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KansDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-14-10 01:12 PM
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13. Wow!!! Until now I thought the only thing Dems would hold the line against was holding the line!
That's drawing Republican complaints that the pending rewrite of the rules of finance will put the economy at risk. Yeah, GOPers don't want to put the economy at risk...they want it to fail completely! :grr:
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  -Democrats Hold The Line Against Wall Street Derivatives Lobbying CLANG  Apr-14-10 09:26 AM   #0 
  - Hope they continue to hold the line! Amazingly, somebody unrec'd this!  sinkingfeeling   Apr-14-10 09:34 AM   #1 
  - That's because we let trolls unrec. n/t  pnwmom   Apr-14-10 04:25 PM   #30 
  - Probably Tim Geithner. nt  Enthusiast   Apr-14-10 05:50 PM   #38 
     - +1 heh heh heh  tomm2thumbs   Apr-14-10 11:57 PM   #61 
     - But, but...he's a Democrat. nt  hay rick   Apr-15-10 01:07 AM   #62 
  - Derivatives should be outlawed  ixion   Apr-14-10 09:35 AM   #2 
  - But how do you feel about integrals?  sudopod   Apr-14-10 02:28 PM   #18 
  - IN A RELATED STORY large TEABAGGING monster fights against the radical idea of transparency  happygoluckytoyou   Apr-14-10 03:53 PM   #25 
  - I hope this has some bite.  dotymed   Apr-15-10 06:38 AM   #65 
  - NO. that's idiotic  wizstars   Apr-14-10 04:06 PM   #26 
  - what's idiotic, in my opinion, is shuffling papers around and  ixion   Apr-14-10 04:19 PM   #28 
  - So you don't think businesses should be allowed to hedge their risk?  anigbrowl   Apr-14-10 04:26 PM   #31 
     - It they want to take risk, fine. But as it works now, we take the risk, they take the profit  ixion   Apr-14-10 04:29 PM   #32 
     - straw man argument. Why not just answer the question?  anigbrowl   Apr-14-10 05:31 PM   #35 
        - I answered the question: No  ixion   Apr-14-10 07:04 PM   #49 
     - No private risk, especially  Enthusiast   Apr-14-10 05:54 PM   #39 
     - I'm not talking about taxpayer guarantees, but wholly private risk.  anigbrowl   Apr-14-10 06:00 PM   #42 
     - How can prices be insured? How can Risk be a commodity? This is hogwash and hyperbole.  earcandle   Apr-14-10 06:40 PM   #46 
        - Simple (2 examples inside)  anigbrowl   Apr-14-10 09:45 PM   #52 
           - Thanks for the explanation. This is the simplest value, but taking risks on the fall of the economy  earcandle   Apr-17-10 12:15 PM   #67 
  - Commodity trading have never crashed the economy and caused criminal behavior in the financial world  earcandle   Apr-14-10 06:39 PM   #45 
  - No way. I support regulation, but outlawing them is absurd  anigbrowl   Apr-14-10 04:19 PM   #29 
  - the effects of derivatives are obvious now that people have gotten rich on the risks involved and  earcandle   Apr-14-10 06:42 PM   #47 
     - you're throwing the baby out with the bathwater  anigbrowl   Apr-14-10 09:49 PM   #53 
  - Its like pure roulette  HillbillyBob   Apr-14-10 10:36 PM   #55 
  - Wow, it takes some serious balls to still lobby for no regulation on  harun   Apr-14-10 09:51 AM   #3 
  - OMG! Such courage and humbleness.  ShortnFiery   Apr-14-10 09:56 AM   #4 
  - Agreed!  earcandle   Apr-14-10 06:43 PM   #48 
  - excuse me?  florida08   Apr-14-10 10:24 AM   #5 
