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Done!
Obamagnanimous: "Hillary should run as long as she wants".
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/3/29/171442/...
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Or maybe just because they respect the Rule of Law?
how pathetic that this has already begun with McSame. I'm tired of having crooks for presidents...
He doesn't have to keep his pledge to work with the Repub nominee on keeping within the system now.
And he can raise tons more than McCain ever dreamed.
Rock'n Roll.
The Campaign Monitor Goes Missing
The panel has been unable to meet and function this year because it no longer has enough members to do business. There are four vacancies on the six-member commission, and a political standoff in the Senate centered on a hack Republican nominee is blocking attempts to fill them.
Lacking a quorum, the commission has been left powerless to issue advisory opinions for candidates, write new reform regulations, open investigations and file lawsuits against violators.
more...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/26/opinion/26wed...
I signed the petition when I received an email from Jane Hamsher urging me to do so last week, and I included a brief message calling for a serious investigation of McCain's campaign finance violations as soon as possible, as if that were likely to happen in real life.
You are exactly right about the FEC -- the office is empty and there is no one home.
I had occasion to call the FEC not long ago to complain about the way in which Dennis Kucinich was being disenfranchised from the election process, and I spoke to a woman who was answering the phone -- and, believe me, that is all she was capable of doing -- because she didn't know anything, including how the FEC is supposed to function. And she had no supervisor with whom I could discuss the issue…not that day, or any other day.
But, perhaps, the wave of petitions will call attention to the fact that there is no one at the FEC to read them, let alone take the required action – and who would conduct the investigation when the FEC has no personnel?
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Alas, all too true -- gutting the FEC was definitely intentional -- but it could be revived like Dracula responding to the smell of blood if there were suddenly a reason to do a "gotcha" investigation on the Dems. You can depend upon it.
And, yes, conspiracy does exist -- and there's nothing theoretical about it!
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How can this NOT be a huge story? He'll be breaking the law for as long as this remains unresolved.
I don't have a very good opinion of the FEC right now and I also agree that it is an office with the lights but, nobody is working. Whether it is the FEC, FDA, FEMA or any other regulatory agency Bush has blindly done everything he can get away with to turn these agencies into namesake only.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Countrywide Financial Corp.'s chief executive and president will receive a combined $19 million in stock next week as part of the company's pending takeover by Bank of America Corp., according to a regulatory filing.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/business/AP-Cou...
maybe we should take up a collection.
hector
In re Angelo Mozilo, et al.
Rather than take up a collection -- and, yes, I recognize your well-placed sarcasm -- but, actually, what we should be calling for is a thorough investigation of Mozilo and Countrywide and Bank of America by a grand jury, followed by indictments leading to prosecution, trials by jury, convictions, concluding with the sentencing phase.
Clearly, the B of A "takeover" is simply part of the complex cover-up to conceal the documents and obscure the the truth about the collaboration among the mortgage lenders and banks and hedge funds and Wall Street brokers that ignited and then fanned the flames of the subprime/banking crisis.
The money quote from the NYT piece is the following:
Some lawmakers were incensed by the payouts.
''It's perverse for Bank of America to reward the principal architects of the bad business practices that caused this housing crisis,'' Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y, said in a statement.
Wow! -- thanks a lot, Senator Schumer -- that's really tellin' 'em! -- how about a strongly-worded letter to follow!
Or, better yet....Senator Schumer, how getting your BFF Attorney General Michael Mukasey -- "Waterboarding? Never heard of it!" -- to launch a deep investigation of Mr. Mozilo and Countrywide and B of A? Go ahead, Senator, I dare you.
Also, with 50 million Americans lacking any access to health care, I thought this was an especially lovely touch – a shining example of compassionate conservatism:
Mozilo, who is expected to retire after the takeover, previously agreed to give up $36.4 million in cash severance benefits. But after his departure he will receive company-paid life and health benefits worth $21,084 and medical benefits worth an estimated $85,000.
I couldn't be more relieved! -- I would hate to learn that Mozilo didn't have adequate health care during his platinum years of executive exile – god forbid!
All’s well that ends well -- and, for some people, just a little too well.
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I hope he chokes on his millions and no one is around for the Heimlich Maneuver...
you actually think the FEC will go after McCain? yeah.. and we dont torture either.
http://www6.earthhourus.org/
McCain is more likely to unite the Demacrats than the Republicans!
http://www.electricnevada.com/pages00/mccain.htm
Then ask yourself: WIll the real John McCain please stand up!
What a "surprise" indeed! -- after all, McCain's entire campaign is run from top to bottom by some of Washington's most prominent lobbyists -- so, is it any wonder that they've turned the old hypocrite's campaign into a cash cow for their own coffers...and with his full approval?
New crooks...same as the old crooks.
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