Although Senate Banking Committee Chair Chris Dodd and his sometime Republican ally Richard Shelby continued to make noises on the Sunday talk shows about a possible bipartisan deal, both President Obama and House Financial Services Chairman Barney Frank have personally urged Dodd not to cut a deal with Republicans. I asked Frank point blank […]

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  Today, another lesson in why you should never take anything Rush Limbaugh says at face value without first doing your homework. On his radio program, Rush called President Obama a liar for making claims that the health care law contains numerous Republican ideas–including the idea of the insurance exchanges, which Obama says came from […]

  Senate Forecast Update: Little Chance of GOP Takeover, but Dem Position Remains Precarious by Nate Silver @ 12:01 AM Although national trends continue to move slightly toward the Republicans — since the start of the year, our senate model’s trend estimate has them gaining ground on the Democrats at the rate of about 1 […]

Republicans in Arizona passed a Racial Profiling Immigration Bill under the pretext that the Federal Government was not moving fast enough on immigration reform. So of course, the Republicans are trying to block immigration reform in Congress. GOP lawmakers seek to halt immigration reform push By the CNN Wire Staff April 25, 2010 3:16 p.m. […]

  Growing Split in Arizona Over Immigration By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD MESA, Ariz. — They stood a few miles from each other, but as far apart as heat and cold. Clutching a copy of a Spanish-language article on the tough new law making it a state crime for illegal immigrants to be in Arizona and […]

  I’ve been trying to understand the Tea Party Movement. Sounds like a lot of angry people who want to get the government out of their lives and cut both taxes and the deficit. Nothing wrong with that — although one does wonder where they were in the Bush years. Never mind. I’m sure like […]

  ASHEVILLE, N.C. – An Ohio man has been charged after authorities spotted him with a gun in a North Carolina airport parking lot as Air Force One was departing Sunday afternoon. Joseph McVey, 23, is charged with going armed in terror of the public, a misdemeanor, said Asheville Regional Airport Police Capt. Kevan Smith. […]

  MAYBE Lloyd Blankfein was doing “God’s work” after all. When the Goldman Sachs chief executive made that tone-deaf remark to an interviewer in November, he became the butt of a million insults, the ultimate symbol of Wall Street’s abdication of responsibility for its sleazy role in the Great Crash of ’08. But now we’ve […]

  As homeowners were falling behind on their subprime mortgages, wreaking havoc for investors that owned slices of their mortgages in securities peddled by Wall Street, Goldman Sachs was "well positioned," according to internal company emails from top executives. The firm had "the big short," declared chief financial officer David Viniar — Goldman Sachs was […]