That's the sound of the menQuote:
Originally Posted by tomder55
Working on the chain ga-a-ang
That's the sound of the men
Working on the chain gang
http://www.dga.org/news/v25_5/images/coen02.jpg
That's the Obama crew.
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That's the sound of the menQuote:
Originally Posted by tomder55
Working on the chain ga-a-ang
That's the sound of the men
Working on the chain gang
http://www.dga.org/news/v25_5/images/coen02.jpg
That's the Obama crew.
You even managed to work in a song sung by negroes. Well done!Quote:
Originally Posted by speechlesstx
Typical, it was you that made it a racial issue not me. I think of Sam Cooke as a singer, not as a black... and definitely not a "negro."Quote:
Originally Posted by NeedKarma
"Chain gangs"? http://hfboards.com/images/smilies/monkey.gif
Only you would take a few lyrics accompanied by a picture of three white guys and think of "negroes." Not me.
More from the most ethical, greatest transition ever, Third Top Treasury Pick Withdraws From Consideration... third in less than a week that is.
No wonder no one is answering the phone at Treasury.Quote:
Cohen has been a counsel to just about every major player on Wall Street, which perhaps complicated his nomination.
Now, the nomination is off.
Democratic sources said that an issue arose in the final stages of the vetting process.
As one source put it, "it's back to the drawing board."
Cohen had risen to the top after the withdrawal last week of expected deputy treasury secretary pick Annette Nazareth.
Nazareth was forced to withdraw from consideration for the deputy treasury slot because senators made it clear she would face tough questioning over her time at the Securities and Exchange Commission -- tenure that overlapped with the agency's failure to catch Bernie Madoff.
And the candidate for Undersecretary for International Affairs, Caroline Atkinson, was told she had to withdraw after a "tax problem" was revealed early in the vetting process, according to officials.
Lindsay Graham compared joining Treasury to joining the Marines yesterday .Apparently no one wants to jump into the trenches with Geithner. Maybe that says something about his leadership.
In general the Senators treated Geithner alternately like cats toying with a ball of twine... and like a piñata .Kent Conrad mocked him and at the end noting that the market was surging as they took their turns with the lash.
Meanwhile even the Compost's David Ignatius notes the incompetence of the financial team the President has assembled .
washingtonpost.comQuote:
Obama has stacked his administration with politicians and former government officials. You might think that with the greatest financial crisis of his lifetime, the president would want a few business leaders with experience managing large organizations in crisis. But no.
Here's the un-businesslike Obama Cabinet: At Treasury, a former government official; at State, a former senator; at Commerce, a former governor; at Defense, a former government official and university president; at Energy, a former professor; at Homeland Security, a former governor; at Health and Human Services, a former governor; at the White House as chief of staff, a former congressman; at the White House as economic czar, a former university president and government official.
All fine people, no doubt. But as thin on business experience as a Hyde Park book club.
Then add Megan McArdle of Atlantic ;another Obama supporter in the media who is jumping off the sinking ship .
http://meganmcardle.theatlantic.com/..._too_sunny.phpQuote:
Having defended Obama's candidacy largely on his economic team, I'm having serious buyer's remorse. Geithner, who is rapidly starting to look like the weakest link, is rattling around by himself in Treasury. Meanwhile, the administration is clearly prioritized a stimulus package that will not work without fixing the banks over, um, fixing the banking system. Unlike most fiscal conservatives, I'm not mad at him for trying to increase the size of the government; that's, after all, what he got elected promising to do. But he also promised to be non-partisan and accountable, and the size and composition stimulus package looks like just one more attempt to ram through his ideological agenda without much scrutiny, with the heaviest focus on programs that will be especially hard to cut.
One thing is clear ;Obama's gurus , are pushing essentially the same formula together that put the “Great” in the Great Depression.
What can I say about all the corruption. We need a revolution!! I am so tired of all the political bull. It also amazes me that people are for socialism. Are people really that dumb?
