Comments on: Maxine Waters: White House Won’t Put Pressure On Blue Dogs

By: Watt4Bob

Watt4Bob — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:21:18 +0000

I disagree totally, the same folks who allowed us to vote Obama into the WH put Rahm Emanuel, Geithner and Summers on ~~their~~ his staff.

Is there hope?

Not without some very big surprises.

By: chabuka

chabuka — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:19:31 +0000

Its all well and good to put the blame on Rahm Emanuel (or Geithner or Summers or whomever..) but ultimately you must remember President Obama placed these people in those positions…If I remember correctly, Obama even tried to stick a few more “corporate” loving moderates in other positions..like Daschle…he tried to appoint right-winger Judd Gregg to the Secretary of Commerce position….this is not Obama’s “reaching out” to the other side…its his true stripe..he is just another moderate (Blue-Dog, a “corporate lapdog” Democrat)..like Bill Clinton…if he really wanted true Health Care reform he would take his good buddy Rahm and his blue-dog coalition to the wood-shed..but this way if he “looses” (remember, Obama promised Universal Health Care, it was the part of the Democrats party platform when they were running for office), but if he can’t deliver his campaign promises (even with the huge majority we were talked into giving him, (because we wanted Universal Health Care!!) Obama thinks we won’t hold him responsible for the loss, (the lie), he thinks we will blame the Blue-Dogs for the “failure to provide”..he won’t be blamed, and will be voted back in come next election in 2012….the people never learn..they want a progressive Democrat like Dennis Kucinich or even John Edwards..but they are fooled into electing “centrist Demo-plubs” by the corporate media’s propaganda every time….

By: MarkH

MarkH — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 01:03:21 +0000

Spare the whip and spoil the dog?

By: Gitcheegumee

Gitcheegumee — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:54:38 +0000

I hadn’t heard about this—you go,Maxine!

Waters Introduces Bill That Would Ban All Credit-Default Swaps

By Dawn Kopecki and Alan Bjerga

July 10 (Bloomberg) — Representative Maxine Waters introduced legislation to ban all credit-default swaps, the financial instruments blamed in helping to take down American International Group Inc.

“Credit-default swaps are one of many contributing factors to the current economic crisis,” Waters, a California Democrat, said in a statement released at a hearing today on the Obama administration’s plan to rein in the $592 trillion industry. “Preventing all credit-default swaps is essential to bringing stability to the market and preventing a similar crisis in the future.”

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is testifying before a joint hearing of the House Financial Services and Agriculture committees. The administration’s plan doesn’t call for an outright ban on credit default swaps.

To contact the reporter on this story: Dawn Kopecki in Washington at dkopecki@bloomberg.net.

By: ChrisB

ChrisB — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:45:29 +0000

Why isn’t there someone out there with a camera cornering Blue Dogs? I would do it but I’m in Australia!

By: nonplussed

nonplussed — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 22:52:01 +0000

Care to expand? History would seem to support Hugh. I’d be interested in your case to the contrary.

By: tbau

tbau — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 22:43:35 +0000

what are the odds rahm went rogue on this, without consulting obama? uh-huh.

By: nrafter530

nrafter530 — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 22:36:31 +0000

Tin foil hat fits nice I see.

By: nonplussed

nonplussed — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 22:29:59 +0000

We need to be thankful someone was available to pick up the slack while the actual Republican Party was running around disoragnized, confused and unable to implement their agenda themselves.

Warrantless Wiretapping-check! Gtmo closing-check! War Crimes investigations-check! Out of Iraq -check! Special favors to Wall Street -check!

Next time someone tells you America has two Political Parties, demand a recount!

By: ProgThis

ProgThis — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:56:54 +0000

you mean millionaire investment banker, rahm emanuel is bad for democrats? go figure. obama seems to like him.