Category: Congress

Why is Paul Krugman on the cover of the latest issue of Newsweek? The legacy media is enamored with the story about Krugman's criticism of the Obama/Geithner bank plan …

Good for Jake Desantis. The AIG executive resigned and wrote this letter to his boss Ed Liddy. The entire letter is a very well written and devastating critique of …

I wrote this a couple days ago and, for various reasons, forgot to post it until now. It's a little dated, but I figured I'd throw it up here …

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's plan to fix the bank problem is coming into focus this weekend. Based on initial reports it appears the Obama administration is going to attempt …

As Michael noted yesterday the House passed Speaker Pelosi's targeted tax increase on AIG (and other TARP funded) bonus recipients. Regrettably, almost half of the Republicans in the chamber …

Now that Senator Chris Dodd (D- Countrywide) has admitted to amending the stimulus legislation so that the AIG bonus payments could be made House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is adding …

The political debacle that is now AIG threatens to force Democrats to do something they haven't had to do in years: govern and live with the consequences of their …

Today's winner is Vermont US Senator Patrick Leahy. He gets the award for the following- The Senate Judiciary Committee chairman called Wednesday for the establishment of a nonpartisan "commission …

My favorite wife of a Congressman is back in the news. Beverly Young knew there was a reason she missed her flight to the nation's capital Monday. Young, the …

Buried amid yesterday's coverage of the president's announcement that 50,000 troops will remain in Iraq and Treasury Secretary Geithner's acquisition of almost half of Citibank was this interesting development, …