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MannyGoldstein

(34,589 posts)
Mon Jan 26, 2015, 04:57 PM Jan 2015

"Weiss supporters in the White House and on Wall Street were stunned."

Interesting article in Politico today on how Elizabeth Warren ended Obama’s nomination of rich Wall Street banker Antonio Weiss to be Under Secretary for Domestic Finance. Warren led the effort to totally shut the deal down – she wouldn’t even meet with Weiss. Some choice bits:

The game in Washington had changed.

Elizabeth Warren, sometimes disregarded by the White House as a largely irrelevant nuisance, could no longer be ignored. Bolstered by grass roots groups eager for any anti-Wall Street crusade and a vibrant progressive media that hung on her every word, Warren succeeded in knocking out Weiss’ nomination



It was not a total victory. Weiss will still join Treasury as an unconfirmed counselor to Secretary Jack Lew. But in terms of symbolism, the Washington power game and the ideological direction of the Democratic Party, Warren won big. And the moderate, Wall Street- and business-friendly wing of the party — in past years happily occupied by Democratic presidential nominee-in-waiting Hillary Clinton — got punched in the mouth.



On the other side, the despair among Wall Street’s Democratic elite is growing acute. As is the belief that Weiss himself never mattered in this fight.


If it wasn’t obvious before, Warren’s speeches in Congress on December 10th and December 12th (required watching if you haven’t seen them!) made it clear that Warren’s at war with Wall Street Predators and their paid help in government. Her speeches were in response to the White House and Jamie Dimon whipping votes from Democratic senators to enable the big banks to use FDIC funds (which guarantee savings bank deposits) as collateral for huge and risky Wall Street derivative bets.

