Specter Will Be Junior Democrat On Committees
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on May 6th, 2009 4:41 am by HL
Specter Will Be Junior Democrat On Committees
Despite promises from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) that Sen. Arlen Specter (Pa.) would retain his seniority after switching parties, Specter will be put…
Robert L. Borosage: Corruption Is Dangerous to Your Health
In area after area, Americans are suffering from the accumulated corruptions of our moneyed politics. In the fifth labor of Hercules, an arrogant king tries to demean the hero by hiring him to clean out the Augean stables in a day. The stables containing the largest herd of cattle in civilization, had never been cleaned. Hercules, with a little help from Athena, changes the path of two rivers and quickly washes out the accumulated filth. But no one is about to change the course of the Potomac to cleanse the backrooms and lobbies of Capitol Hill.
Dave Bing, NBA Great, Elected Detroit’s Mayor
DETROIT — Basketball legend Dave Bing was elected Tuesday as Detroit’s mayor through the end of the year, sweeping the incumbent from office in the…
Bill Buzenberg: The Mega-Banks Behind the Meltdown
It’s time to set aside the myth of the mega-bank as victim. These banks aren’t “too big to fail,” but simply “too politically connected to fail.”
