Dick Durbin: Banks "Frankly Own The Place"
04/29/09 03:57 PM
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) has been battling the banks the last few weeks in an effort to get 60 votes lined up for bankruptcy reform. He's losing.
On Monday night in an interview with a radio host back home, he came to a stark conclusion: the banks own the Senate.
"And the banks -- hard to believe in a time when we're facing a banking crisis that many of the banks created -- are still the most powerful lobby on Capitol Hill. And they frankly own the place," he said on WJJG 1530 AM's "Mornings with Ray Hanania." Progress Illinois picked up the quote.
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He said just about the same
He said just about the same thing on the Ed Show. And he's so right and it's so obvious.
Here's what bother me. I know money run politics. But do people really pay so little attention during elections that the substance of what a candidate says doesn't count for anything? That's sad.
From Booman Tribune: the list of Democratic traitors
From Booman Tribune:
12 Worthless Democrats
by BooMan
Thu Apr 30th, 2009 at 07:39:04 PM EST
In the most demoralizing vote since the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005, eleven worthless Democrats just earned my undying enmity by voting against cramdown.
Max Baucus (D-MT)
Michael Bennet (D-CO)
Robert Byrd (D-WV)
Tom Carper (D-DE)
Byron Dorgan (D-ND)
Tim Johnson (D-SD)
Mary Landrieu (D-LA)
Blanche Lincoln (D-AR)
Ben Nelson (D-NE)
Mark Pryor (D-AR)
Arlen Specter (D-PA)
Jon Tester (D-MT)
Honorable mention: Evan Bayh (D-IN)- who did all he could to kill cramdown in committee and then thought he could be cute and vote for it on the floor.