Thanks Sen. Warren!!!
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"Weiss supporters in the White House and on Wall Street were stunned." (Original Post) MannyGoldstein Jan 2015 OP
More than ever I would like to see her run, and win...and then we could find out once and NoJusticeNoPeace Jan 2015 #1
I would guess assassination. robbob Jan 2015 #52
That is the point, though, isnt it. Surely if Liz knew she HAD to not cross certain lines NoJusticeNoPeace Jan 2015 #53
The Koch brothers would hire the hitter. lark Jan 2015 #54
SHE'S NOT RUNNING, GODDAMIT! Jackpine Radical Jan 2015 #2
Perhaps Hillary should announce that she's not running Hari Seldon Jan 2015 #8
Snort! Scuba Jan 2015 #28
Pffft! Enthusiast Jan 2015 #38
Yeah Dammit! Plucketeer Jan 2015 #56
What you lookin at? Eyes back on the ground! Jackpine Radical Jan 2015 #57
Thanks for mentioning this book. n/t truedelphi Jan 2015 #58
Jamie Dimon whipping votes for Obama. Not ever going to get over that one. djean111 Jan 2015 #3
Dimon has been wearing those fancy pants WH engraved pendants and things for quite a while. truedelphi Jan 2015 #6
+1 Enthusiast Jan 2015 #39
I'm with you. I'm not voting for any of them. JDPriestly Jan 2015 #17
Personally, I want her laser-focused on the very rot of the entire political system...what she is libdem4life Jan 2015 #4
Pulling Hillary to the left will do nothing, I fear MannyGoldstein Jan 2015 #5
Now if only Hillary Clinton hears the idea of not running. truedelphi Jan 2015 #7
I agree it's no panacea, but part of the hard right spring you mention I believe is due to the libdem4life Jan 2015 #9
I agree with you, but... MannyGoldstein Jan 2015 #19
Hillary Is A Liar And A Fake billhicks76 Jan 2015 #29
She is the favorite of the Oligarch Rulers. Well, they'd prefer Jeb, but will settle for H. Clinton- rhett o rick Jan 2015 #34
She Like Her "Husband" Are The Bushes Personal Back Up Choices billhicks76 Jan 2015 #61
I see this the same way. Enthusiast Jan 2015 #40
I agree completely, Manny. It doesn't matter to me one whit if Clinton starts Nay Jan 2015 #46
Liars Say Whatever And Then Go Back To Evil Ways billhicks76 Jan 2015 #62
It will only pull Hillary's words to the left. zeemike Jan 2015 #10
Hillary may "talk" and campaign to the left. Hillary's not really gonna go there. Autumn Jan 2015 #12
exactly. she'll sound populist.... marmar Jan 2015 #51
Hillary Rotten billhicks76 Jan 2015 #31
+1 Enthusiast Jan 2015 #41
I have a couple of problems with what you post. No one is "pulling H. Clinton-Sachs to the left". rhett o rick Jan 2015 #32
+1 BeanMusical Jan 2015 #36
I was married to a politician and know pretty first hand that they can and do change their stripes libdem4life Jan 2015 #59
Thank you for your post. I think it reveals one of the problems we Democrats face. rhett o rick Jan 2015 #60
I couldn't agree with you more...note my tagline...I'm a way Left Leftie...and outrage libdem4life Jan 2015 #64
I apparently misunderstood your post for capitulation. We can't fight them with money. rhett o rick Jan 2015 #65
SHE"S NOT RUNNING Manny! Autumn Jan 2015 #11
I agree, she's not running. MannyGoldstein Jan 2015 #22
From your keyboard to Gods and Elizabeth's ears Manny. Autumn Jan 2015 #47
The Third Way won't be happy... AgingAmerican Jan 2015 #13
Thanks, Sen. Warren! nt Duval Jan 2015 #14
But, alas, they were only stunned. Not annihilated and dispossessed. Demeter Jan 2015 #15
Yet. MannyGoldstein Jan 2015 #21
They were, however, somewhat discombobulated.. AgingAmerican Jan 2015 #23
Wall Street needs to take notice of what has happened on Main Streets around the world thanks JDPriestly Jan 2015 #16
To Wall Street, Main Street are nothing more than "Takers" AgingAmerican Jan 2015 #24
+1 Enthusiast Jan 2015 #42
In capitalism a lot of people have to suffer. Wealth is essentially a zero sum game. rhett o rick Jan 2015 #33
+1 Enthusiast Jan 2015 #43
Huge K & R !!! - Thank You !!! WillyT Jan 2015 #18
Hillary should be encouraged to run. Utopian Leftist Jan 2015 #20
Clintons Fault Repubs Are Whackos billhicks76 Jan 2015 #30
OMG I never thought of it like that. RiverLover Jan 2015 #45
I Have For A Long Time billhicks76 Jan 2015 #63
Thank you, Senator! Faryn Balyncd Jan 2015 #25
But, Manny, who would pay for Warren's campaign? tclambert Jan 2015 #26
Truth is the skunk at the party Demeter Jan 2015 #27
How far democracy has fallen Fearless Jan 2015 #35
Kick and R. BeanMusical Jan 2015 #37
K&R! This post deserves hundreds of recommendations! Enthusiast Jan 2015 #44
Bravo!! Paka Jan 2015 #48
Translation ieoeja Jan 2015 #49
Or... RiverLover Jan 2015 #50
This message was self-deleted by its author Corruption Inc Jan 2015 #55

NoJusticeNoPeace

(5,018 posts)
1. More than ever I would like to see her run, and win...and then we could find out once and
Mon Jan 26, 2015, 05:00 PM
Jan 2015

for all what the deal is, the real deal.

Before I die I would like to see someone who we ASSUME is on our side 100%, who we are CERTAIN would do the right thing in every case, and see what actually happens.

robbob

(3,638 posts)
52. I would guess assassination.
Tue Jan 27, 2015, 12:56 PM
Jan 2015

There is simply too much money and power involved. I don't think TBTB are ever going to let anyone upset their gilded apple cart.

NoJusticeNoPeace

(5,018 posts)
53. That is the point, though, isnt it. Surely if Liz knew she HAD to not cross certain lines
Tue Jan 27, 2015, 12:59 PM
Jan 2015

to either save her physical life OR political life, she would probably do it.

I think Obama made a deal WAY back when about trade, that he would get support from certain people as long as he agreed that if a trade deal like TPP came along he would be on board.

I even think I know the individual person he promised this to, but for the life of me I cant remember her name.

She was a supporter early on in Chicago, rich woman, backed him.

Liberal on social issues but moderate to right on economics, as I recall.

lark

(24,164 posts)
54. The Koch brothers would hire the hitter.
Tue Jan 27, 2015, 02:39 PM
Jan 2015

No way would they easily tolerate a Warren presidency, all their graft for nothing and their greed would also take a big hit when Warren ended fracking, Keystone, and government handouts to oil companies. Ah sweet dreams of the Kochs being indicted for the actual crime they've been committing for some time - treason!

