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 …
Palin lying through her teeth about oil company campaign contributions I just love the smell of hypocrisy in the morning. Bob Cesca nails it: […] A major corporation, not unlike General Motors or Bank of America or WellPoint, failed to properly outfit one of its deep-water oil drilling platforms with the proper failsafe mechanisms and a chain reaction of death …
A young heron sits dying amidst oil splattering underneath mangrove on an island impacted by oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in Barataria Bay, along the the coast of Louisiana on Sunday, May 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) # Yesterday, the Department of the Interior‘s (DOI) Inspector General (IG) released its investigation into the Lake Charles District Office of …
After realizing he stepped in it with Rachel Maddow over his stance that private business should be exempted from the Civil Rights law, Rand Paul went on Good Morning America and in this account by TPM, tried to steer: …the conversation toward something more recent, President Obama’s criticism of BP following the oil spill. Paul said: “This sort of, you …
“Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them…” –Thomas Jefferson, 30, July, 1816 Just a couple of what I’m sure will be a bumper crop of examples. Bill Maher: “It’s as if Sarah Palin somehow made it through medical school.” Andy Borowitz: Poll: Rand Paul Surges …
Wednesday’s CBS Evening News lead story featuring the BP oil disaster was sickening. Katie Couric‘s report included new video of a second leak site that adds brings the estimate of the total leakage by independent scientists to 95,000 barrels day, 19x the official BP-US government calculation (recall that it took over three weeks just to get the first 30 seconds …
If teabaggers were basketball players, they would be tops in the category of ball management. (Warning: Thinking about this too hard may be bad for your psychological health.)
