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June 10, 2013

Another Day, Another Scandal
— JohnE.

Hundreds of federal employees were given advance word of a Medicare decision worth billions of dollars to private insurers in the weeks before the official announcement, a period when trading in the shares of those firms spiked.
The surge of trading in HumanaÂ’s and other private health insurersÂ’ stock before the April 1 announcement already has prompted the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate whether Wall Street investors had advance access to inside information about the then-confidential Medicare funding plan.

Oh, good. Eric Holder is on the case. I feel better already.

Posted by: JohnE. at 06:22 AM | Comments (134)
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1 Not to worry

Posted by: Velvet Ambition at June 10, 2013 06:25 AM (R8hU8)

2 We are a banana republic.

Posted by: fluffy at June 10, 2013 06:25 AM (z9HTb)

3 And they did this without the Prism data.

Posted by: SpongeBob Saget at June 10, 2013 06:25 AM (epxV4)

I just feel sad for the hundreds of thousands of federal employees who DID NOT get the memo.

How special would you feel, knowing your peers were getting in on this good gravy train, and you were left at the station?

So sad...

Posted by: BurtTC at June 10, 2013 06:26 AM (TOk1P)

5 STOMPED!

Posted by: JohnE. at June 10, 2013 06:26 AM (nRTou)

6 What happens to people in the private sector that do this? A protracted, expensive legal ordeal followed by a couple months in jail.

Posted by: fluffy at June 10, 2013 06:27 AM (z9HTb)

6 -

And by a smelly Amnesty! thread, no less. Doesn't Drew know that issue is dead and buried?

Posted by: BurtTC at June 10, 2013 06:28 AM (TOk1P)

8 >>> STOMPED! Pics or it didn't happen. I see no boot.

Posted by: fluffy at June 10, 2013 06:28 AM (z9HTb)

9 Lets bankrupt the country with the speed of a Bullet Train and make money while we do it to em..
Georgie Sorass...

Posted by: Santino at June 10, 2013 06:28 AM (3GuQx)

10 The party apparat works as intended.

Posted by: Diogenes' Lamp at June 10, 2013 06:29 AM (bb5+k)

11 Way to go John E

Posted by: Velvet Ambition at June 10, 2013 06:29 AM (R8hU8)

12 Welcome to the HRC Administration.

Posted by: DCD-in-Indiana at June 10, 2013 06:29 AM (zCOmb)

13 Oh look, somebody got out the can of Drew-b-gone! I wish I knew where I could buy some, I have some nasty bugs in my basement.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 10, 2013 06:29 AM (TOk1P)

14 Drudge has yet another scandal on the front banner involving Dept of State.

Someone on the DSS payroll was "sexually assaulting" foreign nationals hired as guards at embassies.

WTF?

Posted by: EC at June 10, 2013 06:29 AM (GQ8sn)

15 -

What if it was Chris Stevens? That might explain a lot.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 10, 2013 06:31 AM (TOk1P)

16 @ 15 Happens all the time, and it ain't that stupid Hetero Sex Stuff, this is the whip and chain..

Posted by: Santino at June 10, 2013 06:31 AM (3GuQx)

17 not to worry, only the guilty will be prosecuted, like the guy who noticed something about the stock trending upward and on a lark bought a hundred shares

Posted by: mallfly at June 10, 2013 06:31 AM (bJm7W)

18 Insiders who got advance notice of the amnesty thread are buying Rubio-hate options.

Posted by: SpongeBob Saget at June 10, 2013 06:31 AM (epxV4)

19 2 We are a banana republic.Posted by: fluffy at June 10, 2013 10:25 AM (z9HTb)
Except that we have no bananas.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at June 10, 2013 06:32 AM (Bcaz1)

20 martha's headed back to jail

Posted by: notachanceinhell at June 10, 2013 06:32 AM (jJA/4)

A Scandal-a-day keeps the public at bay. Cue the Obama response:

"I am outraged.... blah blah blah."

What tough decisions did this professor / community organizer ever have to make? Is it any wonder he can't do anything? He is paralyzed with decision fear.

Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at June 10, 2013 06:32 AM (EGPJQ)

22 Oh, good. Eric Holder is on the case. I feel better already. So bitchy I wish I said it.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Mmmm. Blondies with whipped cream. at June 10, 2013 06:33 AM (VtjlW)

Banana's are bad luck

Posted by: notachanceinhell at June 10, 2013 06:33 AM (jJA/4)

24 It's the Chicago Way

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 10, 2013 06:33 AM (9Bj8R)

25 Pretty soon we'll see articles by the MFM about scandal fatigue and how poor wittle Obama "can't get anything done because of a Republican focus on 'distractions'."

Posted by: Mainah at June 10, 2013 06:34 AM (659DL)

15Drudge has yet another scandal on the front banner involving Dept of State.

Someone on the DSS payroll was "sexually assaulting" foreign nationals hired as guards at embassies.

WTF?

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Who knew they were hiring Swedish women's volleyball players as embassy guards?

Posted by: No Way! at June 10, 2013 06:34 AM (EGPJQ)

Honestly, if you can predict where this Administration will be six months from now, you deserve to be called the Jean Nostradixonadomus of this generation.

Either there's going to be an overwhelming call by the American people for all this nonsense to stop, or we're going to be successfully and completely converted into a third world banana republic... or something in between.

Who knows.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 10, 2013 06:34 AM (TOk1P)

28 "Oh, good. Eric Holder is on the case. I feel better already." Yeah, I'm thinking that if any of the federal employees who benefited were black, Holder won't be doing anything about this.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 10, 2013 06:34 AM (qAtlQ)

29 WTF. Its just the members of congress and their staffs who are supposed to be taking advantage of this type of information. Something like this couldhis could have hampered their profits from the operation.

Posted by: Dirks Strewn at June 10, 2013 06:34 AM (VLifP)

30 Is it racist of me to suggest that Holder bases his decisions on race? Don't care.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 10, 2013 06:35 AM (qAtlQ)

We are a banana republic.Posted by: fluffy at June 10, 2013 10:25 AM (z9HTb)

Except that we have no bananas.

And it's becoming increasingly debatable whether we're a republic (from res publica, "thing of the people").

Posted by: Jay Guevara at June 10, 2013 06:36 AM (Z2Bkq)

32 Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a malignant traitor.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at June 10, 2013 06:37 AM (/PCJa)

33 Burn it down. Scatter the stones. Salt the earth where it stood.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at June 10, 2013 06:38 AM (/PCJa)

34 Oh fuck me running it's opinion release day at SCOTUS. I'm just going to be under my desk for the foreseeable future.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Mmmm. Blondies with whipped cream. at June 10, 2013 06:38 AM (VtjlW)

35 Is this administration run by the same people that wrote "Hogan's Heroes"?

Posted by: georgeofthedesert at June 10, 2013 06:39 AM (Eq2MX)

36 We apparently had an ambassador trolling parks for hookers. I'm not prepared to bet we're talking about girls.

Posted by: JEM at June 10, 2013 06:39 AM (o+SC1)

37 The surge of trading in HumanaÂ’s and other private health insurersÂ’ stock before the April 1 announcement already has prompted the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate whether Wall Street investors had advance access to inside information about the then-confidential Medicare funding plan. I love how they smoothly move from "federal employees" to "Wall Street investors," as though the bad guys here would be the investors for using the knowledge, rather than the employees for disclosing it.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at June 10, 2013 06:39 AM (/PCJa)

36 -

Egad, is it June already? I was so hoping we could put June off for another couple months.

Bring it on...

Posted by: BurtTC at June 10, 2013 06:39 AM (TOk1P)

39
NSA: Come for the Totalitarianism. Stay for the Stock Tips.

Posted by: Wodeshed at June 10, 2013 06:39 AM (a9L+B)

40 "What happens to people in the private sector that do this? A protracted, expensive legal ordeal followed by a couple months in jail." Posted by: fluffy I think Martha Stewart got more than a couple months. Also, aren't members of Congress immune from this?

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 10, 2013 06:40 AM (qAtlQ)

41 NSA: Come for the Totalitarianism. Stay for the ~~Stock Tips~~ Kate Upton selfies.

FIFY

Posted by: EC at June 10, 2013 06:40 AM (GQ8sn)

42 or we're going to be successfully and completely converted into a third world banana republic Ummm... to late.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at June 10, 2013 06:41 AM (/PCJa)

43 You know what is extra wrong with the NSA? What are the 'keywords' they are using? We know they have taken 'Islam' and terrorist/terrorism out of every document. How are they searching the data if they eliminate all the references to jihad?

