Get ready to be pissed to the point of wanting to break stuff: A Morgan Stanley wealth manager will not face felony charges for a hit-and-run because Colorado prosecutors don’t want him to lose his job. Martin Joel Erzinger, who manages more than $1 billion in assets for Morgan Stanley in Denver, is being accused […]
This story pisses me off: Late last night, House leadership decided it would postpone the release of its completed draft of health care reform legislation, after Blue Dog Democrats—and a variety of other concerned members–raised a number of objections to aspects of the proposal. The Blue Dogs are the biggest problem facing a decent healthcare […]
We have just endured eight years of “cowboy diplomacy” by George Bush. This has given us such zingers as “bring it on” and “we are going to conduct a crusade”. Bush’s mentality has further alienated this country from the rest of the world and extinguished our status as the shining city on the hill. One […]
Iraq war architect Richard Perle is now trying to get in on the Kurdish oil deal, despite objections from the administration. Yup – the people who brought us the death and carnage known as the Iraq War now seek to profit from it.
I had a feeling the news of Cheney’s saying he is not part of the executive branch would start a fire storm. I just had no idea it would be this big. Rahm Emanuel is showing a pair and ready to really go after Cheney in a way that sounds perfectly legal: Following Vice President […]
If there weren’t grounds for impeachment of Dick Cheney, there certainly are now: The Oversight Committee has learned that over the objections of the National Archives, Vice President Cheney exempted his office from the presidential order that establishes government-wide procedures for safeguarding classified national security information. The Vice President asserts that his office is not […]
Every time I read articles like this I remember that old SchoolHouse Rock cartoon, back in the day when we had real Saturday morning cartoons, teaching all the young kids how a bill becomes a law. I then wish I had a copy of that to send to the White House because they evidently missed […]
It looks like there is dissent amongst the GOP ranks Raw Story is reporting: At least four Republican members of Congress are calling on the House Republican leadership to hold a floor debate on the Iraq war, and are holding a press conference today, RAW STORY has learned. The GOP members will announce that they […]
Now Bush didn’t know about the port deal? President Bush was unaware of the pending sale of shipping operations at six major U.S. seaports to a state-owned business in the United Arab Emirates until the deal already had been approved by his administration, the White House said Wednesday. Defending the deal anew, the administration also […]
Last night I was watching Hardball. David Gregory was filling in for Chris Mattews. During one of the last segments, Gregory had Jean Schmidt on. Jean is the Republican running for Ohio’s second congressional district in a special election this coming Tuesday. Her opponent is Democrat Paul Hackett, a Marine Major who recently returned from […]