Congress
Detroit’s Dirty Secret: Automakers Are Making Money
Contrary to popular opinion, Ford, GM, and Chrysler actually know how to build damn good cars that sell quite well. They just don’t do it here.
December 9, 2008 | Read More
Change We Can’t Believe In: Career Politicians And Partisan Hacks Won Big This November
A detailed study of election returns from every House race in the country shows this supposedly transformative election was anything but.
December 3, 2008 | Read More
The Thanksgiving Giveaway In Iraq
While you were having your third helping of turkey, Iraq’s parliament was voting on a hugely important security pact.
November 28, 2008 | Read More
Crude Awakening
Congress is talking tough about investigating oil speculation. That’s nice. But where were you guys when we were taking out third mortgages to fill up our gas tanks?
November 26, 2008 | Read More
The Biden Dynasty Begins (After A Small Detour)
One of Joe Biden’s closest aides will take his Senate seat just long enough to keep it warm for Biden’s son, Beau.
November 24, 2008 | Read More
The House Becomes A Home: Lifetime Politicians In The House Of Representatives
An independent study by the Captive American staff.
November 21, 2008 | Read More
How About A Congressional Pay Cut?
Members of Congress are talking tough about forcing CEOs to live on less. They should look in the mirror.
November 21, 2008 | Read More
Why I Didn’t Vote
By Lee Brandenburg, founder and publisher of Captive American.com
November 21, 2008 | Read More
House Committee Fight Takes A (Small) Bite Out Of The Rigged Seniority System
Democratic representatives voted this morning to give Henry Waxman of California control of the enormously powerful Energy and Commerce Committee over its longtime chair John Dingell of Michigan. Waxman’s victory at least shows that someone with less seniority can beat a more tenured colleague. Miracle of miracles! But Waxman didn’t win today purely on merit. He won by the tried and true rules of pay-to-play politics.
November 20, 2008 | Read More
High Hats At The Taxpayers’ Soup Kitchen
Priceless video footage of Representative Gary Ackerman ripping into Detroit CEOs for promising to “streamline” their businesses right after all three of them flew to Washington on “private luxury jets”:
November 19, 2008 | Read More
