Material Girl Strikes Pose:
Dems proudly announce crackdown on congressional connections with deep pocket lobbyists. (Note: Please send blank checks to P. O. Box 666 to purchase bridge in Brooklyn.) As The New York Times notes, the new changes address goodies like free golfing sprees in Scotland but do absolutely nothing about the most egregious problem—campaign donations. The big bucks will keep rolling in, along with the requirement that your representatives in Washington will represent, not you, but whoever dumps the most money in your representative's campaign coffers.
Go Ahead, Fire Me, Just Give Me a Couple Hundred Million to Go Away:
The average American Joe is sickened when a grown man is paid a million to ten million dollars to play a boy's game, like baseball, but how about getting $210 million to be fired after doing a mediocre jog? Home Depot dumped CEO Robert L. Nardelli with a going away prize that would stagger the imaginations of all but the very richest among us.
Julie Creswell and Michael Barbaro report on this sad state of capitalism in today's New York Times. The money, by the by, comes from the company's investors, many of whom are pension funds from Mr and Mrs Average Joe. No wonder the Republicans were so hot on shifting Social Security funds into the stock market where they could be raided by CEOs like Nardelli and the boards they hold in their back pockets.
Will America Just Walk Away:
Brent Scowcroft, former security adviser to Bush 41 and Gerald Ford, Op-Eds in today's New York Times, arguing that the U. S. has got to fix the broken pottery in Iraq. Please note, we went into Iraq to control the flow of oil and maintain the dollar as the monetary value of exchange for oil. We ain't leaving Iraqi oil in the hands of whatever dictator/strongman comes to the fore in that country. Go ahead and strike a pose, Dems.
Quote of the Day:
On Language: "Americans puzzle over Britons keeping their spare 'tyre' in the 'boot' of their car, but most admit that they sound clever doing it." — Kevin Sullivan in The Washington Post.
Dems proudly announce crackdown on congressional connections with deep pocket lobbyists. (Note: Please send blank checks to P. O. Box 666 to purchase bridge in Brooklyn.) As The New York Times notes, the new changes address goodies like free golfing sprees in Scotland but do absolutely nothing about the most egregious problem—campaign donations. The big bucks will keep rolling in, along with the requirement that your representatives in Washington will represent, not you, but whoever dumps the most money in your representative's campaign coffers.
Go Ahead, Fire Me, Just Give Me a Couple Hundred Million to Go Away:
The average American Joe is sickened when a grown man is paid a million to ten million dollars to play a boy's game, like baseball, but how about getting $210 million to be fired after doing a mediocre jog? Home Depot dumped CEO Robert L. Nardelli with a going away prize that would stagger the imaginations of all but the very richest among us.
Julie Creswell and Michael Barbaro report on this sad state of capitalism in today's New York Times. The money, by the by, comes from the company's investors, many of whom are pension funds from Mr and Mrs Average Joe. No wonder the Republicans were so hot on shifting Social Security funds into the stock market where they could be raided by CEOs like Nardelli and the boards they hold in their back pockets.
Will America Just Walk Away:
Brent Scowcroft, former security adviser to Bush 41 and Gerald Ford, Op-Eds in today's New York Times, arguing that the U. S. has got to fix the broken pottery in Iraq. Please note, we went into Iraq to control the flow of oil and maintain the dollar as the monetary value of exchange for oil. We ain't leaving Iraqi oil in the hands of whatever dictator/strongman comes to the fore in that country. Go ahead and strike a pose, Dems.
Quote of the Day:
On Language: "Americans puzzle over Britons keeping their spare 'tyre' in the 'boot' of their car, but most admit that they sound clever doing it." — Kevin Sullivan in The Washington Post.
posted by Jim | 11:17 AM
1 Comments:
OK, the new rules governing trinkets, cash, getaways and such are good. But wasn't very smart (smartass?) of Speaker Pelosi to skip over to the thousand-dollar-a-plate fundraiser immediately after changing from one designer suit to another. The only PERSON WHO SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO LOBBY A MEMBER OF CONGRESS IS THE CITIZEN.
To get there, we've gotta take the necessity for constant money-raising out of the equation. That's where real reform is needed.
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