Guest Post: America’s Hijackers – Where Are They Now?

Submitted by Mark McHugh of Across The Street blog, Spoiler Alert: They’re mostly still in office  (so much for building suspense). On October 3, 2008, 338 elected officials (263 House reps, 74 Senators and 1 President) took it upon themselves to save America from certain financial doom by passing the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, completely ignoring the will of the American people,  opting instead to fulfill a Thomas Jefferson prophesy: “The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.” ~ Thomas Jefferson Texas representative Ron Paul had this to say: “The money for this bailout does not just materialize out of thin air. The entire burden will be borne by the taxpayers, not now, because that is politically unacceptable, but in the future….our children and grandchildren will be burdened with increased taxes in order to pay that increased debt…. For years, many people have been warning about the housing bubble and the inevitable bust. Congress ignored the impending storm, and responded to this crisis with a poorly thought-out piece of legislation that will only further harm the economy. We ought to be ashamed.” The most memorable component of that piece of treason legislation was the $700B TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program), which was scrapped by Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson 11 days later in favor of the Capital Purchase Program (CPP), which injected money directly into banks.  In February 2009, new Treasury Secretary Turbo Geithner ended the CPP and announced the Capital Assistance Program (CAP), which also blasted money directly into banks. Fun Fact: Hankenstein Paulson worked at Goldman Sachs for 32 years and served as Treasury Secretary for 31 months. So TARP never happened; making discussions of the program’s merits every bit as psychotic as analysis of Ross Perot’s presidency, but that didn’t stop CNBC from having a birthday cake for TARP, nor does it prevent politicians from claiming that the fictitious program was somehow profitable.  To make that claim, you must use accounting techniques pioneered by Homer Simpson in “Lard of the Dance” : Homer Simpson: Okay, boy. This is where all the hard work, sacrifice, and painful scaldings pay off.Employee: Four pounds of grease… that comes to… sixty-three cents. Homer Simpson: Woo-hoo! Bart Simpson: Dad, all that bacon cost twenty-seven dollars. Homer Simpson: Yeah, but your mom paid for that! Bart Simpson: But doesn’t she get her money from you? Homer Simpson: And I get my money from grease! What’s the problem? Some of us prefer using this one: Q: Since the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 explicitly states that all profits from TARP be used to pay down the National Debt, the true measure of the program’s success can be found at the Treasury’s “Debt to the Penny” website.  How much of the national debt has been paid off since October 3, 2008? A: Negative Six Trillion Dollars. Fun Fact (if you’re into child abuse): America’s kids have been saddled with more debt in the past 48 months than the Nation accumulated from the signing of the Declaration of Independence to 9-11-2001 (225 years). That $6 Trillion in debt has produced a grand total of $1.17T in nominal GDP growth ($361B in chained 2005 dollars).   Using the nominal, each dollar of GDP growth has cost taxpayers $5.13 (assuming you understand that deficit dollars are tax dollars put on a deferred-payment plan.  A concept  Greece and Spain are just now beginning to grasp). EESA-approving-congressman-turned-Chicago-Mayor Rahm Emanuel observed: You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before (i.e. Looting the Country in broad daylight without passing a budget). Which brings me to the point:  Despite all the kicking, screaming, TEA-partying and Occupying, of the 338 elected officials who saw fit to pass the EESA, no less than 229 still hold public office:

• One became President, one didn’t.  
• One’s Vice-President, one wants to be.  
• The speaker of the House and the House minority leader swapped titles after both voted in favor of the bill.  
• Two have already been promoted to Senator and 5 more currently running for that privledge.
• One got demoted to Secretary of State while another got demoted to Mayor of Chicago.
• One retired to a 1600 acre off-the-energy-grid ranch in Texas, 23 more will join him in retirement in January 2013.
• 168 face re-election next month.

