McConnell’s bid to block reform falls short
With the Senate opening debate any minute now on Wall Street financial reform, the effort by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to halt that reform has officially failed.
You can read more about that failure here, from Jamie Dupree.
Or, if you’d prefer, we’ve got a short video depiction of McConnell’s flying leap, complete with empty-handed outcome.
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jewcowboy
April 29th, 2010
3:29 pm
“then certainly these yahoos can be locked up indefinitelty for looking retarded and psycho…”
We can dream….
Rightwing Troll
April 29th, 2010
3:29 pm
Ok Taxpayer,
I just spit ChicKFilA all over the screen from laughing at your turtle link… don’t do that while I’m eating…
TM
April 29th, 2010
3:29 pm
Don’t see McConnell listed as one of the horses but he may be using a fake name. Here are the horses you pick which one is McConnell
1. Lookin at Lucky
2. Ice Box
3. Noble’s Promise
4. Super Saver
5. Line of David
6. Stately Victor
7. American Lion
8. Dean’s Kitten
9. Make Music for Me
10. Paddy O’Prado
11. Devil May Care
12. Conveyance
13. Jackson Bend
14. Mission Impazible
15. Discreetly Mine
16. Awesome Act
17. Dublin
18. Backtalk
19. Homeboykris
20. Sidney’s Candy
Normal
April 29th, 2010
3:31 pm
He’s Dean’s kitten, right?
Rightwing Troll
April 29th, 2010
3:33 pm
No he races under the nom de guerre of Toe Tapping Mitch… Or was it Man on Horse? I can’t remember…
Normal
April 29th, 2010
3:39 pm
Jackson Bend (Over)?
jewcowboy
April 29th, 2010
3:40 pm
“Or was it Man on Horse?”
This reminds me of a recipe I made recently, though it certainly wasn’t named after McConnell.
http://www.nolacuisine.com/2006/05/08/angels-on-horseback-recipe/
Scout
April 29th, 2010
3:42 pm
Outhouse GoKart :
Correct and usually the reform is in the wrong direction …………… it’s all about “controlling” the people !
jewcowboy
April 29th, 2010
3:43 pm
Scout,
“it’s all about “controlling” the people !”
The “people” in the banks have shown that they can be trusted, right?
Normal
April 29th, 2010
3:48 pm
JC, sounds like a great dish, but my oysters are too small…I gots oyster envy.
Scout
April 29th, 2010
3:59 pm
jewcowboy: Stop it! You’re killing me.
Just another reason why the U.N. is such a joke ………….
Headline: “Outrage as U.N. Picks Iran For Women’s Rights Seat”
Just yesterday, the top law enforcement officer in Iran said women with tans would be arrested.
Pogo
April 29th, 2010
4:02 pm
Quite comical to read the frog description for McConnell. Especially considering the democratic speaker of the house looks like something that should be lying on a marble slab in a Medical School auditorium.
Soothsayer
April 29th, 2010
4:05 pm
Oil Slick Forecast To Slam Ashore With Southerly Winds
SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE WILL QUICKLY TRACK ACROSS THE AREA WEDNESDAY
WHICH WILL SUPPRESS WINDS AND FLATTEN SEAS. AS THIS RIDGE
CONTINUES EASTWARD WEDNESDAY NIGHT, WINDS WILL THEN SHIFT BACK TO
THE SOUTHEAST. THIS HIGH WILL SETTLE IN THE WESTERN ATLANTIC
THROUGH THE WEEKEND. MEANWHILE, A SERIES OF SURFACE LOWS WILL
DEVELOP AND MOVE THROUGH THE SOUTHERN PLAINS. THE RESULTING WINDS
BETWEEN THESE 2 FEATURES, SPOT AREA, WILL BE STRONG PERSISTENT
SOUTHEAST WINDS OF AT LEAST 20KTS FROM THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH
SATURDAY NIGHT. IN ADDITION, EXPECT SEAS TO BUILD TO A PEAK OF
8-11 FEET DURING THIS PERIOD. ALTHOUGH A FRONT IS EXPECTED TO
APPROACH THE COASTAL WATERS LATE THIS WEEKEND, AT THIS TIME IT
DOES NOT APPEAR THAT IT WILL PUSH THROUGH UNTIL POSSIBLY EARLY
TO MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK. THUS, SOUTH WINDS WILL CONTINUE INTO
EARLY NEXT WEEK
The practical upshot: Winds will be coming from the south starting tomorrow all the way through into next week, pushing the growing crude oil slick into Louisiana’s coastline. Two national wildlife refuges are directly in the path of the oil. Starting on Thursday, the seas will be too rough for an effective effort to contain the oil spill.
The effort to prevent landfall of this oil spill has failed.
GAME OVER
Soothsayer
April 29th, 2010
4:12 pm
NOAA’s Helton added that offshore conditions “are going to be increasingly difficult” because high waves will make it harder to contain the oil.
Rightwing Troll
April 29th, 2010
4:14 pm
“Just yesterday, the top law enforcement officer in Iran said women with tans would be arrested.”
