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WishingIWereThere's avatar

<blockquote>Washington is seeking help from an unlikely group in its effort to distribute billions of dollars to struggling homeowners in foreclosure: the same banks accused of abusing homeowners with shoddy foreclosure practices.</blockquote> <i>...and drivng about the DC area will be extremely hazardous today as we're getting reports of drifts of up to 6 feet of <b>teh-stupid</b>. If you don't have to go out, we recommend you just stay at home folks...</i>

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bobbert's avatar

He could hardly do a worse job.

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bobbert's avatar

Sadly, one of them was Alan Cranston. (I remember that because disappoint).

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Gherkins d'Resistance's avatar

This is like when you put a Politico in charge of the Strawman house.

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FeloniousMonk's avatar

Tweedledee would be pleased that the people who came up with this were paying attention to him. "Contrariwise,if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic." I shall try not to post that again.

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malsperanza's avatar

And when they finish solving the foreclosure mess through the application of their celebrated bankerly probity and rigorous ethics, they'll have more time to get back to fucking over the Hurricane Sandy homeowners: <a href="http://americablog.com/2013..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://americablog.com/2013/02/banks-holding-200m...">http://americablog.com/2013...

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malsperanza's avatar

DeConcini, John Glenn, McCain, Cranston, and ... some other shmoe, also a Dem. Mysteriously, their careers did not come to a loud, abrupt end with a fireball in it.

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malsperanza's avatar

You're not thinking big enough. I say, put the bankers in charge of NASA, the State Dept., the Centers for Disease Control, and the FDA. <i>Then</i> we'll see some damn action.

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malsperanza's avatar

Sadly, so does his.

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Joshua Norton's avatar

Put the bankers in charge of treasury policies. Put the bankers in charge of of dispensing taxpayer's funds to banks. Put the bankers in charge of "helping" distressed homeowners. Put the bankers in charge of investigating banking "irregularities".

What could possibly go wrong?

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Fitzgerald Chesterfield's avatar

It works in the realm of immigration: Each immigrant is responsible for making sure s/he's got her/his papers in order.

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