Senator Elizabeth Warren thoroughly smacks Melvin Watt, the new director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), about principal reduction for homeowners, at a Senate Banking Committee hearing on November 19, 2014. As the Charlotte Observer explained: “The agency oversees mortgage finance titans Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, both in government receivership since September 2008 […]
Ted Cruz got totally destroyed on Facebook last week – and by conservatives nonetheless – for a ridiculous post he made regarding net neutrality and the end of civilization as we know or – or some such nonsense. In keeping with that stomping, Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) took to the airwaves on Sunday to destroy […]
Speaker John Boehner finds himself in the middle of another social-media shit storm. But this time it’s more entertaining than usual as he is getting the royal FB smackdown from conservatives as well as liberals and progressives. Come help us with the latest John Boehner smackdown happening live and in living color… Hell, even conservatives […]
On Wednesday, Rep. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), a veteran of the Iraq War, dramatically chastised a federal contractor who claimed that a high school sports injury had rendered him a service-disabled veteran. Speaking during a hearing of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Duckworth vividly described to a committee witness, Braulio Castillo, how she lives […]