Posted by: Schwalbe at June 10, 2013 06:41 AM (WCi6Q)

41 -

And the foreign embassy guards of whatever particular gender and types are your choice?

Posted by: BurtTC at June 10, 2013 06:41 AM (TOk1P)

45 I wonder what Martha Stewart has to say on the issue?

Posted by: Texans at June 10, 2013 06:41 AM (wsGWu)

46 Also, aren't members of Congress immune from this? Why, yes, yes they are. Funny, that.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at June 10, 2013 06:42 AM (/PCJa)

45 -

Not really.

How do we know? You're still here.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 10, 2013 06:42 AM (TOk1P)

48 Whoops, go away lonestar sock.

Posted by: Lauren at June 10, 2013 06:43 AM (wsGWu)

49 Either there's going to be an overwhelming call by the American people for all this nonsense to stop, or we're going to be successfully and completely converted into a third world banana republic... or something in between. America will become a first-world autocratic anarchy. You run the risk of being killed by an angry flash mob of 'youths,' but drones will hellfire you if you don't recycle.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at June 10, 2013 06:43 AM (5M5r7)

50 How do we know? You're still here. Fair. Well, more that Rush, Hannity, and Levin are still here. I'm definitely "little fish" material.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at June 10, 2013 06:43 AM (/PCJa)

51 46 You know what is extra wrong with the NSA? What are the 'keywords' they are using? We know they have taken 'Islam' and terrorist/terrorism out of every document. How are they searching the data if they eliminate all the references to jihad?

Posted by: Schwalbe at June 10, 2013 10:41 AM (WCi6Q)

Pro-life, Veteran, Christian, Jewish, Tea Party...

Empire of Jeff is not on their list.

Posted by: Hunker down and L.I.B. at June 10, 2013 06:43 AM (Cs2tJ)

52 Add in the State scandal drudge is featuring.

Posted by: zsasz at June 10, 2013 06:43 AM (MMC8r)

54 -

Nonsense. I heard you have a big important blog or something.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 10, 2013 06:44 AM (TOk1P)

54 Good morning, everyone. Nice to see you.

All of you.

All the time.

Posted by: PRISM at June 10, 2013 06:44 AM (4WhSY)

55 At least banana republics have pretty women and good food....

Posted by: backhoe at June 10, 2013 06:44 AM (ULH4o)

I don't see this getting legs.

If only because it's been going on FOREVER, and no one ever seems to care. I think it's because the average American assumes insider trading is the norm.

FWIW, this is why I do mutual funds. Someone else's ass is on the line and no one can ever accuse me of knowing anything. (And I get to blame someone else when it loses but say "see I chose the right fund" when it wins.)

Posted by: tsrblke at June 10, 2013 06:44 AM (GaqMa)

57 The Obama Administration has truly been the largest heist in history.

Posted by: t-bird at June 10, 2013 06:45 AM (FcR7P)

58 I can no longer keep up with all the scandals associated with this administration. It's a Cloward-Piven Strategy on ethics, morality, honesty, and rule of law.

Posted by: zsasz at June 10, 2013 06:45 AM (MMC8r)

And here I thought that stock went up because someone said it was undervalued.

Don't I feel silly. Cynicism increasing further...

Posted by: Tilikum The Killer Assault Whale at June 10, 2013 06:46 AM (uhftQ)

60 Another scandal being reported by Drudge a CBS exclusive. Cover ups of cover ups at Justice Dept. Check out Drudge. A long time female employee who is now a whistleblower.

Posted by: BubbaLou at June 10, 2013 06:46 AM (qKpun)

61 Another turd dropped by Drudge, another scarfing down of that turd by AoSHQ. Mm-mM: good eats.

Posted by: Rex the Wonder God at June 10, 2013 06:46 AM (D1dpV)

62 "36 Oh fuck me running it's opinion release day at SCOTUS. " How is Roberts going to f**k us over this time?

