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Dept. of Energy: We’ve got a little more ‘green loan’ money to hand out — who wants it?
Apply today!
Meet NBC Reporter’s Newest Trusted Fact Checker
Truth team
Steven Chu Grades Self ‘Higher Than an A-Minus’ on Handling of Gas Prices
His own best critic
Labor Secretary: Failing to Extend Unemployment Payments Will Increase Unemployment
So… don’t pass this jobs bill?
Open Thread: Energy Secretary Testifies to House Committee About Solyndra; Chu on How Much Taxpayers Will Recover: “Not Very Much;” Vids added
Solar-powered grilling
Eric Holder to Testify Before House Committee About Fast & Furious
**Written by Doug Powers This should be interesting: CBS News has learned Attorney General Eric Holder has agreed to appear before the House Judiciary Committee regarding “Fast and Furious.” The hearing will take place Dec. 8th. Judiciary Committee member and head of the House Oversight Committee Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) had requested that Holder appear, […]
Colin Powell Not Sold on Obama in 2012… Yet
Change?
Ag Secretary: Food Stamps are ‘Stimulus’
Job creation is a SNAP!
The Latest Obama Cabinet Member with a Tax Problem: Eric Holder
**Written by Doug Powers If President Obama is serious about tax increases (sorry, I meant to say “spending reductions in the tax code”) and increasing overall tax revenue, he should start by first calling a cabinet meeting and ordering everybody in the room to pony up what they owe. From the New York Post by […]
‘Do as I Say, Not as I Do’ — US Transportation Secretary Edition
**Written by Doug Powers A couple of months ago: U.S. Transportation Secretary LaHood Unveils New DOT Webpage on ‘Buy America’ Yesterday: (CNSNews.com) – U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said today that he told his daughter to buy a Japanese car–a Toyota Sienna–and that she did so. “Mr. LaHood, there are some UAW people here and […]
Detroit Screws Up Property Tax Billing — But it’s Not Like the City Needed the Money or Anything
**Written by Doug Powers Sadly, there are still politicians who are trying hard (and succeeding in too many instances) in forcing a national rollout of the brilliant liberal political model that pounded Detroit into the ground: Detroit’s Ombudsman says a snafu in the finance department has created anxiety for homeowners. WWJ Newsradio 950′s Florence Walton […]
A New Entry in the Urban Dictionary
“dupe’nik”
Chris Christie Coins What Would Be the Perfect Campaign Slogan
**Written by Doug Powers If Chris Christie ever decides to seek higher office, he recently stumbled across what would be the perfect campaign slogan. From The Corner: “Let me help you pack.” That’s what Gov. Chris Christie told one of the state’s top administrators when that administrator commented publicly that he could leave New Jersey […]
Karl Rove’s water boy strikes again
Last we heard from former Bush speechwriter-turned-Washington Post line columnist Michael Gerson, he was attacking Tea Party activists and yours truly for criticizing his old boss/mentor Karl Rove’s Christine O’Donnell-bashing. See: Rove aide: Kneel before The Architect, you puny website operators & Tea Party ingrates. Well, Rove’s Beltway water boy took to his WaPo perch […]
Rove aide: Kneel before The Architect, you puny website operators & Tea Party ingrates
Bow down.
Ladies of the Right vs. Beltway GOP boyz club; Plus: Fire From the Heartland
The times they are a-changin’ — and it’s ladies of the Right who are kicking ass and naming names. Five items for your viewing and reading pleasure: * Jeri Thompson smacks GOP poobahs and pooh-pooh-ers upside the head: While they may not be intending to be sexist, the message, the attitude and whining sure make […]
Sec. of Education Urged Employees to Attend Sharpton Rally, Unfortunately Not to Spell Check Signs
**Written by Doug Powers So much for the separation of race baiter & State: President Obama’s top education official urged government employees to attend a rally that the Rev. Al Sharpton organized to counter a larger conservative event on the Mall. “ED staff are invited to join Secretary Arne Duncan, the Reverend Al Sharpton, and […]
Robert Gibbs: Obama’s Economic Team ‘Exhausted’
Eleventy-hundred-hour work weeks
Has anyone seen Sandy Berg(l)er lately?
Photoshop: Shieldsnet Uh-oh. Someone needs to check Sandy Berger’s sock drawer. ASAP: Federal authorities are investigating the disappearance of a computer disc from the National Archives containing Social Security numbers and Secret Service procedures from former President Bill Clinton’s administration, congressional officials said. Among the files on the disc were 100,000 Social Security numbers, including […]
The loudest Rush-bashers
Know-nothings.
“Our Homeland Security can’t police their own home. How can they police our borders?”
Lettucehead alert.
Who heckled Attorney General Michael Mukasey, Pt. II; Update: Sanders confirms
Scroll for update…Sanders confirms… Over the weekend, I wrote about Washington state Supreme Court justice Richard Sanders, an old friend of mine from my days in Seattle who had been identified on Friday by lawyer Wendy Long as the man who heckled Attorney General Michael Mukasey during his Federalist Society address. I received the following […]
Who heckled Attorney General Michael Mukasey?
Before Attorney General Michael Mukasey collapsed during his Federalist Society speech on Thursday night, someone in the audience disrupted the remarks. The heckler reportedly shouted “Tyrant!” Lawyer Wendy Long reported on Fox News last night that the heckler was Washington State Supreme Court Justice Richard Sanders. I dearly hope this is not true. I knew, […]
The Colin Powell endorsement: Triumph of hope over reality
Gravitas. The media’s in a tizzy over Colin Powell’s Meet the Press endorsement of Barack Obama this morning. It’s not a surprise to anyone who’s paid attention to his pro-Obama murmurings over the last four months. How will people outside the Beltway bubble respond? Yawn. Here’s the vid: Powell’s embrace of Barack Obama is a […]
Team Obama’s new best friend: Karl Rove
“Too far.”