Hello m:Quote:
Originally Posted by michelle321
The really dumb people are the ones who believe the emails about socialism.
excon
Who needs an email…just watch and listen to Democrats. And there is no one definition of socialism, but clearly this president and this congress are moving us in that direction. Even Newsweek says, We Are All Socialists Now.
Gee, how many times have I heard that line over the past 8 years, the rich are getting richer, the poor and middle class are being left behind, blah, blah, blah?Quote:
Socialists mainly share the belief that capitalism unfairly concentrates power and wealth among a small segment of society that controls capital, creates an unequal society, and does not provide equal opportunities for everyone in society. Therefore socialists advocate the creation of a society in which wealth and power are distributed more evenly…
Page 5 of Obama’s omnibus bill smakes it policy:
What do you think Obama meant when he said it was time to “remake” America. What do you think Geithner meant when he said, “I think capitalism will be different?” How are we going to make capitalism different, by moving toward socialism? Oh that’s right, Obama isn’t a socialist, he’s just for “social justice.” That sounds better doesn't it?Quote:
"While middle-class families have been playing by the rules, living up to their responsibilities as neighbors and citizens, those at the commanding heights of our economy have not."
"Prudent investments in education, clean energy, health care and infrastructure were sacrificed for huge tax cuts for the wealthy and well-connected."
"There's nothing wrong with making money, but there is something wrong when we allow the playing field to be tilted so far in the favor of so few. . . . It's a legacy of irresponsibility, and it is our duty to change it."
Excon,
I don't receive emails on socialism. I actually listen to what politians say, and a government that is in the process of controlling everything is heading towards socialism. Obama goal is to take over everything, this country is supposed to be about freedom. And our rights are being taken away one by one. Look at the doctor who was giving cheap health care to the poor, the government tried to shut it down, because he was not charging them enough money. He is now allowed to keep going, as long as he charges the poor more money. That is what you call Government control, which is socialism.
Hello again, michelle:Quote:
Originally Posted by michelle321
Everything???? I don't know about that.
If you want to smoke marijuana, who is in control of that? If you want to have an abortion, who is in control of THAT decision? If you want to dance in a bar or sell your body, who is in control of THAT decision? If you're gay, and you want to get married like EVERYBODY else, who is in control of THAT decision? If you want to go to Canada and buy your prescription medication CHEAP, who is telling you that you can't? If you want to send a private email message to your friend, who might be reading it?
The answer to the above questions, is the GOVERNMENT. I'd call THAT tyranny.
You call it socialism when the government regulates business, but it's fine with you that the government regulates your body and your personal life. Okee doakee.
excon
Steve
That political manifesto disguised as a budget is a scary read.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/package...0-overview.pdf
It sort of lays it all on the line. When points the finger of blame on those who did not play by the rules I hope he has a special place in his hall of shame for :
Daischle( tax ),Geithner (tax) , Richardson (pay for play) ,Dodd(loan rules cheat)Rangel(tax cheat) ,Evita (campaign financing violations ) and himself (for the corrupt way he obtained his home)... and the list goes on and on.
Does he include himself among those who...
“For the better part of three decades, a disproportionate share of the nation's wealth has been accumulated by the very wealthy,” .
By his own definition he is among the uber-rich of the nation .
As I pointed out yesterday, Bush was a privileged rich, white guy making $180 grand while Biden was just a working class Joe at a quarter million... and Michelle with her $300 grand salary was a fine example of "self-sacrifice." I personally hope he starts his punishment of the wealthy with George Soros.Quote:
Originally Posted by tomder55
I don't think the government has the right to control anything. Everything the government touches turns to disaster. I am not rep or dem. And what right does our government have to take all of our money? Obama claims he wants to help the poor with health care, and yet when one man stands up and does it, they shoot him down. Because 70% of healthcare cost is because of government. Get the government out of all this "business" as you call it, and america will prosper. Take away all the rediculus taxes, and the job wage will skyrocket, the price of everything will go down, and every man and woman will be able to take care of themselves. And as for the other issues, which people are for and against, its called have a vote. But leave the federal government out of it. Obama is backdooring everything he does, our government already has too much control, and he just wants it all. My god the stimulus package has $130,000 for volunteers, that doesn't make any sense. And I'm just tired of the earmarks and pork that is in these bills. And he is a socialist which is on the way to communist. If it keeps going in this direction, there will be full control.
