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Better Believe It (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-16-10 11:12 AM Original message |
Robert Reich: The New Finance Bill: A Mountain of Legislative Paper, A Molehill of Reform |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-16-10 11:14 AM Response to Original message |
1. Waiting for the reply from the instant unreccer. n/t |
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NJmaverick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-16-10 11:20 AM Response to Reply #1 |
6. Robert Reich is dead wrong- Unrec |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 01:51 AM Response to Reply #6 |
40. How? |
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paulk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 10:30 AM Response to Reply #6 |
56. you really don't help yourself much |
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groovedaddy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-16-10 11:16 AM Response to Original message |
2. The fine paid by Goldman Sachs amounts to nothing more than a cost of doing business. What's |
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MadHound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-16-10 11:17 AM Response to Original message |
3. But it's another victory for Obama, |
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NJmaverick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-16-10 11:22 AM Response to Reply #3 |
8. It's a victory for the American people, our economy will be significantly safer |
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MadHound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-16-10 11:33 AM Response to Reply #8 |
14. LOL! Thanks for the morning laugh. |
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NJmaverick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-16-10 11:34 AM Response to Reply #14 |
16. Your argument failed to sway me |
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MadHound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-16-10 11:41 AM Response to Reply #16 |
17. Frankly I've given up trying to sway you, |
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NJmaverick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-16-10 11:49 AM Response to Reply #17 |
19. You are incorrect sir |
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MadHound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-16-10 11:51 AM Response to Reply #19 |
21. What is incorrect about my statement? |
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NJmaverick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-16-10 11:52 AM Response to Reply #21 |
23. Everything was incorrect other than your claim to have given up |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-16-10 11:54 AM Response to Reply #23 |
27. Deleted message |
ooglymoogly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-18-10 09:59 AM Response to Reply #23 |
70. Your posts here, are those of a witless child |
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Kermitt Gribble (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 11:03 AM Response to Reply #19 |
61. Where are your facts? |
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ooglymoogly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-18-10 09:38 AM Response to Reply #16 |
69. Making the terminally blind see, would be quite |
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Joe Chi Minh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-18-10 03:50 PM Response to Reply #16 |
78. Professor Reich's article not factual enough for you? |
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northernlights (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-18-10 10:53 AM Response to Reply #14 |
77. it won't tak 10 years, or even close to it |
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mdmc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-16-10 12:51 PM Response to Reply #8 |
33. how? |
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laughingliberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 10:02 AM Response to Reply #3 |
50. Yes. Football game approach to politics continues. |
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Knight Hawk (336 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 08:42 PM Response to Reply #3 |
68. Modus Operandi |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-16-10 11:17 AM Response to Original message |
4. One of the main problems I see |
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Cant trust em (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-16-10 11:30 AM Response to Reply #4 |
13. I do agree that much of the success of this will be in implementation done by regulators, however... |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-16-10 11:49 AM Response to Reply #13 |
20. We've just been through 8 years of lawlessness |
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Cant trust em (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-16-10 11:52 AM Response to Reply #20 |
22. I also suspect that some of the argument about Congress dictating too much regulation... |
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truedelphi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 02:49 PM Response to Reply #13 |
64. It doesn't take Republicans to make agencies next to worthless |
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Guy Whitey Corngood (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-16-10 11:19 AM Response to Original message |
5. "What the fuck does he know?!!!" in 4, 3, 2, .......... nt |
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NJmaverick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-16-10 11:20 AM Response to Reply #5 |
7. Just because he is wrong, does not mean he is lacking in knowledge |
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Guy Whitey Corngood (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-16-10 11:27 AM Response to Reply #7 |
10. Oh sure, of course he is. nt |
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ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-16-10 11:26 AM Response to Original message |
9. "As if to prove him wrong, Goldman Sachs simultaneously announced it had struck a deal " |
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NJmaverick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-16-10 11:33 AM Response to Reply #9 |
15. Those are signs a poorly formed opinion |
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paulk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 10:40 AM Response to Reply #9 |
57. it's not going to be signed into law? |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-16-10 11:28 AM Response to Original message |
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Better Believe It (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-16-10 11:49 AM Response to Reply #11 |
18. ???? I didn't write the article. Robert Reich wrote the article. You should read it. |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-16-10 11:54 AM Response to Reply #18 |
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Better Believe It (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-16-10 12:47 PM Response to Reply #26 |
31. So did you read the article and do you have an opinion on it? |
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4lbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-16-10 07:28 PM Response to Reply #31 |
37. Itemized list. |
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Better Believe It (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-16-10 08:45 PM Response to Reply #37 |
39. "Go ahead and put me on ignore." As you wish. |
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kenny blankenship (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-16-10 12:52 PM Response to Reply #11 |
34. You screwed up. You were SUPPOSED to say: "Barack Obama didn't write this shitty bill!!11!" |
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Phoebe Loosinhouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-16-10 11:29 AM Response to Original message |
12. Reich addressed the issues of regulation vs restructuring earlier |
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Spazito (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-16-10 11:53 AM Response to Original message |
24. Hmmm, is this the same Robert Reich that served with the Clinton administration... |
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Better Believe It (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-16-10 12:54 PM Response to Reply #24 |
