Finance Bill passes

[nadinbrzezinski]

breaking on MSNBC

[sharp_stick]

1. Oh no..

yet another catastrophic failure of the Obama administration. I'm sure I'll be able to see that on the news and read it here on my favorite message board any time now.

Now the Dems have to get out there and start selling this to the districts of the assholes that voted against it. This should make great election fodder.

[Ozymanithrax]

2. or, Another win for the Obama Administration...

They have succeeded at putting into affect some of the regulation that Republicans have been stripping away since Reagan strutted like a rooster into the White House.

I prefer to view the glass as one eighth full rather than effin empty.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. I'd love to see Glass Steegal put back in

but this is better than nothing.

And we must all remember, the bridge did not fall down this time... so there was actually LESS urgency.

That said, the bridge remains quite wobbly, so we may still see Glass back in.

[Ozymanithrax]

4. I agree. But movement back to a regimen of regulation is still...

movement.

I'd rather tap dance here to a good tune than on some other threads.

[malaise]

9. Same here

Obama has delivered on more promises than anyone else in decades. Like you I would have liked to see Glass Steagall reintroduced but something is better than nothing - one more big fucking deal.

GObama!!

[valerief]

5. Ha! You mean the Glass-Steagall is 1/8th full. nt

[Ozymanithrax]

7. It is a good beginning. n/t

[sharp_stick]

6. To continue your glass eighth full metaphor

the pukes emptied it so badly that it's going to take one hell of a lot more to even get close to half filling it again. Reagan & Bush did one hell of a job emptying it and Shrub then decided to go over the ground and salt the earth by filling all the posts with RW ideologues that burrowed in once he left the White House.

[Ozymanithrax]

8. I agree it will take a long time. But it was necessary to begin somewhere.

Should the repukes take control of the House this fall, or just win back some seats in the House and Senate, this may be as far as we get for a long long time.

We need to take the victories we can get and be prepared for a very long time until we can drink more than 1/8th of a glass.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

10. The cup had 857 cups worth of antimatter water. -nt

[Ozymanithrax]

11. Except that regulation does matter. and this ia a bigfuckingdeal...

to emulate our Vice President.

[Xolodno]

12. And the opposition to it says...

...its going to kill jobs.

I'm thinking....uh...how?

There are new and more regulations...that will require more regulators in the federal government....more jobs.

There are new and more regulations...that will require more employee's in house for compliance....more jobs.

I suppose, the cray and insane finance instruments being eliminated would clamp down on jobs...then they will just have to out source those jobs to another country....assuming any country allows them to mess around with their currency...otherwise, they will have to go into "regulation jobs", which do pay less.

Oh I get it, they wont be able to make massive amounts of money and won't be able to afford their gardener, maid, nanny, etc. yeah those jobs might disappear....but usually those are filled with migrant labor...aren't these the same guys who say we have an immigration problem? Good news...this solves it.

[Scurrilous]

13. K & R

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