Before this bill became unpopular and when Obama was still riding high during the election campaign Wall Street funds flowed first into the Democratic coffers. Of course now the Democracts are in the doldrums or worse the money will flow not to Tweedle Dee but Tweedle Dum. Why settle for just an administration good for Wall Street when in the future you can do even better as the tide turns?
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--- On Sun, 3/21/10, Myles Sussman <myles.sussman at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Myles Sussman <myles.sussman at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] why liberal Dems are absolutely useless or worse
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Sunday, March 21, 2010, 1:15 PM
> I don't think this is quite fair: A
> lot of corporate boardrooms would prefer
> Congress did not pass a health insurance regulation bill,
> which is why they
> are busy donating to the GOP and the various rousers of
> teabaggers, in order
> to either stop the bill or to repeal it later. If the GOP
> wins in 2010 they
> will reshape this bad bill into something worse before it
> takes full effect.
> The figure of 30 million new people covered that is being
> thrown around by
> the "pragmatists" depends not only on passing this bill but
> on keeping
> Congress out of the hands of the Bachmanns.
>
> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 4:56 AM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > [WS:] So the
> > useful idiots play the role of erecting Potemkin
> villages by making
> > appearances of debates and parliamentary negotiations
> in what from the
> > beginning is a done deal decided behind the closed
> doors of corporate
> > boardrooms.
> >
> > Wojtek
> >
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