Tag Archive 'committee'

Nancy Pelosi’s Culture of Corruption: Rangel edition

Posted by Moonage on 16 Sep 2008 | Tagged as: 2008 Presidential Race, Ethics

Charlie Rangel, who everyone has to love, is in a little trouble with the IRS, and possibly the FBI I would imagine.  The FBI just usually sort of comes along with the IRS.  Here’s the abbreviated list of what he’s in some doo-doo over:

Rangel’s papers over the past 10 years show no reference to the [...]

$128 billion surplus morphed to giant deficit

Posted by Moonage on 28 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: Fed Policy

That’s the teaser on CNN.  Here’s some of the meat:
A Democratic point man on the budget, Sen. Kent Conrad of North Dakota, blasted the administration for its “reckless fiscal policies,” blaming the president’s tax cuts for driving the government into deficit and saying Bush “will be remembered as the most fiscally irresponsible president in our [...]

Stuck on Stupid: Nancy Pelosi

Posted by Moonage on 19 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: Energy Policy, Legislative Process, National Politics

And by stuck, I do mean stuck.  Nancy Pelosi has agreed to take into consideration four bills aimed at energy relief next week.  One item she absolutely will not even debate or discuss is offshore drilling.  Her logic?  Get this:
Pelosi reiterated her position that Republican calls for more offshore drilling represent another chapter in a [...]

Nancy Pelosi Condemns Rangel for dissing Mississippi

Posted by Moonage on 10 Nov 2006 | Tagged as: Shock and Awe

The Democrats haven’t even officially taken over the government yet, but they are already tossing out anything Republican as fast as they can.  Along with that, I guess we can totally dismiss Bush’s "conservative compassionism":
Its not just committees our influence within the House Democratic caucus will grow enormously, Mr. Rangel said in an interview.
To [...]

My 2006 election day prediction

Posted by Moonage on 07 Nov 2006 | Tagged as: Politics

I am basing this not on polls, because polls are just as often wrong as they are right.  I am basing this on things that matter, that are really happening.  The stock market has moved up strongly today.  Wall Street LOVES a useless split House.  When there’s no chance of significant legislation being produced for [...]