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darthfoley
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cLutZ
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ticklishmusic
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Hillary Clinton, hearing criticism for her ties to the financial industry, received the critical support of Senator Elizabeth Warren on Monday for her proposal to expand the Dodd-Frank regulatory structure and urging of President Obama to veto any legislation that would weaken Wall Street regulation. “Secretary Clinton is right to fight back against Republicans trying to sneak Wall Street giveaways into the must-pass government funding bill,” Ms. Warren, the liberal senator from Massachusetts, wrote on Facebook after Mrs. Clinton published an Op-Ed article in The New York Times with her proposals to regulate Wall Street. In the Op-Ed, Mrs. Clinton specifically called for Republicans not to defund the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which Ms. Warren previously oversaw. “Whether it’s attacking the C.F.P.B., undermining new rules to rein in unscrupulous retirement advisers, or rolling back any part of the hard-fought progress we’ve made on financial reform,” Ms. Warren wrote, “she and I agree.” As high-profile Democratic elected officials line up to support Mrs. Clinton’s candidacy, Ms. Warren has remained neutral. This month, 13 of the 14 Democratic female United States senators attended a fund-raiser and rally in Washington for Mrs. Clinton, but the headlines from the event mostly focused on Ms. Warren’s absence. On Monday, Ms. Warren stopped short of endorsing Mrs. Clinton, but her message of support for the candidate’s Wall Street plan could do much to ease concerns that Mrs. Clinton’s deep donor base of financial executives would make her reluctant to install tough regulations. | ||
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LegalLord
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On February 12 2016 12:06 darthfoley wrote: Bernie is fucking her up on Wall St. donations YET AGAIN. She really doesn't have a good answer either She was a senator for New York; she basically was Wall Street's representative. She might be better off saying that Wall Street isn't all bad and that we should defend the ethical parts of it while punishing the crooks. | ||
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GreenHorizons
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On February 12 2016 11:57 ticklishmusic wrote: Does that apply to everyone who voted for it? ^This is such a piss poor political hip toss. As if you wouldn't be sticking him for voting against an assault weapon ban had he voted against it. | ||
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ticklishmusic
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On February 12 2016 12:14 GreenHorizons wrote: ^This is such a piss poor political hip toss. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTn3jUoMdVI As if you wouldn't be sticking him for voting against an assault weapon ban had he voted against it. How so? And no. To me there's a difference: there's a huge body of research out there showing guns cause all sorts of problems, people had no idea that mandatory minimums and the sort of things in welfare reform would have such unintended consequences. | ||
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Introvert
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On February 12 2016 12:10 cLutZ wrote: Bernie: We are going to stop you from competing with cheap Mexican and Chinese workers, in Mexico and China. Instead you can complete with them here! Because they probably vote Socialist! On February 12 2016 12:18 xDaunt wrote: Hillary looks like a giant banana tonight. ahahaa. I was curious, as well, as to that strange color. | ||
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GreenHorizons
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On February 12 2016 12:17 ticklishmusic wrote: How so? And no. To me there's a clear difference. There's a huge body of research out there showing guns cause all sorts of problems, People had no idea that mandatory minimums and the sort of things in welfare reform would have such unintended consequences. "Everyone who voted for the bill", implicating Sanders, as if the part of the bill he supported was the perverse "superpredator", "come to heel" she was espousing as if we don't have video of each of their arguments. You know there was a ban in the legislation. It's sleazy. | ||
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ticklishmusic
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On February 12 2016 12:18 xDaunt wrote: Hillary looks like a giant banana tonight. I thought she'd finally started wearing normal clothes, but it looks like the crazy colors and styles are back. | ||
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IgnE
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On February 12 2016 12:17 ticklishmusic wrote: How so? And no. To me there's a difference: there's a huge body of research out there showing guns cause all sorts of problems, people had no idea that mandatory minimums and the sort of things in welfare reform would have such unintended consequences. Are you kidding? Nobody knew? There's literally hundreds of years of politico-economic debate that could and did predict the consequences. | ||
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GreenHorizons
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On February 12 2016 12:21 ticklishmusic wrote: I thought she'd finally started wearing normal clothes, but it looks like the crazy colors and styles are back. Come on you know that was troll bait to try to get "Bernie Bros" to make comments like xDaunt as if it's not an objectively horrible fashion choice. | ||
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IgnE
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LegalLord
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On February 12 2016 12:25 xDaunt wrote: Hillary is such a fucking fraud on this foreign policy stuff. I don't know what to dislike more about her on this issue: the fact that she talks out of both sides of her mouth or the fact that she was such a demonstrable failure as secretary of state. Bernie seems to be pretty inexperienced with foreign policy. Hillary has been proven to be quite destructive and I have little support for the foreign policies that she has supported. | ||
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