The next un-funded war is already in the works and there’s another economic crisis on the horizon.  The so-called “Fiscal Cliff” is what happens if we DON’T continue $Trillion-plus deficits, and I must admit I find myself somewhat in awe of how grossly mis-framed this discussion has become. So here’s your opportunity to reward these (heroes/traitors) as you see fit, because every nation gets the government it deserves.  Senators who voted in favor of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008: Senator Status Alaska Lisa Murkowski Re-elected 2010 (2016) Ted Stevens Out of office Alabama Arkansas Blanche Lincoln Out of office Mark Pryor Re-elected 2008 (2014) Arizona Jon Kyl Retiring John McCain Re-elected 2010 (2016) California Barbara Boxer Re-elected 2010 (2016) Dianne Feinstein Running for re-election Colorado Ken Salazar Out of office Connecticut Christopher Dodd Out of office Joseph Lieberman Retiring Delaware Joseph Biden Vice President Thomas Carper Running for re-election Florida Mel Martinez Out of office Georgia Saxby Chambliss Re-elected 2008 (2014) John “Johnny” Isakson Re-elected 2010 (2016) Hawaii Daniel Akaka Running for re-election Daniel Inouye Re-elected 2010 (2016) Iowa Charles “Chuck” Grassley Re-elected 2010 (2016) Thomas “Tom” Harkin Re-elected 2008 (2014) Idaho Larry Craig Out of office Illinois Richard Durbin Re-elected 2008 (2014) Barack Obama President Indiana Evan Bayh Out of office Richard Lugar Lost renomination Kansas Kentucky Mitch McConnell Re-elected 2008 (2014) Louisiana Massachusetts John Kerry Re-elected 2008 (2014) Maryland Benjamin Cardin Running for re-election Barbara Mikulski Re-elected 2010 (2016) Maine Susan Collins Re-elected 2008 (2014) Olympia Snowe Running for re-election Michigan Carl Levin Re-elected 2008 (2014) Minnesota Norm Coleman Out of office Amy Klobuchar Running for re-election Missouri Christopher “Kit” Bond Out of office Claire McCaskill Running for re-election Mississippi Montana Max Baucus Re-elected 2008 (2014) North Carolina Richard Burr Re-elected 2010 (2016) North Dakota Kent Conrad Retiring Nebraska Charles “Chuck” Hagel Out of office Ben Nelson Running for re-election New Hampshire Judd Gregg Out of office John Sununu Out of office New Jersey Frank Lautenberg Re-elected 2008 (2014) Robert “Bob” Menéndez Running for re-election New Mexico Jeff Bingaman Retiring Pete Domenici Out of office Nevada John Ensign Resigned Harry Reid Re-elected 2010 (2016) New York Hillary Clinton Secretary of State Charles Schumer Re-elected 2010 (2016) Ohio Sherrod Brown Running for re-election George Voinovich Out of office Oklahoma Thomas Coburn Re-elected 2010 (2016) Oregon Gordon Smith Out of office Pennsylvania Robert Casey Running for re-election Arlen Specter Out of office Rhode Island John “Jack” Reed Re-elected 2008 (2014) Sheldon Whitehouse Running for re-election South Carolina Lindsey Graham Re-elected 2008 (2014) South Dakota John Thune Re-elected 2010 (2016) Tennessee Lamar Alexander Re-elected 2008 (2014) Bob Corker Running for re-election Texas John Cornyn Re-elected 2008 (2014) Kay Hutchison Retiring Utah Robert Bennett Out of office Orrin Hatch Running for re-election Virginia John Warner Out of office Jim Webb Retiring Vermont Patrick Leahy Re-elected 2010 (2016) Washington Patty Murray Re-elected 2010 (2016) Wisconsin Herbert “Herb” Kohl Retiring West Virginia Robert Byrd Out of office John “Jay” Rockefeller Re-elected 2008 (2014) Wyoming (no “yes” votes) House Representatives who voted in favor of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008: Representative Status Alaska  (0 of 1) Alabama  (6 of 7) Jo Bonner Running for re-election Terry Everett out of office Michael “Mike” Rogers Running for re-election Robert “Bud” Cramer out of office Spencer Bachus Running for re-election Artur Davis out of office Arkansas  (4 of 4) Robert “Marion” Berry out of office Victor “Vic” Snyder out of office John Boozman Promoted to Senator Mike Ross Retiring Arizona  (4 of 8) John Shadegg out of office Edward “Ed” Pastor Running for re-election Harry Mitchell out of office Gabrielle Giffords Resigned California  (36 of 53) Michael “Mike” Thompson Running for re-election Walter “Wally” Herger Retiring Daniel Lungren Running for re-election Doris Matsui Running for re-election Lynn Woolsey Retiring George Miller Running for re-election Nancy Pelosi Running for re-election Barbara Lee Running for re-election Ellen Tauscher out of office Jerry McNerney Running for re-election Jackie Speier Running for re-election Anna Eshoo Running for re-election Michael “Mike” Honda Running for re-election Zoe Lofgren Running for re-election Sam Farr Running for re-election Dennis Cardoza Retiring George Radanovich out of office Jim Costa Running for re-election Lois Capps Running for re-election Howard “Buck” McKeon Running for re-election David Dreier Retiring Howard Berman Running for re-election Adam Schiff Running for re-election Henry Waxman Running for re-election Hilda Solis out of office Diane Watson out of office Maxine Waters Running for re-election Jane Harman out of office Laura Richardson Running for re-election Jerry Lewis Retiring Gary Miller Running for re-election Joe Baca Running for re-election Ken Calvert Running for re-election Mary Bono Mack Running for re-election John Campbell Running for re-election Susan Davis Running for re-election Colorado (3 of 7) Diana DeGette Running for re-election Thomas “Tom” Tancredo out of office Ed Perlmutter Running for re-election Connecticut  (4 of 5) John Larson Running for re-election Rosa DeLauro Running for re-election Christopher Shays out of office Christopher Murphy Running for Senate Delaware  (1 of 1) Michael Castle out of office Florida  (13 of 25) Allen Boyd out of office Corrine Brown Running for re-election Ander Crenshaw Running for re-election Adam Putnam out of office Vern Buchanan Running for re-election David “Dave” Weldon Running for re-election Tim Mahoney out of office Kendrick Meek out of office Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Running for re-election Robert Wexler out of office Debbie Wasserman Schultz Running for re-election Ron Klein out of office Alcee Hastings Running for re-election Georgia  (4 of 13) Sanford Bishop Running for re-election John Lewis Running for re-election James “Jim” Marshall out of office David Scott Running for re-election Hawaii  (2 of 2) Neil Abercrombie out of office Mazie Hirono Running for Senate Iowa  (3 of 5) Bruce Braley Running for re-election David Loebsack Running for re-election Leonard Boswell Running for re-election Idaho  (1 of 2) Michael “Mike” Simpson Running for re-election Illinois  (13 of 19) Bobby Rush Running for re-election Jesse Jackson Running for re-election Luis Gutiérrez Running for re-election Rahm Emanuel Mayor of Chicago Danny Davis Running for re-election Melissa Bean out of office Janice “Jan” Schakowsky Running for re-election Mark Kirk out of office Gerald “Jerry” Weller out of office Judy Biggert Running for re-election Bill Foster Running for re-election Phil Hare out of office Ray LaHood out of office Indiana  (4 of 9) Joe Donnelly Running for Senate Mark Souder out of office André Carson Running for re-election Brad Ellsworth out of office Kansas  (1 of 4) Dennis Moore out of office Kentucky  (3 of 6) Ron Lewis out of office John Yarmuth Running for re-election Harold “Hal” Rogers Running for re-election Louisiana  (4 of 7) Charles Melancon out of office James “Jim” McCrery out of office Rodney Alexander Running for re-election Charles Boustany Running for re-election Massachusetts  (8 of 10) John Olver Retiring Richard Neal Running for re-election James “Jim” McGovern Running for re-election Barney Frank Retiring Niki Tsongas Running for re-election John Tierney Running for re-election Edward “Ed” Markey Running for re-election Michael Capuano Running for re-election Maryland  (7 of 8) Wayne Gilchrest out of office Dutch Ruppersberger Running for re-election John Sarbanes Running for re-election Donna Edwards Running for re-election Steny Hoyer Running for re-election Elijah Cummings Running for re-election Christopher “Chris” Van Hollen Running for re-election Maine  (1 of 2) Thomas “Tom” Allen out of office Michigan  (9 of 15) Peter “Pete” Hoekstra out of office Vernon Ehlers out of office David “Dave” Camp Running for re-election Dale Kildee Retiring Frederick “Fred” Upton Running for re-election Joseph “Joe” Knollenberg out of office Sander Levin Running for re-election Carolyn Kilpatrick out of office John Dingell Running for re-election Minnesota  (5 of 8) John Kline Running for re-election James “Jim” Ramstad out of office Betty McCollum Running for re-election Keith Ellison Running for re-election James Oberstar out of office Missouri  (5 of 9) Russ Carnahan Lost renomination Ike Skelton out of office Emanuel Cleaver Running for re-election Roy Blunt Promoted to Senator Jo Ann Emerson Running for re-election Mississippi  ( 1 of 4) Charles “Chip” Pickering out of office Montana  (0 of 1) North Carolina  (6 of 13) Bob Etheridge out of office David Price Running for re-election Howard Coble Running for re-election Sue Myrick Retiring Melvin “Mel” Watt Running for re-election Bradley “Brad” Miller Retiring North Dakota  (1 of 1) Earl Pomeroy out of office Nebraska  (1 of 3) Lee Terry Running for re-election New Hampshire  (0 of 2) New Jersey  (8 of 13) Robert “Rob” Andrews Running for re-election James “Jim” Saxton out of office Frank Pallone Running for re-election Michael “Mike” Ferguson out of office William “Bill” Pascrell Running for re-election Rodney Frelinghuysen Running for re-election Rush Holt Running for re-election Albio Sires Running for re-election New Mexico  (1 of 3) Heather Wilson out of office Nevada  (2 of 3) Shelley Berkley Running for Senate Jon Porter out of office New York  (26 of 29) Timothy Bishop Running for re-election Steve Israel Running for re-election Peter “Pete” King Running for re-election Carolyn McCarthy Running for re-election Gary Ackerman Retiring Gregory Meeks Running for re-election Joseph Crowley Running for re-election Jerrold Nadler Running for re-election Anthony Weiner out of office Edolphus “Ed” Towns Retiring Yvette Clarke Running for re-election Nydia Velázquez Running for re-election Vito Fossella out of office Carolyn Maloney Running for re-election Charles Rangel Running for re-election Eliot Engel Running for re-election Nita Lowey Running for re-election John Hall out of office Michael McNulty out of office John McHugh out of office Michael Arcuri out of office James “Jim” Walsh out of office Thomas Reynolds out of office Brian Higgins Running for re-election Louise Slaughter Running for re-election John “Randy” Kuhl out of office Ohio  (10 of 18) Jean Schmidt Lost renomination Charles Wilson Running for re-election David “Dave” Hobson out of office John Boehner Running for re-election Patrick “Pat” Tiberi Running for re-election Betty Sutton Running for re-election Deborah Pryce out of office Ralph Regula out of office Timothy Ryan Running for re-election Zachary “Zack” Space out of office Oklahoma (4 of 5) John Sullivan Lost renomination Dan Boren Retiring Tom Cole Running for re-election Mary Fallin out of office Oregon  (3 of 5) David Wu Resigned Greg Walden Running for re-election Darlene Hooley out of office Pennsylvania  (12 of 19) Robert Brady Running for re-election Chaka Fattah Running for re-election John Peterson out of office Jim Gerlach Running for re-election Joe Sestak out of office Patrick Murphy out of office William “Bill” Shuster Running for re-election Paul Kanjorski out of office John Murtha out of office Allyson Schwartz Running for re-election Michael “Mike” Doyle Running for re-election Charles Dent Running for re-election Rhode Island  (2 of 2) Patrick Kennedy out of office James “Jim” Langevin Running for re-election South Carolina  (6 of 6) Henry Brown out of office Addison “Joe” Wilson Running for re-election James “J. Gresham” Barrett out of office Bob Inglis out of office John Spratt out of office James “Jim” Clyburn Running for re-election South Dakota  (0 of 1) Tennessee  (5 of 9) Zach Wamp out of office Jim Cooper Running for re-election Barton “Bart” Gordon out of office John Tanner out of office Steve Cohen Running for re-election Texas  (15 of 32) Kevin Brady Running for re-election Al Green Running for re-election Michael Conaway Running for re-election Kay Granger Running for re-election William “Mac” Thornberry Running for re-election Rubén Hinojosa Running for re-election Silvestre Reyes Lost renomination Thomas “Chet” Edwards out of office Sheila Jackson-Lee Running for re-election Charles “Charlie” Gonzalez Retiring Lamar Smith Running for re-election Solomon Ortiz out of office Henry Cuellar Running for re-election Eddie Johnson Running for re-election Peter “Pete” Sessions Running for re-election Utah  (1 of 3) Christopher “Chris” Cannon out of office Virginia  (5 of 11) Eric Cantor Running for re-election James “Jim” Moran Running for re-election Frederick “Rick” Boucher out of office Frank Wolf Running for re-election Thomas “Tom” Davis out of office Vermont  (1 of 1) Peter Welch Running for re-election Washington  (4 of 9) Rick Larsen Running for re-election Brian Baird out of office Norman “Norm” Dicks Retiring Adam Smith Running for re-election Wisconsin  (5 of 8) Paul Ryan Running for re-election & V.P. Tammy Baldwin Running for Senate Ronald “Ron” Kind Running for re-election Gwen Moore Running for re-election David “Dave” Obey out of office West Virginia  (2 of 3) Alan Mollohan out of office Nick Rahall Running for re-election Wyoming  (1 of 1) Barbara Cubin Running for re-election Sources: Official House vote: Official Senate vote: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/110-2008/h681 http://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/110-2008/s212 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives_elec... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_elections,_2012 Debt to the Penny Caveat: The compilation of the data contained herein is the product of hundreds of pieces of data manually collected, keyed-in and tallied by the author, who by his own admission is somewhat of a dunce.  Readers are encouraged to verify data points before operating heavy equipment.  The mess of a spreadsheet used to assemble this data can be found here: EESA 2008 votes CALCULATIONS, and the way the author actually wanted the infomation to display can be found here: EESA 2008 yes votes  This information may be re-broadcast in the interest of truth, Justice and the American way, without the consent of Major League Baseball, or the author.

Comments

[chumbawamba]

Hey, October 3, 2008 also happens to be Chumbawamba's birthday.

What a coincidence.

I am Chumbawamba.

[Almost Solvent]

Still chargin' those PMs to your CCs and walking away? 

[NewThor]

This is why I read ZeroHedge.

Tyler, I salute you sir.

[CH1]

So long as people believe in the sanctity of The State, this will continue forever.

The problem is not just the pullers of levers - it's the machine!

[CPL]

Happy birf-dai.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fV3VjF64ga4

[RockyRacoon]

Cheers, chumba.  And congratulations to your belly-button.

[chumbawamba]

In this case my "belly button" is a numeric identifier in a database on a ZH server.  That date was the birth of Chumbawamba.  That was my defining moment of clarity.

I am Chumbawamba.

[Stoploss]

“The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.” 
~ Thomas Jefferson

Better late then never i guess, we're here!

[fourchan]

"I hope we shall take warning from the example and crush in it’s birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and to bid defiance to the laws of their country."

[cynicalskeptic]

NOT QUITE a direct quote though the intent is there

http://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/end-democracyquo...

[mark mchugh]

Dammnit!

Not the first time I've been clued-in to a re-engineered quote.  Needless to say, I was not aware when I included it.

Thanks, CS

[zorba THE GREEK]

Thanks for printing the list of names of the traitors.

It will come in handy after the revolution.

Thomas Jefferson also said that a revolution was needed every 

generation or so to clear out the corruption that takes hold in a 

government. We are 'way' overdue.

[RockyRacoon]

Wouldn't it just have been easier to list those who did NOT vote for the goofy thing?   And give the coordinates of where their planes crashed.

[Tango in the Blight]

Ted Stevens did vote for it and his plane crashed.

[OldPhart]

Just remind those that 'retired' and those that gave up that every constituent that cares knows exactly where they live, and that they have neighbors that we know that are fully advised of schedules, routines and habits.

Midnight raids are going to be so exciting in the next couple of months!

I hope everyone of these evil vermin can't sleep for the next ten years waiting for the torchlight parade to show up.  It will, eventually.  Each will have their head on a stick, one that was shoved forcefully up an area that normally doesn't see a lot of sunshine.

[Al Gorerhythm]

We need a constitutional rewrite and a vote on it every 4 years. Nothing else, just the constitution. Should keep everyone educated and no chance for judicial interpretation.

[bankonzhongguo]

I was going to say something vaguely smart and minorly alarming and then realized our so-called government is herding us like cattle snooping on our every speech.

What an embarrassment it must be to be a federal agent or officer and protect this group of republic-rapists and pirates.

Where is Deep Throat when you need'em?

Leak the dirt on these scumbags.

You see what they think of your expendable kids in AfPak, Libya, Iraq, Syria, AFRICOM, Mexico or the agents on the border.

Why protect these guys and the banks with such vigor?

Moral Hazard?

Try Treason.

[NidStyles]

Deepthroat was likely the first use of controlled leaks by the Intelligence Complex to test it's security. Which means that was supposed to get out.

[WeekendAtBernankes]

Is there somewhere I can read more about this or are you just throwing out a broken link to a conspiracy porn?

[Diogenes]

Mark Felt admitted to being Deep Throat in 2005, and this was confirmed by Woodward and Bernstein. At the time of the Watergate scandal Felt was associate director  at the FBI headquarters in Washington.

In other words the FBI's #2 man spoon fed the Watergate story to a couple of cub reporters. He was never reprimanded, his career was not affected and his identity was never "discovered" by the FBI or anyone else.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Felt

[max2205]

Fucking stupid voters. Hope they get fucked harder the next election cycle.

[Northeaster]

Judd Gregg went to go to work for Goldman (staunch supporter of bailouts).

http://www.goldmansachs.com/media-relations/press-releases/current/judd-...

Niki Tsongas, who went from relative financial obscurity to multimillionaire (and for a short time didn't live in the District she "represented").

Voter apathy has consequences. Contrary to popular belief of the readership here on ZH, this can go on for a lot longer than readers realize. No, there won't be a "Second Revolution", the government pays people to stay home indefinitely, television is more interesting, and being fat and lazy is now acceptable behavior.

Good luck to us all.

[Disenchanted]

Ken Salazar is now Oblahma's Secretary of the Interior. Remember him from from the Great Gulf Oil Leak?

btw has anyone heard this topic mentioned in the current 'mainstream' election dog and pony show? I thought not.

[Yen Cross]

   I'm amazed when I look at "high level, curriculum" , anymore.   Communicatory skills are non-existant!   Texting is a fucking joke!

  BTW Tyler, thanks for the tranch of "douche bags"!

[kito]

LOL!! LMAO!!! u r funny yen!

[hadriansnightmare]

Pet Peeve number 212.  Incorrectly quoting without sourcing a founding father.....

 http://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/end-democracyquotation

[NidStyles]

You mean the guy's that created the system for abuse and preached about grand idealism and principles, but betrayed them as soon as they obtained office?

[mark mchugh]

My bad (see above)

[StateofFraud]

Maine Susan Collins Re-elected 2008 (2014) Olympia Snowe

Running for re-election

Snowe is not running for re-election. Maine, however, will soon choose a male version of Snowe to send to Washington to vote for more statism.

[mark mchugh]

Thanks for the correction, State.

Snowe's status should be "Retiring"

I'm sure that's not the only error.

[Yen Cross]

Good job. Ölympia Snow, RINO -101!

   The tracking cookies are great. Font expression  .. over the O!

[CulturalEngineer]

Sound familiar?

A quote from "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" by William Shirer on the decay of the German republic leading up to Hitler: 

“Parliamentary government had become a matter of what the Germans called Kuhhandel—cattle trading—with the parties bargaining for special advantages for the groups which elected them, and the national interests be damned.”

[q99x2]

Bye bye Feinstein you voted for Blankfein and I'm voting for your competitor.

Can't get rid of Schumer without arresting him. Arrest Schumer.

Thanks for the posting. Need one for the NDAA as well. Please.

[Vlad Tepid]

Her competitor is a really nice lady.  I (improbably) know her personally, and she is very sincere about trying to turn the country around.  She doesn't really understand what that entails (and the futility of it all) and is no Ron Paul, but then who is?  It's very rare to see a genuine PERSON running instead of a statist psychopath.  She'll probably lose, but if she wins at least there'll be one person who I know at one point wasn't as a state-bot.

[Nadaclue]

Fortunately, both of the assholes that voted for this are out of office in my homestate and my BOL.

[mark mchugh]

Be proud.

[helping_friendl...]

Not hide nor hair of the stuttering douche bag Henry Paulson has been seen since the greatest crime of the 13th Baktun. Anyone know where he is? Hiding with Jon Corzine perhaps?

[e_goldstein]

Rumor has it Paulson is off playing with snakes... seriously.

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/05/the_weekend_william_hurt_went.html

[helping_friendl...]

Island off Georgia? Jekyll Island perhaps? Oh the irony! They ought to hang that SOB.

[Vlad Tepid]

Probably Bermuda...or the Azores.  Somewhere where I can't get my hand on him.

[Lumberjack]

Wanna really know where they are and what they are doing?

Corporate CEOs Lining Up Behind Pro-Austerity Lobby In Anticipation Of 'Fiscal Cliff' Battle

http://www.ibtimes.com/corporate-ceos-lining-behind-pro-austerity-lobby-anticipation-fiscal-cliff-battle-842123

[snip]

Corporate CEOs are lining up behind a pro-austerity lobbying group in anticipation of what could be a bruising fight to avert the so-called fiscal cliff, hoping to influence high-level discussions on tax and spending matters following November's general elections.


The CEOs of JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM), Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS), the General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE), and 97 other firms are financially supporting the "Fix The Debt" campaign of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, according to the Financial Times. With close links to moderate Republican philanthropists, the committee has support among the fiscally minded in both the Democratic and Republican parties...

..."Our whole political structure seems to be set up to make it hard for our political leaders to have courage that leads them to reach compromise" Arne Sorenson, the CEO of Marriott International Inc. (NYSE: MAR), told the Journal. He said people from the higher rungs of the business world could help "to create an environment" by doing "nothing more than saying: 'We just encourage you to try. We'll support you. We'll give cover.'"

[Yen Cross]

Lumberjack, let me quantify your post.   Rest assured , I yield a big blade!

[Bernankenstein]

Message from the Fed: Have more kids, lots of them. It is the best way to reduce the Debt/Person ratio. Our new Fed motto will be "We screw you know who...and often, now you screw who you know...and often". I'm so proud of myself.

[tony bonn]

this article was a superb reminder of the criminal fraud these elected assholes perpetrated on the nation.....we will be paying the price for their treachery for years to come....each one should be voted out of the office at the very least and declared financial terrorists so soetoro can murder them without trial.....

[Seasmoke]

and anthony weiner would still be in office, if he didnt show off his dick to the entire world

[Yen Cross]

Look @ the 2 dots above the O. In Olympia Snow. Those are tracing cookies.  I'm not B'Sing ya guys. It takes my team 4-5 hours every week to get rid of that shit!

     I'm not a politician.

[mark mchugh]

I don't see them.  I compiled my data with links from govtrack.us so readers could learn more about their reps if they wanted to.  There was absolutely no malicious intent.  If somehow tracking cookies got into the list (which I doubt), please tell me how to prevent it in the future.

[unirealist]

Here in Oregon, Ron Wyden voted AGAINST it and was re-elected. Our other Senator, Gordon Smith, voted FOR it and was subsequently ejected from his cushy tenure. Good riddance to him. As for Senator Wyden, he has my vote anytime he needs it, Republican though he is.

[ebworthen]

That was the straw for me, the end, what broke my back.

These professional equivocators will "meet in the middle" and screw us over next crisis, just wait.

Brother got a dime?

[Problem Is]

Quite a list of Douche Bags ehh?

[NuYawkFrankie]

A Rogue's Gallery that will live in infamy.

[Ludic Fallacy]

I'm fairly certain Snowe got beat in the primaries.  I think the term is defeated, not retiring. 

[Random_Robert]

Nostradamus ain't got SHIT on Thomas Jefferson...

Jefferson was a fucking future-telling, crystal ball gazing, prophet-savant, bitchez...