So some of the bailout money could be going to hookers: Visa, Mastercard or American Express? Or maybe a credit card from JP Morgan Chase? Wall Street CEOs, lawyers, bankers and media executives chalked up thousands of dollars in prostitution charges on their corporate credit cards — swiping their cards for $2,000 an hour prostitutes, […]
The new jobless numbers are out, and they are worse than expected: Unemployment rate: 7.6% Jobs Lost In January: 598,000 (the most since 1974) Jobs Lost Last 12 Months: 3.5 Million Unemployed Workers: 11.6 million* A note about unemployed workers – this number does not include the so-called “underemployed” number (nor does the unemployment rate). […]
Why? Because if you make any kind of living before trying to get confirmed to the government then you are under fire: The White House’s nominee for Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Leon Panetta, has earned more than $700,000 in speaking and consulting fees since the beginning of 2008, with some of the payments […]
Why hasn’t Obama fixed the economy, ended the war in Iraq, caught Osama, given us all healthcare, etc.? That’s the sense you get when listening to these talking heads on TV. But on a more serious note, since when is government jobs not jobs? I am really tired of hearing these Republicans say “this bill […]
Because the American networks fuck it up. Right when Obama was talking about the stimulus and House Republicans with Matt Lauer, NBC loses audio. Great work there guys!
Oh this is just priceless: Republicans wrapped up their retreat Friday by signaling they are losing patience with President Obama and the Democratic leadership in Congress. Former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-Mass.) criticized the new administration on Friday, saying it had promised to reach out to Republicans on the Capitol Hill, but then offered an economic […]
Between doing my daily work and shoveling snow yesterday, I watched Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC. During her show she had 3 Republicans on to talk about the stimulus bill, as compared to 0 Democrats. Looks like the bi-partisanship memo never got delivered to the media. Think Progress tracked this on all networks and found that […]
That has been the constant message from Republicans over the past several days when it comes to the stimulus package. Digby even picked up on it: Can someone explain to me why I’m seeing Republican after Republican on television advising Americans on the right way to run the economy? Is there any reason why we […]
Every single Republican in the House votes against the stimulus bill. You got to hand it to them – they stick together no matter how far off the cliff the leadership is driving them. What gets me though is that the Democrats kept making concessions to the Republicans on this, and like a bunch of […]