Just when it was getting good, too! The pill-popping conservative blowhard was addressing the lost lambs of CPAC, when he started in on a lisping, mincing impersonation of openly gay Rep. Barney Frank. Seconds later, CNN cut the feed, or you know, "had an accident", but quickly went back o...

Wednesday Chronicle - Vol. 09 No. 08 Smug THE FOUNDATION “[G]overnment, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.” –Thomas Paine THE DEMO-GOGUES Transferring wealth to those to whom the wealth belongs: “[W]e have lived through an ...

newVideoPlayer("/maher_bankers_gawker.flv", 506, 423,""); Don't get us wrong: We despise the arrogant and overpaid financiers responsible for this economic mess. They, not taxpayers, should pay for their incompetence. But banker hatred is starting to get worrisomely extreme. Some examples: Bill Mahe...

Okay, here's a challenge for the Sunday Talk Show hosts: Ask the Republicans guests, including leading GOP drama queen Lindsey Graham, why they hate America. Because only people who hate this country would work so hard to defeat the stimulus package when our country is on the verge of economic colla...

It seems NY AG Andrew Como has written a letter to the head of the House Financial Services Committee, Rep, Barney Frank (D-Mass) about his concern that Merril Lynch changed their bonus payment schedule so that the bailout package would foot the bill....

newVideoPlayer("/MeetThePress_BarneyFrank.flv", 506, 423,""); We were all so excited for the Obama presidency because suddenly all those lovable losers we've grown to love during the Bush years would be influential and important! Hah. No, they are still buried in crosstalk on Meet the Press , of cou...

(1) Pretty Good Senator Jon Kyl emphatically denies that we have much of an economic crisis on our hands. He thinks President Obama is just being careless with dangerous rhetoric when he describes it as a crisis that could escalate into a catastrophe. In his weekly radio and Internet address on Satu...

From the nicely acid-dipped keyboard of the folks at Club for Growth: Red Dwarf Star & Gas Giant Buy From Art.com The Club for Growth’s award to the first Comrade of the Month goes to…Democratic Rep. Barney Frank (MA-04). As Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, Rep. Frank ...

Last week, the President announced that executive pay would be capped at $500,000 for banks that took TARP money. The argument was that federal taxpayers shouldn't be paying ridiculous money for failing institutions. Recruiters roundly condemned the idea, and pointed out that failing institutions we...

….same as the old boss: I just received confirmation from a congressional aide that Senate Banking Chair Chris Dodd will not to provide increased conditions, transparency and oversight on the second $350 billion of the Wall Street bailout money (otherwise known as TARP). introduce legislation ...