The fairy tale of Wall St

As the populist revolt over Too Big To Fail banks grows, some in the media are choosing to use their forums to take on Wall Street’s perversion of their primary role in finance.
Steve Perlstein, of the Post, is among those who believe Wall St lost its way in the name of seeking ever higher [...]

$609,000 per day to Congress from pharma companies

Time magazine reports on pharmaceutical lobbying efforts in Congress.

…in the first six months of this year alone, drug and biotech companies and their trade associations spent more than $110 million — that’s about $609,000 a day — to influence lawmakers, according to figures compiled by the nonpartisan watchdog group Center for Responsive Politics. [...]

Okay, this is just to funny to be real

This just in fromWired Science, Republican men who learned that Obama had been elected president had lowered testosterone levels, nearly matching those of women.

…liberal testosterone levels stayed stable, while those of male Republican voters plummeted. The latter also reported feeling submissive and unhappy.
There are many ways to read these results, which are based on saliva [...]

In ‘08, 92% of House members kept their seats

If you have ever wondered by Congress seems to ignore your needs and wishes, it may be because they feel their seats are safe. In other words, they don’t have to compete in open competition for their seat. This chart shows that over 90% of House members have been re-elected time after time, often [...]

Vt Senator Bernie Sanders on the economy and Wall St.

While it’s true that Vt. Senator Bernie Sanders is the most liberal senator in the Senate today, one can hardly dispute the facts he presents in this video.

Given the news coming out on the House Financial Services Committee’s Reform Bill – a bill that is filled with loopholes and lacks real [...]

Afganistan: another view by Afganis

Codepink traveled to Afanganistan to speak to the people.

Is the solution more troops as the military and Republicans want or is it more civilian help as the Afgans want?

Sunlight Foundation sheds light on Pharma big money lobbying

The Sunlight Foundation whose stated purpose is to increase governmental transparency at all levels teamed up with the Center for Responsive Politics to determine how much and who received lobbying monies in the form of contributions to various Senators and House members.
Congressional members made out big time during the health care debate, especially [...]

Dump the bums

A few days ago while channel surfing, I stopped on a story on Fox News. According to the speaker, he and his group are developing an effort to vote out all incumbent Congressional legislators. While I understand the rage that exists over incumbents who have been in office for more years than one [...]

Former Reagan campaign manager speaks out against “talk jocks”

In an interview with the LA Times on Sept. 20, Stuart Spenser, who ran Reagan’s “four successful campaigns for the late governor and president, laments the state of politics and punditry.” He told the Times,

The Republican California political guru who crafted four successful Ronald Reagan campaigns, two for governor and two for president, [...]

“Bending the cost curve”- Taking a lesson from Annapolis

Eli Y. Adashi, a physician, a professor of medical science and the outgoing dean of medicine and biological sciences at Brown University, writes in today’s Washington Post that the nation – not to mention, each state – could take a lesson from Maryland on “bending the cost curve” of health care.

Overseen by expert commissioners [...]