Tag: financial reform

Of petards, Republicans and hoisting

Or maybe I should call this “Of chickens and Republicans and roosting”. From the Associated Press comes this article today: Republicans suffering for 2008 bank bailout vote: Some of Congress’ staunchest conservatives voted two years ago to prop up the nation’s banking industry. At the time, they saw a threat to American business. Now the emergency is their own political […]

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Robert Reich: “Mitch McConnell is desperate” – Updated

The lies of Mitch McConnell are legion. We all know this. Having lost the health insurance reform battle, he’s now doubling down on the failed “we need to start of and form a bipartisan bill” approach by applying the same strategy to financial sector reform. The GOPosaurs have have to be terrified of this fight. As Chris Hayes pointed out […]

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The Luntz pwnage and Democrats’ next steps

After my diary about the epic Frank Luntz fail spent most of the day at the top of the Rec List yesterday, I emailed Countdown with Keith to bring it to their attention. It seemed to fit in nicely with their segment about Luntz from the day before. Sure enough, they picked it up and it was the subject of […]

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