Monday, May 31, 2010

Obama Talks Left To Move Right, As Wall Street Criminals Are Given A Free Pass And Reforms Are Watered Down

by Danny Schechter from Media Channel. The author writes about the latest political theater that is an ongoing production in Washington DC. The stars of this latest show called "financial reform" are Obama and Geithner.
But even as he was feigning left, he and his main economic operative, Tim Geithner, were moving right, to kill off amendments that the bankers hated, like Senator Bernie Sanders’s proposal for a deep audit of the Federal Reserve Bank and the Brown-Kaufman Amendment that would have broken up the six biggest banks in America.