CFPB is going to be the biggest cluster*@k ever.  They are chomping at the bit to rip companies to shreds. The new head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau wasted little time getting to work, using the agency’s new powers to start supervising payday lenders and other firms outside the conventional banking system. The bureau’s main goal will be ensuring that consumer loans, mortgages... 

Article One, section Five of the Constitution states: Neither House, during the Session of Congress, shall, without the Consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days… This presents a problem for President Obama, who claims to have just made a recess appointment when the Senate is not actually in recess. The Constitution says the Senate cannot recess for more than three days without... 

Dear Leader once again circumvents congressional checks and balances.  The Senate is NOT ON RECESS – they have been holding pro forma sessions every few days and are considered to still be in session.  Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Speaker John Boehner have both released statements that mildly show their disapproval of this, but sadly, no one is going to stop him. In a defiant... 

If you’re going to call for a revolution, it helps to make sure that everyone’s on board with it, right? Apparently, that didn’t occur to the #OccupyOakland protesters who called for a general strike, but didn’t realize that the majority of people would rather work to pay their bills, send their kids to school and, you know, live their everyday lives. Read the rest here:  #OccupyOakland calls... 

It seems like it would be one of the hardest jobs in the country right now, especially as a poll published today reveals that only 41 per cent of people want him to have a second term. But President Obama often finishes his working day at 4pm, it has been reported. Sources claim that Mr Obama regularly strolls out of the Oval Office way before the afternoon has ended. See you later: Barack Obama reportedly... 

The Obama administration must take stronger steps than just sanctioning five Iranian individuals, as it announced today, in response to the alleged plot to assassinate the Saudi envoy in Washington, Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL) told The Cable. “That’s just charging the individuals involved,” Kirk said in a Tuesday afternoon interview, emphasizing that the Iranian government should be held... 

Boston police were warning the more than 1,000 Occupy Boston protesters tonight to leave a large section of the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway that they occupied earlier and relocate to Dewey Square or a small, adjacent strip of the Greenway. Police were visible around the areas in small batches, while protest organizers held a meeting on the Greenway, answering questions from the demonstrators. Occupy... 

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s strong statements in support of the “Occupy Wall Street” movement raise an interesting question: Does she, then, oppose the preferential treatment her son received at the hand of the financial industry? Pelosi’s son, Paul Pelosi, Jr., was protected from a round of layoffs when he was a mortgage broker for Countrywide, according to “Reckless Endangerment:... 

(WASHINGTON) — Congressman Allen West (FL-22) released this statement today: “Today’s endorsement by President Barack Obama of the creation of a Hamas-led Palestinian state based on the pre-1967 borders, signals the most egregious foreign policy decision his administration has made to date, and could be the beginning of the end as we know it for the Jewish state. From the moment... 

Fiscal sanity versus the ruination of America. That seems to be where the budget debate lies. The Republican budget proposal to eliminate some $6 trillion in federal spending over the next decade and eliminate the deficit in 30 years is shocking — but only in the sense that the situation has become so out of hand, so insanely ridiculous, it will take at least that much and that long to right the...