Perhaps no other Senator has more dirty hands in both the sub-prime mess and now the bailout as well. First he lied about not knowing about placing the language in the federal stimulus that gave AIG execs big bonuses, now after being called out on it, he’s copping a plea. “(CNN) — Senate Banking committee [...]

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Hypocrite. “One of the darker periods of modern American history was J. Edgar Hoover’s long reign over the FBI, as we have learned since he died in 1972. So it is more than a historical footnote to discover new records showing that prominent public television broadcaster Bill Moyers participated in Hoover’s exploits. Under the Freedom [...]

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This is a ticking time bomb for Obama. “U.S. Sen. Roland Burris said today he is open to a Senate ethics investigation into how he got the Senate seat from ex-Gov. Rod Blagojevich and that he has reached out to a Sangamon County prosecutor who is reviewing Burris’ sworn testimony before Illinois lawmakers. Burris comments [...]

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Ooooh, the intrigue. The point is that if this is true and there is another tax/nanny problem, Obama might want to bump Secretary Gates and give the bum the job! Hope and Change!

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Barney Frank (architect of the mortgage mess) apparently used his position to give a bailout to his home state bank. “Troubled OneUnited Bank in Boston didn’t look much like a candidate for aid from the Treasury Department’s bank bailout fund last fall. The Treasury had said it would give money only to healthy banks, to [...]

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