[Buckeye McFrog]

setting the future media template.

The only people you are going to be able to trust to sit in Congress are devout anti-capitalists.

[556x45]

Throw Them All Out... I like it! Both parties are worthless to the core.

[freekitty]

Absolutely do not forget Pelosi. She is also responsible; so don’t try to make another one take the fall.

[PMAS]

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[Chode]

[DustyMoment]

Silly me!! And I thought that the laws were supposed to apply EQUALLY to ALL Americans, not just those who aren’t politicians!!

I am truly disgusted at their non-stop hypocrisy ahd “do as I say, not as I do” blather!!!

[TribalPrincess2U]

Not saying the Rs are any better, but they’re trying to do damage control by lumping the Rs with the most OBVIOUS corrupt one, Pelosie.

They need to take the spotlight off their sweetie.

[Yo-Yo]

He bought options for $7,846 on a day when the Dow Jones Industrial Average opened at 8,604.

The peak of the Dow was just over 14,000 before the 2008 meltdown. If he traded at 8,604, then he already saw firsthand a 4,000 point slide in the Dow.

[Publius6961]

...early copy of the book, Throw Them All Out by Hoover Institute fellow Peter Schweizer.

My kindle order has been placed for delivery Nov 25.

Amazon also has two often quoted books by Schweizer, Do As I Say and Makers and Takers, for less than $2 (plus shipping) new, from affiliated bookstores.
Ordered them, too.

[JIM O]

Lehman Bros collapsed on Sept 16, and according to the article Bachus met with Bernanke on September 18 and then on September 19 Bachus bought contract options on Proshares Ultra-Short . It seems to me that the financial collapse was well underway on the 19th and for sure had made the paper. I suspect many people bought the same contract options throughout the fall of 2008. I am not sure how this qualifies as insider trading when prior to the meeting with Bernanke the financial system had already imploded.

The MSM seems to want us to believe the Bachus incident excuses Pelosi for her actions in her official capacity in killing legislation and directly profiting .

[no dems]

Is Bachus a Dem or a Pubbie?

[chuckee]

The best way to skin the Pelosi cat is to go after the broker that allocated her 5000 shares of a “hot” IPO. The stock was issued at $44 a share and the first trade was $55 a share meaning an instantaneous %55000 profit in her account Having spent a number of years as a syndicate manager allocating IPOs on Wall Street, I can tell you everyone in the world wants a hot IPO but it is very rare for an individual investor unless the investor is Buffet size having produced massive commissions for the broker in the past to get 5000 shares. Pelosi is small potatoes. The best way to get at Pelosi is to embarrass the brokerage house and ask who and in what amounts they allocated their shares to and watch them dance redfaced while they try to explain why this one individual account received a lion’s share of the allocation relative to the other individual investors in their firm subscribing for the stock who were denied any allocation at all.

[6ppc]

Bachus is my rep. Look up “empty suit” in the dictionary and you’ll see his picture.

[alice_in_bubbaland]

Does anyone know when this passed? Is it recent or decades old?