Goldman Sachs got a surprise defender today: Former President Bill Clinton. He says that he thinks Goldman Sachs may not have violated the law, despite charges from the Securities and Exchange Commission. Clinton has a very complicated relationship with the Wall Street crisis. His treasury secretary, Robert Rubin, was once head of Goldman Sachs. And Clinton deregulated financial markets, creating the setting in which rocket science financial products emerged and nearly wrecked the global economy.
** QUICK HITS. The U.S. Senate has agreed to begin debate on the Wall Street reform bill. (See item below.) … Just a day after swearing in his handpicked lieutenant governor, Abel Maldonado, tensions appear to be growing between Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Democratic legislative leaders. What’s the hang-up? Schwarzenegger setting the special election for Maldonado’s state Senate seat away from the general election, complicating Democratic plans to pick up the seat and costing coastal counties money for another election. (Democratic delays earlier caused the special election not to be at the same time as the statewide primary.) And reports that Schwarzenegger is using a proposed legislative pay cut to exert pressure in the chronic state budget crisis. … In brighter news, Attorney General Jerry Brown and Schwarzenegger both announced that the state, through legal action, has recovered another $400 million in consumer overpayments during the electric power crisis. Through legal action, the state has now recovered some $3 billion, with much more in play, from power contracts entered into under duress in the early part of the past decade.
** SENATE REPUBLICANS FIGURE IT OUT AND CAVE ON THEIR FILIBUSTER OF THE WALL STREET REFORM BILL. Two days of Senate votes blocking debate on the Wall Street reform bill backed by President Barack Obama was well into a third when Senate Republicans finally figured out that they were playing into Obama and the Democrats’ messaging. With a public outcry about Wall Street misdeeds that nearly tanked the global economy in 2008 and 2009 growing.
So now they are signaling that they will drop their filibuster — especially after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called for cots and insisted that Senate Republicans would have to actually filibuster, and not just vote again to block cloture — and allow debate on the bill to move forward.
It was Nevadan Reid’s idea to schedule multiple cloture votes in rapid succession this week in order to highlight Republican insistence on blocking movement on the issue.
Which means that the bill has passed its 60-vote supermajority threshold essentially by default, and that a Democratic victory on the bill is all but assured.
Now we’ll see how the negotiations go. Where they have to get, in addition to regulating and in some cases outlawing exotic financial maneuvers, is to make it much harder to do massive bank bailouts. At least with public money.
Then there is the question of the new consumer financial protection bureau, which many Senate Republicans oppose because it will be a strong new regulatory tool.
** CALIFORNIA 2010: WHITMAN SAYS SHE “MISSED THE SIGNPOSTS” ON HER INSIDE TRADING AS A GOLDMAN SACHS BOARD MEMBER. Billionaire Meg Whitman’s campaign is furiously trying to spin away a controversy that could consume her massively funded candidacy. Namely, her controversial tenure as a member of the board of Goldman Sachs, which ended with the investment bank settling federal charges against it, and with her disgorging millions she garnered through her trading on inside information granted to her. That’s the so-called “spinning” of initial public offerings, in which she took stock granted to her in advance of it being publicly available, as an insider and board member, and sold it for huge profits a few days later when the shares hit the public markets.
So Whitman did an interview yesterday, in which she did not adequately push back against the controversy. Whitman said she’d left the Goldman Sachs board because she “wasn’t a good fit.” Which she evidently learned as federal regulators and eBay stockholders were closing in, and not a moment before.
However, she did not apologize for her actions, which are now banned.
Instead, Whitman said: “I missed the signposts here.”
What does that mean?
“The lesson learned about it is you have to be extra vigilant about seeing any actual or perceived conflict of interest.”
Translation: She thinks that she should have realized that her highly lucrative inside stock trades could be perceived as constituting a conflict of interest.
But she does not admit that she had a conflict of interest. Or that she did anything at all that was wrong, even though she suddenly left the board in the wake of the firestorm of controversy her actions helped engender.
Reality check: This issue is never going away for Whitman, especially with this sort of handling.
And all the spuriously spun-up attempts to equate Whitman with Jerry Brown — whose sister Kathleen works on the public finance side of Goldman Sachs, and is uninvolved with any controversial activity (and whose one-time city Oakland entered into a Goldman-sponsored financing mechanism initiated before he became mayor by the city manager that Brown fired) — will not work.
