Meet your party's base Clarence Thomas
Your Mississippi GOP:
46% of these hardcore Republican voters believe interracial marriage should be illegal, while 40% think it should be legal.
Move on, nothing to see here
And they'll never suffer any real repercussions...in fact, have some more money!
Now, if some poor schmuck, preferable of a brown-hue that Joe Arpaio could assault with a tan, were involved in laundering a few tens of thousands through his small business that would be the end -- and a 20-year term to boot.
But for Wells Fargo...well, you already knew where this was heading.
...and this:
On 10 April 2006, a DC-9 jet landed in the port city of Ciudad del Carmen, on the Gulf of Mexico, as the sun was setting. Mexican soldiers, waiting to intercept it, found 128 cases packed with 5.7 tons of cocaine, valued at $100m. But something else – more important and far-reaching – was discovered in the paper trail behind the purchase of the plane by the Sinaloa narco-trafficking cartel.
During a 22-month investigation by agents from the US Drug Enforcement Administration, the Internal Revenue Service and others, it emerged that the cocaine smugglers had bought the plane with money they had laundered through one of the biggest banks in the United States: Wachovia, now part of the giant Wells Fargo.
Now, if some poor schmuck, preferable of a brown-hue that Joe Arpaio could assault with a tan, were involved in laundering a few tens of thousands through his small business that would be the end -- and a 20-year term to boot.
But for Wells Fargo...well, you already knew where this was heading.
"Wachovia's blatant disregard for our banking laws gave international cocaine cartels a virtual carte blanche to finance their operations," said Jeffrey Sloman, the federal prosecutor. Yet the total fine was less than 2% of the bank's $12.3bn profit for 2009. On 24 March 2010, Wells Fargo stock traded at $30.86 – up 1% on the week of the court settlement.
...and this:
Wachovia was acquired by Wells Fargo during the 2008 crash, just as Wells Fargo became a beneficiary of $25bn in taxpayers' money. Wachovia's prosecutors were clear, however, that there was no suggestion Wells Fargo had behaved improperly; it had co-operated fully with the investigation. Mexico is the US's third largest international trading partner and Wachovia was understandably interested in this volume of legitimate trade.
We know now what Tim Pawlenty will be doing when he get's that 3 A.M. phone call
Posting bail for his staff.
Say what you will, it was certainly exploratory.
It's called crisis-management people.
Police discovered Benjamin Foster, an employee of the Pawlenty Exploratory Committee, and subsequently arrested him on charges of public drunkenness and trespassing.
Say what you will, it was certainly exploratory.
It's called crisis-management people.
Truer words never sooken
We know for which side Mark Halperin waves his splooge encrusted towel:
That's economist Joseph Steiglitz. So much for his appearances on television. And here's the ultimate conclusion:
Americans have been watching protests against oppressive regimes that concentrate massive wealth in the hands of an elite few. Yet in our own democracy, 1 percent of the people take nearly a quarter of the nation’s income—an inequality even the wealthy will come to regret. ... In terms of wealth rather than income, the top 1 percent control 40 percent. Their lot in life has improved considerably. Twenty-five years ago, the corresponding figures were 12 percent and 33 percent.
That's economist Joseph Steiglitz. So much for his appearances on television. And here's the ultimate conclusion:
The top 1 percent have the best houses, the best educations, the best doctors, and the best lifestyles, but there is one thing that money doesn’t seem to have bought: an understanding that their fate is bound up with how the other 99 percent live. Throughout history, this is something that the top 1 percent eventually do learn. Too late.
It there is a shut down
I'm sure the Village will not bother to note this while being all bipartisany:
the Koch-financed Americans for Prosperity held a rally this afternoon across the street from the Capitol, with several dozen right-wing activists on hand to listen to speeches from Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), Republican Study Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), Reps. Mike Pence (R-Ind.), and others. The Republican voters chanted, "Shut it down!" during the rally, and every other sign at the rally urged the GOP to shut down the government.
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