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To: JohnM who wrote (133977)	3/21/2010 12:29:44 PM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (2) of 542711

Kate mentioned how keen she is on a good financial reform bill going through. Rich spells out exactly how much chance it has of emerging with any teeth: "The Republican leadership revealed its hand unequivocally last week. Addressing the American Bankers Association, the party’s House leader, John Boehner, promised to delay and fight any finance-reform bill. “Don’t let those little punk staffers take advantage of you, and stand up for yourselves,” Boehner instructed the poor, defenseless bankers. In late January he met the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, Jamie Dimon, to make a pitch for donations. That may have been unnecessary. Chase and its employees, an A.T.M. for the Democrats in 2008, gave 73 percent of their contributions to the G.O.P. in the fourth quarter of 2009. This is the "well" of good spirits that Obama is supposed to fear poisoning by passing healthcare. GMAFB

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