Congress Is About To Confirm Another Former Goldman Sachs Honcho For Trump

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Source: HuffPo

Senate Republicans voted in lockstep to behind Clayton, and were joined by 10 Democrats, including Sens. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), Tom Carper (D-Del.), Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.), Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), Bill Nelson (D-Fla.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and Mark Warner (D-Va). The Democratic support marked a departure from Mnuchins confirmation, which was opposed by every Democrat except Manchin.

Trump made a slate of promises about Wall Street during the 2016 campaign, including vows to both break up big banks and to repeal the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform law. As president, however, Trump has pursued a big bank-friendly deregulation agenda and proposed steep tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy.

Read more: http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_59079c58e4b05c3976817a8d

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[laserhaas]

1. Confirming Jay Clayton may turn out to be a great thingy

Jay Clayton is partners of Sullivan Cromwell, works for Goldman Sachs, and is invested un Bain Capital.

By law, Jay Clayton is forbidden to touch our Wall Street fraud case; because it involves Sachs, Bain and SullCrom

[FBaggins]

17. I get itchy any time you use "by law"

forbidden to touch our Wall Street fraud case

Great!

Um... What "case" is that? You have googled far enough to learn what "with prejudice" means, right?

[laserhaas]

18. Bye

[FBaggins]

19. I think you already said that

So is this a confession of lying?

Or should you have used TisButAScratch for this post?

[jalan48]

2. United States of Goldman Sachs?

[laserhaas]

6. Sucks

Is what you should say

[calimary]

3. So much for draining the swamp.

trump isn't building a wall. He's building a whole new swamp.

[IronLionZion]

5. For efficiency he has combined the two to build the swamp.

Winners don't have time to drain. And a swamp is as good as a wall anyway.

[laserhaas]

9. Eck

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8. Thats a pure analogy

[IronLionZion]

4. Oh yeah? well Dems have given speeches at Goldman Sachs

so might as well vote Trump!

[laserhaas]

10. Ha Ha

Where do we pick up our $200,000

[Blue_Tires]

7. Snowden was unavailable for comment...

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11. In new leaks, Trump met with Comey

After Bill met with Lynch

[DK504]

12. Every single democrat that votes

for one single BLOTUS nominee need to be challenged. Only real Democrats need apply.

[laserhaas]

14. Concur

[Initech]

13. But... but... Hillary was in bed with Goldman Sachs!!!!

God damn them!

[laserhaas]

15. Yup

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16. Frank Nitti is now in charge of Al Capone cases

What could go wrong?

Technically, Nitti is an expert in Capone thingys.