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Re: Honey, I Found the Voter Registration Fraud
05/22/12 6:02 am
Question: Does the GOP at any level do anything like a basic background check? It'd make elections a lot less embarassing.Re: Morning Awful: Libertarians
05/18/12 12:42 pm
Quoth Cerberus at Sadly, No!: You know, I want a magic button that deprives people who say they are self-made and didn’t rely on no gover...Re: Morning Awful: Libertarians
05/18/12 5:11 am
:: facepalm :: Libertarians remind me of starry-eyed 19 year-old college students who have lots of lofty ideas that would never work in ...05/17/12 6:40 am
Conrad Black did it to get a fancy title and thought he wouldn't get caught.Re: Wingnut Wind Power Wankery is Not About Free Markets
05/14/12 4:48 pm
You can add this to the list of idiocies. –alopeciaRe: Morning Awful: Closet Romney
05/13/12 9:58 am
As Bill Maher said in his monologue on Friday (one of the more prescient comments), in most salons, the guy wielding the scissors is the ga...Re: The Democratic Party Marijuana Evolution
05/11/12 3:48 pm
Buy stocks in marijuana too. It goes to a good cause and you make some money on the side. If marijuana is so bad, why is it that there are ...05/09/12 2:47 pm
I swear, I wrote this last night, and I had no idea what was coming today.Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 10:37 am
My thoughts on this are going up in a comic later tonight. Good news is, it appears the President listened to them before they even got ...Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 6:03 am
I was so disappointed when I heard the news about North Carolina this morning. There's still a lot of work to do.Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 2:26 am
Thank you. I could not have said this better. The more they bemoan and bully the President for a response, the more divided the Democrats l...05/08/12 12:39 pm
This makes perfect sense. My problem is that I have come to dislike organized religion so much, feel so cynical about it, I don't know...Re: #StopRush, ALEC, and the Howard Stern Category
05/08/12 11:59 am
Like “class warfare,” it is only wrong when we fight back. Sounds an awful lot like every bully, everywhere, doesn't it? –alopeciaRe: Morning Awful: Mitt Romney is Weak
05/08/12 6:46 am
Rachel Maddow is rooting for Ron Paul...and thinks the current president has too much power - like there ARE two other branches of governme...
Category Archives: financial regulation
A Thank You Note To Mitch McConnell
Senator, Thank you so much for achieving your 41-vote filibustering minority. You have reminded all of America which side you are on at the very instant the Obama administration has begun an offensive against Wall Street — starting with Goldman … Continue reading
Shelby Is Chaff
My Senator (he says with a sigh) is planning to “run out the clock” on financial reform. The American Banking Association calls it good strategy: “And from the Republicans’ point of view, every week that passes is, say, Senator Shelby, … Continue reading
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Yes, firebaggers, Dodd has killed the CFPA after all…and replaced it with a CFPB that has authority to rewrite all lending rules. Elizabeth Warren loves it, but I’m sure someone can explain to me how it’s still a sellout because … Continue reading
Dodd Breaks w/GOP on CFPA
Chris Dodd’s decision to cut off negotiations with Republicans on a consumer finance protection agency has shocked Washington. Nasiripour suggests that Dodd’s decision was likely influenced by the outcry from progressives and other pro-reform groups who argued that Dodd, a … Continue reading
Failure to Disclose
Via Shahien Nasiripour at HuffPo: The examiner in charge of investigating the bankruptcy of venerable Wall Street investment house Lehman Brothers, the most expensive bankruptcy in U.S. history, said in a report publicly released Thursday that senior officials failed to … Continue reading
Finally, Some Interest In CDOs
Remember those Collateralized Debt Obligations that nearly destroyed the world just fifteen months ago? The government is just getting around to an investigation thereof: In a letter dated Oct. 22, the SEC sent what amounts to a questionnaire to a … Continue reading
Could Major Financial Reform Pass on a Voice Vote?
This got me thinking: Lobbyists and committee staffers expected that the amendment — which would mandate that banks essentially could not lend out or invest more than 12 dollars for every dollar they keep in reserve — would only get … Continue reading
Sachs Socialism, Mind Bullets
Compelled by a headline about Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein saying that he does “God’s work,” I pored through this article from UK TimesOnline and discovered a scheme to horrify the Ayn Rand set: collective rewards! The idea of teamwork … Continue reading
Teabagging Financial Reform
The teabagging of financial reform has begun, and the White House is calling bullshit early: Larry Summers, the top White House economic adviser, on Friday accused financial lobby groups of using “death panel” type scare tactics to try to block … Continue reading
Michael Moore On Leno
I am so glad I watched this last night. Michael Moore has it exactly right: in order to change the way America distributes wealth, progressives need to take ownership of populist resentment over the bank bailouts and talk in the … Continue reading
Obama Versus Wall Street
It was a rare agreement yesterday morning as Robert Reich and Pat Buchanan discussed the year-old financial crisis: The exchange tells us once again how very bipartisan the issue remains. Meanwhile, in New York, President Obama was declaring the days … Continue reading
