Between this and Boehner's "it's okay to use TARP money for banks, but not for main street" position, I would think that the Dems have a wagonload of ammo to use against the Republican'ts.

Of course, one has to know how to light a fuse before a cannon can be fired. Let's hope there's someone in Dem leadership that can make fire.

with all of the bs the republicans keep on pulling, i keep hoping that one of these days the general public wakes up and realizes what they're doing.

i also believe in santa claus........

They met in the capitol visitor center? I thought the lobbyists owned the place.

Look, despite the fact that the republicans own the God, guns, and guts voting block, their real constituency is Wall Street and the plutocracy that runs it.

This is not surprising at all.

What is surprising, no... MIND BOGGLING, is that people in America STILL continue to blindly support a political party that shamelessly manipulates them, and laughs at them behind their back.

...not like the Dims aint ringers for wall street their own selves...

chenck out Bill Greider's comment at The Nation about Brad Miller's (North Carolina's "good" Dim congresscritter) "anything you want, Helicopter Ben, anything you want..." legislation...

The crucial terms for Fed financing are set by an innocuous-sounding amendment offered by Rep. Brad Miller of North Carolina. Any financial holding company designated as a "systemic risk" and subject to stricter regulatory standards "shall have the same access to the discount window lending of an appropriate Federal Reserve Bank as is available to a member bank of each Federal Reserve bank."

Haha, sane political discourse.

Sounds like Steve was born in Kenya too...

The cadaver of health care isn't even cold and the Republicans have moved on with their ambitions.

Can The People stop this freight train of influence and money corrupting the political will of The People?

You know this is a complete waste of time.

Whatever they DO succeed in passing, the republicans will just shoot down later.

Remember? After the Great Republican Depression, we got Glass-Steagall. Then it was repealed in the 1990's. And we ended up with another financial catastrophe. They don't "get it" and they never will.

It's very much like the Mafia trying to repeal RICO.

On "Moanin' Joe" this morning a reporter from Politico spout a new line of attack on Barney Frank. Suddenly Congressman Frank's got a temper problem.

I suspect this meme was whispered into the reporter's ear by some repub flack to see if it will stick.

The key point is "...it would if our discourse was sane"

Were Geithner and Summers there in the huddle with the GOP? These 2 have enabled/protected Wall Street worst practices from the get-go.

Let's remember this the next time one of these Republicans decides to grab a pitchfork and join the rest of the mob to shake their fist at those outrageous bonuses the Wall Street boys are giving themselves.

Gosh golly. I wonder if these were the Lobbyist St. McCain was complaining about on the floor of the Senate the other day.

or, at least, it would if our discourse was sane.

That really is The Problem.

To think we thought that TARP and all the other obscene bailouts were supposed to be coupled with some measure of regulatory reform.

Guess we were fools.

Now that it looks like health care reform is somewhat less than reform, why shouldn't Wall Street be given a free pass?

Grammar Geek sez:

That's supposed to read

"or, at least, it would if our discourse were sane."

When referring to a counterfactual (and you don't get much more counterfactual than "our discourse" = "sane"), the requisite subjunctive form of the verb "to be" is "were."