Reform Deja  Vu

Huffington Post by Arianna Huffington | Mar. 2, 2010 (Opinion)
Democrats Follow Failed Health Care Strategy and Preemptively Surrender on Consumer Financial Protection Agency

The latest cave in compromise proposal being floated by Senate Banking chairman Chris Dodd now has the agency being housed within the Federal Reserve. An earlier "compromise" would have placed it in the Treasury Department. The end result is the same: a toothless regulator lacking the authority to enforce the consumer protection rules it writes. Full Story »

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Subjects: U.S., Politics, Health
Topics: Democrats, Money and Politics, Health Care
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Posted by: Posted by Dwight Rousu - Mar 1, 2010 - 2:02 PM PST
Reviewed by: Dwight Rousu (review), Randy Morrow (review), Jacopo Gradassai (review)
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Edited by: Fabrice Florin - Mar 2, 2010 - 12:51 PM PST
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Randy Morrow
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 by Randy Morrow - Mar. 3, 2010

Dems cave yet again, and Arianna comments on it.

“Here lies the crux of the problem,” write Simon Johnson and Peter Boone. “The Obama administration lacks an inner core of smart, well-informed advisers ... More »

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Dwight Rousu
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 by Dwight Rousu - Mar. 2, 2010

Huffington presents the pornography of deja vu.

Can you imagine the leadership we would have seen had senatator dudd won the presidential primary?

Democrats have mastered the art of negotiating against themselves. More »

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Jacopo Gradassai
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 by Jacopo Gradassai - Mar. 3, 2010
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