McConnell: GOP will still block consumer agency nomination

[Playinghardball]

Source: RawReplay
By David Edwards

President Barack Obama has decided to nominate Richard Cordray to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) instead of Elizabeth Warren, but Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) doesn’t care. He says Republicans still plan to block the nomination.

“I would remind that Senate Republicans still aren’t interested approving anyone to the position until the president agrees to make this massive government bureaucracy more accountable and transparent to the American people,” McConnell announced on the Senate floor Monday.

He continued: “Back on May 5 of this year, 44 Republican Senators signed a letter to the president stating — quote — ‘We will not support the consideration of any nominee, regardless of party affiliation, to be the CFPB director until the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is reformed.’”

“We have no doubt that without proper oversight, the CFPB will only multiply the kind of countless, burdensome regulations that are holding our economy back right now and that it will have countless unintended consequences for individuals and small businesses that constrict credit, stifle growth, and destroy jobs. That’s why everyone from florists to community bankers opposed its creation in the first place. That’s why we’ll insist on serious reforms to bring accountability and transparency to the agency before we consider any nominee to run it.”

Watch this video from C-SPAN, broadcast July 18, 2011.

http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/07/mcconnell-gop-will-still-block-consumer-agency-nomination/

[CatWoman]

1. all the fuck they do is hinder progress

[guruoo]

9. They don't want to hinder, they want to end it for good.

To them, government should serve only two purposes:
1. National security.
2. Defending the (their) "free market".

IMO, they will never give up until the day comes when their personal
security in doing so is no longer a given.

[BeFree]

2. Mesasage to Sen. Majority Leader Reid

Knock that weaselly little punk on his ass for once.

Just once, do something that shows you still got it.

[Ruby the Liberal]

3. Mitch McTurtle has his head so far up his ass its a wonder they were

able to transcribe his comments.

Unbelievable.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. And of course Cordray will bring increased transparency!

McConnell is talking out his ass.

I find McConnell burdensome.

:eyes:

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. I don't know how a creature as awkward as a turtle

can manage to stick his head up his ass, but somehow Mitch McChelonian has managed this feat.

[BeyondGeography]

6. Embarrassing

For us.

[Dappleganger]

7. The republicans will block everything just because they can. The only thing they will pass

is what their voters would harass them for at election time (such as shutting down the government). They have made it clear that they are hell bent on not passing anything which the president or the democrats propose.

[elleng]

8. We knew that. Those s.o.b.s

We'll have to get a 100 Dem Senate, and 60% Dem House.