Elitzabeth Warren, the chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel for TARP, believes that the problems couldn’t be more obvious and solutions for financial regulation are as obvious but for some reason, “we can’t seem to put the two together.”
“Six months ago, I thought we were on brink of financial reform, I really did,” Liz told Bill Maher. “The reason we’re not changing things right now is that banks have lobbies in Washington in numbers I’ve never seen. They’re coming not just once a month, once a week or even once a day. These guys are coming two, three times a day. And they just keep slamming in the same direction over and over and over. It’s a David and Goliath story.”
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What do you mean “you people?”
That haircut makes her look like a talking penis.
Just sayin’.
That chick needs to get laid.
@3 ideally by a banking lobbyist.
Liz, it’s because “you people”, ie the Obamanites, are not competent at your jobs. The public ranks Bankers down there with subway rats, child molesters, and herpes. Democrats have the largest margins of control of Congress in generations. And yet you can’t get your act together to pass a measly regulatory bill on said unpopular group.
Cry me a river.
@5 hey, fuck you, pal.
The banks are lobbying Congress. How is that David and Goliath? Neither party is really very helpless
@ 2
that´s one articulate talking penis. yet, there´s something about her that´s quite odd, perhaps her Geithner-esque ¨pleady/neediness¨…
so its the banks fault for sending lobbyists to DC and having our esteemed statesmen do their bidding? Just to remind her, the DEMS have a MAJORITY in congress! If she wants to point fingers its not hard to find the White House.
Also- How is this different then the unions leaders going to the White House and getting exempted from the higher costs of the healthcare bill because of the 100 million they donated to the Dems?
After the party it’s the banking lobby, then
After the Belve then it’s probably Cris,
I just found out that Yael is a chick. Who would have thought.
If I had learned in highschool what I know now after watching the nightly news, I would have gone into banking instead.
~Common Crook, Thief and Drug Dealer
She’s a liability for the administration, she’s so partisan. I can’t stand her. She can’t see straight she’s so upset about not being asked to any of the dances. She’s the worst.
I bet she eats a mean pussy.
@13 sorry to break it to you but Obama is the biggest liability for the admin.
@13 sorry to break it to you but Obama is the biggest liability for the admin.
@13 sorry to break it to you but Obama is the biggest liability for the admin.
banks have lobbies?
-ATM repairman
Stick a fork in them, they are done. At this point, I am wondering whether Palin would not be less lost than the eggheads would.
P.S. /I promised I am not going to say those words, but I am thinking them. Although, in all fairness, she went to Rutgers for her law degree.
Eizabeth Warren is a person who sincerely wrote a paper two years ago saying that what we needed was a law and then went on to describe Section 5 of the Securities Act which, being a bankruptcy lawyer and apparantly not a very thorough person, she obviously had neither read nor understood. Now, she desperately wants a new regulatory agency to cover things that are mostly already covered by other regulators pursuant to some other laws that she has never bothered to read or understand. And why is she so desperate fr this agency to come into existence? Because she will be the head of this new agency. And this country desperately needs that kind of sloppy, lazy regulatory oversight.
Liz, get a clue – it wasn’t a real job, your not supposed to actually do anything, just hold the title like a good Gubment employee and put it on your resume’ for future use.
I’m just glad Jane Hathaway is still alive!
I think the banks should be allowed to fuck you all as hard as they want until their efforts reach a self-correcting state at which time they will temporarily stop.
~Bank Lobbyist Until Someone Pays Me More to Lobby For Their Cause
@20
Yea, a bankruptcy lawyer who’s written books on personal finance (whaa?), besides her being a woman at Harvard, I have no idea how the f’ she’s in the position she’s in (and even less of an idea why anyone acknowledges her)
@23 FTW!!!!
Awesome!
I love Elizabeth Warren.
I wish I had time to come two or three times a day.
i get so tired of people that don’t know dick about wall Street talking as if they do
@6 stfu and start suckin’
Why’s this moron with a law background in charge of this positions? She knows nothing at all.