  - I've got a side of beef, a butchered pig, and two egg-laying hens  CLANG   Apr-14-10 10:29 AM   #6 
  - ... and through the magic of derivatives, you can inflate your pig to be worth $2.67 billion  liberation   Apr-14-10 10:41 AM   #7 
  - LOL  florida08   Apr-14-10 10:53 AM   #9 
  - I'll do your laundry for a month in return for...  kag   Apr-14-10 01:09 PM   #12 
  - "barter" with you doctor?!  AlbertCat   Apr-14-10 10:38 PM   #56 
  - Yet the Pugs cry about the administration bail out of these very firms.  Beavker   Apr-14-10 10:48 AM   #8 
  - Go 'Bama!  Deep13   Apr-14-10 12:34 PM   #10 
  - whenver I think Obama's getting all corporate, he proves he's... only half corporate  paulkienitz   Apr-14-10 02:22 PM   #17 
     - Well, yeah, I know.  Deep13   Apr-14-10 03:50 PM   #24 
  - This fucking nab Obama has FINALLY got it right.  Ed76638   Apr-14-10 01:06 PM   #11 
  - Would entertain me  abelenkpe   Apr-14-10 01:13 PM   #14 
     - your language, madame or sir  1American   Apr-14-10 05:48 PM   #36 
        - Bull shit!  Enthusiast   Apr-14-10 05:58 PM   #41 
        - I don't think you meant to reply to me. nt  abelenkpe   Apr-14-10 06:39 PM   #44 
        - WTF?  Iowa   Apr-14-10 08:26 PM   #51 
        - uh, yeah.........  alittlelark   Apr-14-10 11:03 PM   #58 
  - Wow!!! Until now I thought the only thing Dems would hold the line against was holding the line!  KansDem   Apr-14-10 01:12 PM   #13 
  - Obama and the Democrats are getting ready to obsolutely...  Change Happens   Apr-14-10 01:16 PM   #15 
  - Obama will hold the line until Lieberman whines like a 2 year old  Larkspur   Apr-14-10 01:50 PM   #16 
  - K&R! n/t  Pharaoh   Apr-14-10 02:35 PM   #19 
  - Screw 'em...they tried to play nice with the pukes on health care and they fucked us.  tjwash   Apr-14-10 02:44 PM   #20 
  - I hope so  dflprincess   Apr-14-10 04:35 PM   #34 
  - It can never be asked enough - what is wrong with these republicans?  gtar100   Apr-14-10 02:50 PM   #21 
  - It's On now!  Stellar   Apr-14-10 02:51 PM   #22 
  - Well they should know  xxqqqzme   Apr-14-10 03:14 PM   #23 
  - Will put the economy at risk? Which economy?  AllyCat   Apr-14-10 04:18 PM   #27 
  - RECOMMENDED!  JohnWxy   Apr-14-10 04:32 PM   #33 
  - No bipartisanship on this one!  Enthusiast   Apr-14-10 05:48 PM   #37 
  - The depravity of republicans knows no bounds. n/t  Zorra   Apr-14-10 05:54 PM   #40 
  - They already put the economy at risk by allowing derivatives. The party of hypocrits  earcandle   Apr-14-10 06:38 PM   #43 
  - Like all things of this nature: We'll see.  RUMMYisFROSTED   Apr-14-10 08:06 PM   #50 
  - I don't know a single person in finance..  girl gone mad   Apr-14-10 10:31 PM   #54 
  - rewrite of the rules of finance will put the economy at risk.  AlbertCat   Apr-14-10 10:45 PM   #57 
  - They are holding America hostage.  patrice   Apr-14-10 11:56 PM   #59 
  - The whole point was that NOT writing these rules in the first place DID PUT OUR ECONOMY AT RISK!  tomm2thumbs   Apr-14-10 11:57 PM   #60 
  - We wouldn't want the economy to be at risk, would we?  rucky   Apr-15-10 05:28 AM   #63 
  - Congress better follow  pjt7   Apr-15-10 05:42 AM   #64 
  - Without all that extra spending money,they`ll have to cut back on Republican payoffs...  fatbuckel   Apr-15-10 10:24 AM   #66 
 

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