Posts Tagged ‘Jay Rockefeller’

West Virginia and the party that hates coal

July 6th, 2010 | 1 Comment

1943. There were no Civil Rights Acts.  For that matter, there weren’t even 50 states.  The world was at war.  Israel didn’t exist.  Everything ran on coal. That was also the last time West Virginia elected a Republican Senator in a regular election. Candidate Year Party W. Chapman Revercomb 1943 Republican Harley Kilgore 1946 Democrat [...]

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 [...]