The same goes for the Whitman camp’s efforts to equate her Goldman Sachs activities with Steve Poizner, her closing Republican primary rival, having had some investments through Goldman Sachs.
President Barack Obama dropped in on Jerry’s Family Restaurant in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa yesterday where he met 107-year old Frances Asher. He is on a “White House to Main Street” tour through Iowa, Illinois, and Missouri.
** PUNDITS, BLOGGERS, ACTIVIST LEADERS THINKING OF RUNNING FOR HIGH OFFICE? THINK AGAIN. I was in a rush on a very busy Saturday morning. I knew there had to be a press room at the LA Convention Center for the California Democratic convention. There had to be. I just hadn’t bothered to find out where it was. Fortunately, I saw a very familiar face.
“Hey, Mickey,” I said. “Where’s the press room?” It was Mickey Kaus, the very prominent Slate blogger and former New Republic columnist. Then I noticed that he was holding not a notebook but a stack of flyers, which he was trying to hand out to mostly uninterested people as they entered the convention.
That’s right, I remembered. Mickey is running for the U.S. Senate. …
** OBAMA TODAY. President Barack Obama is in Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, and Washington, D.C. today.
Obama had his daily intelligence and economic briefings, then departed Des Moines, Iowa en route to Quincy, Illinois.
At 10:20 AM Pacific, Obama tours POET Biorefining in Macon, Missouri.
At 11 AM Pacific, Obama delivers remarks on the economy in Macon, Missouri.
At 12:20 PM Pacific, Obama tours a farm in Palmyra, Missouri.
At 2 PM Pacific, Obama delivers remarks on financial reform at Oakley Lindsay Civic Center in Quincy, Illinois.
At 3:15 PM Pacific, Obama departs Quincy, Illinois on Air Force One en route to Andrews Air Force Base.
At 5:05 PM Pacific, Obama lands at Andrews Air Force Base, where he boards Marine One.
At 5:20 PM Pacific, Obama lands on the South Lawn of the White House.
Back in Washington, Vice President Biden delivers remarks at the Wounded Warrior Soldier Ride on the South Lawn, meets with the U.N. Special Representative for Iraq Ad Melkert in the Roosevelt Room, meets with the President of the European Parliament Jerzy Buzek in the Roosevelt Room, and attends a DNC event at the Washington Hilton.
Obama is also monitoring geopolitical crises in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, and Iraq.
In Iraq, where the withdrawal of American combat troops is only a few months away, the government following national elections over seven weeks ago is still not settled. The secular Sunni party headed by former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi surprisingly finished first ahead of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s Shiite-based party. But no one has been able to form a government and the shape of a national coalition government remains elusive.
Offshore oil drilling? Not so fast. Hotel owners, tour operators and fishermen are all watching anxiously as oil from the wrecked rig Deepwater Horizon creeps toward the Gulf Coast.
** FROM THE ARNOLD FILE. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is in Los Angeles today.
At 10:30 AM at Kentwood Elementary School in Los Angeles, Schwarzenegger will join Governor’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports Chairman Jake Steinfeld to announce that more than a million California students have signed up to participate in the 2010 Governor’s Fitness Challenge. That consists of exercising at least 30 minutes every other day.
Coca-Cola will also announce that it will fund eight brand new “Live Positively” Fitness Centers, valued at more than $100,000 each, at eight California schools that live up to Fitness Challenge.
The event will be webcast live on www.gov.ca.gov.
Erstwhile Schwarzenegger ally Steve Poizner, who has partially closed a big gap in his race for the GOP nod for governor of California (first revealed here on NWN) against billionaire Meg Whitman, has a new anti-Arnold ad. Yesterday was one for the radio. Today’s is a TV ad.
… THE CALIFORNIA AS FIRST “FAILED STATE” DEBATE: SCHWARZENEGGER, DAVIS, WHITMAN, AND JERRY BROWN. … From my March 2nd column.
Here is my series of five columns on the governorship of Arnold Schwarzenegger for the Los Angeles Times in debate in fall 2008, prior to the global economic meltdown, with Pulitzer Prize-winning former Times reporter/editor Bill Boyarsky, whose columns are also included. Among them is what I’m sure is the first piece examining Schwarzenegger’s legacy as governor of California. Since he will actually be governor of California until 2011. No technology known to be disruptive to the space/time continuum was used in its preparation. You can listen to my video webchat last spring with Schwarzenegger here.
