Archive for January, 2010

$100 Million Says Obama Is Pissed About Goldman Sachs CEO’s Record Bonus »

By admin on Jan 31, 2010 in U.S. News | 0 Comments

Goldman Sachs is wasting no time doing exactly what Obama complained about in his SOTU last week: handing out enormous bonuses. The Times of London reports that Goldman is planning to pay CEO Lloyd Blankfein a record $100 million bonus.
Obama has been very publicly waging his popular War on Bank Bonuses (Remember that time Obama [...]

Why Aren’t Conservatives Funny? »

By admin on Jan 31, 2010 in General | 0 Comments

The Teabuggers, those pesky kids charged with a federal felony for getting into Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu’s office under false pretences, see themselves as avant-garde Republican activist/humorists. So why aren’t they, or any other right-wingers really, funny?
On the surface it makes no sense. Why should political ideology affect humor when it doesn’t affect earnings potential [...]

Obama Debates House Republicans, Challenges Tone of GOP Attacks »

By admin on Jan 31, 2010 in U.S. News | 0 Comments

President Obama engaged Friday in a rare face-to-face debate with GOP House members, sparring with them over which party is most responsible for the partisanship that grips Washington.
The president said that Republicans are eroding cooperation by telling constituents he is “doing all kinds of crazy stuff that’s going to destroy America.”
For their part, the Republicans [...]