Rick Moran
The American Thinker
4/26/2010
You might recall that it happened with the jobs bill as well. Republicans negotiate in good faith, an agreement is reached, and the president pulls the rug out from under the GOP’s feet:
Robert Kuttner writing at Huffpo:
Although Senate Banking Committee Chair Chris Dodd and his sometime Republican ally Richard Shelby continued to make noises on the Sunday talk shows about a possible bipartisan deal, both President Obama and House Financial Services Chairman Barney Frank have personally urged Dodd not to cut a deal with Republicans. I asked Frank point blank why Dodd would want such a deal, and he said–on the record–“I have no idea, but both President Obama and I have urged him not to.”
This is a welcome sign that Obama realizes that public opinion is moving in the direction of tougher banking reform, and that he learned from the health debate that bipartisan compromise on key reform issues is a snare and a delusion. Kudos to Chairman Frank and to the President.
Ummm…no, not exactly, You see, it’s the Republicans who want a tougher bill, making it impossible for banks to claim they are “too big to fail”:
Sen. Richard Shelby, Alabama Republican, said that the bill in its current form does not bar the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation – which would have authority to take over and wind down large banks or investment firms on the edge of failure – from going to the Federal Reserve for large amounts of money to distribute to creditors….
Read the rest at the American Thinker.
