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Business executive decries ‘out of control’ CEO compensation
Leo Hindery, a managing partner at InterMedia Partners, said Thursday on Fox Business that executive pay had become too high in the United States and was not longer based on performance. He noted that previously it was considered appropriate for business executives to make 15 to 20 times more money…
Former Congresswoman: Not too late to hold Bush and Cheney accountable
Former Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman (D-NY) told MSNBC’s Martin Bashir on Thursday that former President George W. Bush and former Vice President Dick Cheney could still be held accountable for violating federal criminal statues. “As a former prosecutor and a former member of the House Judiciary Committee during Watergate, I spent…
Romney: Obama ‘intent on punishing people,’ not creating jobs
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney on Thursday blasted President Barack Obama for being “more intent on punishing people” than creating jobs. Speaking at a closed factory in Lorain, Ohio, Romney told supporters that the empty building was proof that the president’s economic plan wasn’t working. “If you want to…
Rick Perry ‘interested’ in 2016 presidential bid
Texas Gov. Rick Perry says he’s already thinking about another attempt at the Republican presidential nomination in 2016. In a recent interview, Jack Fink, a reporter with the CBS affiliate in Dallas-Fort Worth, asked Perry if he was “interested” in another presidential bid. “Yeah, I am,” Perry replied. “I love…
Scott Walker: Nugent was ‘best part’ of NRA convention
Republican Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker recently praised a conservative rocker who is being investigated by the Secret Service to determine if he threatened the life of President Barack Obama. A video uploaded by public policy graduate student James Carter shows Walker at this year’s National Rifle Association (NRA) convention, where…
Bachmann says Obama ‘waving a tar baby’ with oil policy
Former Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann is accusing the nation’s first black president of “waving a tar baby in the air” over his proposed crackdown on oil speculators. On Tuesday, President Barack Obama proposed measures that would give regulators more power to limit manipulation of the oil markets. “We can’t…
Romney ‘not going to apologize’ for being born with silver spoon
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney on Thursday said he was “not going to apologize” for his family’s enormous wealth after President Barack Obama made the suggestion that the candidate was “born with a silver spoon” in his mouth. “The president is really taking aim at anybody he can find…
Allen West: Nugent has no ‘ill will’ toward Obama
Tea Party darling Rep. Allen West (R-FL) on Thursday defended conservative rocker Ted Nugent after he got the Secret Service’s attention by saying that members of the National Rifle Association (NRA) should defeat President Barack Obama and other Democrats and “chop their heads off in November.” During an interview on…
Rep. Tammy Baldwin: Wisconsin regretted the 2010 election
Senate candidate Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) on Wednesday night told Current TV’s Jennifer Granholm that the people of Wisconsin were frustrated. “Right now there is huge frustration, but also huge participation in the state of Wisconsin,” she said. “We’re famous right now for all these elections we have queued up,…
Rep. Jared Polis fails to kill House GOP’s ‘zombie earmarks’
During debate over legislation to extend federal highway funding, Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO) accused House Republicans of bringing wasteful earmarks back from the dead. “Usually when something is killed, it stays dead,” he said. “But just like a zombie movie some earmarks refuse to die and return to life as…
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