Judge Martin Feldman, the man who just reversed the Obama administration’s moratorium on offshore drilling has something interesting on his financial disclosure form: Line 19 – Transocean. He was paid a dividend from one of the companies involved in the disaster? That seems like a conflict to me. There’s also quiet a bit of other […]
Al Franken had his first amendment pass the Senate since being sworn in, and it is a good one: On Tuesday night, the Minnesota Democrat got his first piece of legislation passed by the United States Senate via roll call vote. The amendment stopped federal funding for those defense contractors who used mandatory arbitration clauses […]
Sen. Richard Shelby was just on Morning Joe and he was, in an oh-so serious voice, expressing concern about ACORN and the possibility of “millions of tax payer dollars wasted”. Where was Sen. Shelby when we were hearing about all the waste, fraud and abuse of Halliburton and KBR? Where was his serious face when […]
Michelle Bachmann is back in the news, this time lying about the stimulus. She is making the false claim that ACORN will get $5 billion from the stimulus while under indictment. Again – a flat out lie. So I was just thinking about this. If this was even true, then why hasn’t Bachmann voiced outrage […]
KBR gets awarded a new contract in Iraq, despite being under a criminal investigation for faulty wiring that killed two U.S. soldiers. Maybe the government will contract with that peanut company in Georgia to send products to our troops also.
Cases like the rape allegations against KBR are like Pandora’s Box – once you open it then it keeps getting worse: Congress is asking questions about another ex-employee of government contracting firm KBR who claims she was raped in Iraq. Letters to the Pentagon and the Justice Department today from Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla. underscore […]
Yesterday I was sitting here wondering if I should continue one of my year of scam blogs, Helluvaburden. I started it to keep track of all the news surrounding Halliburton’s corruption. For the past couple months there hasn’t been too much news regarding them, then I wake up this morning and realize the debate that […]
It had some of the atmospheric sense of the hearings that Rep. Conyers held on the Downing Street Memo. The only difference this time is that it was not being held in a basement room of the Capital. It was being held in an actual chamber of Congress. The hearing was however, only attended by […]