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By PUMA Pundit on August 4, 2009
What a difference a day month can make in politics… Six months ago, the 2010 Senate battlefield looked relatively bare, with a few obvious skirmishes mostly in states with GOP incumbents… Democrats no longer have the momentum they once possessed. Even more important, signs of some Democratic vulnerability have appeared, giving the National Republican Senatorial [...]
Posted in Politics | Tagged 2010 senate race, Arlen Specter, charlie melancon, chris dodd, connecticut, david vitter, democrats, Harry Reid, illinois, jim bunning, john ensign, kay bailey hutchinson, kelly ayotte, kentucky, lisa madigan, Louisiana, mark kirk, mike castle, missouri, national republican senatorial committee, nevada, New Hampshire, north carolina, nrsc, ohio, pat toomey, paul hodes, richard burr, trey grayson
By PUMA Pundit on March 25, 2009
How the cookie crumbles. So much for the transparency and accountability that Barack Obama promised. It seems Chris Dodd’s wife, Jackie Clegg Dodd was a director at AIG. RCP No wonder Senator Christopher Dodd (D-Conn) went wobbly last week when asked about his February amendment ratifying hundreds of millions of dollars in bonuses to executives [...]
Posted in Capitol Hill | Tagged aig bonuses, chris dodd, jackie clegg dodd, kevin rennie, Treasury Department |
By PUMA Pundit on March 23, 2009
Awesome article from the Weekly Standard You don’t have to be an old Washington hand to spot the telltale signs of a presidency and an administration in serious trouble. There’s nothing new about these clues. The inability to get their stories straight–that’s a hardy perennial of high-level officials caught in the vise of political [...]
Posted in Op-Ed | Tagged aig, barack obama, cairo, chris dodd, david axelrod, egypt, federal reserve, jay leno, rahm emanuel, richard nixon, tim geithner, washington post, weekly standard, White House |
By PUMA Pundit on March 5, 2009
According to the Federal Reserve Board, the money supply in the United States has almost tripled over the last 6 months, increasing by 271% Consumer purchases have however declined, which means the money is not yet in circulation, and is therefore being used to pay back debt or is being saved in banks, as it’s [...]
Posted in Capitol Hill | Tagged Ben Bernanke, chris dodd, FDIC, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Tomothy Geithner, Treasur Department
By PUMA Pundit on February 26, 2009
Awesome editorial from the Investors Business Daily. It basically says the same things we’ve been saying here for ages, good thing others are beginning to notice… IBD Is It Any Wonder The Market Continues To Sink? Last Oct. 13, in trying to explain why the market had sold off 30% in six weeks, we acknowledged [...]
Posted in Featured | Tagged Alan Greenspan, bailout, barney frank, catastrophe, chris dodd, crisis, depression, energy solutions, free enterprise system, GOP, great depression, ibd, investors business daily, lindsey graham, missile defense system, Nancy Pelosi, nationalization, pork, socialism, stimulus bill, trade protectionism |