The newest re-election strategy
With the war on the rich, big oil, women and the Supreme Court not gaining enough traction, last week the administration tacked in a different direction…home mortgages. Read more
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The Buffett tax
Today President Obama announced yet another tax proposal to reduce out debt. This tax increase is only on the real millionaires and billionaires. The thousandaires (i.e. those making more than $200,000 whose taxes will rise if the Bush tax cuts expire, as the President desires) won’t have to worry about this new proposal. Read more
So much for the “fix”
We did a post last week concerning the July 24 prediction made by Secretary of the Treasury, Timothy Geitner, that, if a “debt ceiling” deal wasn’t reached that afternoon, our stock markets would tumble dramatically on Monday, July 25. The DOW did fall by 88 that Monday. Certainly not good, but hardly the calamity predicted. Read more
The sky didn’t fall
On Sunday, Secretary of the Treasury, Timothy Geithner, took to the Sunday morning talk show programs to speak about the gridlock over our national debt ceiling. I am not adept enough to add a video clip of his comments. But, here is what I heard. Read more
Oops, They Did It Again! (The McCaskill edition)
Another liberal tax evader forgetter… but then why should that surprise you, heh? Read more
Follow The Money … Follow Buffett … Follow The Democrats
Editors Note: I am writing this post because if RVO “Contributor” Erik Blazynski or “Author” Steve McGough wrote this, their heads would explode. Special H/T to Instapundit for this one.
So follow the money and that means follow the Democrats. OK some Republicans too … but mostly Democrats and mostly Democrat contributors on Wall Street. First this from American Thinker.
Warren Buffett promoted the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP), and lambasted the greed on Wall Street, yet he is one of the main benefactors of the TARP largesse according to a Sacramento Bee story. Buffett endorsed Barack Obama for President last year, and Obama tapped Buffett to be a member of the candidate’s economic team. Obama referred to Buffett’s endorsement during the campaign as proof that he had the capability to deal with the troubled US economy. Buffett’s holding company, Berkshire Hathaway, profited from TARP in several ways …
The number of people helping Obama put together the bailout package who had connectitions with the failing banks and who had previoulsy had profited from the Wall Street madness is stunning really.
Senate Banking Chairman Chris Dodd received special treatment from Countrywide on his mortgage, Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel received about $300,000 for very little work at Freddie Mac, former Clinton OMB Director Franklin Raines reaped about $90 million from Fannie Mae by inflating profits — and the list goes on.
The this from Friday’s NY Times:
Lawrence H. Summers, the top economic adviser to President Obama, earned more than $5 million last year from the hedge fund D. E. Shaw and collected $2.7 million in speaking fees from Wall Street companies that received government bailout money, the White House disclosed Friday in releasing financial information about top officials.
But it just gets better:
The disclosure forms also shed further light on the compensation received by a top Obama aide who previously worked for Citigroup, one of the largest recipients of taxpayer bailout money. The aide, Michael Froman, deputy national security adviser for international economic affairs, received more than $7.4 million from the company from January 2008 to when he joined the White House this year.
Want more? Sure.
Desirée Rogers, the White House social secretary. Ms. Rogers, a close Chicago friend of the Obama family, reported income of $2.3 million last year. She earned a salary of $1.8 million from People’s Gas & North Shore Gas, along with three other sources of income from serving on insurance company boards.
Thomas E. Donilon, the deputy national security adviser, reported earning $3.9 million as a partner at the Washington law firm O’Melveny & Myers. His disclosure form says major clients included Citigroup, Goldman Sachs.
Not bad money for a social secretary. I gotta get a job like that. Hmmm, or maybe become a Democrat? Just waiting now to hear from Erik and Steve. Check back frequently for them to drop something here.