"After the House passed the budget, Senate majority leader Harry Reid, Democrat of Nevada, vowed that his chamber will hold a vote on it, forcing Brown and other potentially vulnerable Republicans in the 2012 elections to take a stance on the cuts. A vote is expected before Memorial Day."

"Brown, in a speech Friday in Newburyport, revealed that he would vote for the House-passed budget plan when it comes up in the Senate."

Even if the massive fraud is difficult to bring a case and prove beyond a reasonable doubt, the law can pull a Capone and get 'em for lying to Congress...open and shut case, if only they would choose to open it, like they did for a jerk baseball pitcher for lying about nonsense.

Might never get down with caging these finance cannibals, must strive to be better than vampire squid, but some equality under the law sure would be nice.

Mayor Bloomberg has answered their concerns with a typically incisive analysis:

"I think it is humiliating, but, if you don't want to do the perp walk, don't do the crime..."

The latest:

"The sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church was caused by the influence of sweeping social changes and increasing "deviant behavior'' of the 1960s and 1970s on priests who were inadequately trained, emotionally unprepared, and isolated, according to a new report commissioned by the nation's Roman Catholic bishops"

Gotta love that giant deflection.  Oh, it's not our fault, we just couldn't handle all that social change.  What comes next just blows my mind though:

"Abusive priests have often been branded pedophiles, but the report -- in a declaration that appears destined to stir controversy -- insists that fewer than 5 percent actually met that definition. In the process, however, the study's authors seem to redefine what constitutes pedophilia.

Major associations of psychiatrists typically define pedophilia as interest in children 13 and younger, calling them "prepubescent.''

But to reach their conclusion about the low incidence of the disorder among priests, the report authors seem to suggest that the prepubescent period ends at age 10.

"The majority of victims were pubescent or postpubescent,'' the report states. "Thus,'' they wrote, "it is inaccurate to refer to abusers as pedophile priests.''"

Those Fondas are sure outspoken, aren't they.

ingrich, who represented Georgia in Congress for two decades, retired in 1999. But his wife, Callista Gingrich, was employed by the House Agriculture Committee until 2007, according to public records. She listed a "revolving charge account" at Tiffany and Company in the liability section of her personal financial disclosure form for two consecutive years and indicated that it was her spouse's debt. The liability was reported in the range of $250,001 to $500,000.