** CALIFORNIA STORY: BROWN, BOXER, AND (UN)CONVENTION(AL) POLITICS. Big developments in the past few days make it clear why California has the biggest races in the country this year, with President Barack Obama helping Barbara Boxer defend her Senate seat and Jerry Brown, trying for a record third term as governor, taking on the biggest spending statewide campaign in American history.
At its weekend convention in Los Angeles, the California Democratic Party endorsed Attorney General Jerry Brown as its candidate for an unprecedented third term as governor, in the process embracing him as the party’s “patriarch,” as one newspaper put it, albeit of the decidedly maverick variety. Brown, the two-time Democratic presidential runner-up who I shadowed on and off, reset the governor’s race against billionaire Meg Whitman or super-rich State Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner with a debate challenge and a focus on the excesses of Wall Street. … From my April 21st essay.
** JERRY BROWN’S LONG AND WINDING ROAD. … From my April 15th column.
** OBAMA’S NUCLEAR STRATEGY AND THE RUSSIAN RESURGENCE. … From my April 12th column.
** OBAMA’S BIG NEW AFPAK PROBLEMS. … From my April 7th column.
** 10 KEY THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT THE HIGH-STAKES CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR’S RACE: WHAT IT MEANS FOR BROWN, WHITMAN, POIZNER, ROMNEY, AND OBAMA. … From my April 1st column.
** 24: DOWN FOR THE COUNT? … From my March 30th column.
** HOW JERRY BROWN CLEARED THE DEMOCRATIC FIELD FOR GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA. … From my December 9th, 2009 column.
** OBAMA: RIDING WITH HISTORY. (NOTE: As Barack Obama was inaugurated as the 44th president of the United States, this column was the featured column on the top of the front page of the Huffington Post.) … From my January 19th, 2009 Huffington Post column.
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** TRACK GLOBAL AND NATIONAL ENERGY PRICES IN NEAR REAL TIME VIA BLOOMBERG ENERGY MARKET WATCH. Having crashed over $147 for yet another record on July 11th, 2008, crude oil is trading around $84 per barrel.
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This is hysterical!!
** PUNDITS, BLOGGERS, ACTIVIST LEADERS THINKING OF RUNNING FOR HIGH OFFICE? THINK AGAIN. I was in a rush on a very busy Saturday morning. I knew there had to be a press room at the LA Convention Center for the California Democratic convention. There had to be. I just hadn’t bothered to find out where it was. Fortunately, I saw a very familiar face.
“Hey, Mickey,” I said. “Where’s the press room?” It was Mickey Kaus, the very prominent Slate blogger and former New Republic columnist. Then I noticed that he was holding not a notebook but a stack of flyers, which he was trying to hand out to mostly uninterested people as they entered the convention.
That’s right, I remembered. Mickey is running for the U.S. Senate. …
From my April 27th column.
President Obama looks good in the Iowa video.
Offshore oil drilling is a bad idea.
Barack is doing great, talking what he should be talking…
Jonas Blane says: says:
April 28, 2010 at 9:17 am
President Obama looks good in the Iowa video.
That total disaster came at the worst possible time for this still risky technology.
Jonas Blane says: says:
April 28, 2010 at 9:20 am
Offshore oil drilling is a bad idea.
This Poizner is a total ingrate. He’s a bigger phony than Whitless…
BB:Erstwhile Schwarzenegger ally Steve Poizner, who has partially closed a big gap in his race for the GOP nod for governor of California (first revealed here on NWN) against billionaire Meg Whitman, has a new anti-Arnold ad. Yesterday was one for the radio. Today’s is a TV ad.
Feelings are getting harder …
It looks like possibly the worst in history.
> Capitol Boy says:
April 28, 2010 at 9:23 am (Edit)
That total disaster came at the worst possible time for this still risky technology.
Jonas Blane says: says:
April 28, 2010 at 9:20 am
Offshore oil drilling is a bad idea.
He’s in his element again. And FINALLY doing the economy.
> Capitol Boy says:
April 28, 2010 at 9:20 am (Edit)
Barack is doing great, talking what he should be talking…
Jonas Blane says: says:
April 28, 2010 at 9:17 am
President Obama looks good in the Iowa video.
