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Pewlosi taps Bawney Fwank to investigate himself - The silly wabbit

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-10-05 01:43|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 You mean the Pelosi who's district includes the HQ of Starkist which if you dig into the Pork Bill you find out "That includes, as the New York Post pointed out, millions in tax breaks and related pork for kids' wooden arrows, Puerto Rican rum producers, auto race tracks, and corporations operating in American Samoa. (The likely explanation for the latter: StarKist has a large tuna-canning operation in American Samoa. And StarKist's parent company happens to be located in the district of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.)" - source

Pelosi et al haven't passed the appropriations bills for most of the departments of government in this past year, but can get this turkey out in two weeks.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-10-05 08:38|| 2008-10-05 08:38|| Front Page Top

#2 buncha crooks

Posted by newc">newc 2008-10-05 10:31|| 2008-10-05 10:31|| Front Page Top

#3 Fanniefedofile sited!

Posted by Besoeker 2008-10-05 10:34|| 2008-10-05 10:34|| Front Page Top

#4 Mc Cain and the Republicans should use this for all its worth.

Its allowing the fox to investigate all the missing chickens at the henhouse.

Posted by CrazyFool 2008-10-05 11:01|| 2008-10-05 11:01|| Front Page Top

#5 Some more on these hearings -- take a look at the guest list:

From Fox (I posted this last night, but it got eaten up somewhere

The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is planning to hold a total of five hearings this month on different aspects of the financial crisis, including looks at hedge funds, credit rating agencies and federal regulation.

The invited witnesses for the hedge fund hearing, which will be on Oct. 16, are John Alfred Paulson, President, Paulson & Co., Inc.; George Soros, Chairman, Soros Fund Management LLC; Philip A. Falcone; Senior Managing Director, Harbinger Capital Partners; James Simons, Director, Renaissance Technologies LLC; and Kenneth C. Griffin, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, Citadel Investment Group. They were invited, according to the Committee's Web site, because they each earned over $1 billion last year.

A spokesman for Harbinger Capital Partners said that Falcone is reviewing the request, but declined to comment further.Falcone came to Harbinger from Barclays Capital, where he had been head of high-yield trading.

The witnesses invited for the hearing on ratings agencies, which will take place Oct. 22, are Deven Sharma, President, Standard & Poors; Raymond W. McDaniel, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Moodys Corporation; and Stephen Joynt, President and Chief Executive Officer, Fitch Ratings.

Those invited for the federal-regulator hearing on Oct. 23 are former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, former Treasury Secretary John Snow and current Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox.

Those three hearings are in addition to previously announced hearings on the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy on Oct. 6 and the $85 billion bailout of American International Group (AIG: 3.86, -0.14, -3.50%) on Oct. 7.

Posted by Sherry">Sherry 2008-10-05 15:09|| 2008-10-05 15:09|| Front Page Top

#6 Any regular man on the street John Q Citizens invited? George Soros was invited? The guy who broke the Bank of England? The guy that is trying to undermine America?

Posted by JohnQC 2008-10-05 16:58|| 2008-10-05 16:58|| Front Page Top

#7 "George Soros was invited? The guy who broke the Bank of England? The guy that is trying to undermine America?"

That's why Georgie was invited, John.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2008-10-05 17:03|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2008-10-05 17:03|| Front Page Top

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