So this morning I read this interesting article: Republicans are stepping up their criticism of the Securities and Exchange Commission following reports that senior agency staffers spent hours surfing pornographic websites on government-issued computers while they were supposed to be policing the nation’s financial system. California Rep. Darrell Issa, the top Republican on the House […]
That’s what Politico is trying to push: When CNBC’s Rick Santelli argued last week that President Barack Obama’s mortgage bailout plan would force hardworking Americans to pay for their neighbors’ mistakes, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs dismissed him as a know-nothing derivatives trader out of touch with Main Street. But if the White House […]
Nancy Pelosi goes to Syria and gets branded a traitor and gets accused of “bad behavior” and possibly “criminal activities”. The media sure did eat up on this. Now fast forward to today and Condi Rice is heading over to Syria to meet with them: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will meet Syria’s foreign minister […]
A Good Swift Kick (via The People’s Republic of Seabrook) In general, I’m against kicking ’em when they’re down … unless really awful people are involved. I figured Tom DeLay is so awful, plenty of people would gang up on him and I could pass. Imagine my surprise when the toughest question one famous TV […]