Geithner on the Hot Seat
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner appeared before the Joint Economic Committee today. One striking feature of Geithner’s testimony was how partisan it was. In keeping with the Obama administration’s mantra, he repeatedly tried to cast blame on the Bush administration while failing to acknowledge that when the financial crisis developed, he was the head [...]
Maloney Baloney
Congressional hearings begin today on “the impact of the newspaper industry’s financial problems.” We previously discussed these hearings, and the legislation they’re intended to spawn, in Obama Looking Forward to Nationalizing Newspapers.
The hearings are chaired by Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY, 95%), Chair of the House Joint Economic Committee. Here is her statement [...]
Oh Please Don’t Throw Me into that Brady Patch, Ms. Pelosi!
I can understand corruption; simple venality is easily fathomed: A person with a broken moral compass (or none at all) sees ethical behavior as mere obstacle, so he finds a way to squirm around it to get what he wants anyway.
But what offends me most about nearly every act of political corruption is the [...]