Jackpine Radical

(45,274 posts)
2. SHE'S NOT RUNNING, GODDAMIT!
Mon Jan 26, 2015, 05:04 PM
Jan 2015

So quit posting stuff like this. You're making us Look Bad. You're making us look like we aren't all lined up by rank & file, goose-stepping marching behind Hillary.

 

Hari Seldon

(154 posts)
8. Perhaps Hillary should announce that she's not running
Mon Jan 26, 2015, 05:39 PM
Jan 2015

Maybe its that whole forbidden fruit type of thing...

 

Plucketeer

(12,882 posts)
56. Yeah Dammit!
Tue Jan 27, 2015, 03:28 PM
Jan 2015

I wanna be known for my OBEDIENCE!!! I wanna be regarded as a pillar of CONFORMITY!!! I wanna bask in an unmistakable glow of COMMUNITY!!! None of that THROW THE BUMS OUT heresy for me! - I'm a Democrat!

 

djean111

(14,255 posts)
3. Jamie Dimon whipping votes for Obama. Not ever going to get over that one.
Mon Jan 26, 2015, 05:06 PM
Jan 2015

NO, he was NOT worried about people suffering because of a government shut down. And how very illuminating that Obama felt Dimon would be so influential. Bought and paid for. I am not going to vote for another one from that group.

truedelphi

(32,324 posts)
6. Dimon has been wearing those fancy pants WH engraved pendants and things for quite a while.
Mon Jan 26, 2015, 05:28 PM
Jan 2015

Forget if it was cuff links or whatever, but that is when it became clear to me that we were totally played for fools in 2008.

The biggest goddamn transfer of wealth from the Middle Class to the wealthiest one half of one percent since the days preceeding the French Revolution. And due almost entirely to Obama's appointments.

 

libdem4life

(13,877 posts)
4. Personally, I want her laser-focused on the very rot of the entire political system...what she is
Mon Jan 26, 2015, 05:21 PM
Jan 2015

doing now. She could not do this if she were having to finance, run, grovel before the very people she is now taking to the woodshed. And her family has said No, as has she.

She is pulling HRC to the left, hopefully anyway, she is firing up the left, and she will continue to as she gets headlines pairing the likes of Jamie Dimon and Obama and their shenanigans. She's deeply inside the money world...and that's a very good thing.

This should get her Secretary of Treasury.

 

MannyGoldstein

(34,589 posts)
5. Pulling Hillary to the left will do nothing, I fear
Mon Jan 26, 2015, 05:25 PM
Jan 2015

If elected she'd sprint hard right like Obama, and like her husband did before him.

In any case, I don't think Hillary's running. I think Warren ultimately will.

 

libdem4life

(13,877 posts)
9. I agree it's no panacea, but part of the hard right spring you mention I believe is due to the
Mon Jan 26, 2015, 05:56 PM
Jan 2015

realities of The Beltway and the best kept secret that The Federal Bureaucracy pretty much runs things.

If you aren't "on the inside", which politicians love to tout and taxpayers go gaga over, newly elected officials get it quick that once in office that's a serious negative and the President is hamstrung by lack of important relationships, thus getting his way, therein. He or she is only there for 4-8 years yet the Bureaucracy lives on forever, death or retirement is a long attrition rate.

I think it's actually a shadow Fourth Branch of the Government, not as a conspiracy theory, but as a necessary evil in order to service/govern so many millions of people. Nor am I a State's Righter, either...as that surely has its downside.

I believe in 20 or so years, the President will be merely a figurehead and elections the opportunity for money to change hands. TPM used the term Oligarchy in a recent article and a Princeton paper ... think it was TPM as well, said we're no longer a Democracy. Then I read about the Koch's Billion Dollar Purchase (or attempt thereof) of the election.

JMO.

 

MannyGoldstein

(34,589 posts)
19. I agree with you, but...
Mon Jan 26, 2015, 08:30 PM
Jan 2015

it will change, if we make it change.

If we put people in charge who want change, and who'll fight for change, and they have the backing of the American People, it will change. It happened in 1932, it can happen again.

 

billhicks76

(5,082 posts)
29. Hillary Is A Liar And A Fake
Mon Jan 26, 2015, 10:59 PM
Jan 2015

We would have to be the biggest fools on earth to nominate her. Now she's trying to "buy" votes by suggesting she will nominate Obama to The Supreme Court. She serves the Bush Family and the crime syndicates they represent.

