Claire McCaskill has come up with a novel idea – cap the bonuses companies that are receiving federal aide can pay out: Under the bill by McCaskill, an early endorser of Obama’s presidential candidacy, employees would not be able to make more money than the U.S. president — $400,000 a year — until their companies […]
Paulson has announced he is spending an additional $600 billion to buy up toxic mortgages: The Federal Reserve announced Tuesday that it will purchase up to $600 billion in mortgage-backed assets, the toxic assets that have been weighing down embattled government-sponsored enterprises like Fannie Mae (FNM: News ) and Freddie Mac (FRE: News ). Buying […]
This is change, we need. Actually it isn’t as much change as it is undoing the damage of the Bush years: The Food and Drug Administration, bedeviled by a salmonella outbreak and tainted medicine from China, is likely to monitor imports and fresh produce more closely under an Obama administration. With President Bush no longer […]
What a novel idea. Now which candidate has been calling for the same thing? I’ll give you a hint – it’s not John McCain.
Yeah I am sure the wingnuts will try to lecture me on first amendment rights and all, but that is how Brian Kilmead on Fox news thinks we should treat Code Pink: A Fox News morning host has a novel idea to handle those pesky Code Pink protesters who disrupt political events and Congressional hearings: […]