Thanks.
> Capitol Boy says:
April 28, 2010 at 9:17 am (Edit)
This is hysterical!!
** PUNDITS, BLOGGERS, ACTIVIST LEADERS THINKING OF RUNNING FOR HIGH OFFICE? THINK AGAIN.
Where’s Schwarzeneger?
Schwarzenegger has checked out.
Mickey Kaus has some good points to make. I don’t know that he can do it running for “Senator.” He looks silly doing it.
Capitol Boy says:
April 28, 2010 at 9:17 am
This is hysterical!!
** PUNDITS, BLOGGERS, ACTIVIST LEADERS THINKING OF RUNNING FOR HIGH OFFICE? THINK AGAIN. I was in a rush on a very busy Saturday morning. I knew there had to be a press room at the LA Convention Center for the California Democratic convention. There had to be. I just hadn’t bothered to find out where it was. Fortunately, I saw a very familiar face.
“Hey, Mickey,” I said. “Where’s the press room?” It was Mickey Kaus, the very prominent Slate blogger and former New Republic columnist. Then I noticed that he was holding not a notebook but a stack of flyers, which he was trying to hand out to mostly uninterested people as they entered the convention.
That’s right, I remembered. Mickey is running for the U.S. Senate. …
From my April 27th column.
I see that Peter Schurman is on your HuffPost column claiming he is so a real candidate against JB.
How delusional can you get?
Maybe Barack’s finally made the pivot to the economy that you keep talking about…
Bill Bradley says:
April 28, 2010 at 9:58 am
He’s in his element again. And FINALLY doing the economy.
> Capitol Boy says:
April 28, 2010 at 9:20 am (Edit)
Barack is doing great, talking what he should be talking…
Jonas Blane says: says:
April 28, 2010 at 9:17 am
President Obama looks good in the Iowa video.
Mister Bradley, the Coast Guard should sell rights to film the oil fire they plan to set in the Gulf. It will be once-in-a-lifetime filming using the Fusion Camera System. Think of it as 3-D b-roll for action flicks. Cameron can use it for Avatar 2. There is bound to be an “ocean-on-fire” scene in that film anyhow.
I sure hope so. Bradley, you have to write about what a scatter shot message Team O puts out there…
Capitol Boy says:
April 28, 2010 at 11:26 am
Maybe Barack’s finally made the pivot to the economy that you keep talking about…
Bill Bradley says:
April 28, 2010 at 9:58 am
He’s in his element again. And FINALLY doing the economy.
Damn it! Where’s my post?
How delusional? That poor sob is incredibly delusional…
Capitol Boy says:
April 28, 2010 at 11:25 am
I see that Peter Schurman is on your HuffPost column claiming he is so a real candidate against JB.
How delusional can you get?
Yeah, she missed the “signposts,” all right. What a fraud Whitman is.
** CALIFORNIA 2010: WHITMAN “MISSED THE SIGNPOSTS” ON HER INSIDE TRADING AS A GOLDMAN SACHS BOARD MEMBER
Meg has a “signpost” problem. Think of all those “Vote Here” signposts she missed for decades!
>>> Jack Aubrey says:
April 28, 2010 at 12:10 pm
Yeah, she missed the “signposts,” all right. What a fraud Whitman is.
** CALIFORNIA 2010: WHITMAN “MISSED THE SIGNPOSTS” ON HER INSIDE TRADING AS A GOLDMAN SACHS BOARD MEMBER
You’re traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind; a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination.
That’s the signpost up ahead — your next stop, the Twilight Zone.
Bill Clinton made a mistake defending Goldman Sachs.
Another win for Barack, he’s looking good!!
** SENATE REPUBLICANS FIGURE IT OUT AND CAVE ON THEIR FILIBUSTER OF THE WALL STREET REFORM BILL.
Yes, and he needs to stay on this tack.
Thank you, Dr. Hemlock, channeling Rod Serling …
> Jonathan Hemlock says:
April 28, 2010 at 1:44 pm (Edit)
You’re traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind; a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination.
That’s the signpost up ahead — your next stop, the Twilight Zone.
Very nice, Gospodin Bierko!
So how deeply involved with the Russians do you think Charles Logan is?
