The Goat Pen

Professor Tiger wrote:

Johnette's Daddy wrote:
Make no mistake - William Jefferson Clinton was a "Friend of Oligarchy" as well. It speaks to the greed and arrogance of the oligarchs that they felt that he wasn't friendly enough and they determined that they needed an even bigger puppet, hence W's elevation.

Yes, Clinton was the first Dem president that made it socially acceptable within his party to be greedy and
venal as any GOP plutocrat. Remember his renting rooms in White House to campaign donors for big cash? He was really into Asian money; witness Charlie Trie, Johnny Chung, and the Chinese government laundered through LORAL.

His greatest achievement was his fund raising at Buddhist monasteries where, somehow, Algore managed to raise 6 figures from penniless monks. That was the stuff of legend.

From the start, Bush embraced a governing philosophy of deregulation. That trickled down to federal oversight agencies, which in turn eased off on banks and mortgage brokers. Bush did push early on for tighter controls over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, but he failed to move Congress. After the Enron scandal, Bush backed and signed the aggressively regulatory Sarbanes-Oxley Act. But SEC head William Donaldson tried to boost regulation of mutual and hedge funds, he was blocked by Bush's advisers at the White House as well as other powerful Republicans and quit. Plus, let's face it, the meltdown happened on Bush's watch.

sardis wrote:
How will Hillary be any different than Bill?

Jungle Rat wrote:Best President Ever. (Besides Ronnie which should be a given by now)

Johnette's Daddy wrote:

sardis wrote:
How will Hillary be any different than Bill?

Does she have to be? If it was all boom times and blow jobs under Bill, let's bring them back.

I can use an economic boom. And a blow job, too, for that matter.

Port Authority Executive Director Patrick Foye and authority Commissioner William "Pat" Schuber will comply with subpoenas to testify before the Joint Legislative Committee investigating September's George Washington Bridge lane closures.

Port Authority spokesman Chris Valens confirmed that Foye would testify on May 13.

Schuber said in a brief interview before today's Port Authority board meeting that he would testify as called on May 6.

"Of course I will," Schuber said.

Foye and Schubert were among a group of four officials subpoenaed by committee co-chairs, state Assemblyman John Wisniewski (D-Middlesex) and state Sen. Loretta Weinberg (D-Bergen). The two others are Christina Genovese Renna, Gov. Chris Christie’s former director of intergovernmental affairs, and Michael Drewniak, a spokesman for the governor.

The latest subpoenas come on the heels of more than two dozen already issued by the joint legislative committee, which is trying to determine who ordered last September’s lane closings and why, and who was in on the planning.

The assemblyman said Renna and Schuber were called to appear before the panel on May 6, and Drewniak and Foye on May 13, about the controversial closing of two of three local-access lanes to the nation’s busiest bridge — a move Democrats say was organized by members of Christie’s inner circle as political retribution.

The Democratic mayor of Fort Lee, Mark Sokolich, declined to endorse the re-election of Christie, a Republican, as governor, last fall.

Foye, who was appointed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York, a Democrat, was angry when he learned the lanes had been closed without his knowledge. He ordered them reopened and wrote: "This hasty and ill-advised decision has resulted in delays to emergency vehicles. I pray that no life has been lost or trip of a hospital- or hospice-bound patient delayed."

He added, "I believe this hasty and ill-advised decision violates federal law and the laws of both states."

“And because they were basically on government subsidy, so now what do they do?” he asked. “They abort their young children, they put their young men in jail, because they never learned how to pick cotton. And I’ve often wondered, are they better off as slaves, picking cotton and having a family life and doing things, or are they better off under government subsidy? They didn’t get no more freedom. They got less freedom.”

bluetick wrote:lol GOP Bundy-backers can't lace up their track shoes fast enough to get away from the guy. Not to mention the Hannitys and Becks and the whole rad-right posse.

A gun-toting anti-government right-wing old coot and it turns out he's a all-out racist. Who would've seen that coming?

"This hasty and ill-advised decision has resulted in delays to emergency vehicles. I pray that no life has been lost or trip of a hospital- or hospice-bound patient delayed."

He added, "I believe this hasty and ill-advised decision violates federal law and the laws of both states."