Boy, talk about a clarifying moment! Senate Republicans have unanimously voted two days in a row to not allow legislation establishing new regulations for Wall Street banks to even be considered by the "world's greatest deliberative body."
Yes, that's right. They haven't objected to a specific proposal, they don't have amendments that they want to have debated. Rather, they don't want the entire issue to be taken up for possible action at all.
Not "some" Republicans. ALL Republicans concur!
Here it is, the source of the very problem that caused catastrophic losses throughout the American economy: of houses, jobs, health insurance, retirement benefits. And the Republicans want to do nothing about it. They seemingly aren't sorry it happened, and they seemingly don't care if it happens again.
That isn't necessarily what they say, of course. They do some hand-wringing and agree that, oh my yes, some regulation is needed. But that is the insight that Jesus offered in his teaching in the Sermon on the Mount. By their fruits ye shall know them. Whatever they say, whatever they do, whatever they may be forced to do in the end, Republicans unanimously want Wall Street to remain a playground for the ultra-wealthy at the expense of the broader middle class, not to mention the poor, and the American economy as a whole. It isn't that they don't care about the past actions of the banks and the resulting Great Bush Recession. This is what they want; perhaps this is what they intended, a vast raid on the public's pockets and the U.S. Treasury just before George Bush left office. This is how they like it.
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