One of the foremost advocates of tapping Elizabeth Warren to lead a new consumer-protection agency acknowledges her confirmation to the post is not assured, but that a debate on her appointment would be a “fight worth having.” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is one of those on the left urging President Obama to name Warren to head a new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau created by the new Wall Street reform law enacted last month. The new consumer bureau has been...
Monthly Archives: August 2010
Watchdog: The Fine Print In $20 Billion Spill Relief Fund Gives BP An Upper Hand
Although President Obama has been criticized for “shaking down” BP over creation of a $20 billion relief fund, the actual terms of the agreement give the oil company important advantages over the government, according to an independent Washington watchdog group. BP this week made an initial $3 billion deposit into that fund, from which the company will pay damage claims stemming from its monster Gulf Coast oil spill. The company agreed to create the relief fund in June under...
Democrats Turn To You To Help Keep GOP Accountable
Democrats have turned to the concept of “crowdsourcing” to keep tabs on GOP electioneering during the annual August recess. The Democratic National Committee is asking supporters to provide video and other material of Republican campaign statements, to be posted online. “This year, Republicans are looking to have it both ways, trying to appeal to independent voters while making promises to the Tea Party crowd to pursue an extreme right-wing agenda if they regain control of Congress,” DNC Research Director...
Sharron Angle: Remaking America on the Pinochet Model
Sharron Angle, the Tea Bagger running against Harry Reid for the Senate in Nevada says that we should use Augusto Pinochet's model of privatization as a guide for reforming our social security system. Yes, Pinochet, the infamous fascist dictator and Nixon/Kissinger ally who engineered the subjugation of Chilean democracy in the 1970s.
New Ads Back Dems Who Supported Jobs Bill
Congressional Democrats who approved a new law designed to prevent layoffs of teachers and others nationwide are getting an election-year boost in the form of radio ads sponsored by organized labor. The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), AFL-CIO on Wednesday announced an ad campaign thanking key Democratic members of the House of Representatives for voting to save hundreds of thousands of jobs that were on the chopping block without adding a dime to the deficit....
Capitol Idea: Death Of A Senator, A Spark Of Bipartisanship
The outpouring here in Washington over the death of Ted Stevens has been so effusive that you wouldn’t necessarily have guessed that the former senator already had been out of office nearly two years, or that the plane crash that killed him had happened on an isolated mountain nearly 4,000 miles away. Presidents, fellow senators, Republicans and Democrats all rushed to offer their sympathies for the loss of Stevens, who had been convicted on corruption charges only in 2008....
Foster’s Dominionist Pals
It couldn’t be more timely. Today, we can look at one of the big players in the National Christian Foundation’s largesse pot of cash: The American Family Association. Here are their top “blog” posts today. There is also a video of a man in front of a newsy microphone inveighing against homosexuals who are raising children, etcetera. In Support of Mosques Darwinism and Truth Democrats, Please Follow New York Times’ Advice (by David Limbaugh) The Changing American Family No...
10 More Years In Iraq, We Must Stay So We Can Leave
This shocking news came from Lieutenant General Babaker Zerbari and therein lies the crux of the problem. Zerbari is a Lieutenant General and Iraq's most senior military officer. We send Lieutenant Generals out for coffee and donuts in the morning. We have Bird Colonels sharpening pencils and Major Generals escorting defense lobbyists to strip clubs.
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