Let’s start calling developments in the Senate “anti-news,” right? In fact someone should just write the history of every future legislative proposal now, and patent it: “A proposal by former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker to limit bank’s proprietary trading will be either be dropped or significantly modified in the Senate, lawmakers and staffers told dealReporter.”
Because Republicans started using their List of Magical Death Words immediately and dumb Chris Dodd wants to retire on a note of “bipartisanship.” Appreciate the sacrifice, Chris. Unimportant tooth monster Mark Warner, meanwhile, thinks that capital requirement language in the House bill would render Volcker’s proposal superfluous, and so should it be killed, along with the capital requirement language in the House bill.
IT WORKS ON SO MANY LEVELS!
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Boooooooooooooring. More Senator Chest Pubes or McCabe’s sugar boobs please.
The pro-regulation senators should spit-barbecue and eat Chris Dodd live on C-SPAN. Pour encourager les autres.
Argh. Can we replace the Senate with something more productive? Like, a sack of turnips?
There goes his date with Doug!
My favorite Simspons episode is when Homer went to college and battles the Dean, made friends with nerds, and kidnapped “Sir Oinks a Lot”, the rival college pig mascot. Also in the episode, Homer laughs at a science professor during a lecture. Very funny stuff.
I’ll Always go with Barney Gumble’s Epic.
You mean like the one that just fell off that truck in Mmaassaacchhuusseettss?
Okay, South Dakota, where all the banks hide to evade usury laws, has two senators, Tim Johnson and someone called “John Thune.” South Dakota has a population of 804,194 persons, with possibly more cattle than that. Colly-fornya has a population of 36,756,666 people, and also has two senators. Each South Dakotan’s vote for senator, therefore, counts 45.7 times as much as each Californian’s vote. Does that seem right? If you think so, don’t count on bank regulation happening anytime soon!
Works for health insurance reform too — you do the math!
I wonder how long it takes before Senators start getting sick of reading things like “stalled in the Senate,” “weakened in the Senate,” “dropped in the Senate,” “the bill was delayed because Joe Lieberman and Lindsey Graham grabbed a copy of it and pissed all over it in the Senate” and “the Senate is the only thing less popular than child molesters” before they’d decide to stop doing all those things they get accused of doing
Was this just an excuse to watch a classic Simpson’s clip?
[re=505535]Extemporanus[/re]: [re=505529]AxmxZ[/re]: Sorry, I just fell off the turnip wagon.
[re=505528]SayItWithWookies[/re]: Is there even enough for a minyan?
I think the Democrats in the Senate should have a sick-out for a week or two. What will the republicans do when they don’t have anything to vote against? Maybe we should just give the entire Senate the rest of the year off. Nothings going to happen until the mid-term elections anyway.
Fuck the Senate and the bankers who rode in on them. Dems like Dodd and Gopers like Shelby are rotten with banker cash and should be removed from the equation. And by equation I mean planet.
[re=505544]Hooray For Anything[/re]: unfortunately never, as they are all fucking whores and really don’t care what we say about them.
Hmm… Volcker’s plan has financial security… but Football In The Groin has a football in the groin…
Sigh. Things must be pretty far gone when I find myself thinking that, in some ways, the teabaggers really have a point.
Wasn’t somebody saying – like two seconds ago or so – that the politically smart thing to do right now is go after the bankers, and pass some financial regulations that bite, and that it was also the smart policy-thing to do, too? What happened to all that?
We, as a functioning country, are so fucked.
[re=505556]bureaucrap[/re]: There would be — if only the Democrats could whip their senators into submission the same way the Republicans can whip the Democratic senators into submission.
But these regulations would make banking so boring and deprive cable news of much needed dramatic stories of financial ruin and disaster for an entire country!
[re=505528]SayItWithWookies[/re]: How many other Chris Dodds are there to encourage?
Am I crazy, or when this Volcker fellow is one of the good guys, does it mean we’re on the other side of the rabbit hole, and it dumped us in an evil billionaire’s wet dream?
[re=505629]hunter.blatherer[/re]:
Volcker is one of the few members of the Federal Reserve who didn’t enjoy carnal knowledge with Ayn Rand’s desiccated corpse, not that there is anything wrong with that.
http://www.dangerousminds.net/images/uploads/ayn-rand-feature-image_thumb.jpg
The worst part is hardly any of people have any shame.
They know we don’t care because we’re working to pay the bills and stay drunk,or buzzed.
God will get them in the end.
The Senate is where thought goes to die.
[re=505593]SayItWithWookies[/re]: Maybe we should hire some Republicans to whip our senators into line. Perhaps that’s what Hopey was trying to do when he went for that “team of rivals” thing.
BTW, when did Rahm lose his balls?
Can we replace both Dodd and Warner with their non-union Mexican equivalents? Please?
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