House Armed Sevices votes $5 billion for missile defense site : a system that doesn't work against a threat that doesn't exist. Pro 56 to 5
  15. my take on Obama's bold tug on history huffingtonpost.com/robert-l-boros…
  16. The bipartisan folly: a consensus to embrace austerity after the election politico.com/news/stories/0…
  17. Nice choice: Rs hike military $$, cut poor. O "to do" list a mock jobs agenda that mocks need for jobs.
  18. Carville calls Ds to WakeTFU. cnn.com/2012/05/08/opi… But how connect when O offer nothing to address scale crisis?
  19. George Will: Student loans creation "absent minded entitlement." No GW, push for is purposeful and "full minded." bit.ly/IRoqqp
  20. Hollande out in Fr, Dutch govt falls, Greeks reject governing parties, Brits rebuke Torys, demonstrations in Spain -- it is time to turn.