South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy was appointed as the new chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Tuesday afternoon. Gowdy, R-S.C., was picked by the House Republican Steering Committee as the next chairman of the committee last week and the House ratified that decision Tuesday by accepting a Republican resolution making the change. […]
GOP Makes Bogus Case for Bank Deregulation as Senate Certain to Curtail House Dodd Frank “Reform”…
We’ve argued from the crisis onward that the limited re-regulation of banking that took place was inadequate. But the Republicans are whinging that banks nevertheless are being treated badly despite a lack of evidence behind virtually all of their claims. The effort to give already-overly-coddled banks an even better deal is lumbering forward. The House […]
The Slow-Motion Assassination of President Trump by Unhinged Liberal Media…
Unhinged Liberal Media Reach Peak Meltdown Over Comey ‘Hope’ Memo…
Thanks to the Incessant, Unhinged Russian/Trump Fear Porn/Fake News Dow Plunges 372 Points…
The wolves are circling, and members of Congress from both political parties are now openly talking about impeaching President Trump. On Wednesday, speculation of a looming Trump impeachment sent stocks plunging. The Dow was down 372 points, and the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq both experienced their largest declines in eight months. This downturn was […]
NYT Chides Obama Ever So Gently for Betraying His Own Words…
The editorial board of The New York Times published a piece Monday under the headline, “The Cost of Barack Obama’s Speech.” The piece discusses the $400,000 price tag on the former president’s scheduled speaking engagement on Wall Street. Beginning with a quote by Obama himself on how fundraising disconnected him from the people he began […]
Obama the Hamiltonian by Matt Stoller…
When former President Barack Obama decided to take $400,000 from a Wall Street investment bank for the first paid speech of his post-presidential career, he accelerated an important debate within the political establishment. As a policy leader, Obama’s Presidency was largely defined by the financial crisis. The government’s response, organized first by Bush and then […]
Why Do Democrats Feel Sorry for Hillary Clinton? by Andrew Sullivan…
Every day, the incoherence deepens: He’s going to cover “everyone,” but he’s going to push 24 million people off their health insurance. He’s going to wipe out the debt, but his tax cuts and spending spree will add trillions to it. He’s never going to intervene in Syria, but he just did. He’s going to […]
Dereliction of Duty, Redux by Scott Ritter (Outstanding Read)…
During the night of April 6, Trump ordered a pair of U.S. Navy destroyers operating in the eastern Mediterranean Sea to launch 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles against targets located in and around the Syrian air base of Shayrat. The cruise missile attack was in response to allegations of a chemical weapons attack by a Syrian […]
Don’t Forget Your Base: Dear President Trump…
Respectfully, what the fuck are you doing? TheShadowBrokers voted for you. TheShadowBrokers supports you. TheShadowBrokers is losing faith in you. Mr. Trump helping theshadowbrokers, helping you. Is appearing you are abandoning “your base”, “the movement”, and the peoples who getting you elected….
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