Two quotes. From this article. Which you absolutely should read.
Fourteen million dollars.
That is what [Goldman Sachs] paid in taxes in 2008, an effective tax rate of exactly one, read it, one percent. The bank paid out $10 billion in compensation and benefits that same year and made a profit of more than $2 billion – [...]
Nice:
For $25,000 to $250,000, The Washington Post is offering lobbyists and association executives off-the-record, nonconfrontational access to “those powerful few” — Obama administration officials, members of Congress, and the paper’s own reporters and editors.
The astonishing offer is detailed in a flier circulated Wednesday to a health care lobbyist, who provided it to a reporter because [...]
Via TPM:
Despite lots of recent evidence to the contrary (see, e.g., Michelle Bachmann and Norm Coleman), I cling to the idea of Minnesota as a place that produces good politicians in a climate of genuine decency. I’ve got high hopes for Franken. Very.
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In recent days, we have heard about the hiring of many fine people for Creigh Deeds campaign. Several of them are veterans of political campaigns in Virginia and elsewhere. Some, however, are top-level officials with the Democratic Party of Virginia (DPVA). This is troubling to me for several reasons.
When the never-ending election season turned to [...]
This week’s cover takes on one of my all time favorites, which recently made an appearance here:
Cure – In Between Days
Now, maybe it’s the fact that I had Cure albums in such heavy rotation in the 80s that I wore through multiple tapes, but I’m not really one for covers of their work (and lord [...]
If you live in Virginia, please vote tomorrow. For any number of entirely uninteresting reasons, I’ve pretty much skipped covering the primary season in Virginia politics. People like Mike@Blueweeds, Waldo, Vivian, and Steve have given you pretty much all you need to know, though.
I’ll be voting for Brian Moran for Democratic nominee for Governor, Michael [...]