The White House today announced that President Obama will deliver his much anticipated jobs speech before a joint session of Congress next Thursday. That date also happens to be the next GOP debate and John Boehner doesn’t like that: House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has asked President Obama to address a joint-session of Congress on […]
U.S. shareholders of News Corp are not happy at all over the Murdoch empires handling of the phone hacking scandal. Shareholders called it “inconceivable” that directors were not aware sooner of the questionable news practices that led to the closure of the News of the World tabloid, given that news of the hackings first surfaced […]
Perhaps a good place to start looking at government waste is in the military contracts, specifically those tied to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan: A new report from a bipartisan commission set up to scrutinize the unprecedented use of contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan concludes that the United States has wasted tens of billions […]
According to Mike Stark the National Enquirer is set to release a story tomorrow about John Boehner and an affair he has been having with a lobbyist. The National Enquirer contacted Mike about reporting he did on the story last year. This story will really hit home: I wonder how well Boehner’s zero-tolerance pledge regarding […]
For years I have been saying that police officers who break the law not only break the law, but also their oath to enforce it. It’s not just the crime, but the betrayal of public trust that really bothers me. Now we might finally be seeing some equal justice: Four New Orleans police officers could […]
Ben Nelson’s deal to get the federal government to foot the bill for Nebraska’s Medicaid costs isn’t sitting well with many people, including Nebraskans: Just 17 percent of Nebraska voters said they support the deal their senator cut in the last round of health care negotiations, in which the federal government will pick up the […]
When the Democrats regained control of the Senate on a wave of “anti-corruption” one of the first things they did was pass something now known as “rule 44”. In a nutshell what rule 44 says is that any earmarks/congressionally directed spending must be reported before a vote can proceed. Last night John Cornyn asked if […]
Read this and see exactly who wrote it. This is the same type of corruption that brought us the Medicare plan in 2003 that lead to disaster for millions of seniors.
Both parties suffer from corrupt members of their caucuses, but the Republican party seems to have a pandemic of corruption deep within it, even locally. Here is what’s happening here in Butler County, Ohio – the home of IntoxiNation and minority leader John Boehner: Butler County is doing more than its share these days to […]
It’s funny that even with the entire Blago debacle going on in Illinois and Republicans trying to paint Democrats in the state as the epitome of corruption, the people still want Democrats to lead them: Democratic Cook County Commissioner Mike Quigley claimed victory tonight in the 5th District race to replace Rahm Emanuel in Congress. […]