I get the cynicism thing all the time, although I don't really know where that comes from, because I think I'm actually… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
You know what an effective deterrent to crime is? Jail! And do you know what kind of criminal penalty actually makes people… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
Amendments occupy a great deal of most legislators' time, particularly those lawmakers in the minority. Members of Congress do author major bills,… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
“He steps to the lectern and does his Mussolini routine, which he’s perfected over the past months. It’s a nodding wave, a… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
“[Obamacare] was almost the perfect example of politics in the Bubble Era, where the time horizon for anyone with real power is… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
There are times when American politics seems like little more than two groups in a fever to prevent each other from trespassing… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
At least Bank of America got its name right. The ultimate Too Big to Fail bank really is America, a hypergluttonous ward… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
What we have now is a situation where politicians get a whole bunch of money from mainly business interests. Then once they… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
Obviously, people who commit crimes should be punished. Even people who steal socks and 'Snow White' videos should probably do time if… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
“It was at that moment that Markisha decided to apply for CalWORKs. She’d rented a room in an apartment she shared with… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
“So the only time RICO was used to fight mortgage fraud was when the criminal was a black gang member and the… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
The Congressional Record will forever show that [Obamacare] was passed in a romper room of overgrown children seemingly barely old enough to keep from… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
Sniper is a movie whose politics are so ludicrous and idiotic that under normal circumstances it would be beneath criticism. The only thing that… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
I get the cynicism thing all the time, although I don't really know where that comes from, because I think I'm actually the opposite… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
It's really interesting that we've had this great Tea Party movement that is all about restoring free market capitalist values, but what they completely… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
To be robbed and betrayed by a fiendish underground conspiracy, or by the earthly agents of Satan, is at least a romantic sort of… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
'Nobody goes to jail.' This is the mantra of the financial-crisis era, one that saw virtually every major bank and financial company on Wall… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
The basic scam in the Internet age is pretty easy even for the financially illiterate to grasp. It was as if banks like Goldman… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
For the broadcast business to be successful, viewers need to be not merely interested in our political melodramas, they have to be in an… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
It's not a stretch to say the whole financial industry revolves around the compass point of the absolutely safe AAA rating. But the financial… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
You know what an effective deterrent to crime is? Jail! And do you know what kind of criminal penalty actually makes people think twice… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
Like wars, forest fires and bad marriages, really stupid laws are much easier to begin than they are to end. — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
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