Hey, michelle: greenie
Maxine Waters intervened with regulators to protect personal investment
Another day, another Democrat involved in the culture of corruption.Quote:
When Rep. Barney Frank was looking to aid a Boston-based lender last fall, the Massachusetts Democrat urged Maxine Waters, a colleague on the House Financial Services Committee, to "stay out of it," he says.
The reason: Ms. Waters, a longtime congresswoman from California, had close ties to the minority-owned institution, OneUnited Bank.
Ms. Waters and her husband have both held financial stakes in the bank. Until recently, her husband was a director. At the same time, Ms. Waters has publicly boosted OneUnited's executives and criticized its government regulators during congressional hearings. Last fall, she helped secure the bank a meeting with Treasury officials.
[Rep. Maxine Waters] Getty Images
Rep. Maxine Waters, center, with Earvin "Magic" Johnson, left, and Ms. Waters's husband, Sidney Williams, at the 2009 BET Honors Reception in Washington, D.C.
Her involvement isn't new. Ms. Waters has detailed her financial ties in a series of federal disclosure forms and has been vocal in public in support of the bank. Those ties, however, have received little public attention. Nor is it well known how the influential lawmaker has over the years acted to support the bank and its executives.
Such potential conflicts of interest are more serious as the banking system's crisis has led the government to take an increasingly active role in overseeing financial institutions, including OneUnited. The financial-services committee on which Ms. Waters sits oversees banking issues, and the lawmaker is a potential future chairman.
Representatives of the bank and Ms. Waters didn't return calls seeking comment. Ms. Waters's congressional staff didn't respond to written questions about her and her husband's relationship with the bank.
Sheila Krumholz, executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics, a watchdog group, says Ms. Waters should have recused herself from any matters involving the bank. If her support helped OneUnited, "it was a disservice to her constituents," Ms. Krumholz says.
Maybe we should draft the CEO of Wal Mart for pres??
It seems to be about the only thing working right now.
(Hey, can't you take a joke?)
More on the budget manifesto .
Dan Henniger at WSJ has an editorial . He says that the whole thing is a philosophical construct of 2 French Economists ;Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez.
The Obama Rosetta Stone - WSJ.comQuote:
Their specialty is "earnings inequality" and "wealth concentration."
Messrs. Piketty and Saez have produced the most politically potent squiggle along an axis since Arthur Laffer drew his famous curve on a napkin in the mid-1970s. Laffer's was an economic argument for lowering tax rates for everyone. Piketty-Saez is a moral argument for raising taxes on the rich.
[Here is a pdf of their collectivist screed . It reads like it was authored by Marx.
http://elsa.berkeley.edu/~saez/pikettyqje.pdf]
In other words he plans to punish the rich for being rich... no matter how their wealth was obtained;no matter how many jobs they create. It's the "moral " thing to do . Of course there was a time when the left denounced the legislating of morality.Quote:
The rancorous language used to describe these taxpayers makes it clear that as a matter of public policy they will be made to "pay for" the fact of their wealth -- no matter how many of them worked honestly and honorably to produce it. No Democratic president in 60 years has been this explicit.
Exactly, I linked to his column a couple of days ago. That is Obama's moral imperative, to punish the rich in the name of "social justice." And not only that, in the effort to "level the playing field" and force more reliance on the nanny state, he's removing incentives to give to charity. I guess that's one way to cover for all those rich liberals who are rather miserly when it comes to digging in their own pockets.
But as Bertrand Russell said about giving to charity, "I'm afraid you've got it wrong. (We) are socialists. We don't pretend to be Christians."
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.