 

rhett o rick

(55,981 posts)
34. She is the favorite of the Oligarch Rulers. Well, they'd prefer Jeb, but will settle for H. Clinton-
Tue Jan 27, 2015, 12:27 AM
Jan 2015

Sachs.

 

billhicks76

(5,082 posts)
61. She Like Her "Husband" Are The Bushes Personal Back Up Choices
Tue Jan 27, 2015, 10:31 PM
Jan 2015

Its nauseating watching her push for Jeb and against Christie...I can't stand them both but Bush can NEVER be trusted. I bet they combed through Christies NSA recorded life and got the Dallas Cowboys owner to go along with their media spectacle.

Nay

(12,051 posts)
46. I agree completely, Manny. It doesn't matter to me one whit if Clinton starts
Tue Jan 27, 2015, 09:22 AM
Jan 2015

talking 'lefty' because Warren pushes her. As soon as she wins the nomination, Hillary will sprint hard right, just as you say. I'm amazed at the number of people who think that leopards will change their spots like that. It's juvenile, like thinking that this time Lucy will let me kick the football.

It's interesting that you think Hillary won't run. May I ask why you think that?

 

billhicks76

(5,082 posts)
62. Liars Say Whatever And Then Go Back To Evil Ways
Tue Jan 27, 2015, 10:33 PM
Jan 2015

Oh she is running...decided a long time ago just like Jeb...Bush Sr planned both their roles out Im sure.

zeemike

(18,998 posts)
10. It will only pull Hillary's words to the left.
Mon Jan 26, 2015, 07:08 PM
Jan 2015

And as we have already seen with Obama, words mean nothing.
They say anything to get elected, but what they do does not match the words.
I don't know why we still fall for this Trojan horse thing but we do.

marmar

(78,025 posts)
51. exactly. she'll sound populist....
Tue Jan 27, 2015, 12:40 PM
Jan 2015

..... as her pockets are being stuffed with campaign cash from Goldman Sachs and Citigroup

 

billhicks76

(5,082 posts)
31. Hillary Rotten
Mon Jan 26, 2015, 11:31 PM
Jan 2015

I just listened to her trying to marginalize Christie while saying Bush is the most formidable opponent. I heard the Bushes marginalize Warren and Biden while extolling Hillary. It's obvious neither is doing this out of fear of the stronger opponent. This is about two allies wanting to exclude everyone else from the contests of power so they can solely share in the spoils themselves. Bush and Clinton should be banned from politics.

 

rhett o rick

(55,981 posts)
32. I have a couple of problems with what you post. No one is "pulling H. Clinton-Sachs to the left".
Tue Jan 27, 2015, 12:20 AM
Jan 2015

Think about it. Do you really think she will change her ideology? She may pretend to "change" but it will be a lie. She can't be trusted. She has zero integrity. And if H. Clinton-Sachs is elected, do you really think she will give Sen Warren an appointment? She will bring back those bastards that brought the banks down. Rubin, Geitner, etc.

It's time for real change, not Obama change. It's time to dump H. Clinton and the corporatist Democrats.

 

libdem4life

(13,877 posts)
59. I was married to a politician and know pretty first hand that they can and do change their stripes
Tue Jan 27, 2015, 06:10 PM
Jan 2015

at any given time...so if the pressure is to the left, that's where they will go. Or, to the right...that is where they go.

Just one question...dumping as you say, who then can get the billion dollars needed to win? That's a fact...not wishing and hoping. The Right ... and the world ... knows where they are getting their billion dollars...article in TPM...the Koch Brothers. Just not known is who is getting it. No one gets elected without the "corporatists" Why? They have the money. We little folk don't. Fact.

So, seriously, what's the plan to dump the only money maker in the party? It's Pie in the Sky, as I see it. Somebody put together a plan to harness all of this anti-Hillary emotion into something concrete...something...anything. But until I see it, it's wasted negative energy.



