News with Attitude – 10/31/2008 PM

♦ Tonight: Watch Joan Claybrook on Bill Moyers Journal
When: 9:00 PM EST 10/31/2008
Channel: PBS (Bill Moyers Journal)
“Change.” It’s become a buzzword across the nation lately. Both Barack Obama and John McCain are promising change if they get elected. But can the stranglehold that money and special interests have over Washington, D.C., stand in the way of real change?
Tonight, at 9 p.m. Eastern time, I will be discussing this very question on PBS’ Bill Moyers Journal, along withBob Edgar, president and CEO of Common Cause.

♦ Paulson’s Swindle Revealed
The swindle of American taxpayers is proceeding more or less in broad daylight, as the unwitting voters are preoccupied with the national election. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson agreed to invest $125 billion in the nine largest banks, including $10 billion for Goldman Sachs, his old firm. But, if you look more closely at Paulson’s transaction, the taxpayers were taken for a ride–a very expensive ride. They paid $125 billion for bank stock that a private investor could purchase for $62.5 billion. That means half of the public’s money was a straight-out gift to Wall Street, for which taxpayers got nothing in return.

♦ A Last Push To Deregulate
The White House is working to enact a wide array of federal regulations, many of which would weaken government rules aimed at protecting consumers and the environment, before President Bush leaves office in January.
The new rules would be among the most controversial deregulatory steps of the Bush era and could be difficult for his successor to undo. Some would ease or lift existing constraints on private industry, including power plants, mines and farms.

♦ Snopes.com Lies, Continues the 9/11 Cover Up
These days, Snopes.com has become the be-all, end-all arbiter of truth. I don’t know how this happened. The site is wrong about a great many things, for some reason people still cite Snopes to me as “proof” that I am wrong about one thing or another, as if they were a know-all god that can not tell a lie. Well, when it comes to 9/11, Snopes.com is a false and very outdated god.

♦ Andrew Napolitano Presidents Ignoring Constitution
Judge Andrew Napolitano argues if the presidents are ignoring the constitution or not on the Verdict on Fox News. Asks if the congress present today is what the founders had in mind. He says people us citizens send to congress don’t recognize limits on congress’ power to legislate. Comments on senators Obama and McCain, 700 billion dollar bailout, tax payer dollars. Oct 29, 2008

♦ Legislation Requiring Presidential Candidates to Prove United States Citizenship
Pennsylvania State Representative Daryl Metcalfe (R-Butler) today announced that he has authored legislation to require all candidates for the President of the United States to officially submit documentation proving that they are in fact a United States citizen.

♦ The Freedom Index
   A Congressional Scorecard Based on the U.S. Constitution
Our final look at the 110th Congress shows how every representative and senator voted on key issues, such as the federal budget, warrantless searches, mortgage relief, oil drilling, and the bank bailout.