Corporate Welfare Queen, GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt During his 1976 presidential campaign, Ronald Reagan captured the public’s imagination by creating a cultural icon: a rich, Cadillac driving Welfare Queen (code for “Black”) to symbolize all welfare recipients as manipulative fraudsters out to game the system at taxpayers’ expense. His pogrom against the poor came to fruition when President Bill Clinton …
Classic SNL skit that captures the two sides of former WH Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel Back in May, in a post titled Sometimes You’re The Windshield, Sometimes You’re The Bug, I called on President Obama to get rid of his Chief of Staff, Rahm “fucking liberal retards” Emanuel; and a month after he took office, the two key players …
Three down, two to go. Obama’s daily economic briefing team: Peter Orszag, Christina Romer, Larry Summers, Timothy Geithner, and Jared Bernstein A month after President Obama took office, in a post titled Geithner’s Rescue Plan, I called on him to dump both Geithner and his chief economic architect, Larry Summers: Obama likes to brag that he can walk and chew …
The World of the Cross • Terry Kruger Urantia is the sentimental shrine of all Nebadon, the chief of ten million inhabited worlds… So why is BP allowed to continue to despoil our beautiful planet? A convicted corporate felon, for decades it has demonstrated a reckless disregard for all life, from the top of the food chain to the …
A Dire Straits message for President Obama Is President Obama suffering from Stockholm Syndrome brought on by the D.C. culture of Regulatory Capture corruption he inherited? Regulatory capture occurs when a state regulatory agency created to act in the public interest instead acts in favor of the commercial or special interests that dominate in the industry or sector it is …
To say that progressives are furious that Joe LIEberman has brought the entire Democratic Party to its ass-kissing knees on the life and death issue of health care reform would be a gross understatement. President Obama allowed himself to be punked by Larry and Timmeh on the Wall Street bailout fiasco. Then, cowed by Generals Petreaus and McChrystal into escalating …
In his blog yesterday, The Washington establishment suffers a serious defeat, Glenzilla summarizes the significance of Thursday’s bi-partisan vote on the Paul-Grayson Bill in the House Finance Committee that calls for an audit of the Federal Reserve. This is an effort that goes back at least 57 years when Congressman Wright Patman of the House Banking and Currency Committee complained: …
