Comments on: Bob Corker, After Begging for Auto BK, Wants Dealers Exempted

By: skdadl

skdadl — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 10:02:50 +0000

OT: NYT: U.S. may permit 9/11 guilty pleas in capital cases.

The Guardian is also carrying the story under breaking news.

If Obama takes this way out, it will be a historic and historical tragedy, imho. It may play well with those 90 senators who caved in to the xenophobia and paranoia of the far right last month, but it’s an understatement to say, as professor Glazier does there, that “it’s going to lack international credibility.”

By: MarkH

MarkH — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 04:30:10 +0000

Indeed. That would be a fine act of karma. Heh.

By: PJEvans

PJEvans — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 01:05:30 +0000

He’s apparently been playing footsie with Graham on an amendment to an appropriation bill. According to KagroX, either the IMF gets funding (and the conservatives vote against the bill) or the FOIA is amended (by Liarman and Graham-cracker) to prevent the release of those photos (and the liberals vote against the bill).

By: fatster

fatster — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:51:32 +0000

O/T, or as Dan Hicks says, How can we miss you if you won’t go away? And how can we expect them to go away if they keep getting hired in DC?

Fed Intends to Hire Lobbyist in Campaign to Buttress Its Image
By Robert Schmidt

June 5 (Bloomberg) — “The Federal Reserve intends to hire a veteran lobbyist as it seeks to counter skepticism in Congress about the central bank’s growing power over the U.S. financial system, people familiar with the matter said.

“Linda Robertson currently handles government, community and public affairs at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and headed the Washington lobbying office of Enron Corp., the energy trading company that collapsed in 2002 after an accounting scandal. She was also an adviser to all three of the Clinton administration’s Treasury secretaries.”

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/.....8;refer=us

By: oldoilfieldhand

oldoilfieldhand — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 23:41:44 +0000

Bob Corker (R. Nissan), true to his word, is giving Tennessee what it asked (paid) for. Too long Southerns have voted against their own financial interests because they were distracted by a snake oil salesman who convinced them to vote for their “family values”. Bob’s family won’t be in them, but bread lines will be forming soon.

By: TheLurkingMod

TheLurkingMod — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 23:38:52 +0000

Cynthia Kouril is upstairs at the Mothership!
Dr. Tiller, FACE, and the Failure of the Bush DOJ to Enforce the Law

By: bmaz

bmaz — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 23:37:21 +0000

I’m taking a poll: Anybody ever seen a business bankruptcy go that fast through judgment in the district level BK court through appeal and certification by the freaking Circuit Court of Appeals? Any business in any District/CCA?

Kassy @41 - They do have very long noses.

By: Kassandra

Kassandra — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 23:32:52 +0000

Can’t these guys think farther than their……..ah………noses?

By: fatster

fatster — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 23:24:53 +0000

Appeals court clears Chrysler exit from bankruptcy

“A US appeals court Friday cleared the way for Chrysler to exit bankruptcy under an alliance with Italy’s Fiat, dismissing a challenge from Indiana’s state pension funds.”

http://rawstory.com/news/afp/A.....52009.html

By: Scarecrow

Scarecrow — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 23:18:42 +0000

Corker is a socialist. Who knew?