Feinstein CronyismFollow

http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/21/senate-husbands-firm-cashes-in-on-crisis/


Now it all becomes clear. Democrats force banks to give bad loans. Banks have record number of forclosures. Dems bail out banks. Democrats get 25 billion from US taxpayers to buy up forclosures. Government expands it's control over the private sector.

Change you can believe in.

I'll have to check it out later. I'm not in a "ten page article" kind of mood at the moment.

Because anyone who works in government is not allowed to have any relatives that do any sort of business or work. Ever.

(Hey, since my cousin chairs the GOP in ND, does this mean can I quit my job? :D It's CRONYISM if I sell anything to anyone that contributed to the RNC!)

BTW: The correct term for giving favors to family members is nepotism. Cronyism is trading favors for favors (i.e. what Blago tried to force people to do in Illinois, and for which Dems and Republicans alike roundly ridiculed him, and rightfully so.)

It's the Washington Times, which means it's already coming from a paranoid right-wing moonie perspective of things. However, the entire thing does have a fishy smell to it. I'll wait and see what a non-WT paper says about it (right now its OMG EXCLUSIVE so it make take a week or two for everyone else to catch up.)

According to the forum search, Deathwysh has only mentioned Haliburton once on this forum and it wasn't to cry or whine about it.

You owe someone an apology.

There are serious conflict of issue problems when that relative is your spouse though. Has something to do with the whole shared finances thing...

I haven't read this particular article, but I'm aware of the background of this thing. It's been floating around the talk circles in California for a year or so now (maybe more). Basically, Feinstein was on a committee which awarded contracts to a company in which her husband had a significant financial interest. This is not itself illegal, but usually the politician would recuse themselves during any decisions regarding the company in question and not only did she not do this, but allegedly was one of the key supporters of funds/contracts to the company in question on the committee.


The larger point is the double standard involved. The same people who were up in arms about Halliburton and Cheney *should* be upset about this, yet oddly... aren't. Mainly that's because no one in the mainstream media seems interested in even looking at the story, much less reporting on it. Which just goes to the point that public "outrage" is largely formed, not by what's really going on, but what they've been told is going on. If the man on your TV screen doesn't tell you about something you should be upset about, you aren't. Kinda obvious, but there is is...



Didn't I just write a post yesterday about how sources are discounted based pretty much solely on whether we agree with them? I'm pretty sure I did.




So if the NY Times or CNN doesn't do a story on it, it doesn't exist, right? Just checking...

Different story. Your's was about a military contract, this one is about foreclosed properties (from the one page I started reading).

ORLY?



You should read moar.

I read the article, agreed there was a fishy smell, decided that it was mostly hand wringing and less damning evidence, and then discounted the source because the Washington Times tends to exaggerate things to please their editors.

You didn't even read the article.

I love how you ignored whatever the pubbies were doing when Bush was in office. Also, I'm a lefty, but I believe in states rights, necessary but equal taxes(to pay for **** that's needed, and equal as in, everyone pays the same percentage of what they make as taxes). I'm also pro-abortion and pro-military.



Wanna back this one up? Now you're just making assumptions based on nothing.

Feinstein is not speaker of the house. That's Pelosi.

http://speaker.house.gov/

Nonsense. There's been a string of suicide bombings in Iraq over the last two weeks killing 7-15 people at a shot (and wonding several times that). The fact that you're ignorant doesn't mean that the media isn't reporting it -- you're just have your eyes too scrunched with your ravings and screamings to see what's on the news.

Right. All my news comes from incredibly esoteric sources. Mainly involving the casting of bones, observation of avian flight patterns and the dripping of wax into clear water.

Good grief, you're nutty as squirrel poo!