I’ve got 50 bucks that says Republicans are full of shit… any takers?

Today "economist" Art Laffer was all over the wingnutverse calling the contraction in the U.S. economy "catastrophic" and predicted that it would continue to shrink without "spending restraints and lower business tax rates." Are you fucking kidding me? People are still listening to this nut? Well, if you are listening, and buying any of Laffer's bullshit, I've got $50.00 bucks if you can prove that his "shrink the government and give tax breaks to businesses" nonsense has ever resulted in economic growth.

Kinder Morgan Doesn’t Like to be Bashed

This is what Alan Levin had to say reacting to Kinder Morgan's comment that the DE Legislature's insisting on doing their job might kill the deal to privatize the Port of Wilmington. The NJ's front page story on this today accounts for Kinder Morgan's new found nervousness over this deal, telling an analysts' conference call that the GA may have scuttled whatever deal is in being secretly negotiated: