Barney Frank Angry Over AIG Bonuses

I don’t usually pay that much attention to Barney Frank. He always seems angry. He did have a good point today in regards to the AIG bonuses that were paid to the very division that caused the collapse of the entire company. He basically said that while people may be entitled to their bonuses they’re not necessarily entitled to their jobs, especially when they’ve caused the collapse of a company.

Daily Show: Optimist Prime

 

Daily Show: Barack Obama may be too optimistic about his goals for the future of America.

Jindal Spews About Volcanoes, Quiet on Mississippi River Projects

In his response to President Obama’s address to Congress last night, Bobby Jindal managed to irritate some folks living near Mount St. Helens by signaling out what he thought was wasteful spending: monitoring volcanoes. From his remarks:

[Congress'] legislation is larded with wasteful spending … [like] $140 million for something called “volcano monitoring.” Instead of monitoring volcanoes, what Congress should be monitoring is the eruption of spending in Washington, D.C.

Obviously, the speech writer couldn’t resist the colorful flourish that the image of a volcano spewing s*** into the air would give to Jindal’s response. He got to use a clever line “monitoring the eruption of spending” and probably didn’t think anything more of it. The Mayor of Vancouver, Washington did give it some thought and was not pleased:

“Does the governor have a volcano in his backyard?” Royce Pollard, the mayor of Vancouver, Washington, said on Wednesday. “We have one that’s very active, and it still rumbles and spits and coughs very frequently.”

It does seem like an odd thing to single out monitoring of a natural disaster given the whole Katrina thing. Jindal comes across as fairly uncaring and tone deaf in his remarks. And there is the other little matter of the $500 million dolled out in the stimulus to strengthen the levees along the Mississippi river. I didn’t hear Jindal question that half a billion dollars (a bit more than volcano monitoring). Given the history of the levee system in Louisiana, I would take the money and shut-up, too. Too bad he can’t have the same sympathy for his neighbors in the Northwest.

Presidential Address to Congress

Click HERE to watch the response from Lousiana Governor Bobby Jindal.

Goofy Ass GOP Back in the House

An uplifting video to rally the base from House Minority Whip Eric “Busta Rhymes” Cantor. It touts, for posterity, how not a single House Republican voted for Obama’s stimulus bill. You can see Cantor’s other hit, the profanity laced spoof video mocking unions, HERE. At this rate, Cantor might be able to pick up a Grammy next year for best political whinings.

Also related, SNL’s behind closed doors look at the House Republicans and what really goes on in their meetings.

SNL: GOP Meeting

Dan Akroyd returns to SNL for the opening. Sadly, this is what I really think happens in GOP meetings (especially on the Hill).

Damn you computer!

On a day with so many things to blog about my computer has eaten my hard drive. There’s Obama and Biden out wandering around construction sites, the Speaker of the House unable to deliver all the Dems for the compromise “jobs” (not stimulus) bill and there’s Sarah Palin snubbing prominent conservatives. Feel free to google any of these stories. Pretty interesting.

Live Obama Town Hall Meeting

President Obama holds a town hall meeting in Elkhart, Indiana today at Noon ET. He’s going to answer questions about the stimulus. You can watch it live HERE.

Update:

Video of the speech:

Daily Show: GOP Elephant Forgets

Daily Show: Republicans debate the stimulus bill, forgetting that C-SPAN doesn’t destroy old tapes when a new administration steps in.

Daily Show: Congress on YouTube

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