> Vladimir Bierko says:
April 28, 2010 at 1:31 pm (Edit)
Meg has a “signpost” problem. Think of all those “Vote Here” signposts she missed for decades!
>>> Jack Aubrey says:
April 28, 2010 at 12:10 pm
Yeah, she missed the “signposts,” all right. What a fraud Whitman is.
** CALIFORNIA 2010: WHITMAN “MISSED THE SIGNPOSTS” ON HER INSIDE TRADING AS A GOLDMAN SACHS BOARD MEMBER
Be nice.
> Jack Aubrey says:
April 28, 2010 at 12:09 pm (Edit)
How delusional? That poor sob is incredibly delusional…
Capitol Boy says:
April 28, 2010 at 11:25 am
I see that Peter Schurman is on your HuffPost column claiming he is so a real candidate against JB.
How delusional can you get?
Sorry about that glitching.
> Jack Aubrey says:
April 28, 2010 at 12:08 pm (Edit)
Damn it! Where’s my post?
Probably so. And it will be popular …
> Jack Aubrey says:
April 28, 2010 at 12:08 pm (Edit)
I sure hope so. Bradley, you have to write about what a scatter shot message Team O puts out there…
Capitol Boy says:
April 28, 2010 at 11:26 am
Maybe Barack’s finally made the pivot to the economy that you keep talking about…
Bill Bradley says:
April 28, 2010 at 9:58 am
He’s in his element again. And FINALLY doing the economy.
Do we know for sure that Avatar 2 is set in an alien ocean?
I can’t wait to see the oil fire footage, that will be quite spectacular.
> Vladimir Bierko says:
April 28, 2010 at 11:28 am (Edit)
Mister Bradley, the Coast Guard should sell rights to film the oil fire they plan to set in the Gulf. It will be once-in-a-lifetime filming using the Fusion Camera System. Think of it as 3-D b-roll for action flicks. Cameron can use it for Avatar 2. There is bound to be an “ocean-on-fire” scene in that film anyhow.
There’s a fine line sometimes between being provocative and being ridiculous …
> Truth Teller says:
April 28, 2010 at 10:51 am (Edit)
Mickey Kaus has some good points to make. I don’t know that he can do it running for “Senator.” He looks silly doing it.
Capitol Boy says:
April 28, 2010 at 9:17 am
This is hysterical!!
** PUNDITS, BLOGGERS, ACTIVIST LEADERS THINKING OF RUNNING FOR HIGH OFFICE? THINK AGAIN. I was in a rush on a very busy Saturday morning. I knew there had to be a press room at the LA Convention Center for the California Democratic convention. There had to be. I just hadn’t bothered to find out where it was. Fortunately, I saw a very familiar face.
“Hey, Mickey,” I said. “Where’s the press room?” It was Mickey Kaus, the very prominent Slate blogger and former New Republic columnist. Then I noticed that he was holding not a notebook but a stack of flyers, which he was trying to hand out to mostly uninterested people as they entered the convention.
That’s right, I remembered. Mickey is running for the U.S. Senate. …
From my April 27th column.
Barack has so many important things to do after 8 years of Bush. I wish the country understood what he’s doing better.
Bill Bradley says:
April 28, 2010 at 3:01 pm
Yes, and he needs to stay on this tack.
My sincere hope is Logan is in the employ of Max. Then, when he is no longer useful, or is about to flip, he will be killed by Mandy. I also hope Lynne Kresge (Michelle Forbes) recovered from her fall in Day 2 and is some kind of Deputy Sec. of State who can fill in for Sec. Kanin.
>>> Bill Bradley says:
April 28, 2010 at 3:03 pm
Very nice, Gospodin Bierko!
So how deeply involved with the Russians do you think Charles Logan is?
> Vladimir Bierko says:
April 28, 2010 at 1:31 pm (Edit)
Meg has a “signpost” problem. Think of all those “Vote Here” signposts she missed for decades!
You said days Bill and called it spot on…
SENATE REPUBLICANS FIGURE IT OUT AND CAVE ON THEIR FILIBUSTER OF THE WALL STREET REFORM BILL.
My take is Logan certainly was fast offering up all sorts of opportune advice and contacts. Maybe too fast for a situation that mostly developed in mere hours. And maybe he is the Simon Bar Sinister at the heart of the Manhattan nuclear horror barely averted? Wouldn’t that be a kicker?
