Archive for March 19th, 2009
FYI: A Conservatives Example of Free Market is
A conservative Free Market is when a company that is too big to fail, fails and gets a quarter of a trillion TAX-PAYER DOLLARS to prevent it from collapsing the ENTIRE GLOBAL ECONOMY.
Comment Rescue: All The Silly Party People Say “Hey”
arthur // Mar 19, 2009 at 2:56 pm I give him (Markell) credit as being a newly elected governor in committing political suicide. coons is on the way out, but markell had a career ahead of him. The stupid never rests. If you think the stupid even gets tired, you are mistaken. The stupid throws its […]
Bill Taxing (some) Bonuses Passes The House
Via MSNBC: WASHINGTON – Acting swiftly, the Democratic-led House approved a bill Thursday to slap punishing taxes on big employee bonuses at firms bailed out by taxpayers. The bill would impose a 90 percent tax on bonuses given to employees with family incomes above $250,000 at American International Group and other companies that have received […]
HB1 Update
Heard from Rebecca who is in Dover with her band of Green Shirts and she says that the House went into session right at 2PM, but promptly recessed for caucus meetings. She hears that they ought to emerge from these meetings between 3:30 and 4PM to take up HB1. Rebecca speculates that they went to […]
Breaking: 8% Pay Cut Among Markell Proposals
Jack Markell has proposed an across-the-board 8% pay cut for all state employees, including teachers. This would include both merit and non-merit employees and, coupled with benefits reduction and holiday adjustments, will reduce employee compensation by about 10%. The News-Journal’s Ginger Gibson has done a superb job of explaining Gov. Markell’s entire proposal, and you […]
Happy Easter from The SEU
This morning I attended the second meeting in a month of the Sustainable Energy Utility (SEU) Oversight Board. The big news that came out of this meeting was that a final contract had been negotiated with Applied Energy to be the Contract Administrator. The CA is responsible for the actual work of the SEU. The […]
Bailout Companies Owe Federal Taxes
This is choice: Some top recipients of U.S. bailout money owe the federal government more than $220 million in unpaid taxes, a U.S. lawmaker said on Thursday. Representative John Lewis, a Democrat who heads the U.S. House of Representatives Ways and Means oversight subcommittee, said 13 bailed-out companies owe the federal government taxes. Two of […]
It’s Tough Being White in America
The Daily Show With Jon StewartM – Th 11p / 10c The New White Face of Crime Daily Show Full Episodes Important Things w/ Demetri Martin Political Humor Jim Cramer
John McCain: Courage, Conviction, Hero…Full of Crap
Remember back in the election when people were pushing what a stand up honorable guy McCain was/is? Well, he’s so stand up he won’t even defend his own daughter from being called a fat ass by the nutjob Laura Ingrahm: You would think that John McCain would stick up for his own daughter against the […]
Chris Dodd As Fall Guy?
Over the weekend, the story began to bubble up that Chris Dodd may have neutered the Stimulus Bill language restricting the bonus payouts of firms getting bailout funds. I gather that this is the thing on cable news this week, though it wasn’t much on NPR this evening. I was pretty pissed at this when […]
Reminder — Budget and HB1 Events Today
Today is going to be a busy one. Governor Markell is presenting his FY2010 budget today (addressing the massive shortfalls) in a press conference at 1PM in Dover. Not sure whether this will be televised or broadcast on the radio, but will update as I hear it. And this would have been a good opportunity […]
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