... Margaret Thatcher
I love it, God bless Maggie.Quote:
Originally Posted by galveston
Can you believe this? "Lawmaker Wants Community Reinvestment Act Expanded to ...
Mar. 13--WASHINGTON -- U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson introduced legislation Thursday that would apply the Community Reinvestment Act to all nonbank financial institutions, including credit unions and mortgage ...Johnson, D-Dallas, said that extending the CRA's reach to nonbank lenders would improve the quality of loans."
BLACK ENTERPRISE » News Article
Hello again,
Boy, if Ida known that you guys weren't going to give Obama any slack at ALL, I would have been on the dufus even harder.
But I, as opposed to you, gave the dufus a shot. Pity, you're not as nice as me.
excon
Bush didn't come out and try to drastically "remake" the country in his first 50 days. It might help Obama if he hadn't made such lofty promises about "fiscal responsibility," "transparency," "bipartisanship" and "ethics" only to have done a complete about face and nominate a bunch of ethically challenged people in the first month.Quote:
Originally Posted by excon
Hello Steve:Quote:
Originally Posted by speechlesstx
I don't subscribe to the go slow policy you're advocating. When the country is as broken as it is, going SLOW ain't going to do it.
Besides, he's DOING what the American electorate put him in office to DO - as opposed to what the dufus did.
excon
My view is that, as Americans see what Obama is up to, even moderates (dupes) within his own party, he will get 'thumbs down'. I mean, how many days are we into Obamanation, and the tea parties are starting every where? The new president and his political toadies are already calling-out Americans for their public opposition? If you enjoy dissent, get ready.Quote:
Originally Posted by excon
Hello again, George:
I'm sorry. I've been hearing for weeks how much the country is turning against him, how his "dupes" are getting fed up, how the public opposition to him is rampant...
Then I look at his approval ratings, and wonder what you guys been smoking.
excon
These "tea parties" couldn't be any faker. Funded and organized by "Freedom Works," which is run by Armey.Quote:
Originally Posted by George_1950
Southern Beale: There's Astroturf At The Tea Party
(or Google some keywords if that particular link isn't good enough for you)
You keep clinging to 'em; we're moving on. So, where was the jackass-in-chief last night? Leno?? Another page out of "Lincoln'?Quote:
Originally Posted by excon
I see, the left can organize the grassroots by whatever means necessary under whatever pretense while the right should sit back and take it.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeedKarma
Looks to me like the approval ratings and the disapproval ratings are moving closer to a convergence.Quote:
Originally Posted by excon
And you thought we were done with this post...
The most ethical administration ever lets yet another one fall through the vetting net.Quote:
Former Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion spent more than $50,000 in campaign contributions on a party for supporters and to enrich the Bronx Democratic Party soon after he was named President Obama's urban-affairs chief six weeks ago, according to filings at the Campaign Finance Board.
Records show that Carrion's campaign dropped $26,525 in February at Bayard's, a restaurant in the Financial District, for what was described as a "thank-you reception" for more than 500 people who backed his run for city comptroller.
Not long afterward, on March 5, Carrion wrote a $25,000 check to the Bronx Democratic Party, which forms the base of his political support.
Carrion spent the last three years raising $2.3 million for a citywide run, only to drop out on Feb. 19 when he was named to the White House post.
He had $1.1 million left in his war chest as of March 11, the last filing.
When The Post first inquired if Carrion would return his contributors' cash, officials said no one had asked.
Last week, however, the campaign acknowledged that "less than 10" people wanted their money back.
So a letter was drafted offering refunds. The campaign said in a statement that the refunds follow "practices used by other campaigns that have suspended operations and in compliance with New York state election law."
Carrion is under no legal obligation to pay back his contributors.
He also faces a much more serious issue: an investigation by the Bronx DA into whether he got a deal on the renovation of his City Island house in return for government favors.
Yet another Obama nominee with tax issues, HHS nominee Kathy Sebelius. At least they're now asking someone to review their situation before heading up for their hearings.
