Careful what you wish for
I hope the Democrats are paying attention, because when even the Freepers decry a Republican sop to their bankrollers, it speaks volumes.
Atrios is correct, any Democrat who voted for the bankruptcy bill has lost the right to be called a vertebrate.
Max Sawicky has the list of them.
I realize Joe Biden's middle name is "Visa," but I am surprised that he has given up on winning the Democratic presidential primary in '08 so early. And some of the other names were a bit of a surprise. Many of them are to the right of the party on social issues, but I would have doubted that voters in such states as Louisiana, Arkansas, Wisconsin, etc., have any great love for the credit card companies.
Holding the party line against SS privatization schemes is important, but the bankruptcy bill was an equally great opportunity to make this a party line issue, and one that could be used to bludgeon the GOP in '06.
The bright side, perhaps, is that in their mad rush to pass so many of their wish list bills so quickly -- "Tort reform," the serf and turf bankruptcy bill, and -- next up -- drilling in ANWAR (not to mention their party's leader obsession with ridding us of Social Security), we are now seeing what we hoped might happen after the bitterness of November had begun to ease: Republican overreach and a raft of issues to take to moderate voters in '06 and '08.
UPDATE: I implied above that the Dems were voting for the "Bankruptcy Reform Act" or whatever the hell it's called. That's not entirely accurate. They were voting for Cloture on the bill, eliminating any chance for a filibuster, allowing it to come to the floor for a straight up or down vote. Nevertheless, by voting for cloture, they knew they were, in effect, voting for the bill, since it will now pass. Perhaps, sly dogs, they intend to now force it to come to a strict party-line vote, but somehow I don't think these guys had that in mind.
To: Torie
Warren Buffet is again over the top and a little hypocritical, after all he has made billions shorting the dollar while he gloom and dooms the american economy down.
Still severe bankruptcy reform is a very bad idea for Republicans to be promoting; I thought Enron etc taught them something about how all strata of society try to avoid paying their bills when they can.
Also its easy to be in favor of bankruptcy reform if you are a Senator from states like Texas, Florida, and some others now where it is impossible to collect debts anyway.
9 posted on 03/08/2005 3:13:14 PM PST by stan_sipple
Atrios is correct, any Democrat who voted for the bankruptcy bill has lost the right to be called a vertebrate.
Max Sawicky has the list of them.
I realize Joe Biden's middle name is "Visa," but I am surprised that he has given up on winning the Democratic presidential primary in '08 so early. And some of the other names were a bit of a surprise. Many of them are to the right of the party on social issues, but I would have doubted that voters in such states as Louisiana, Arkansas, Wisconsin, etc., have any great love for the credit card companies.
Holding the party line against SS privatization schemes is important, but the bankruptcy bill was an equally great opportunity to make this a party line issue, and one that could be used to bludgeon the GOP in '06.
The bright side, perhaps, is that in their mad rush to pass so many of their wish list bills so quickly -- "Tort reform," the serf and turf bankruptcy bill, and -- next up -- drilling in ANWAR (not to mention their party's leader obsession with ridding us of Social Security), we are now seeing what we hoped might happen after the bitterness of November had begun to ease: Republican overreach and a raft of issues to take to moderate voters in '06 and '08.
UPDATE: I implied above that the Dems were voting for the "Bankruptcy Reform Act" or whatever the hell it's called. That's not entirely accurate. They were voting for Cloture on the bill, eliminating any chance for a filibuster, allowing it to come to the floor for a straight up or down vote. Nevertheless, by voting for cloture, they knew they were, in effect, voting for the bill, since it will now pass. Perhaps, sly dogs, they intend to now force it to come to a strict party-line vote, but somehow I don't think these guys had that in mind.
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