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 10, 2013 06:46 AM (qAtlQ)

63 56 Add in the State scandal drudge is featuring. --- I'm curious as to how they'll spin covering up the ambassador ditching his protective detail to pick up hookers in the park or the drug-smuggling ring, both of which were dropped due to pressure from above

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at June 10, 2013 06:47 AM (JGSJZ)

64 Fedenisn, a DSS agent for 26 years, was a part of the team that prepared the draft report and is now a whistleblower who has taken her concerns to Congress. Two hours after CBS News made inquiries to the State Department about these charges, investigators from the State Department's Inspector General showed up at her door. From that drudge article (also in a previous thread). Now I wonder what could possibly have prompted young Mr. Snowden to flee? (Yes, he's still a douche, yes the way he went about informing the public was still wrong- but given the name of this Admin should be the "cover-up admin" can you really tell me that "following channels" would have worked?)

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at June 10, 2013 06:47 AM (/PCJa)

65 How is Roberts going to f**k us over this time?

Without lube. Trust us.

Posted by: NSA at June 10, 2013 06:47 AM (Cs2tJ)

66 -

DOMA will die.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 10, 2013 06:47 AM (TOk1P)

67 Drudge has same headline/different scandal.

Posted by: USA at June 10, 2013 06:48 AM (VIaw0)

68 Aaaaand... Troll's got nothin'. Trolling for Axelrod is getting harder and harder, isn't it troll?

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at June 10, 2013 06:48 AM (/PCJa)

69 Has Mika gotten talking points on this latest scandal yet?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 10, 2013 06:48 AM (lVPtV)

70 Yeah, Rex, I guess it's sad days for you Obama cockpolishers.

Posted by: zsasz at June 10, 2013 06:49 AM (MMC8r)

71 66 "36 Oh fuck me running it's opinion release day at SCOTUS. " How is Roberts going to f**k us over this time? --- What opinions are even set to be released?

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at June 10, 2013 06:49 AM (JGSJZ)

72 >>> Drudge has same headline/different scandal. Heh, noticed that after I posted, actually.

Posted by: JohnE. at June 10, 2013 06:49 AM (nRTou)

73 Has Mika gotten talking points on this latest scandal yet? Judging by the lame trolling, I'm going with "no."

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at June 10, 2013 06:49 AM (/PCJa)

74 It's not like it's insider insider trading, you stupid wingers!

Posted by: Whoopie Pie Goldbrick at June 10, 2013 06:49 AM (PLOz8)

75 Paging Martha Stewart to the Red "You Got Screwed" telephone.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at June 10, 2013 06:49 AM (Qks/I)

76 How is Roberts going to f**k us over this time? Posted by: nerdygirl
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Anally, is my guess.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at June 10, 2013 06:50 AM (aDwsi)

77 These unethical, illegal acts were committed by low-level gubamint employees. Nothing to see here, folks!

Posted by: runningrn at June 10, 2013 06:50 AM (PLOz8)

78 Rex the Wonder God

Good morning, Rex. Did you know that your google search records included lots and lots of tranny and bestiality porn?

They do now.

Posted by: PRISM at June 10, 2013 06:51 AM (4WhSY)

79 NSA must have dick pics of Roberts.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 10, 2013 06:51 AM (lVPtV)

80 Criminal. Administration. And it has become obvious that the law no longer applies to the law-givers. Make of that what you will.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at June 10, 2013 06:51 AM (/PCJa)

81 Paging Martha Stewart to the Red "You Got Screwed" telephone.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at June 10, 2013 10:49 AM (Qks/I)

Hey Sherry! Is this one of your crew?

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=9132446

Posted by: EC at June 10, 2013 06:51 AM (GQ8sn)

82 80 How is Roberts going to f**k us over this time? Posted by: nerdygirl ------------------ Anally, is my guess. --- It's all good! I've got a guy in London that says this is OK as long as it is in furtherance of jihad!

Posted by: Achmed The Dead Terrorist at June 10, 2013 06:51 AM (JGSJZ)

83 Fucking coward CJ Roberts.I'll never forgive that fucker.

Posted by: steevy at June 10, 2013 06:51 AM (9XBK2)

84 How is Roberts going to f**k us over this time?

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 10, 2013 10:46 AM (qAtlQ)

Sideways and upside down in every orifice of our bodies...

Posted by: runningrn at June 10, 2013 06:52 AM (PLOz8)

85 Bureaucrats profiting directly from playing kingmaker? What could go wrong?

Posted by: JonathanEllis at June 10, 2013 06:52 AM (BdzEV)

86 I guess it must make you sad, Rex, that all your paranoid fantasies about Bush have come to blossom into reality with your tinpot Messiah.

Posted by: zsasz at June 10, 2013 06:52 AM (MMC8r)

87 Could we actually have a Chief Executive run this administration.

Ground Air Force One ... no more campaigning.

Obama needs to make each of his Cabinet officials personally responsible, as they make their subordinates personally responsible.

Repeat after me ... "The President is the chief executive."

If he can't do that job ... he should resign

Posted by: Guy Fawkes at June 10, 2013 06:52 AM (e8kgV)

88
Hey.... Obama.... how the view from under MY bus.....

Posted by: THE C.I.A. at June 10, 2013 06:53 AM (nELVU)

89 Posted by: zsasz at June 10, 2013 10:52 AM (MMC8r) I, personally, was impressed with the deriding tone of "Drudge" as though he does anything other than link stories other sites (in this case, CBS I believe) post.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at June 10, 2013 06:53 AM (/PCJa)

90 We need more scandals involving money and sex, please. Funny how the sex scandal under Big Sis was hushed up before the election...

Posted by: Baldy at June 10, 2013 06:54 AM (tyDFN)

91 How is Roberts going to f**k us over this time? Posted by: nerdygirl Well the Afirmative Action decision is coming up this month so there is that. BTW, did anyone wath the Sotomeyor interview on sixty minutes? Have you ever seen such a bitter racist bitch with an agenda?

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet Palin/Bolton 2016 at June 10, 2013 06:54 AM (XIxXP)

92 Obama needs to make each of his Cabinet officials personally responsible, as they make their subordinates personally responsible.

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Yeah.... like the Czars are gonna give up the power.

Posted by: fixerupper at June 10, 2013 06:54 AM (nELVU)

O/T but did anyone see the protestor at the French open? Tight pink pants, shirtless, running around clutching a sparkler in his hand: you wouldn't know he was opposing gay marriage. He looked like a "Flaming Flarey"!

Posted by: runningrn at June 10, 2013 06:54 AM (PLOz8)

94 Well why not....there's nothing else important going on......

@whitehouse

At 11:30am ET, President Obama delivers remarks on the 50th anniversary of the #EqualPay Act.

Posted by: Tami[/i][/b][/u][/s] at June 10, 2013 06:55 AM (X6akg)

95
How is Roberts going to f**k us over this time?

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PRISM????? Looks like a tax.

Posted by: fixerupper at June 10, 2013 06:55 AM (nELVU)

96 BTW, did anyone wath the Sotomeyor interview on sixty minutes? Have you ever seen such a bitter racist bitch with an agenda? Posted by: Oldsailors Poet Palin/Bolton 2016 at June 10, 2013 10:54 AM (XIxXP) *Waves* Hi cracker!

Posted by: Maxine Waters at June 10, 2013 06:56 AM (V1ZIU)

97 "Throw them all out" by Peter Schweizer covered this. My guess is when the politicians start trading, wall street quickly follows.

Posted by: Reality Man at June 10, 2013 06:56 AM (L2x1w)

98 How is Roberts going to f**k us over this time?Posted by: nerdygirl at June 10, 2013 10:46 AM (qAtlQ)Sideways and upside down in every orifice of our bodies...

Posted by: runningrn

Taxing DP's and TP's at double and triple rates respectively is perfectly constitutional.

Posted by: Chief Justice Roberts at June 10, 2013 06:56 AM (BrQrN)

99 Obama needs to make each of his Cabinet officials personally responsible, as they make their subordinates personally responsible. And therefore avoid being personally responsible.

Posted by: zsasz at June 10, 2013 06:56 AM (MMC8r)

100 Have you ever seen such a bitter racist bitch with an agenda? --- Bitch, please.

Posted by: Maxine Waters, Sheila Jackson Lee, and Cynthia McKinney at June 10, 2013 06:56 AM (JGSJZ)

101 Celebrate, morons! Your comments are recorded for posterity on one big hard drive at NSA. (With select excerpts sent in memorandum to the office of JEF)

Posted by: Sphynx at June 10, 2013 06:56 AM (OZmbA)

102 PRISM????? Looks like a tax.
Posted by: fixerupper
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Thread winner.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at June 10, 2013 06:57 AM (aDwsi)

103 Strange watching my country dying right before my eyes.

Posted by: Soona at June 10, 2013 06:57 AM (JrLmT)

104

Combining info from the linked WaPo story and an earlier WaPo story, here's what happened:

- In mid-March, a decision was made to bribe Sen. Orrin Hatch (Not Exactly R-UT) into supporting an as-yet-unidentified Obama appointee by increasing Medicare Advantage funding by $8 billion.

