The name “Lisa Brown” has popped up in the recently released list of Obama’s transition team, and at least one diarist on Daily Kos has identified her as our Lisa Brown, Washington’s State Senate Majority Leader.
Huh. You’d think that would be bigger local news… something she’d want to promote a bit… so I called state Senate Dems communications director Jeff Reading, and he says that’s the first he ever heard of the story.
So while it would have been cool, apparently not. Too bad.
UPDATE:
Sen. Brown responds:
I wish it was me, but alas, I haven’t heard from them. The closest I have been to the campaign (besides endorsing early) was meeting the President-elect in Seattle and meeting and introducing Michelle Obama in Spokane.
Yeah, well, that’s closer to Obama than I ever got.
Market falls 486 points in reaction to the Obamination.
#1 O U C H
Why am I not seeing more ebullient post from Goldy over the Obama win?
Remember, he also didn’t write many pro-Obama posts leading up to the election.
Troll is suspicious.
Hmmm.
Hey, looky here, Pudz has stopped fucking the goat long enough to offer us a brief post. I bet you’re finding reality to be a real fucking bitch today, huh, Pudz? Tell us about it.
Market falls 486 points in continued reaction to the failed policies of the Republican traitors.
In good news, those policies will soon be replaced with sane policies benefiting the middle class. the Nation and the World.
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Nope, blame NOBAMA the biggest lost in history on the day after a Presidential election.
You’re gonna argue with the Market AND reality?
Yep, your another pudding brained, kool-aid drunk, republican zombie.
Here’s a talking point…. now go fetch, moron!!
Gee, I seem to remember the market shooting upwards on November 4th. As typical, the wingnut trolls don’t mention this.
Anyways, the market has been pretty volatile for a while. Daily activity has been all so ho-hum.
Seriously, though, I have been hearing Jay Inslee’s name being on at least the long list for possible cabinet positions.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/.....=worldwide
BO made history
http://in.reuters.com/article/.....1420081105
Daily market news in this economy doesn’t mean much. Over the past couple of months we’ve seen daily swings of +/1 500, 700, even 900 points. Add to that the volitility caused by Federal intervention, with the federal discount rate reduced to 1% (leaving almost no room for any further reductions), and over half of the $700 billion bailout package pumped into the market – that we know of so far.
Add to that the fact that the stock market rose significantly in the three weeks before the election, from about 8,500 to around 9,500, so arguably it was due for a correction/profit-taking. As market guys love to say, “the market moves to the rumor, and corrects on the event”. If you follow that logic, you could argue that the 1,000 point rise in the three weeks prior to the election reflected the market reacting positively to predictions of an impending Obama victory, and then cashing in their chips when they won the bet.
But right now there are very many other explanations for the drop. Most of the drop occured at the end of the day, after a leak that General Motors was going to be making a major “business structure” announcement at the end of the week. It could be anything from the announcement of a merger between GM and Chrysler, or as bad as an announcement that they just filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Individual investors might be reacting to Fox News scare tactics by cashing in their stocks in the fear that things will get worse under Obama. (If that’s the case, more power to them, it means my own 401(K) shares will be be a bigger percentage of the pie when the economy recovers under Obama). Some other investors might be cashing in to take their capital gains now in the fear that their taxes will be raised in 2009 under Obama. But people who have been making money in the market consistently for decades, such as Warren Buffett, are betting on Obama bringing the economy up overall.
In the meantime, Bush & Co. are still in charge for the next two two months or so, and they can still do a lot of damage to the economy, both by their actions and their failure to act. It’s going to take a long time to clean up the mess after this drunken debauchery which Republican Economic Policy. When Bush’s Presidency ends, the DJIA will still show an incredibly poor performance under the eight years of the Bush administration. It might take the full first four years of the Obama administration to turn things around, as the damage done by Bush & Co. is structural and it will take a long time to re-build the foundations.
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You didn’t look at the history section.
Forget Bush, It’s obama’s niche now, can’t you get over it we lost you won something that you can’t defend without comparing.
We know he’s a kid and inexperienced hey that’s what you fools bought live with it.
Lisa Brown is also the name of the Executive Director of the American Constitutional Society, a strong civil liberties and bill of rights based legal group of top notch scholars that is emerging as a strong antidote to the federalist society.
Its that Lisa Brown. And its great news.
Lisa Brown was a classmate of mine both at Princeton and at U. of Chicago law school. Among other things, she was counsel for the office of the vice-president for Al Gore. She just took a leave as the Exec. Dir. of ACS. She is brilliant, funny, warm and a terrific person. . . makes me smile to know she will be part of this historic endeavor.