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- OSFA0
I love this country's law system hahaha.....*cries
"Illinois law allows Blagojevich to make an appointment while in jail."
- ukit0
Think Obama might be tied up in this somehow?
I hope he's not, just throwing that out there.
- No. I think this guy was trying to cross Obama...hence the massive heat.TheBlueOne
- OSFA0
...aaaaand he's out.
- rafalski0
This is what European democracy looks like, members of European Parliament talking to Czech president last week:
http://eureferendum.blogspot.com…- Mind you the Lisbon Treaty gives EP power, it's a decorative body now, a place parties send colleagues to to get rid of themrafalski
- blaw0
Blagojevich has been in deep shit for a year or more, right? This appointment was seen as an opportunity for him to polish his image a bit. So much for that.
- DrBombay0
Amazed JazX hasn't commented on Blagojevich being a democrat and all. This is entertaining.
- ukit0
Oh snap, another one.
The St. Paul Pioneer Press reports that FBI investigators are looking into allegations that a longtime Norm Coleman associate, Nasser Kazeminy, tried to steer $100,000 to the senator via his wife's employer. Coleman's office told the paper he has not been contacted.
- OSFA0
Fuck, here comes another bailout...
- ukit0
But officials close to the transition team privately say that Steven Chu, a Nobel Prize winning physicist, appears to be increasingly on track to become energy secretary.
A Chinese-American, Chu is a professor of physics and molecular and cell biology at the University of California-Berkeley and has been the director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory since 2004, where he has pushed aggressively for research into alternative energy as a way to combat global warming.
Wow, an actual scientist in charge of energy policy...amazing thought lol
- I love it! Much more sense than an idiot ex-lawyer politician in the position.tommyo
- DrBombay0
ukit, republicans value stupid people who don't ask too many questions. That is why they put unqualified people in seats of power.
- GeorgesII0
bump? anything new since Obama became president?
I want to learn more about politics
- ********0
You've been bamboozled
- ukit0
John McCain sideswiped the Republican National Committee on Sunday for the intense focus it has placed on Barack Obama's relationship (however thin) to Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
Saying he was confident that information would be made public regarding the president-elect's contacts with the embattled Illinois governor -- who is accused of putting up Obama's vacant Senate seat to the highest bidder -- McCain urged his Republican colleagues to keep their political priorities in order.
"I think that the Obama campaign should and will give all information necessary," said the Arizona Republican. "You know, in all due respect to the Republican National Committee and anybody -- right now, I think we should try to be working constructively together, not only on an issue such as this, but on the economy stimulus package, reforms that are necessary. And so, I don't know all the details of the relationship between President-elect Obama's campaign or his people and the governor of Illinois, but I have some confidence that all the information will come out. It always does, it seems to me."
- Bluejam0
Bush sneaks through host of laws to undermine Obama
The lame-duck Republican team is rushing through radical measures, from coal waste dumping to power stations in national parks, that will take months to overturn, reports Paul Harris in New York...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/…
- TheBlueOne0
Te Great $700 Billion Dollar Train Robbery.
"But at the last minute, the Bush administration insisted on a one-sentence change to the provision, congressional aides said. The change stipulated that the penalty would apply only to firms that received bailout funds by selling troubled assets to the government in an auction, which was the way the Treasury Department had said it planned to use the money.
Now, however, the small change looks more like a giant loophole, according to lawmakers and legal experts. In a reversal, the Bush administration has not used auctions for any of the $335 billion committed so far from the rescue package, nor does it plan to use them in the future. Lawmakers and legal experts say the change has effectively repealed the only enforcement mechanism in the law dealing with lavish pay for top executives."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp…
Quick, someone get me my shoes...it's hurlin' time..
