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And your point is? Are you in anyway connecting this story with Cheney's ties with Haliburton/KBR and the no bid contracts, serously. At least Waters did not get anybody killed... Kootr, you need to think outside the box. Besides, WSJ is a Murdock Rag...
And your point is? Are you in anyway connecting this story with Cheney's ties with Haliburton/KBR and the no bid contracts, serously. At least Waters did not get anybody killed... Kootr, you need to think outside the box. Besides, WSJ is a Murdock Rag...
Nice. You justify unethical behavior because others are also unethical. You teach your kids that too?
Nice. You justify unethical behavior because others are also unethical. You teach your kids that too?
Some lawmakers have ties to bailout recipients
Yes, there are members of the Grand Obstructionist Party in the story, read on....
By Matt Kelley, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — As Congress began considering a financial industry rescue plan last fall, Rep. Jean Schmidt called the House ethics committee staff with a question: Did she have to sit out any votes on the package because her husband is a Smith Barney financial adviser?
The answer was no, said Schmidt spokesman Bruce Pfaff. "They advised her that because the legislation didn't address a particular business, that decisions were left up to the Treasury secretary, it would be permissible to vote on that bill," he said.
Citigroup, Smith Barney's parent company, eventually received $50 billion from the package that Schmidt, R-Ohio, voted to approve. Schmidt voted in January to oppose release of the program's second $350 billion.
This pales in comparison to the 350 BILLION dollars that magically dissapeared during the last few months of the Bush administration. 12 million dollars of TARP for a small bank which services the needs of its community is a drop in the bucket compared to the pillaging and massive failures that we have come to expect from republicans in the last eight years. Maxine Waters will continue to serve her district as she has for the last few decades and this is hardly newsworthy. What a reach!
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And your point is? Are you in anyway connecting this story with Cheney's ties with Haliburton/KBR and the no bid contracts, serously. At least Waters did not get anybody killed... Kootr, you need to think outside the box. Besides, WSJ is a Murdock Rag...
I think I'll just start responding for you. I'm pretty sure I've got it down now.
"Cheney!" "Typical right neoCON rag" "Inherited" "Bush!" "WSJ is biased" "Repug!!"
Did I leave anything out?
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