Repubs vote "no" again - this time about ending TARP funding EARLY!

[housewolf]

During the financial reform bill reconcilliation last night -


... given a choice between continuing the 2008 bank bailout and regulating Wall Street, several Republicans voted last night (and almost all of them will ultimately vote) to keep the bailout alive.

Last night, in a scramble to save the bill in the wake of Sen. Scott Brown's (R-MA) objections to the conference report, Democrats worked with moderate Republicans to figure out a new way to pay for Wall Street reform. What they came up with was pretty simple: end the TARP legislation (i.e., the much-maligned bank bailout) early. Every Republican negotiator on the conference committee objected, some vociferously.

Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH) called it "fraud on the American people."

Not to be outdone, Sen. Mike Crapo (R-ID) called it "smoke and mirrors."


Read the rest -
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/06/did-republic...

[sufrommich]

1. They have no freaking shame. nt

[emulatorloo]

2. Fascinating! thanks for posting n/t

[Scurrilous]

3. K & R

[Dawson Leery]

4. So Republicans (who are ALL bad these days)

believe that ending taxpayer bank bailouts is a FRAUD?
I see.
Another commercial for the Democrats in the fall campaign.

[Rex]

5. I. Hate. Republicans.

They piss on the poor and steal FOR the rich. AND THEN they get on national TVEE and say just the opposite of what they are doing!!!! Fuckin hate em!

[yurbud]

6. bottom line: they want to give Wall Street money without accountability

[yurbud]

7. and these are the deficit hawks...

[PJPhreak]

8. This November we must make sure that we,

Sink these fools just like the Brits did this...



The Bismarck on the bottom of the N.Atlantic

[EC]

9. Isn't TARP what all the tea people are complaining

about very loudly?