The Merkley-Levin Ammendment did not get a vote this week as part of the financial reform debate in the US Senate. This piece of legislation would have been one of the chief ways to protect the nation and its citizens from the outlandish banking practices that we have lately seen from Wall Street. It failed due to a Senate that is still largely bought-and-paid-for by commercial banks, although the numbers that voted for the ammendment were not insignificant. Perhaps this means that the tide may one day actually turn?!? Sadly, a big part of the reason that the ammendment failed to pass was not only the lack of enthusiusum for it from the Obama White House, but its outright opposition.
Anyone who thinks that President Obama is a liberal should have the ventilator removed and be allowed to die; They are obviously brain dead already!
21 May 2010
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