Captive American Blog Roundup 1/9/09
Happy New Year, everyone!
2009 has started with a bang.
Angry citizens stormed a television station on New Year's Eve and confronted their leaders over the economic crisis. Right on! Too bad it was in Iceland.
Illinois got itself a new Senator, Roland Burris. Burris said he didn't think the state's crooked governor Rod Blagojevich should appoint anyone to Obama's seat. Then Blago picked him and ... well, he changed his mind. We also found out Burris has already erected a marble mausoleum to himself, despite, you know, not being dead yet and all. With that kind of ego, he ought to fit in just fine in Washington.
Even Burris could take some lessons in self-love from New York Representative Charlie Rangel. Rangel single-handedly snapped up almost $2 million of our money for an educational center named after ... Charlie Rangel. When confronted by a colleague about it, he said he'd "been around long enough" to deserve such a thing. Make no mistake: this is how career politicians think. Shockingly, the anemic House ethics panel failed to complete an investigation of the 38 year member, despite pledges from Nancy Pelosi that they would do so before the new Congress was seated.
In other politics news, the two major parties swapped control of Tennessee's elections while locking independents out in Illinois. Yet another Democrat is being investigated for pay-to-play politics. This time it's New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson. Not to be outdone, the governor of Virginia is about to become the head of the DNC despite the fact that he unapologetically sells access to himself to the highest corporate bidder. Still think Blagojevich is nothing but a "bad apple"?
A columnist in India says Israel invaded Gaza over fossil fuels.
SUV sales are up thanks to, temporarily, low gas prices (sigh).
Universities are selling out their students to credit card companies.
Obama's trillion dollar government stimulus won't stimulate anything but more debt for our children and our children's children to pay off.
The Pentagon isn't likely to suffer any budget cuts during this crisis, even though it swallows up hundreds of billions every year and can't even perform an audit of its finances, let alone fail one. It also doesn't help that Obama has appointed yet another military-industrial complex retread to help run the bloated agency.
So-called economics experts keep blowing it and underestimating how bad things are.
Unemployment went up twice as much as the government wants you to think.
And last but certainly not least: Bailout Henry Paulson says he's going to work on saving the environment after he finishes "saving" our financial system. You know what that means. Kiss those polar icecaps good-bye!
2009 has started with a bang.
Angry citizens stormed a television station on New Year's Eve and confronted their leaders over the economic crisis. Right on! Too bad it was in Iceland.
Illinois got itself a new Senator, Roland Burris. Burris said he didn't think the state's crooked governor Rod Blagojevich should appoint anyone to Obama's seat. Then Blago picked him and ... well, he changed his mind. We also found out Burris has already erected a marble mausoleum to himself, despite, you know, not being dead yet and all. With that kind of ego, he ought to fit in just fine in Washington.
Even Burris could take some lessons in self-love from New York Representative Charlie Rangel. Rangel single-handedly snapped up almost $2 million of our money for an educational center named after ... Charlie Rangel. When confronted by a colleague about it, he said he'd "been around long enough" to deserve such a thing. Make no mistake: this is how career politicians think. Shockingly, the anemic House ethics panel failed to complete an investigation of the 38 year member, despite pledges from Nancy Pelosi that they would do so before the new Congress was seated.
In other politics news, the two major parties swapped control of Tennessee's elections while locking independents out in Illinois. Yet another Democrat is being investigated for pay-to-play politics. This time it's New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson. Not to be outdone, the governor of Virginia is about to become the head of the DNC despite the fact that he unapologetically sells access to himself to the highest corporate bidder. Still think Blagojevich is nothing but a "bad apple"?
A columnist in India says Israel invaded Gaza over fossil fuels.
SUV sales are up thanks to, temporarily, low gas prices (sigh).
Universities are selling out their students to credit card companies.
Obama's trillion dollar government stimulus won't stimulate anything but more debt for our children and our children's children to pay off.
The Pentagon isn't likely to suffer any budget cuts during this crisis, even though it swallows up hundreds of billions every year and can't even perform an audit of its finances, let alone fail one. It also doesn't help that Obama has appointed yet another military-industrial complex retread to help run the bloated agency.
So-called economics experts keep blowing it and underestimating how bad things are.
Unemployment went up twice as much as the government wants you to think.
And last but certainly not least: Bailout Henry Paulson says he's going to work on saving the environment after he finishes "saving" our financial system. You know what that means. Kiss those polar icecaps good-bye!
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