 

rhett o rick

(55,981 posts)
60. Thank you for your post. I think it reveals one of the problems we Democrats face.
Tue Jan 27, 2015, 07:28 PM
Jan 2015

You are concerned that we might be dumping "the only money maker in the party". As I see it, we are sinking into the mire of tyranny. We need change. How much should we risk to get our liberties and freedoms back? I say it's time to go for it. Stop the cycle of voting for the best "money maker" and vote for people with integrity and stand up for Democratic values. H. Clinton is a tool of the system, a system run by the Oligarch Rulers (incl Goldman-Sachs). It's time to stand up for what we believe. The movement has started, please join and don't fight against it. Just how deep in the mire are you willing for the country to sink before you decide to fight for our democracy?

 

libdem4life

(13,877 posts)
64. I couldn't agree with you more...note my tagline...I'm a way Left Leftie...and outrage
Wed Jan 28, 2015, 09:47 AM
Jan 2015

is indeed appropriate. Nor am I fighting anything. I clearly see reality at this point and One Billion Dollars is required to get the prize...EOS. I hate that, but it's like a snowball that's only 3/4 of the way down, IMO. That realization doesn't require fighting anything. Oligarchy...yes, I believe we are already there, as does a writer on TPM.

How does one enter this movement now...at this point in time...in a productive way...again, One Billion Dollars is not going to change in the next few months.

I'm going to sign off on it, however, until someone comes up with something concrete. Maybe it's an "Obama-type" Dark Horse. If they are Left of HRC, I'm in. Family matters have moved me from the decades of political comfort of a Blue West Coast State to a Red Mid West state. Talk about dissonance.

I respectfully thank you for your reply. I enjoy your posts.

 

rhett o rick

(55,981 posts)
65. I apparently misunderstood your post for capitulation. We can't fight them with money.
Wed Jan 28, 2015, 12:20 PM
Jan 2015

We have to figure out ways to bring the corporatists around to thinking they should share the wealth. This won't be easy because some are totally corrupted by unbridled capitalism, but some should recognize they shouldn't leave the peasants with nothing to live for.

Accepting the status-quo, like voting for H. Clinton, is capitulation. If we don't fight, our children will be enslaved.

Autumn

(46,333 posts)
11. SHE"S NOT RUNNING Manny!
Mon Jan 26, 2015, 07:34 PM
Jan 2015

To the detriment of the American people.

Automatic Manny rec and thanks for the OP.

 

MannyGoldstein

(34,589 posts)
22. I agree, she's not running.
Mon Jan 26, 2015, 08:40 PM
Jan 2015

She's strolling into the Oval Office, flattening anything in her way.

Autumn

(46,333 posts)
47. From your keyboard to Gods and Elizabeth's ears Manny.
Tue Jan 27, 2015, 09:54 AM
Jan 2015

I wrote her the other day, so no way I am giving up. We need her.

 

Demeter

(85,373 posts)
15. But, alas, they were only stunned. Not annihilated and dispossessed.
Mon Jan 26, 2015, 07:57 PM
Jan 2015

Thanks for the post, Manny, whichever one you are today.

JDPriestly

(57,936 posts)
16. Wall Street needs to take notice of what has happened on Main Streets around the world thanks
Mon Jan 26, 2015, 08:00 PM
Jan 2015

to their policies. A lot of good, honest people have suffered.

I hope the Greek election will wake up some of these sleepy automatons who think that their balance sheets actually mean something in the real world.

 

AgingAmerican

(12,958 posts)
24. To Wall Street, Main Street are nothing more than "Takers"
Mon Jan 26, 2015, 08:54 PM
Jan 2015

...and as such should be treated derisively.

 

rhett o rick

(55,981 posts)
33. In capitalism a lot of people have to suffer. Wealth is essentially a zero sum game.
Tue Jan 27, 2015, 12:24 AM
Jan 2015

For some to gain wealth, many, many have to suffer. It's not personal, it's just business.

I call it "class sociopathy". They don't wish us to die, they just don't care if we do.

Utopian Leftist

(534 posts)
20. Hillary should be encouraged to run.
Mon Jan 26, 2015, 08:30 PM
Jan 2015

IF she will agree to forgo the evil hijinks that she cast on poor Obama in 2008. Otherwise, just retire in dignity and quiet.

Regardless, it will be such showstopping entertainment to witness Elizabeth Warren clean the debate stage with Hillary's Third Way ass, in 2016. We need someone like Hillary to run, to represent the conservative wing of the Party. So that people will know that Democrats no longer stand for crony capitalism, oligarchy or plutocracy.

Any way you look at it, Warren wins that battle.

