Disgraced former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich is back in the news, as the Chicago Sun Times reports. You remember Mr. Blagojevich, impeached for “pay for play” bribery schemes, including the attempted auction of an appointment to former Senator Obama’s Senate seat. Well, a list of all the politicians who previously solicited Governor Blagojevich to give [...]
As we reported last week, there is no Senate health care bill. For weeks the media have reported on Senate Committee deliberations over “health care reform” or “the health care bill.” But these reports are misleading. A genuine bill, written in the legalese of legislation does not yet exist. Senators have been negotiating over, and [...]
The first article in this series (scroll down or click here) described as “corruption” a $529 loan from the government to Fisker Automotive, company in which Al Gore is an investor. We reported that the loan was to fund development and production of a plug-in hybrid sports car that will cost $89,000, will travel only [...]
Fisker Automotive, Inc. is a start-up car company in California. Fisker is about to build the Karma, a hybrid/electric, luxury sports car that will sell for $89,000. Al Gore, former Vice President and grand ayatollah of the shrine of global climate change (formerly, “global warming,” before the earth cooled for twelve years) is a partner [...]
Is it “racist” to disagree with President Obama, or to oppose his ideas, or the ideas of his appointees? Recently, former President Jimmy Carter, speaking for much of the political-media establishment, asserted that it was. A gaggle of media talkers and writers surged forward to agree. In the wake of Carter’s preposterous assertion we’ve had [...]
We’ve posted a lot of information on the so-called “stimulus” or recovery act as the Administration now calls it. The promise was that job losses would halt immediately if C0ngress passed the thousand page bill immediately. When the final votes were taken the final version of the bill had not yet been printed. There was [...]
We thought the Great Senate Seat Auction Scandal had faded into the past. But in Barack Obama’s Chicago, political scandals have many lives. Former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich or “Blago” as he was affectionately known, was impeached for seeking bribes in return for an appointment to President Obama’s former Senate seat. In the subsequent fallout, [...]
2/24 Breaking News Update: The other Senator from Illinois, Dick Durbin, just spoke to reporters in Washington and described in detail his private meeting with Roland Burris this afternoon. Durbin recommended to Burris that he resign, and Burris refused to resign. BurrisP asked to resign. Burris resignation. It’s become a part of my morning routine. [...]
In this 44 second video Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says it all. We can’t think of a thing to add! The man behind Senator Reid, beaming like a proud father, is Senator Chuck Schumer. .
After acting like The Keystone Cops for nearly a month Senate Democrats, led by Majority Leader Harry Reid, have finally acknowledged the obvious: they have no legal or Constitutional basis for refusing to accept Roland Burris as the new Senator from Illnois to take over seat vacated by Barack Obama. Reid had used the Illinois [...]
