by Bill Scher | Sep 26, 2008 | Blog
Apparently, everyone in Washington is falling over themselves to pacify House conservatives, who instead of taking responsibility for the deregulation that led to this financial crisis, are throwing another one of their predictable temper tantrums. No one in Congress...
by Bill Scher | Sep 25, 2008 | Blog
Rick flagged one of the conservative attempts to shift blame for the financial crisis away from their market deregulation and pin it on "government," namely the Community Reinvestment Act. Last night, President Bush played the blame-shift game again, trying to claim...
by Bill Scher | Sep 24, 2008 | Blog
Congressional leaders have backed down to conservatives and will let the current federal ban on most coastal drilling to completely expire. What does this mean for our energy policy? What does this say about the congressional leadership and the progressive movement?...
by Bill Scher | Sep 23, 2008 | Blog
As I write this, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is testifying before the Senate Banking Committee. In his opening statement, he appeared to depart from prepared remarks to respond to statements from Senators calling for independent monitoring of Paulson's actions in...
by Bill Scher | Sep 22, 2008 | Blog
Last week, the House passed a compromise bill with more coastal drilling and more clean energy without the support of conservatives. The Senate had been expected to follow suit -- since it was the "Gang of 10" group of Senators who had the original idea of such a...