Think about it....Why would any true liberal vote in the primaries for a BLUE DOG like Hillary? When we could have the first truly progressive President since FDR in Warren or Sanders? The vote won't even be close once people learn what the candidates stand for.

 

billhicks76

(5,082 posts)
30. Clintons Fault Repubs Are Whackos
Mon Jan 26, 2015, 11:01 PM
Jan 2015

Because they ran to the center and then moved the center to the right. This forced those on the right to run to the far right to differentiate themselves. It's that simple.

tclambert

(11,136 posts)
26. But, Manny, who would pay for Warren's campaign?
Mon Jan 26, 2015, 09:07 PM
Jan 2015

It may cost a billion dollars to buy win the White House in 2016.

Paka

(2,760 posts)
48. Bravo!!
Tue Jan 27, 2015, 10:32 AM
Jan 2015

I would love to have an opportunity to vote for her for President, but right now we need her just where she is and doing what she does so well. Love that lady!

 

ieoeja

(9,748 posts)
49. Translation
Tue Jan 27, 2015, 11:32 AM
Jan 2015

“In this case, the thing Warren was against — adding another Wall Street anti-regulatory guy — wasn’t even remotely true,” said one senior Wall Street Democrat who has worked in government but, like many interviewed for this article, declined to be identified by name to avoid Warren’s wrath. “There is no one in government right now who has any market or finance experience. It’s not like there are ‘too many.’”


...snip...

The White House nominated Weiss, a highly respected Wall Street banker at boutique firm Lazard, on Nov. 12. Treasury wanted him because no one in its top leadership tier — including Lew and deputy secretary Sarah Bloom Raskin — had any real financial markets experience.

Lew worked briefly at Citigroup, as did under secretary for international affairs Nathan Sheets. Raskin worked for a time at Promontory Financial Group. But none had the kind of deep relationships or international financial experience that Weiss did. And Weiss, in addition to his work on Wall Street, was a big financial supporter and bundler for President Barack Obama.



In that first paragraph, one senior Wall Street Democrat apparently meant to say, "there are lots of people in government right now who have plenty of market or financial exerience, but they don't have close enough ties to the decision makers in the industry".


RiverLover

(7,830 posts)
50. Or...
Tue Jan 27, 2015, 12:24 PM
Jan 2015

-----
“In this case, the thing Warren was against -- adding another Wall Street anti-regulatory guy -- wasn’t even remotely true,” said one senior Wall Street Democrat who has worked in government but, like many interviewed for this article, declined to be identified by name to avoid Warren’s wrath. “There is no one in government right now who has any market or finance experience. It’s not like there are ‘too many.’"
-----
Sweet Yeezus. More like "declined to be identified to avoid having their name associated with a statement that's howlingly ludicrous."

Look, I can understand if someone has passed through the revolving door a bunch of times and now holds the view that there is insufficient market or finance experience within the federal government's financial bureaucracy. But to say "there is no one in government right now who has any market or finance experience" is, to use the academic term, bonkers sauce. You don't need to look further than the guy who runs the Treasury, Jack Lew, who was formerly the chief operating officer of CitiGroup's Alternative Investment prop-trading unit, where he had something of a storied history.

Let's do look further, though! Your Federal Reserve governing board has several members who, I'm guessing, would love to throttle Mr. or Ms. Anonymous Source for the above quote -- most notably Federal Reserve Governors Jerome Powell (Carlyle Group), Stanley Fischer (CitiGroup) and Lael Brainard (McKinsey).

Throughout the regulatory landscape you'll find a slew of top officials who very well might take umbrage at Anonymous McSourcy's version of events. Many of these people are former law partners whose clients were definitely under the impression that they knew their way around markets and investments. Like, say, SEC Commissioner Luis Aguilar (partner at McKenna Long & Aldridge), CFTC Chairman Timothy Massad (partner at Cravath, Swaine & Moore) and CFTC Commissioner Sharon Y. Bowen (partner at Latham & Watkins). The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has its own murderers' row of leaders who can make the same boast.

Heck, in CFTC Commissioner J. Christopher Giancarlo, we find a guy who successfully managed to get the private sector windfall for which Weiss was angling. As Bloomberg News' Robert Schmidt reported last week:...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/26/anonymous-source-elizabeth-warren_n_6548696.html


These guys are hilarious, trying to justify foxes guarding hen houses. They make a mockery of our "regulatory" agencies.

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