A lot of talk yesterday about the foreclosure scandal sweeping the nation. With calls mounting for Congress to intervene, we are starting to see bigger names in Washington coming out to protect the poor bankers. Here’s Eric Cantor coming to their defense yesterday: What we’re talking about, Debbie, you have 10 percent, if that, of […]
It looks like John Boehner has a problem with accurately filing paperwork required under the FEC: Since 1996, Boehner’s congressional campaign committee has received 63 letters from the Federal Election Commission requesting “additional information” to correct seeming errors in reports the committee submitted. That total surpasses similar FEC requests to Ohio’s 17 other representatives. Rep. […]
I think back to a time so long ago, when states were upset over the federal government using their national guard troops for a war in a foreign land. In a time when a small town in California didn’t want military recruiters there, so that town would quickly be labeled as some sort of traitor. […]
Another story has emerged of police using excessive force, this time in Florida: Former teacher Paul King says he used to be one of those people who said lock ’em up throw away the key. However King has changed his mind since being arrested on public intoxication last July. A video shows deputies pushed him […]
You know you are one screwed candidate when you can’t even get your own state party to back you: The state Republican Party bluntly told Rep. Katherine Harris that she couldn’t win this fall’s Senate election and that the party wouldn’t support her campaign, a letter obtained Monday by The Associated Press shows. Party Chairman […]
As people are being rescued, the questions are pouring into the catastrophic breakdown in our government’s infrastructure to handle such a disaster as we have seen unfold this week. New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson offered Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco help from his state’s National Guard on Sunday, the day before Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana. Blanco […]