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Category Archives: Corruption

Good riddance

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Max Baucus, the West’s answer to Joe Lieberman, will be riding off into the sunset. Time to cash in for carrying all that water for the health care, insurance, and financial industries (to mention only a few). Why let former aides get all the money? No man has done more to undermine the Democrats from […]

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Nothing to see here

Sunday, March 24, 2013

Matt Stoller writes: Earlier this week, the House Ag Committee marked up some bills deregulating derivatives. I don’t think they were expecting anyone to really notice, but there was a bunch of press on what they did. The next step in the legislative process is for the House Financial Services Committee to look at the […]

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I want in

Friday, March 1, 2013

Looks like I picked the wrong line of blogging: A range of mainstream American publications printed paid propaganda for the government of Malaysia, much of it focused on the campaign against a pro-democracy figure there. The payments to conservative American opinion writers — whose work appeared in outlets from the Huffington Post and San Francisco […]

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Shameless muckraking at the Times

Sunday, January 20, 2013

According to the New York Times, the recent “fiscal cliff” deal was a good deal for drug maker Amgen: Just two weeks after pleading guilty in a major federal fraud case, Amgen, the world’s largest biotechnology firm, scored a largely unnoticed coup on Capitol Hill: Lawmakers inserted a paragraph into the “fiscal cliff” bill that […]

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Legalized bribery

Saturday, September 26, 2009

Isn’t America a great country? Who needs an income when you can own your own Leadership PAC. And we’re worrying about whether Chris Dodd got a sweetheart mortgage? It looks, by the way, that Chris has backed away from the bi-partisan Leadership PAC game.

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Lobbyists dollars at work

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

I have to pass this along because I don’t think I’ve ever seen the sink of corruption that is Washington so blatantly acknowledged. Via Firedoglake, this is language that a Washington bribery lobbyist firm uses to promote its services: The C2 Group, recognizing the increasing reliance and need for campaign funds, has stepped into this […]

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Department of You Can’t Make This Stuff Up-Blagojevich/Craig Edition

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

This is one of those times when I feel my own inadequacies as a writer with a peculiar intensity. How to do justice to the staggeringly audacious corruption of Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich? Might I first observe that he makes John Rowland look like a piker-a rank amateur? How, one wonders, did this guy ever […]

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