Comments on: Banks, Lobbyists Gave Panetta $700K

By: DANEgerus

DANEgerus — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 19:40:40 +0000

Another form of “cashing in”. Or didn’t all of you readers think that all lobbyists ultimately earn tax-dollars either earmarked directly to their employer, or on the form of tax & regulatory preferences?

By: wardmama4

wardmama4 — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:21:31 +0000

The One ™ nominating criminals – Who’d thunk it?!?
The Chicago Thug Political Machine running Washington D.C. – what a scary thought.
You know, maybe all these companies and corporations wouldn’t need a bailout if they would just stop paying political hacks to speak/grease the wheels for them.

Wouldn’t we all – elected Representatives, taxpayers and the corporations be in better financial situations?

By: Liberals Demise

Liberals Demise — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 12:14:29 +0000

O Zoner Barry has a “Bell Curve” that is going down and no prospect of it ever swinging back up. Criminals, thugs, pimps and Ho’s is all he seems to be able to toss up on the plate. Obama makes Clinton look like a 1st time car jacker.

By: proreason

proreason — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:00:20 +0000

The Moron is going to have to proclaim a graft threshold below which he won’t consider revoking a nomination.

Otherwise, he’ll be busy full-time covering up for criminals on TV.

By: Odie44

Odie44 — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:00:30 +0000

Well Harry Reid did do a romantic “prose style” tear jerker, concerning lobbysts are really “just moms and dads too”.
Nevermind the hypocrisy and 180 from the anti lobby stance.

More importantly – who/why/how/what would pay this ninny $25k and up to speak about nothing? I dont have an issue with high speaker feees, I do have an issue with useless dolts getting payola from some other folks who are bankrupt now and need money.

Not to mention he has zero intelligence experience.

Perhaps as Director of the CIA – he can just speak to people about his intelligence ignorance – major advantage for the US if he is doing the talking. The enemy, Clinton donors and every other country would be baffled by the bull shit.

By: BillK

BillK — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 06:26:33 +0000

From the Wall Street Journal:

CIA Nominee Panetta Received $700,000 in Fees

By Glenn R. Simpson

WASHINGTON — The White House’s nominee for Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Leon Panetta, has earned more than $700,000 in speaking and consulting fees since the beginning of 2008, with some of the payments coming from troubled financial firms and from a firm that invests in contractors for federal national security agencies, according to financial disclosures released Wednesday…

http://online.wsj.com/article/.....49003.html

Lobbyists are bad… unless they’re Democrats, of course.