(I suck. I really, really do. Libby has graciously agreed to join us regularly on the TK front page. I'm very excited by this addition to our staff of writers, and thank her for her patience with my sluggish updating of her profiles.
It seems that some of these naughty, nasty boys charged their palling-around-with-call-girl activities on their corporate credit cards.
Uh oh. Are these guys still in charge of their businesses? Are they the ones who received the bailout money?
The scandal may have happened pre-TARP, but this kind of behavior should make us wonder about what kinds of scumbags and whackos we have bailed out.
According to Raw Story and ABC News today these boys used a $2,000 per hour call girl service where the "firm's" Madam disguised the charges as business related, e.g. "computer consulting, "roofing construction," etc.
Kristin Davis, the madam in question, went public to ABC News this week; ABC will be broadcasting her interview Friday at 10 pm. Davis says she has a list of 9,800 clients, many of whom she says New York prosecutors deliberately avoided when taking her case, even though she offered them her annotated client list.
In what's sure to create a media firestorm parallel to that of when a Washington, DC madam announced that she was publishing her client list (which included at least one senator), Davis' comments come at a time where incredible ire is already focused on Wall Street and banking executives. The pressure for her to release the list will certainly be immense.
Under GOP control, Congress has stifled any true investigation of climate change because of the special interests & industries that fund their campaigns.
Inexplicably, they gave the chair of the Senate's Environment and Public Works Committee to Republican James M. Inhofe (not-OK) who has a ZERO rating from the League of Conservation Voters. In that powerful position, Inhofe suppressed ALL conservation and environmental programs - and got alot of money from some of the worst polluters in the country.
Inhofe and the GOP are already warning people about Boxer's new "radical" agenda and saying it will kill business. That's a lie of course because most American businesses have come around to environmentalism. Good environmental policy is good for business. The GOP should've learned this from Katrina!
Inhofe is the nutcase who called environmentalists Nazis, called Global Warming a "hoax" and called in the fiction writer of "Jurassic Park" to testify as an environmental expert because the writer who believed dinosaurs could be brought back to life didn't believe in climate change. You may also remember Inhofe was "outraged at the outrage" over Abu Graib.
I think we know who the real extremists are here. When the US military, American businesses, and the entire world has decided that climate change is a serious threat to global stability and economics, having people like Inhofe lead our environmental comittees is not just embarrassing but scandalous.
The League of Conservation Voters (LVC) had the best response to Mr. "Jurassic Pork" Inhofe:
"You obviously can't be any further apart than these two," said Tiernan Sittenfeld, LCV's legislative director. "We look forward to a vastly different approach where we have scientists rather than fiction writers on the Hill giving testimony."
There were several good environmental wins this election.
