The Other McCain

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IG-Gate Update: Federal Judge Stalling Gerald Walpin’s AmeriCorps Case

Dan Collins at Piece of Work in Progress notes that, more than a year after Gerald Walpin was fired from his job as inspector general overseeing the AmeriCorps program, Walpin’s lawsuit against the Corporation for National and Community Service  is still unresolved. The Washington Times has more: The most public dispute between the administration and Mr. Walpin involved the […]

AIG’s $100 Billion I.O.U.

Good luck collecting on this one: A watchdog panel reviewing the bailout of American International Group Inc. said U.S. taxpayers “remain at risk for severe losses” and that the government didn’t act aggressively enough to protect U.S. taxpayers during the 2008 rescue. In a lengthy report, the bipartisan Congressional Oversight Panel concluded that the U.S. […]

Charlie Crist’s Buddy Florida GOP Chairman Jim Greer Faces Felony Charges

Breaking news: The former chairman of the Republican Party of Florida has been arrested for allegedly running a scam bilking money from the party. The Florida Department of Law enforcement took Jim Greer into custody Wednesday at his Orlando-area home. The 47-year-old has been charged with six counts of organized scheme to defraud, four counts […]

Interior Department Employees Were Getting High and Surfing Porn on the Job

Instead of, y’know, making sure we didn’t have an oil rig disaster: Staff members at an agency that oversees offshore drilling accepted tickets to sports events, lunches and other gifts from oil and gas companies and used government computers to view pornography, according to an Interior Department report alleging a culture of cronyism between regulators […]

Lloyd Blankfein Wallows In Clintonism

by Smitty (h/t RedState, assist Pundette) I might have, but they would be at a general and very high level, not specific. Frankly along the lines–the same way I’m talking to you. It’s like this, Lloyd. You can say what you want. Your definition of ‘is’ might differ substantially from the simple, common sense one […]

Freddie: ‘You Can Fool Yourself. You Can Cheat Until You’re Blind’

by Smitty (h/t the Whip) The country is in the very best of hands, as Insty is fond of noting. Especially when, for example, Freddie Mac unexpectedly finds itself facing a $10.6B loss. Eric Cantor whipped it good: Washington D.C. – House Republican Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) today issued the following statement after Freddie Mac […]

Alabama AG Troy King Acts Tough On Crime. Corruption? Not So Much

Nice “America’s Most Wanted” imitation here by the suspiciously gambling-friendly attorney general Troy King: Unlike John Walsh, however, Troy King has been the target of a federal investigation, and this new TV ad raises a question: Where did those cop cars come from? If those are Alabama police cars . . . well, the state law is quite clear on such […]

Goldman Sachs Investigation Update

Breaking news from the Washington Post: Behind closed doors, the two Republican members of the Securities and Exchange Commission sharply questioned senior investigators last week about whether the evidence they had assembled was strong enough to file a fraud case against Goldman Sachs, according to current and former SEC officials familiar with the matter. The […]

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