So help me God, I have no way to refute the basic point that the Democrats are making about the CRomnibus fight right now. In fact, I might even go so far as to say they are right, Red States Leon Wolf wrote last week. Regardless of whether this is, in fact a boondoggle to Wall Street or not, it is fatally easy for the Democrats to portray it as such, Wolf continued. When people hear roll back a part of the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 that limits the ability of big banks to trade certain financial instruments known as swaps -- contracts that allow the banks to hedge their risks or to speculate[,] (I literally copied and pasted this description because again, my brain refuses to make itself care about the particulars) what they hear is blah blah blah allows Wall Street to speculate. And what they know is, this is not what Republicans were sent to Washington to do. The end times are upon us, Dustin Siggins wrote at Hot Air. I find myself in agreement with not just Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), but House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). At Townhall, Right Wing News John Hawkins wrote, I was even forced to agree with NANCY PELOSI and ELIZABETH WARREN (vomit) about the GOP’s omnibus bill decision to make it easier for big banks to gamble with derivatives and the sleazy campaign finance reform that was designed to undercut activist groups. Some bloggers even said they could envision themselves voting for Warren were she to run for president in 2016 -- a possibility she has repeatedly denied. I hope that Sen. Warren will run for president in 2016 to force a national conversation on the Washington-Wall Street power nexus, The American Conservatives Rod Dreher wrote. Hillary Clinton won’t talk about it. You know that no Republican presidential candidate will talk about it (with the possible -- possible -- exception of Rand Paul). We all need to be talking about it. A populist who talks like Elizabeth Warren and really means it is a Democrat a conservative like me would consider voting for, despite her social liberalism.
Posted on: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 18:09:10 +0000
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