Time for an update... turns out "friends of Angelo" Kent Conrad and Chris Dodd lied about what they knew according to testimony to Congress.
Liar, liar, and these guys had oversight responsibility during Countrywide's collapse. It will be interesting to see if Congress takes any action against these two seeing as how they have an affinity to coddling their corruptocrats.Quote:
Despite their denials, influential Democratic Sens. Kent Conrad and Chris Dodd were told from the start they were getting VIP mortgage discounts from one of the nation's largest lenders, the official who handled their loans has told Congress in secret testimony.
Both senators have said that at the time the mortgages were being written they didn't know they were getting unique deals from Countrywide Financial Corp. the company that went on to lose billions of dollars on home loans to credit-strapped borrowers. Dodd still maintains he got no preferential treatment.
Dodd got two Countrywide mortgages in 2003, refinancing his home in Connecticut and another residence in Washington. Conrad's two Countrywide mortgages in 2004 were for a beach house in Delaware and an eight-unit apartment building in Bismarck in his home state of North Dakota.
Robert Feinberg, who worked in the Countrywide's VIP section, told congressional investigators last month that the two senators were made aware that "who you know is basically how you're coming in here."
"You don't say 'no' to the VIP," Feinberg told Republican investigators for the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, according to a transcript obtained by The Associated Press.
The next day, Feinberg testified before the Senate Ethics Committee, an indication the panel is actively investigating two of the chamber's more powerful members:
—Dodd heads the Banking Committee and is a major player in two big areas: solving the housing foreclosure and financial crises and putting together an overhaul of the U.S. health care system. A five-term senator, he is in a tough fight for re-election in 2010, partly because of the controversy over his mortgages.
_Conrad chairs the Budget Committee. He, too, shares an important role in the health care debate, as well as on legislation to curb global warming.
Both senators were VIP borrowers in the program known as "friends" of Angelo. Angelo Mozilo was chief executive of Countrywide, which played a big part in the foreclosure crisis triggered by defaults on subprime loans. The Calabasas, Calif.-based company was bought last July by Bank of America Corp. for about $2.5 billion.
Old news Steve (or at least that will be the defense.) State Sen. Sam Caligiuri ;a psssible Republican opponent to Dodd's seat (although the Republicans will probably nominate RINO Rob Simmons to challenge) is calling on Dodd to resign . The sound of the press reaction is cricket chirps.
What's shocking to me is it actually made the front page of our paper today. That will probably be all we hear though.Quote:
Originally Posted by tomder55
Elliot mentioned a whooper that happened in NJ this week . It took out about 40 politicians ;at least 3 mayors and a hand full of rabbis .
Read the details and just imagine the reaction had this been Republicans .
FBI Nabs over 40 N.J. Politicians, Rabbis - CBS News
Yep... not a good week for my co-religionists.
Money laundering through Yeshivas and Shuls? Bribery? Selling influence?
Let them all rot.
They weren't even SMART about it. One guy I know commented that the reason that these Rabbis got caught is because they don't watch TV. If they watched any of a million crime shows on TV, they'd have known to pat down the guy approaching them with an offer for a criminal deal like this for a wire. Any idiot who watches CSI or Law & Order knows to do that much.
So all the years of these Rabbis trying to get their constituents to forego TV because it isn't "godly" finally bit them in the butt.
Of course, the fact that the crimes themselves weren't "godly" didn't seem to stop them from committing them.
I have a feeling that this guy Dwek who was the informer isn't going to make it to trial. Syrian Jews in particular have a very nasty streak about that sort of thing, and when the head Rabbi of the Syrian Jewish community in the USA is taken down in this kind of sting, you know somebody is having basement meetings to figure out what to do about it.
Makes me sick.
On the other hand, there are going to be some Brooklyn "mansions" on sale cheap in the Syrian Jewish neighborhoods real soon. A real steal if you can afford the downpayment.
Elliot
I noticed CBS/AP played "Guess that Party" while reporting the roundup.
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