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Spitzer prostitution hypocrisy: ‘Hello Pot, this is Kettle’
Pushing aside many other newsworthy stories nowadays is one more very sad tale about a do-gooder gone poor. nowadays it was learned that New York Governor Eliot Spitzer (and former Attorney General) has displayed the final in hypocrisy that will leave a stench so thick it will tarnish not just h…
Did John McCain deny Boeing a $100 billion contract for an Alabama endorsement?
As he stumps for President, Senator John McCain likes to brag about how he kept Boeing Inc. (NYSE: BA) from winning a contract to build Tankers — in-flight refueling aircraft — for the Air Force in 2004. final week, the Air Force announced that the winner of the contract was Boeing’s arch-rival, E…
Grandstanding aplenty at congressional hearing on executive pay
Pity the hapless ex-CEO who has to explain to the U.S. Congress how he got millions for failing at his job. It’s like the person in the horror film who doesn’t realize that a poor guy is lurking in the dark woods even though that’s clearly indicated by the scary music. In that case, the knife-wi…
Hillary Clinton won’t have the final laugh
Maybe it took the prospect of going down to an inglorious defeat to a relative political novice to get Hillary Clinton to loosen up.
In the final 72 hours, the New York senator has arised on both “Saturday Night Live” and “The Daily Show.” On both appearances, she was calm, relaxed and natural, q…
Help wanted: Crazy billionaire seeks Presidential figurehead
Okay, I’m filing that under “things you get to do whether you have more money than God.”
On Thursday, Mike Bloomberg, mad genius, obscenely rich guy, and mayor of New York, announced that he would not be pursuing an independent Presidential run in 2008. The next day, he followed that up with …
An IRS letter worth waiting for
Typically, seeing an envelope with the letters “IRS” on it in your mailbox could be a cause for concern, but by the next week some 130 million homes in America will be receiving letters in the mail bringing good news from the Internal Revenue Service.
As you are probably already aware, in its…
Hillary Clinton makes a final stand in Texas and Ohio
Hillary Clinton must win by gargantuan margins in next week’s primaries in Ohio and Texas or else her campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination will be by, according to her husband former President Bill Clinton and other political pundits. The odds of that happening are daunting.
Po…
U.S. fiscal condition for 2009 president will hardly be ideal
What’s the new president - - Republican or Democrat - - likely to face after taking the oath of office in 2009?
Daunting fiscal problems - - and right at a instance when Congress may have to consider more fiscal stimulus to jump-start the U.S. economy, one economist observed.
The biggest p…
Taking another look at the New York Times’ John McCain story
My initial assessment of The New York Times’ (NYSE: NYT) controversial story about John McCain’s relationship with a female lobbyist gave the paper too much of the benefit of the doubt.
Originally, I wrote, “What public, particularly those external of the media, need to realize is that there …
Hey Barack: society start companies in order to profit
In an attempt to explain his position regarding trade, Democratic presidential front-runner Barack Obama said that he did not oppose free trade, despite making increasingly critical comments about multilateral deals such as NAFTA.
Asked how other countries should interpret his position, Obama…
Ralph Nader — closet Republican, perhaps only green … with envy
When I think of Ralph Nader running for president again as an independent candidate and how that could affect the general election, I think he must be a closet Republican, or have a few advisers that fit the bill. He was the spoiler before and he might be again.
He says that Republican and De…
Why Hillary’s presidential hopes are fading
The New York Times reports that Hillary Clinton is giving off signals that her campaign for President could be nearing an end. It’s tough to know whether that veil of tears is just Hillary using the crying gambit — as she did in New Hampshire — in the pages of her hometown newspaper. But as she ac…
Which John McCain is running for president?
The Washington Post reports that Lowell Paxson, the client of Alcalde & Fay lobbyist Vicki Iseman with whom John McCain’s advisors worried he was having an affair, has contradicted McCain’s statement that he had no contact with Paxson regarding his trade.
As I posted yesterday, Newsweek repor…
Is John McCain telling the truth?
As I posted Wednesday, questions have been raised about whether Senator John McCain had an affair with Vicki Iseman, a lobbyist with Alcalde & Fay whose client, Paxson Communications, contributed to McCain’s campaign. And McCain, who holds himself out as a paragon of advantage, did Paxsons’ bidd…