- At least 446 employees of HHS were made aware of at least the MA decision.

- On April 1, shortly before the close of the markets and before CMS made the announcement, a DC-based brokerage firm leaked the MA decision. That caused a spike in trading on several health insurance firms involved in Medicare Advantage.

- CMS appears to have moved up the announcement of the decision to give cover.

Posted by: steveegg at June 10, 2013 06:58 AM (o44nj)

105 Celebrate, morons! Your comments are recorded for posterity on one big hard drive at NSA. (With select excerpts sent in memorandum to the office of JEF) Posted by: Sphynx at June 10, 2013 10:56 AM (OZmbA) Oh, I'm sure in the basement of OFA there is a three shift 24/7 job the does one thing, reads and records us.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet Palin/Bolton 2016 at June 10, 2013 06:59 AM (XIxXP)

106 105 Have you ever seen such a bitter racist bitch with an agenda?

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Bitch, please. Posted by: Maxine Waters, Sheila Jackson Lee, and Cynthia McKinney
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(Ahem)

Posted by: Valerie Jarrett at June 10, 2013 06:59 AM (aDwsi)

107 We need to establish a unit of measurement for the scandal volume of this administration: I suggest the 'Nixon.' PRISM - 1200 Nixons IRSGate - 600 Nixons Benghazi - 297 Nixons BenchGate - 400 milliNixons

Posted by: zsasz at June 10, 2013 07:01 AM (MMC8r)

108 Today's NixonLevel: 3600 - Unhealthy.

Posted by: zsasz at June 10, 2013 07:02 AM (MMC8r)

109 Oh fuck me running it's opinion release day at SCOTUS. " How is Roberts going to f**k us over this time? With another tax?

Posted by: rickb223 at June 10, 2013 07:03 AM (YIZv0)

110 How is Roberts going to f**k us over this time? "Selling PRISM information to Amway is constitutional."

Posted by: Chief Justice John "Blackmailed" Roberts at June 10, 2013 07:04 AM (MMC8r)

111 PRISM - 1200 Nixons
IRSGate - 600 Nixons
Benghazi - 297 Nixons
BenchGate - 400 milliNixons

Posted by: zsasz at June 10, 2013 11:01 AM (MMC8r)

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I think you need to reconsider how much damage any of these will do to Dear Leader. Benghazi is off the charts. I really do think that the regime is relieved that these other scandals are taking the lead.

Posted by: Soona at June 10, 2013 07:05 AM (JrLmT)

112 106 Strange watching my country dying right before my eyes. Posted by: Soona I know how the few undeluded Germans must have felt in the thirties. It's eerie....

Posted by: backhoe at June 10, 2013 07:09 AM (ULH4o)

113 Why is this even news? Another day, another scandal, more government corruption. This is not news, it's just routine.

Posted by: Dave in Houston at June 10, 2013 07:09 AM (wB5dd)

114 Why did I think Humana was the name of Hillary Clinton's "longtime companion"?
That Indian gal who has been the Gayle King to Hillary's Oprah.

Posted by: Fart at June 10, 2013 07:11 AM (2aB+q)

115 Insider trading from THE most honest and transparent administration ever? Who would have thunk the government is dishonest from top to bottom

Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 10, 2013 07:19 AM (1Jaio)

116 It's all a squirrel to prevent civil disobedience over that lame-ass GoT Finale last night. Current Working Hypothesis.

Posted by: [/i][/b]akula_51 at June 10, 2013 07:19 AM (Vgn84)

117 Damn, it feels good to be a govsta.

Posted by: Def at June 10, 2013 07:24 AM (4x8W0)

118

Oh fuck me running it's opinion release day at SCOTUS. "

How is Roberts going to f**k us over this time?

With another tax?

Posted by: rickb223 at June 10, 2013 11:03 AM (YIZv0)

Let me fire up SCOTUSblog. They're already done for the day and ruled on a couple of items:

- They unanimously ruled that arbitrators can authorize class arbitration essentially out of whole cloth when the parties agree that the only recourse is arbitration and the agreement is silent on the issue of class arbitration.

