How to Get Our Democracy Back:
Feb 4th, 2010 | By Ara Rubyan | Category: CorruptionIf you want change, you have to change Congress — so says Lawrence Lessig.
Corruption
Collins Overrules Bipartisan House Stimzilla Oversight Amendment
Feb 12th, 2009 | By Mark | Category: Corruption, RepublicansI had no idea just how powerful these moderate cross-over Senators had become. It’s gonna be a long four/eight years for hardliners like Cornyn, Inhofe and McConnell.
Ohioans Pimped By Blago Scandal
Dec 10th, 2008 | By Mark | Category: CorruptionThere’s corruption — then there’s corruption.
Palin: Just Another Corrupt Alaska Republican
Oct 22nd, 2008 | By Ara Rubyan | Category: CorruptionApparently, Republicans in Alaska think every day is their birthday.
“My name is Mickey Mouse and I’m here to vote.”
Oct 15th, 2008 | By Ara Rubyan | Category: CorruptionRepublicans rejoice because they cannot do the math: they are convinced that they are down in the polls by 8-14% because 3% of all new registrations are fraudulent.
$700,000,000,000
Sep 20th, 2008 | By Mark | Category: CorruptionFunny how when you read something, certain things just jump out at you.
$700,000,000,000
Seven Hundred Billion Dollars and No Pennies. That answers that question.
That’s the 12 figure limit on the Proposal to bailout the mortgage securities markets. That’s on top of what some doom sayers predict will be the ultimate Five Hundred Billion Dollar cost of [...]
Cassandra Calling
Sep 20th, 2008 | By Mark | Category: Banking, Business, Corruption, EconomicsUnfortunately, while we were all dreading the Rovian October Surprise, like bomb, bomb, bombing Iran using predator drones with smart bombs and minimal collateral damage; the real thing was an attack on Wall Street using predator lending by dumb investors with minimal collateral period.
A couple of days ago I half jokingly asked if we could [...]
Heckuvajobing
Sep 19th, 2008 | By Mark | Category: Business, Corruption, George W. BushNote: We all should know by now that “Sub Prime” really means, Really Bad Risk!
If you want to know what the hell a “derivative credit-default swap” is, or an english version of what the hell just happened and where we might end up, I’m directed to TIME and the Wall Street Journal. For some gawdawful [...]
Suskind Pens Another Bombshell
Aug 5th, 2008 | By Mark | Category: Constitution, Corruption, George W. Bush, Lead Article, Republicans, War in IraqBy Mark Adams
This one’s huge. From Politico’s Mike Allen (Hat Tip: TPM):
“The White House had concocted a fake letter from [Iraq's former intel director] Habbush to Saddam, backdated to July 1, 2001,” Suskind writes. “It said that 9/11 ringleader Mohammad Atta had actually trained for his mission in Iraq – thus showing, finally, that there [...]
Mission Creep
Jul 27th, 2008 | By shep | Category: Corruption, Iraq, Lead Article, Politics, Republicans, War in IraqBy shep
“The threat of mass death on a scale never before seen residing in the hands of an unstable madman is intolerable — and must be preempted.”
- Charles Krauthammer, October 2002
“With its oil, its urbanized middle class, its educated population, its essential modernity, Iraq has a future. In two decades Saddam Hussein reduced its GDP [...]
