Comments on: Dems applaud Wall Street reform’s passage

By: RR, Uninvited Columnist

RR, Uninvited Columnist — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 01:37:34 +0000

Elwood: BaLee is much prettier than “For Pete’s Sake” Stark

By: Elwood

Elwood — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 01:32:33 +0000

Surely I’m not the only one who has noticed that most of Josh’s posts contain portraits of his heroes, Georgie Porgy and Bobby Lee.

By: BHO

BHO — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 21:38:38 +0000

In addition to this bill’s well-publicized plans to establish over a dozen new financial regulatory offices, Section 342 sets up at least 20 Offices of Minority and Women Inclusion. This has had no coverage by the news media and has large implications.

The Treasury, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, the 12 Federal Reserve regional banks, the Board of Governors of the Fed, the National Credit Union Administration, the Comptroller of the Currency, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau…all would get their own Office of Minority and Women Inclusion.

Each office would have its own director and staff to develop policies promoting equal employment opportunities and racial, ethnic, and gender diversity of not just the agency’s workforce, but also the workforces of its contractors and sub-contractors.

By: JK

JK — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 17:17:27 +0000

It’s been 3 months since a single drilling site in the Gulf of Mexico blew up and the US Government has done nothing more than talk. The Dutch offered a oil cleaning tanker that would have vacuumed up 99% of the oil, and it was turned down by the federal government. No cleanup is going on at the gulf beaches. The Federal government has refused 30 countries offers due to a 1920 Jones Act that prevents foreign-born sailors from working here, to protect US union jobs.

And you think this federal government will be able to regulate banks and run the health industry?

The end result of this regulation will be to centralize banking by shutting down regional banks across the country. The few large banks, most of which are semi-government owned, will be able to pass along the upcoming $100B in new bank taxes directly to all of us. No more free checking. $20 ATM fees. Less competition. Less choice. Fewer loans to fewer businesses. Fewer jobs. Less prosperity.

With “Dems applaud”‘ing along with their media cohorts, you’d think that the people in this country would be happy about this.

Until Nov 2 this year, that is. That’s when you’ll see yet another “unexpected” event reported by the media, when the 15 million unemployed will get to vote these socialists out of power.

By: Publius

Publius — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 23:38:36 +0000

George Miller has been in office too long. When will my neighbors wake up and realize that he is a D-party puppet and a big labor schlep that has been destroying America’s entrepreneurial spirit from the inside out for over 30 years. Another career politician offering free handouts to secure yet another term. Miller and his merry band of liberals have taken America from the zenith of prosperity to a Greece like Socialist state, where the will to succeed (and sometimes fail) has been replaced with a sense of entitlement.
The reign of king George can be summed up simply as thus; “Subsidize mediocrity and secure the vote”. For the sake of our children we have to change course now.

By: Elwood

Elwood — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 23:01:37 +0000

Thank God for Stretch!

“saved us from falling over the cliff into another Great Depression.”

And here all this time I thought she was the wicked witch of the West!

By: John W

John W — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:40:15 +0000

I don’t know whether this legislation will help or not, but Speaker-in-waiting John Boehner’s comments are astonishing. According to him, the only problem was Fannie and Freddie. The rest of Wall Street was just fine, and we should leave them alone. He manages to slap down Obama for BOTH (a) imposing job-killing regulation of Wall Street and (b)helping out his “Wall Street allies.” He whines about bailouts but neglects to mention that he supported them when Bush’s Sec. of Treas. and the Fed Chairman requested them. But he couldn’t deliver his own GOP caucus (maybe because the rumors that he doesn’t work too hard and hits the bars at 5 pm are true). It was left to Pelosi and candidates Obama and McCain to show some statesmanship round up the votes, which saved us from falling over the cliff into another Great Depression.

By: Elwood

Elwood — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 06:47:30 +0000

n·sen·si·ble
/ɪnˈsɛnsəbəl/ Show Spelled[in-sen-suh-buhl] Show IPA
–adjective
1.
incapable of feeling or perceiving; deprived of sensation; unconscious, as a person after a violent blow.

Excellent choice of words, Ms. Lee. You and your fellow dimmiecrats all sound like you’ve been kicked in the head.

By: Ralph Hoffmann

Ralph Hoffmann — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 03:22:28 +0000

This extremely watered down version of Wall Street Reform will guarantee that we will have a double-dip depression, just as in the First Great Depression. continuing the Fall of the American Empire.

By: RR, Uninvited Columnist

RR, Uninvited Columnist — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 02:46:13 +0000

Prof. Babs Lee, gotta love her! It’s “insensible,” all right. Greedy Wall Street, the root of all evil. I’m no fan of godless Pete Stark, but his statement reads like Jefferson compared with Lee and Miller. Lee is plain dumb and Miller is too lazy to think.