35. Reich left the Clinton administration in 1996, 3 years before Clinton signed the de-regulation bill. |
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Spazito (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-16-10 01:02 PM Response to Reply #35 |
36. So, can you point me to an article condemning the Clinton administration... |
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Better Believe It (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-16-10 08:44 PM Response to Reply #36 |
38. So you don't know if Reich was critical of the Wall Street deregulation. |
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sabrina 1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-19-10 07:03 PM Response to Reply #36 |
81. Reich, as has already been pointed out, was gone |
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Octafish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-16-10 11:54 AM Response to Original message |
25. Rec'd, but nothing happened. What's the matter, chickens, can't stand the truth? |
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Enthusiast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-16-10 12:25 PM Response to Reply #25 |
29. +1 nt |
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Kermitt Gribble (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 10:54 AM Response to Reply #25 |
60. +2 n/t |
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Enthusiast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-16-10 12:22 PM Response to Original message |
28. K&R! Right on, Robert! |
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QC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-16-10 12:27 PM Response to Original message |
30. Robert Reich never really loved him! |
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mdmc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-16-10 12:49 PM Response to Original message |
32. Another feather in Obama's cap / black eye for the GOP |
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Wilms (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 04:56 AM Response to Original message |
41. k&r n/t |
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DCBob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 05:47 AM Response to Original message |
42. Is it better than doing nothing? ... because that is what you would have... |
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Better Believe It (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 08:52 AM Response to Reply #42 |
44. What filibuster? The pretend "procedural filibuster" that Democrats allow Republicans to conduct? |
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DCBob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 09:15 AM Response to Reply #44 |
45. Are you one of those filibuster conspiracists? |
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Better Believe It (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 09:39 AM Response to Reply #45 |
47. The Democratic leadership in the Senate can stop the pretend phantom Republican filibusters. |
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DCBob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 09:46 AM Response to Reply #47 |
48. It aint gonna happen.. Harry and the Dems looked into it, consulted with Senate Parlimentarian.. |
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Better Believe It (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 10:22 AM Response to Reply #48 |
54. So he "looked into it" and his parlimentarian agreed with him! |
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DCBob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 10:27 AM Response to Reply #54 |
55. He's the Senate Parlimentarian.. he's been there for decades.. |
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Better Believe It (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 11:11 AM Response to Reply #55 |
62. As you correctly pointed out: "The role of the parliamentary staff is strictly advisory" and |
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DCBob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 11:58 AM Response to Reply #62 |
63. and they almost never go against his judgment ... |
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Better Believe It (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 03:26 PM Response to Reply #63 |
67. Right. Especially a Republican Parliamentarian who Senator Reid might like a whole lots! |
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laughingliberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 10:05 AM Response to Reply #42 |
51. Oh, please share with us all what compromise was made to get Feingold's vote? |
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Better Believe It (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-18-10 04:52 PM Response to Reply #51 |
79. Bingo! |
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Raineyb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-18-10 05:09 PM Response to Reply #51 |
80. Exactly! Spot on! n/t |
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northernlights (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-18-10 10:46 AM Response to Reply #42 |
76. it's worse than doing nothing |
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on point (613 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 08:44 AM Response to Original message |
43. More "Reform in Name Only" - the reason the Whitehouse has lost support. |
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truth2power (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 09:35 AM Response to Reply #43 |
46. Best response yet!! This comes closest to articulating the problems |
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Better Believe It (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 09:48 AM Response to Reply #43 |
49. How does this compare with FDR's actions taken within a year of becoming President? |
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laughingliberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 10:06 AM Response to Reply #43 |
52. +1000 nt |
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Kermitt Gribble (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 10:53 AM Response to Reply #43 |
59. Excellent post! |
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branders seine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 10:20 AM Response to Original message |
53. this bill does a few small good 'putter-around-the-edges' things, but |
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democracy1st (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 10:46 AM Response to Original message |
58. K & R nothing but a wall st lovin admin |
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truedelphi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 02:58 PM Response to Original message |
65. Indictments per violation of RICO statutes should be |
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bertman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 03:18 PM Response to Original message |
66. Robert Reich's "problem" is that he's not good at three-dimensional chess. Rec |
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ooglymoogly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-18-10 10:06 AM Response to Reply #66 |
71. +1 nt |
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IndianaGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-18-10 10:33 AM Response to Reply #66 |
75. What people call multi-dimensional chess moves |
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depakid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-18-10 10:26 AM Response to Original message |
72. There were four major problems to solve and the legislation doesn't substantially tackle any of them |
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ooglymoogly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-18-10 10:29 AM Response to Original message |
73. Robert Reich, as always cutting away the crap, dumb show and noise, meant to decieve... |
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IndianaGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-18-10 10:30 AM Response to Original message |
74. K&R |
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harun (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-21-10 03:20 PM Response to Original message |
82. Reform in name only. |
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