Whence Obama now? Look to financial reform
Tuesday, March 30, 2010 at 17:04 And, it’s going to be another tough slog, as Senate Republicans try to characterize white as the new black, up as the new down. Financial regulation as the new ‘big bank bailout.’
My dear readers, the bloody battle of health care reform hath chastened the GOP not.
Read what economist Paul Klugman of The New York Times has to say, and how he frames the coming fight:
Punks and Plutocrats
Health reform is the law of the land. Next up: financial reform. But will it happen? The White House is optimistic, because it believes that Republicans won’t want to be cast as allies of Wall Street. I’m not so sure. The key question is how many senators believe that they can get away with claiming that war is peace, slavery is freedom, and regulating big banks is doing those big banks a favor.
