For instance...
Is Obama's Treasury Nominee A Big Bank Crony? TYT
1. Busted NYU union
2. Took a $900,000 bonus at CitiGroup after the bank got bailed out. We called them douchebags when they weren't Obama appointees.
3. Post-CitiGroup he becomes an advocate for the banks
4. Doesn't think deregulation was the cause of the financial collapse (Rubinite to the core) This guy is dangerous!
And Chris Hayes just throws Lew on the merry-go-round of banker douchbaggery at the Treasury.
3 segments, 2 30-second commercial breaks. MUST SEE for all who don't choose to stick their head in the sand and those who do.
@ 8:45 of segment 3 discusses the 2 TARP votes. That, and Obama's decision to bring in Clinton's financial advisers (the Rubinites), mark the moment Obama jumped the shark IMO. Yep, before he was even inaugurated.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46979738/ns/msnbc-up_with_chris_hayes/#50441104
Totally aside and completely unrelated...
As much as I like Reich and much of his commentary today, I don't give him a free pass due to his support for NAFTA.
Q: When you were the labor secretary to the first term of the Clinton administration, they pushed through the North American Free Trade Agreement. You were part of that administration. Was that a mistake?
Reich: I don’t think it was a mistake, but it wasn’t really a tremendous help. If you put labor and environmental standards into our trade agreements, it’s not a race to the bottom. If you have an environmental standard and a labor standard that, for example, bars all slave labor, guarantees the right to organize, maintains kind of minimum labor standards throughout the world, you are setting a floor for all nations. It’s not protectionism. This is a way of actually getting everybody up rather than having the bar continue to trend downward. We tried to do this in NAFTA, and, unfortunately, we couldn’t get the Mexican government support. We tried to have a labor and environmental side agreement. I think it would have been a much better agreement had we had that.
We were sold "free trade" garbage by the Clinton admin/Rubinites, and Lew is a Rubinite. Even Reich says so (but he's a good Rubinite).
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