Washington Awash in Money?

by Wes Pruden
Washington--April 23, 2010--Money is a lot like blood. Blood spilled in the jungle is easy to track. Money spilled in the pursuit of avarice and greed can be easy to follow, too, sometimes even to Pennsylvania Avenue.

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We don’t need no steenkin Shutoff Valve!
Hence, the shutoff valve became voluntary...
Thank you, Uncle Cheney!   
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Lawyers for Goldman Sachs, the big Wall Street investment banking house, have been negotiating with the Securities and Exchange Commission to make some, if not all, of the civil fraud charges against the firm go away, and President Obama has been entertaining the chairman of Goldman Sachs at the White House.

We're so screwed!

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I want to die peacefully, in my sleep...like my grandpa...
Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car.   
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