GOP Split Over How to Win in The Fall
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on April 20th, 2010 4:33 am by HL
GOP Split Over How to Win in The Fall
Naftali Bendavid, Wall St. Journal
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Financial Reform Bill Ends ‘Too Big To Fail’
Sen. Christopher Dodd
The Latest Politics, News & Election Videos Sens. Chris Dodd (D-CT) and Mark Warner (D-VA) on their financial reform bill.Posted by RCP Staff | Send to a Friend | Email Author | | Permalink Political Videos Limbaugh: Goldman Sachs In “Bed” With Obama Administration …
How Public Sector Unions Broke California
Steven Malanga, City Journal
The camera focuses on an official of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), California’s largest public-employee union, sitting in a legislative chamber and speaking into a microphone. “We helped to get you into office, and we got a good memory,” she says matter-of-factly to the elected officials outside the shot. “Come November, if you don’t back our program, we’ll get you out of office.’The video has become a sensation among California taxpayer groups for its vivid depiction of the audacious power that…
Break Up Big Wall Street Firms. Now
Jonathan Macey, RealClearPolitics
Chris Dodd and the other politicians working on financial reform claim that their proposed legislation will end the long-standing U.S. policy which posits that the biggest financial institutions are “too big to fail” and therefore must be bailed out every time they find themselves in financial distress. At the core of the “Dodd bill” is the premise that regulators need yet more discretion, more power, and more regulatory tools if they are to succeed at last in exorcizing long-entrenched too big to fail strategies from the heart of our regulatory canon. The Dodd bill is…
