By PUMA Pundit on April 7, 2009
It was bound to happen… National Journal In the week before Election Day, voters favored a generic Democratic congressional candidate over a Republican by margins as big as 12 percentage points. Just three months into the new Congress — and still a year and a half out from the midterm elections — Republicans appear [...]
Posted in Polls | Tagged congress, democrats, diageo/hotline data, fox news/opinion dynamics poll, npr survey, republicans |
By PUMA Pundit on March 26, 2009
Freddie Mac had Rahm Emanuel as a board member during the period when it willfuly decided to scam the US treasury with false numbers in order to maximize executive compensation, and when it used company resources to further the political careers of friendly politicians, including Rahm Emanuel. Today, Rahm Emanuel is the White House Chief [...]
Posted in White House | Tagged armando falcon jr., Bill Clinton, congress, federal election commission, freddie mac, rahm emanuel
By PUMA Pundit on March 26, 2009
Interesting. At least the Post Office understands that it’s labor agreements are part of the reason it is in this predicament. AP The post office will run out of money this year unless it gets help, Postmaster General John Potter told Congress on Wednesday as he sought permission to cut delivery to five days a week. [...]
Posted in Economy | Tagged congress, john potter, postmaster general, united states postal service, usps
By PUMA Pundit on March 24, 2009
America’s journey through the twilight zone continues. Now, Barack Obama wants to have the power to seize a host of previously-unregulated financial firms on the pretext of the seizures providing economic stabilization. Firstly, why would a government which can’t even find the manpower to staff the top echelons the Treasury Department want to get involved in [...]
Posted in Featured | Tagged aig, barack obama, congress, timothy geithner, Treasury Department, treasury secretary, White House |
By PUMA Pundit on March 23, 2009
This guy is awesome beyond belief. His words have absolutely NO correlation to his actions… President Obama failed to consult Congress, as promised, before carving out exceptions to the omnibus spending bill he signed into law — breaking his own signing-statement rules two days after issuing them — and raised questions among lawmakers and committees [...]
Posted in White House | Tagged barack obama, bill burton, charles e. grassley, congress, signing rules, tim rieser