Month: December 2008

It looks like the unpopular auto company bail out is going to have a tough time passing in the current Congress. Republicans were preparing a strong fight against the aid plan in the Senate, not only taking on the Democrats but standing in open revolt against their party’s lame-duck president on the measure. The Republicans…

Bob Lutz the operating head of General Motors says if Congress requires the car companies to build small ultra fuel efficient vehicles they will have to be sold at a loss. Now that is a truly brilliant way to help car companies that are losing money. Leave it to Bob Lutz, GM’s voluble vice chairman,…

Television station KHQA reported that B. Obama met with Governor Blagojevich shortly after the election to discuss his replacement for the US Senate seat he was vacating. By Alexis Hunt – Saturday, November 08, 2008 at 9:48 p.m. QUINCY, IL — Now that Barack Obama will be moving to the White House, his seat in…

I’m hoping readers will bear with me for the next few weeks. I’m in the middle of a big renovation project and time is of the essence, which leaves little time for blogging. However, just to show I care about what’s going on in the real world, I actually took time out of my busy…

The land deal between Tony Rezko and B. Obama for his house in Hyde Park is explained by GOP Mom. It is rather complicated but the bottom line is that Rezko subsidized Obama’s purchase of the house and land giving Obama what amounted to at least a $130,000 discount. There are maps and pictures and…

Watch CBS Videos Online Start the clip and then close your eyes while you listen to Obama’s voice. Obama sounds shaky. In fact he sounds to me like a guy waiting for the other shoe to drop. Jake Tapper at his ABC News blog has a few words about Obama’s relationship with “Hot Rod” Blagojevich.…

Obama said today that he had no contact with Democrat Governor Blagojevich of Illinois about the appointment to Obama’s former Senate seat. CHICAGO (AP) – President-elect Barack Obama says he is saddened by allegations that Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich tried to trade favors for Obama’s Senate seat–and says he had no contact with the governor…

An interesting Atlantic Magazine article from 17 September 2007. WASHINGTON, D.C — A charged-up Sen. Barack Obama begged politically active members of the Service Employees union to join his “movement” to reform the Democratic Party. “The question I ask SEIU members is, not “Who is talking about your agenda?” but “Who can change politics in…

From pdf page 62 of the Blagojevich indictment [pdf] (page 60 as the indictment is numbered). Later on November 7, 2008, ROD BLAGOJEVICH discussed the open Senate seat in a three-way call with JOHN HARRIS and Advisor B, a Washington D.C.-based consultant. ROD BLAGOJEVICH indicated in the call that if he was appointed as Secretary…

With the indictment of Democrat Governor Rod Blagojevich the Rezko deal with Mr. B. Obama is back to the front burner in terms of figuring out if the Smartest President Ever™ was involved in any of the corruption. A former Illinois bank official, now claiming whistleblower status, says bank officials replaced a loan reappraisal that…

It all started with the friend of the Smartest President Ever™ Tony Rezko. Patrick Fitzgerald was the lead US Attorney in the case. * Democrat Rod Blagojevich wanted the Chicago Tribune to fire editorial staff in exchange for state help with the sale of Wrigley Field, the Chicago Cubs baseball stadium which is owned by…

There’s been some discussion in the comments to this post about whether the Constitution matters in the case of Barack Obama’s birth certificate (which I have discussed in countless posts. Basically, the State of Hawaii certifies Obama was born there (which satisfies the legal standard), and the Truthers (based on unverifiable Internet rumors) say he…

Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich has been taken into custody by Federal authorities. All times are Central Standard Time Which is GMT -6. Updated at 9:08 a.m.: Blagojevich and Harris were arrested simultaneously at their homes at about 6:15 a.m., according to the FBI. Both were awakened in their residences and transported to FBI headquarters in…

Virginia Postrel takes a look at economic experiments that show that economic bubbles are inevitable. For more than two decades, economists have been running versions of the same experiment. They take a bunch of volunteers, usually undergraduates but sometimes businesspeople or graduate students; divide them into experimental groups of roughly a dozen; give each person…

Yeah. We have a Drug Czar. An Energy Czar. And coming soon to an American company near you: an Auto Czar. And no – the czar will not be into self rule. He is going to rule auto companies who take government money. WASHINGTON – A federal “car czar” would oversee a government-run restructuring of…

Today is Obama Birth Certificate D-Day in the Supreme Court, which will most likely not vote to hear the various claims that Obama was not born in the United States (or that even if he was, that he’s still not “natural born”). David Horowitz is fed up with the Birth Certificate Truthers, and expresses his…

The guy speaking is Federal Marshall Matt Fog. Here is a partial transcript (probably not exact but it gets the heart of the talk) starting from a little over one minute in and going for about 3 minutes: == The numbers are atrocious when you start talking about who the drug war is targeting and…