SocraticGadfly (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
Yes, according to Obama Svengali John Podesta, the neolib financial sellout of the incoming Obama Administration is almost complete . Smell the Change™! One of the three coauthors of 1999’s Gramm-LEACH-Bliley legislation, former GOP Congressman Jim Leach, will be somewhere in the Cabinet, according to Podesta. Leach’s early endorsement of Obama should have made any real progressive or...
The Eleventh Hour (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
Inspired by a conversation I heard this morning on WMAY’s The Jim Leach Show, I’d like to propose the State of Illinois turn the Dana-Thomas House over to the City of Springfield. I bet the city would even throw in the Maisenbacher House if the State wanted to trade outright. Springfield could use the money that will eventually be allocated for the Maisenbacher House to reopen the Dana-Thomas...
Sister Toldjah (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
... to hide in a place that CNN can’t see you . Related: Jennifer Rubin smacks down former Congressman Jim Leach’s assertion that this wasn’t an act of war but instead an act of “barbarism.” Who is Jim Leach? An “ Obamacan ” who may be in line to serve in the Obama administration beyond being a rep for his administration during last month’s economic summit. (Via Memeorandum )
World Affairs Board (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
... academics are required to include some alleged ugly American phenomenon in everything they write? Jim Leach is also a professor, at Princeton, but hes better known as a former moderate Republican congressman from Iowa who supported Barack Obama this year. His contribution over the weekend was to point out on Politico.com that the Mumbai catastrophe underscores the importance of vocabulary....
