From Lexington, Kentucky: Five Clay County officials, including the circuit court judge, the county clerk, and election officers were arrested Thursday after they were indicted on federal charges accusing them of using corrupt tactics to obtain political power and personal gain. The 10-count indictment, unsealed Thursday, accused the defendants of a conspiracy from March 2002 […]
Joe “the Plumber” tells a room full of media-bashing conservatives that he is “horny”. It looks like it wasn’t taken very well either: It seemed that all of those who were gathered in the ballroom of Washington’s Grand Hyatt hotel for the Media Research Center’s annual “DisHonors Awards” ceremony designed to bash the dreaded liberal […]
19 states now going after AIG for their bonuses. This outrage is not going away anytime soon.
President Obama has sent out a video message to the world, but mostly it is targeted to the people of Iran.
The bill has passed to tax the bonuses at a rate of 90%. The final break down is: YEAS NAYS DEMOCRATIC 243 6 REPUBLICAN 85 87 TOTALS 328 93 With the exception of 6 blue dog Democrats, support on the left side of the aisle was rather unanimous, but the Republicans split 50/50. Interesting […]
I posted about it last night. It’s where Republican Eric Cantor tried to say that the Democrats voted to let AIG keep their bonuses. Well now that the actual bill is coming up today, the one that gets back the bonuses and prevents this from happening again, Cantor isn’t sure if he will support it […]
Here’s the new outrage from the right. President Obama signed a book deal for an abridged version of “Dreams From My Father” aimed at middle school aged kids. Basically the published will do the book and Obama will sign off on the final copy. For this, Obama gets $500,000. The deal was reportedly in the […]
The right is making a big deal over a bill the Democrats voted down to “recoup” the bonuses from AIG. Here is the text of the bill: Section 1: The Secretary of the Treasury shall, notwithstanding any other provision of law, implement a plan within the next two weeks to recoup or stay the payment […]
Chuck Hagel was on Rachel Maddow last night and he went all out against the Republican Party, from putting a lot of blame for the economic mess on their shoulders, to defending Obama from Cheney’s recent comments. One thing that really stuck out to me was when Hagel was asked about Michael Steele and his […]
Congress can give the telecom companies immunity from criminal and civil prosecution for illegally tapping the phones of millions of citizens. So why can’t Congress offer a sort of immunity to AIG for not paying up on these so called “contracts”? I guess our constitution just isn’t as important as the people who helped run […]