This story is several days old. But I wanted to go back and show how, after a pack of lobbyists killed one attempt to get government to use its power to save money and improve health care, another pack of lobbyists are trying to do the same with higher education. Eric Lichtblau (who, IMO, does [...]

Over the weekend, Tim Geithner told the American taxpayers that AIG just had to pay out those millions in bonuses. But now we learn from Andrew Cuomo what was in those contracts, and it sure sounds like Geithner was lying to us.