Posts Tagged ‘Jack-Reed’

Fannie Mae is now an entitlement program

May 11th, 2009 | No Comments

A lot has been made over the collapse of Fannie Mae.  For a while, peeps kept insisting it was apparently a short term blip and that a huge infusion of cash would apparently make everything good.    Other peeps, like me and a few others, have argued that unless they change the rules and allow [...]

Nancy Pelosi’s derivatives lie

October 29th, 2008 | 1 Comment

Nancy Pelosi famously denied Democrats had any responsibility for the financial crisis that we are dealing with right now.  She stills sticks with that fantasy.  However, I don’t think too many people believe her.  Today the Washingtonwatch blog listed the members of Congress who voted for the 2000 Consolidated Appropriations Act which allowed trading credit [...]

Bush vetoes the Iraqi pullout bill ( and restores the Constitution )

May 2nd, 2007 | 4 Comments

Yesterday Bush vetoed the Iraqi pullout bill. In that bill, it had emergency spending for the military as well. That was both expected politically, and I expected it for bigger reasons. Spending will be done one way or another until a proper funding bill is presented. The war won’t stop just because a few loonies [...]

How close do you need to be to the border to feel you KNOW the border problems?

May 18th, 2006 | 3 Comments

Reading from Powerline, here’s the list of who voted AGAINST the border wall: Daniel Akaka Jeff Bingaman Maria Cantwell Chris Dodd Richard Durbin Russ Feingold Daniel Inouye Jim Jeffords Ted Kennedy Frank Lautenberg Robert Menendez Joe Lieberman Patty Murray Barak Obama Jack Reed Paul Sarbanes Let’s look at this another way, shall we? Hawaii – [...]