Republicans Vote Against Reforming Wall Street

[ProSense]

Republicans Vote Against Reforming Wall Street

by Granny Doc

Nothing amuses this Psychologist more than watching the body language of the Senators during a vote. Such collegiality! Such warm feeling! Such a show!

But, as the Republicans stand in tight formation, working each member to insure there is no waiver at the last minute, to insure that the Authoritarian Party spin is maintained, the result is always the same.

Republicans Voted Against Reforming Wall Street!

That is the frame.

That is the meme.

That is a diary title that should be on the rec list for the next two weeks.

Republicans voted against reforming Wall Street.

Simple.

Straight forward.

No wiggle room.

No nuance.

No quarter.

With more than 65% of the population supporting reform, let's nail 'em with this failure to proceed to debate and amendment in a way that any "low information voter" can get their head wrapped around.

Period!

[DesertFlower]

1. is anyone surprised?

[flpoljunkie]

2. Republicans and Ben Nelson.

[Tesha]

9. But you repeat yourself. (NT)

[Cali_Democrat]

10. You must be confused

Ben Nelson is a Republican.

[Phx_Dem]

3. That's it. Ben Nelson has to go. He voted against allowing a debate

on financial reform? WTF?

Piece. of. shit.

[ShortnFiery]

4. Any reform bill will benefit the super-rich above the needs of the average American.

If HRC's result is any example, I hope we pass NOTHING. :(

[ProSense]

5. "I hope we pass NOTHING." Send a thank you letter to Mitch.

Absurd.

[abelenkpe]

6. Yeah

You're right allowing kids to stay on their parents plan until age 26 is definitely supporting the the super rich.

[ShortnFiery]

7. Don't pull out bits and pieces. Besides MOST kids will not live at home.

And those that do, they can bleed even more money from Mom and Dad. It's not necessarily a good thing.

[abelenkpe]

8. No it is a good thing

You know it is. Especially with unemployment hitting young kids so hard. I guess you view kids just as a burden tho.

[FrenchieCat]

12. What does kids living at home have to do with anything?

And how do you know home many kids, once done with college don't live at home.
Who made you Counting Czar by pulling-stuff-out-of-you-know-where around here? :shrug:

[olegramps]

20. I think that you are lost.

[JTFrog]

25. Bleed even more money from Mom and Dad?

Sorry if that's your experience with the kids in your family.

My family pretty much sticks together through tough economic times. My kids can come home and "bleed even more money" from me anytime they need to. It doesn't cost one penny more for our policy to cover just a spouse or spouse and kids. Those kids who are off at college will be covered and in our family those kids are still dependents. But they don't live at home and they have part time jobs and loans to worry about. Those part time jobs don't pay much (as it's part of their student loan/grant program) and certainly don't provide benefits like health insurance.

So, yeah, I have plenty of blood to spare when it comes to my kids. Tho obviously, the pull yourself up by the bootstraps people might think it's not necessarily a good thing. :shrug:

[CTLawGuy]

11. the Republicans must be against helping the super-rich then

does that make THEM the progressives :crazy:

[ShortnFiery]

13. Tell me, what legislation over the past 15 years has truly helped the average American?

Sure, they took out the middle man with student loans. But that also means they can fleece us more by upping the cost of education.

[CTLawGuy]

14. answer my question first

are the Republicans now AGAINST helping the super rich?

[ShortnFiery]

15. Absolutely NOT but they do not encompass ALL those who wish to continue transferring wealth

up to the super-rich 1%.

Democrats (specifically Our Leadership) need to NOW STRONGLY stand-up for "the wage earning and REAL small business people" again. If they merely try to be a watered down version of the GOP, they will LOSE and LOSE BIG.

[CTLawGuy]

24. the Dems are doing the best they can in this caustic environment

the best and clearest example of helpful legislation is one of the first, the Lilly Ledbetter Act that allows those subject to discriminatory pay time to first discover the discriminatory nature of the pay before the statute of limitations starts.

The health care bill, while not ideal, does open up group rate insurance to individuals through the exchange, it requires coverage of children up to age 26, it bans preexisting conditions (such as PREGNANCY), bans rescission of policies because you get sick.

There are helpful aspects of the stimulus bill: i.e. that it provides for a 65% subsidy of COBRA and a $400 tax credit.

You have to remember that because the Republicans have a policy of filibustering everything, Obama has to get 100% of his party (including Nelson and Bayh and Lincoln) PLUS Joe Lieberman to do anything.

If you want to blame someone for a lack of progress blame the Republicans and these conservative dems. No president in history has ever faced such an abuse of the filibuster, not FDR, not LBJ.

[dionysus]

16. when you hope every single bill fails... and the republicans hope every single bill fails, this

makes you different from them how, exactly?

between that and defending the teabaggers at every turn... i am concerned

:eyes:

[uponit7771]

17. The freaks and conservatives come out at night :-)

[Meshuga]

18. It won't stick. The media will not allow it to stick.

Instead, the Republicans will come out of it as heroes. Just watch!

We always expect the obstructionism from the Republicans and all the teabagger insanity to work against them in the polls but we are still expected to lose a lot of seats in Congress this coming November no matter how low the Republicans decide to go. The Republicans have a license to block any reform, create regressive laws (i.e., Arizona) and go ape shit in front of the country with media pundits working as their public relations. So I am pretty pessimistic about this having any effect even if it becomes a repeated mantra.

[olegramps]

22. I was very encouraged by my newspaper this morning:

The Headline on the front page read:
GOP Stalls Finance-Reform Bill and the article goes on to say that the majority of Americans are demanding regulations.

[ProSense]

23. Well, the Republicans evidently have fans here

so it's an uphill battle. Dems will prevail.

[zulchzulu]

19. The ad: Move along, nothing to see here

This is a perfect opportunity to do an ad where the Republicans are seen exactly as who they are... stooges for the Greedy.

[Peacetrain]

21. Why am I not surprised at this? NT