On Apr 30, 2009, at 4:03 PM, Louis Proyect wrote:

Here's a fellow ritualist:

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) has been battling the banks the last few weeks in an effort to get 60 votes lined up for bankruptcy reform. He's losing.

On Monday night in an interview with a radio host back home, he came to a stark conclusion: the banks own the Senate.

Let's be clear on what "the banks" are. They're the commanding heights of the bourgeoisie, the means by which an owning class constitutes itself and exercises its power. Everyone else is just a special interest.

Doug
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