That has been the mantra of the Bush administration and Republicans for year, and it was even included in the TARP: Congress wanted to guarantee that the $700 billion financial bailout would limit the eye-popping pay of Wall Street executives, so lawmakers included a mechanism for reviewing executive compensation and penalizing firms that break the […]
It just amazes me hearing Republicans, like Bob Corker, say that Bush caused our economic troubles. So much has helped lead to it and Bush is at fault on most of it, but so our the Republicans. For example, the Republicans couldn’t spend a whopping $14 billion on the auto industry, yet the Pentagon has […]
Looks like the Republican attempts at not counting all votes just got squashed: Al Franken received a potentially major boost towards his hopes of becoming Senator on Friday, when Minnesota state officials ruled that absentee ballots rejected because of clerical or administrative errors should, in the end, be counted. The decision by the state canvassing […]
The talk right now is that the White House will use TARP funds to bailout the auto industry. This was what Democrats originally wanted to do, but the White House opposed. Hopefully when/if the White House does it, they will show some balls and call out the Republicans for blocking the bailout last night. I […]
That’s the message sent out by Senate Republicans last night as the auto bailout failed: Their efforts in Congress squashed, U.S. automakers are depending upon a reluctant White House to quickly provide a multibillion lifeline to help them avoid imminent collapse. General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC, which have said they could run out of […]
Joe Klein sums up what I have been feeling: I’ve been watching cable news this afternon–I know, get a life!–and you know, Barack Obama comes from the same state as Rod Blagoyevich. That is really suspicious! What did he know and when did he know it? This is the first major scandal of the Obama […]
While everyone focuses on Blago, there are still serious problems in the world: A suicide bomber struck Thursday inside a popular restaurant in northern Iraq where Kurdish officials were meeting with Arab tribal leaders, killing at least 55 people and wounding about 120, police said. Police Brig. Gen. Sarhad Qadir, who gave the casualty figures, […]
Not good news for Norm Coleman when the fate of his Senate re-election still hasn’t been decided: Federal investigators are looking into allegations that a longtime friend and benefactor tried to steer money to U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman, the Pioneer Press has learned. Agents with the FBI have talked to or made efforts to talk […]
Just a few short years ago the right hated Patrick Fitzgerald. They tried to call him some left wing tool and even wanted to see him lose his job. Fast forward to today and he becomes a darling of the right.