Labor Secretary Hilda Solis uses gay-baiting slur in public.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  November 1st at 12:00 PM  | 

It’s not turning into a good year for the Obama administration – in fact, it’s not been a good administration for the Obama administration – but I think that this is hardly an excuse for a Cabinet level official to use low-rent sexual epithets in public: At the Florida Democratic Party State Convention over the weekend, U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis insulted members of | Read More »

Just a reminder: Geithner’s tax problem wasn’t less* than Daschle’s

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  February 6th at 11:00 AM  | 

He was merely first in the queue: Despite the fact that Geithner sailed through the confirmation process—while Daschle went up in flames—Geithner’s tax troubles were actually far more egregious. People tend to give Geithner a pass, because the overall amount he owed was smaller and it just involved Social Security and Medicare, rather than income tax. But Geithner actually acknowledged years ago that he owed | Read More »

The Solis/White House emergency tapes have come to light!

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  February 6th at 09:03 AM  | 

LA Times blogger Andrew Malcolm seems determined to point out that, yeah, there are still opportunities for political humor in this country, even if Obama did get elected. His spoof of the flight 1549 tapes (utilizing Obama’s latest exercise in flubbed vetting) is a case in point. We join the narrative as Hilda Solis explains her tax situation to the White House: