President Obama said in his weekly address today that “Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner will soon announce a new strategy for reviving the country’s financial system while making sure that banking executives do not misuse federal money meant to assist their companies.” Watch Obama’s weekly address here: I must say, I have to agree with Creature on The Reaction, “Suck it up or go under,” needs to be the message to those greedy corporate ho’s on Wall Street. Sphere: Related...
Monthly Archives: January 2009
Obama Slams Wall Street Bonuses
If you haven’t seen this yet, it is so worth a watch: Thank you Mr. President!
Obama Signs Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act
President Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act this morning in the East Room of the White House. The Lilly Ledbetter Act act reverses the 2007 Supreme Court decision that limited the statute of limitations on filing pay discrimination law suits. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton attended the White House ceremony. Clinton was “one of the initial co-sponsors of the Senate legislation (later blocked by Republicans) that sought to change this decision and, in one of her few official acts...
Time to Ignore Republicans’ Demands
It’s time to “ignore Republicans’ demands about the stimulus plan” and every other issue that they have roadblocked and stonewalled in the past that comes up again. Democrats have the majority and it’s time to get moving on issues that are most important to the American people. In reacting to last night’s vote in the House on the stimulus plan John Kerry told Politico: “if Republicans aren’t prepared to vote for it, I don’t think we should be giving...
Match THIS for Stupidity: Taxing a House of Cards
My wife is a smoker. Except for one year when she quit, she’s been a smoker since she was about 18. But she’s cut back, from as many as three packs a day to just three cigarettes. And, she now smokes outside the house. At various times, she was asked to show an ID. When in her 20s she saw it as an annoyance. By her 30s and 40s, it was a compliment. Now it’s just downright annoying. The...
Kerry Chairs Senate Panel on Climate, Gore Testifies
John Kerry, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee chaired a Senate panel on Climate today with Al Gore offering key testimony. As chairman of the SFRC and a long time environmental activist, Kerry is posed to be “an influential player” in the efforts to forge ”a treaty and reshape U.S. policy on climate issues.” Sen. Kerry’s committee, which oversees the State Department, gives him a platform from which to influence the U.S. negotiating position in the Copenhagen talks, which...
Statement of Vice President Al Gore to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Former Vice President Al Gore, an expert on the issues of global climate change and international security, today released the following statement at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s first substantive hearing of the 111th Congress: Full text as prepared is below: We are here today to talk about how we as Americans and how the United States of America as part of the global community should address the dangerous and growing threat of the climate crisis. We have arrived...
Opening Statement of Chairman John Kerry at Climate Change Hearing
The full text of Kerry’s opening statement as prepared for delivery is below: We’re all grateful today to welcome back to this Committee not only a visionary leader, but an old friend and Senate classmate of mine-former Vice President and Nobel Peace Prize-winner Al Gore. It’s well known that Al and I have a certain political experience in common. What is less well-known is that we also teamed up on the first-ever Senate hearing on climate change for the...
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