I think it's interesting you call yourself unbiased and independent yet you always attack the republicans and rarely the dems. This thread your entire argument is McCain is not a leader because he wasn't able to stop Obama and Dodd, You have nothing to say about Obama and Dodd? Don't you think that's a little odd?
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Maureen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Real leadership would have pushed a "significant" bill through even > in the face of opposition within the party. Real leadership would have > said that reform was critical and made public any attempts by either > side to thwart it. Co-sponsorship of a bill takes no effort, and is > mostly a PR stunt, as bills do not need co-sponsors in order to be > introduced. Getting the bill to the floor for a vote and showing up > to vote for it, that's leadership. > > Basically what happened to this bill was a huge public show of > support from the White House, including Snow trotting up the Hill to > testify, lots of rhetoric on both sides, and then it was shoved off to > a committee to die. No real effort was even made by either side to > pass or defeat it, so all the claims now to be in support or > opposition is just so much sound and fury, signifying nothing. > > McCain cannot truthfully claim to be for regulation based on his > co-sponsorship of this bill. This bill is moot and the perfect red > herring. > > All of the current noise about it is nothing more than a diversion to > prevent discussion of the bill that is at the heart of the banking > crisis, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, which you can bet the McCain > campaign does not want discussed. > > BTW, I searched the congressional record for any committee action on > S.190 and found none beyond the summary I posted earlier. I'll look > deeper when I have some free time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:269848 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