I liked how Jack played Chloe to have a chance to enlist Cole. There is great chemistry between Prinze and Sutherland, as action stud-guy peers.
>34.Vladimir Bierko says:
April 28, 2010 at 3:31 pm
My sincere hope is Logan is in the employ of Max. Then, when he is no longer useful, or is about to flip, he will be killed by Mandy. I also hope Lynne Kresge (Michelle Forbes) recovered from her fall in Day 2 and is some kind of Deputy Sec. of State who can fill in for Sec. Kanin.
Way to go, JB!!
… In brighter news, Attorney General Jerry Brown and Schwarzenegger both announced that the state, through legal action, has recovered another $400 million in consumer overpayments during the electric power crisis. Through legal action, the state has now recovered some $3 billion, with much more in play, from power contracts entered into under duress in the early part of the past decade.
Look what I found on yesterday’s thread.
Clutch J says:
April 28, 2010 at 5:39 pm
“Pundits…” was a blast to read. Clips from “Bulworth” and a token jab at Victor Davis Hanson make for more fun than a reader has a right to expect .
I enjoyed the new piece that Clutch writes about. I am sure that Mickey Kaus may be nice enough personally. However, only glancing at his website he is so fixated on immigrants to be very disturbing.
Immigrants do not come to America to go on welfare. They come to work, to have families, to have opportunity. They take jobs that people like Kaus, the son of a rich lawyer, would never take. His talk and insulting and dangerous even, for he is intelligent and educated enough to know better.
It is good President Obama is acting to rein in your oligarchs.
What new video today?
The Gulf oil disster and Gordon Brown’s forced gaffe …
No apetite for Moscow on the Potomac?
> sergei says:
April 29, 2010 at 1:24 am (Edit)
It is good President Obama is acting to rein in your oligarchs.
Indeed.
> marcos leon says:
April 28, 2010 at 6:18 pm (Edit)
Look what I found on yesterday’s thread.
Clutch J says:
April 28, 2010 at 5:39 pm
“Pundits…” was a blast to read. Clips from “Bulworth” and a token jab at Victor Davis Hanson make for more fun than a reader has a right to expect .
It’s a terrific accomplishment for somebody returning to the governorship.
> Capitol Boy says:
April 28, 2010 at 5:44 pm (Edit)
Way to go, JB!!
… In brighter news, Attorney General Jerry Brown and Schwarzenegger both announced that the state, through legal action, has recovered another $400 million in consumer overpayments during the electric power crisis. Through legal action, the state has now recovered some $3 billion, with much more in play, from power contracts entered into under duress in the early part of the past decade.
He knows way too much and is far too ready with advise and assets …
> Dana says:
April 28, 2010 at 3:48 pm (Edit)
My take is Logan certainly was fast offering up all sorts of opportune advice and contacts. Maybe too fast for a situation that mostly developed in mere hours. And maybe he is the Simon Bar Sinister at the heart of the Manhattan nuclear horror barely averted? Wouldn’t that be a kicker?
I liked how Jack played Chloe to have a chance to enlist Cole. There is great chemistry between Prinze and Sutherland, as action stud-guy peers.
Thanks!
> Dana says:
April 28, 2010 at 3:41 pm (Edit)
You said days Bill and called it spot on…
SENATE REPUBLICANS FIGURE IT OUT AND CAVE ON THEIR FILIBUSTER OF THE WALL STREET REFORM BILL.
What if Charles Logan is Max, with a multiple personality disorder?
Mandy, I suspect we won’t see her. Nor Michelle Forbes, I fear …
> Vladimir Bierko says:
April 28, 2010 at 3:31 pm (Edit)
My sincere hope is Logan is in the employ of Max. Then, when he is no longer useful, or is about to flip, he will be killed by Mandy. I also hope Lynne Kresge (Michelle Forbes) recovered from her fall in Day 2 and is some kind of Deputy Sec. of State who can fill in for Sec. Kanin.
>>> Bill Bradley says:
April 28, 2010 at 3:03 pm
Very nice, Gospodin Bierko!
So how deeply involved with the Russians do you think Charles Logan is?
> Vladimir Bierko says:
April 28, 2010 at 1:31 pm (Edit)
Meg has a “signpost” problem. Think of all those “Vote Here” signposts she missed for decades!