I spent the day on the Hill interviewing Representatives about Wall Street and how they were able to jump the line to get the H1N1 flu vaccine before pregnant women and children.
Yesterday, I spent the day with the Billionaires for Wealthcare and witnessed some truly scary moments.
When I got home today, I saw TPM reporting that Eric Cantor has come out against Rush Limbaugh's Nazi rhetoric. I was surprised. When I asked him about it several weeks ago, Cantor (and John Boehner, and Virginia Foxx and Michelle Bachmann and Jean Schmidt and scores of other republicans) remained silent.
On November 5, 2009, we learned that Goldmann Sachs, Citibank, JP Morgan and other elite banks on Wall Street received hundreds - maybe thousands - of doses of the H1N1 flu vaccine before at risk groups like pregnant women, young children, school and hospital workers. After receiving billions in bailouts and bonuses (after running our economy into a ditch), these privileged executives scored a vaccine that i