• sheltercrow said on Feb 12, 2009....

  
  From Think Progress Online
  
  Bailed-out firms rename their cash bonuses as ‘retention awards.’»
  
  Bailed-Out Wall Street CEOs Still Leasing Private Jets, Hoping To Keep Up To $1.5 Million In Salary This Year»
  
  Conservative Media Echo Chamber Promotes Right-Wing Health Care Propagandist Betsy McCaughey»
  
  McCain casts lone ‘no’ vote against DC voting rights.»
  
  Anti-Obscenity Crusader Eric Cantor Sends Out Profanity-Laced Attack On Union»
  
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• sheltercrow said on Feb 12, 2009....

  From AlterNet
  
  
  A Great and Easy Way to Compare the House and Senate Stimulus Bills
  
  Posted by David Sirota, Open Left at 7:54 AM on February 11, 2009.
  
  For those who want to dig into the differences between the House and Senate stimulus bills, ProPublica has produced this great side-by-side chart.
  
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• sheltercrow said on Feb 12, 2009....

  From AlterNet
  
  
  Shocker: Mike Huckabee Breaks the 9th Commandment
  
  Posted by Steve Benen, Washington Monthly at 3:29 AM on February 11, 2009.
  
  [...]
  
  You've got to be kidding me.
  
  
  Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee warned supporters Tuesday that the $828 billion stimulus package is "anti-religious."
  
  In an e-mail that was also posted on his blog ahead of the Senate's passage, Huckabee wrote: "The dust is settling on the 'bipartisan' stimulus bill and one thing is clear: It is anti-religious."
  
  The former Republican presidential candidate pointed to a provision in both the House and Senate versions banning higher education funds in the bill from being used on a "school or department of divinity."
  
  "You would think the ACLU drafted this bill," Huckabee said. "For all of the talk about bipartisanship, this Congress is blatantly liberal."
  
  
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• sheltercrow said on Feb 14, 2009....

  From The Nation Editors:
  
  
  Bankrupt Bailout
  
  Don't exhaust the Treasury to keep insolvent financial giants alive. Liquidate failed banks, sell off the assets and let shareholders eat the dust.

• sheltercrow said on Feb 14, 2009....

  From Tom Dispatch
  
  
  Tomgram: Steve Fraser, Locked into the Bailout State
  
  Sometimes it's the small gesture that defines the end of an age. Richard Fuld, CEO of Lehman Brothers, the single financial firm the Bush administration allowed to collapse into bankruptcy in what may someday be thought of as the slow-motion Crash of '09, made one of those gestures recently. Just to be clear, we're talking about a man who, between 1993 and 2007, took home a tidy $466 million in pay. (That's no misprint, though it's a pay level that it would take factories of workers cumulative lifetimes to reach.) Then, in 2008, the year his firm would collapse, Fuld was awarded another $22 million in what was called "retirement pay."
  
  But that's the big picture. Here's the small one that catches our shape-shifting moment perfectly. Fuld was recently outed for "selling" his wife their jointly held $14 million, 3.3 acre Florida beach-front mansion -- one of five houses the two of them owned, including their 8-bedroom main domicile in Greenwich, Connecticut -- and the lovely touch is the selling price: $100. That's right, one hundred bucks "in a possible attempt," writes the British Times, "to move assets beyond the reach of infuriated investors of the collapsed bank." Smooth move, Dick! Just petty and sleazy enough for a $488 million man.
  
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