{"id":340,"date":"2008-12-03T22:19:34","date_gmt":"2008-12-04T02:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=340"},"modified":"2008-12-23T17:41:31","modified_gmt":"2008-12-23T21:41:31","slug":"tarp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2008\/12\/03\/tarp\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Needs Oversight, When You&#8217;re Spending Money You Don&#8217;t Have?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gao.gov\/new.items\/d09161.pdf\">GAO,<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/thecrypt\/1208\/GAO_TARP_lacks_oversight.html\">TARP<\/a> (the gazillion dollar Troubled Asset Relief Program) is seriously lacking in oversight.  Why?  Because of a single Senator&#8217;s anonymous block on the program&#8217;s IG (Inspector General) nominee.  <\/p>\n<p>Sen. Max Baucus, the fellow who made sure the TARP bill provided for an IG, isn&#8217;t too pleased.  And that brings me to my latest limerick: <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m never a person to carp,<br \/>\nBut nobody oversees TARP.<br \/>\nOne anonymous &#8220;hold&#8221;<br \/>\nStopped the process out cold<br \/>\nOf confirming an IG who&#8217;s sharp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the GAO, TARP (the gazillion dollar Troubled Asset Relief Program) is seriously lacking in oversight. Why? Because of a single Senator&#8217;s anonymous block on the program&#8217;s IG (Inspector General) nominee. Sen. Max Baucus, the fellow who made sure the TARP bill provided for an IG, isn&#8217;t too pleased. And that brings me to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[179,31,15,50,44,114,11,266,178,6,9,419,45],"tags":[271,269,268,270,2831,2756,267],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":433,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions\/433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}