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To: greenspirit who wrote (105235)	3/1/2009 1:20:21 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541015

So why did you think you were posting the article? Michael Michael How do you explain the republican votes gutting Glass Steagall? You have given me background on a FEW of the leaders, and you assume they stand for all- that's some sort of weird synecdoche I don't really get (I use the word metaphorically, of course). And even if they were all registered democrats, it doesn't make them liberal, and it doesn't mean they are emblematic of the party. As I already said, they are emblematic of folks who work around money for profit's sake. I think they are probably super capitalists- I don't imagine people go in to banking because they thought they were actually signing up for community service work. I agree some democrats fought reform- but so did some republicans, and if republicans had made it a priority when they were in charge of both the presidency AND the congress, are you telling me a handful of liberals could have stopped them? "I realize quite a few liberal Democrats think all the financial problems these companies are going through were caused by George Bush," STRAW MAN alert. I don't know who those liberals are, but not me. I send you back to the graphic I posted. The folks who made the megabanks possible are indeed to blame- that's Clinton and those folks in congress who voted for the Graham bill- and if you look back, you'll see dems and reps are responsible. Well you will if you can look at this thing objectively, instead of being one who fixates on "those who conveniently meet our need for partisan political attacks."