Maybe, Just Maybe

the president has learned something from the HCR debacle.



As quoted at AmericaBlog:

Now, unsurprisingly, these reforms have not exactly been welcomed by the people who profit from the status quo – as well their allies in Washington. This is probably why the special interests have spent a lot of time and money lobbying to kill or weaken the bill. Just the other day, in fact, the Leader of the Senate Republicans [that would would be Mitch McConnell] and the Chair of the Republican Senate campaign committee [that would be John Cornyn (R-tX)] met with two dozen top Wall Street executives to talk about how to block progress on this issue.

Lo and behold, when he returned to Washington, the Senate Republican Leader came out against the common-sense reforms we’ve proposed. In doing so, he made the cynical and deceptive assertion that reform would somehow enable future bailouts – when he knows that it would do just the opposite.

What's amazing to me is that the Republicans are coming out as such transparent tools. Of course, their supporters get their news from Fox, which isn't going to mention any back-room deals between them and Wall Street. And now, thanks to the Supreme Court, Inc., Bankers can pour as much money as they want into Republican campaigns without worrying about silly things like contribution limits.

I just wish Obama would get behind DADT repeal that way.