- The liberals (original definition) plus Kennedy ruled that criminals have to be sentenced based on guidelines that were in place when they committed their crimes instead of stiffer guidelines in place at the time of sentencing. That is an overturning of a 7th Circuit ruling.

- They unanimously ruled the raisin producers challenging the federal "must waste part of the crop or be fined" regulation may pursue a takings case.

Posted by: steveegg at June 10, 2013 07:25 AM (o44nj)

119 Brb hidin under my desk

Posted by: Super SCOAMF at June 10, 2013 07:31 AM (JRU+g)

120 PRISM - 1200 Nixons
IRSGate - 600 Nixons
Benghazi - 297 Nixons
BenchGate - 400 milliNixons

I think you had a typo on Benghazi 297 MegaNixons is the correct number.

Posted by: [/i] An Observation at June 10, 2013 07:38 AM (ylhEn)

121 My, how convenient that all was.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Pirate Scum of Umbar at June 10, 2013 07:50 AM (hLRSq)

122 And another scandal?

FBI agents who eliminated Boston terrorist Tsarnaev mysteriously killed

http://tinyurl.com/otngy5u

Posted by: creeper at June 10, 2013 08:12 AM (vbzvs)

123 I would rank irs gate over prism gate. much higher.

Posted by: Tom Sawyer at June 10, 2013 08:14 AM (7zSvv)

124 OMG !!!

Posted by: Guy Fawkes at June 10, 2013 08:18 AM (e8kgV)

125 So... When are the executions scheduled? Now goddamnit i'm not joking either. This fucking shit is out of control! Its like we've given the keys to the whitehouse to a bunch of insane people. fucking crazy, psychopathic nihilists who care only about themselves. Not kidding either

I'm talking about executions like in 'Borgia'.. and not the showtime copycat series either, i'm talking the vdf version.

At this point, will anything else satiate the tree of liberty? Crocodile tears won't be enough to pass as fertilizer this time.

Posted by: Billy Barty at June 10, 2013 08:37 AM (QTvb7)

126 To paraphrase Fletch, "Great, the authorities are looking into this." Police Chief Eric Holder will get to the problem of drugs on the beaches, no need to write that expose after all.

Posted by: Mr. Underhill at June 10, 2013 08:43 AM (71LDo)

127

Is this a leak war between factions of Democrats?

Is this the Clintons vs. the Obamas?

I hope so.

Posted by: petunia at June 10, 2013 08:46 AM (DAcBA)

128 But insider trading is not illegal for them. Didn't they pass that bill but then when no one was watching take it back?

Posted by: caustic at June 10, 2013 08:48 AM (/b8+5)

129

64Sent an email to Ayotte since she's my senator now, but as we all know those emails just go right in the bucket and you get a canned response after 10 days or whatever.

Just awful.

I realize this is pissing into the wind, however:

Try calling her office...often times on high-boil legislation, there will be a staffer logging calls, with a simple count of FOR vs. AGAINST.

Good luck...

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at June 10, 2013 09:07 AM (bWBdM)

130 Who is Pat Dollard?
http://tinyurl.com/m85vfzt

Posted by: caustic at June 10, 2013 09:11 AM (/b8+5)

131 Re: "2 We are a banana republic." Raaacisst! The correct term is Plantain-American.

Posted by: NYC Parent at June 10, 2013 09:19 AM (HEo6y)

132 Looks like I need some axle grease for the ole tumbrik...

Posted by: Your NSA, uh, Verizon representative at June 10, 2013 09:23 AM (JYTVv)

133 29 Honestly, if you can predict where this Administration will be six months from now, you deserve to be called the Jean Nostradixonadomus of this generation. Either there's going to be an overwhelming call by the American people for all this nonsense to stop, or we're going to be successfully and completely converted into a third world banana republic... or something in between. Who knows. Posted by: BurtTC at June 10, 2013 10:34 AM (TOk1P) I'm gonna go with, "Bureaucrats hanging from lamp posts."

Posted by: BuddyPC at June 10, 2013 10:17 AM (jfUIE)

134 Thank God its only an essay, and not a movie review time is scarce these days.

Posted by: Guido at June 12, 2013 09:07 AM (FUQZi)

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