As opposed to yesterday’s announcement by the “conservatives” in Arizona that ALL people with tans would be arrested…
josef nix
April 29th, 2010
4:14 pm
POGO
@ 4:02
You’re TOO kind!
josef nix
April 29th, 2010
4:17 pm
Soothsayer–
Oh, h3ll, it’s just south Louisiana and them swamps is full of frogs…two and four legged!
Tony T.
April 29th, 2010
4:24 pm
Surprise! Outhouse is trying to pick a fight with a girl. Sounds like somebody got rejected (again) at last night.
Disgusted
April 29th, 2010
4:24 pm
Making a push for expanded offshore oil drilling, Jindal repeated the myth that Hurricanes Katrina and Rita caused “no major” oil spills in the state. Jindal called it a “great unwritten success story.” August 2008.
How’s that offshore drilling thingy going for you now, Bobby?
Scout
April 29th, 2010
4:35 pm
Rightwing Troll:
Nice try but you forgot one thing. They have to be stopped for an ordinary traffic violation or criminal activity first ………… after that the police do what they always do ………. run everyone’s ID and let the chip’s fall where they may ……… unpaid tickets, a warrant or illegal alien.
Short story ………. a good police officer ALWAYS runs identifcation. My son responded to a home invasion not long ago. A young woman (with two young children) was lucky to have escaped without injury. She was obviously extremely distraught. As part of his routine he also ran her identification. She was wanted for theft in Texas ………. she was immediately arrested and they extradited.
Pay me now or pay me later.
G Cancryn
April 29th, 2010
4:36 pm
The republican answer is:
They want to take the regulators (who allowed all this to happen, Madoff etc.) put them in a special committee, and allow them to write the reform bill.
You can’t make this stuff up!!
jewcowboy
April 29th, 2010
4:38 pm
http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/files/2010/04/Obama-Siemens.jpg
We put out oil fires and try to contain oil slicks, the German’s are gearing up for the industries of the future… while our President looks on…
G Cancryn
April 29th, 2010
4:39 pm
Drill Baby Drill. 5,000 Gallons of Oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico everyday. This is a disaster. We must rethink either the policy, or have stricter operating conditions. These companies teeter on the brink of safety vs. profit. As we now observe again, like the mines, and derivatives, and swaps, companies cannot be trusted to do what is safe and proper.
G Cancryn
April 29th, 2010
4:44 pm
The “Free Market” is not Self Regulating. You know what you get? Explosions, collapses, cheating, corruption, price fixing, and failure.
G Cancryn
April 29th, 2010
4:47 pm
Hey Scout,
When they arrested her on the spot, what happened to her distraught children?
Hmmm
April 29th, 2010
4:47 pm
While financial reform needs to occur.. one minor detail that seems to be glazed over is the fact that the SEC (aka Fed Gov’t) actually caused MORE people to lose MORE money.. than did the “banks”
jewcowboy
April 29th, 2010
4:47 pm
“When they arrested her on the spot, what happened to her distraught children?”
Sold on the Free Market…
G Cancryn
April 29th, 2010
4:48 pm
I just did a spit take!!!!! VERY FUNNY!!!
Rightwing Troll
April 29th, 2010
4:51 pm
Why would Scout care about what happened to those children? He and his kindred souls could care less bout them babies after they take thier first breath.
A Lumpkin resident.
April 29th, 2010
4:57 pm
Trying to get changes in a bill before it goes to debate is not “blocking reform”.
jewcowboy
April 29th, 2010
5:02 pm
Scout,
“They have to be stopped for an ordinary traffic violation or criminal activity first …”
No, they do not. Lawful contact is not defined, either in this legislation or anywhere else…if you can find where it’s defined in the U.S. Code, please show me.
So it basically means the an encounter with someone from a law enforcement agency.
B. FOR ANY LAWFUL CONTACT MADE BY A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL OR AGENCY
21 OF THIS STATE OR A COUNTY, CITY, TOWN OR OTHER POLITICAL SUBDIVISION OF THIS
22 STATE WHERE REASONABLE SUSPICION EXISTS THAT THE PERSON IS AN ALIEN WHO IS
23 UNLAWFULLY PRESENT IN THE UNITED STATES, A REASONABLE ATTEMPT SHALL BE MADE,
24 WHEN PRACTICABLE, TO DETERMINE THE IMMIGRATION STATUS OF THE PERSON. THE
25 PERSON’S IMMIGRATION STATUS SHALL BE VERIFIED WITH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
26 PURSUANT TO 8 UNITED STATES CODE SECTION 1373(c).
http://www.courthousenews.com/2010/04/16/AzSB1070.pdf
jefferson
April 29th, 2010
5:04 pm
“D”’s are bought by millionaires, “R”s by billionaires — which is closer to the working poeple who get a scrap every now & then? The one who can do the reforms DON’T want REAL reform, just window dressing. Painting turds.
jefferson
April 29th, 2010
5:06 pm
Truth is a cop can stop anybody, anytime and always come up with a reason.
jewcowboy
April 29th, 2010
5:10 pm
“The Fourth Amendment protection against “unreasonable searches and seizures” was adopted as a protection against the widespread invasions of privacy experienced by American colonists at the hands of the British Government. So-called “writs of assistance” gave royal officers broad discretion to conduct searches of the homes of private citizens, primarily as a way of discovering violations of strict British customs laws. This practice led to a unique awareness among our Founding Fathers of the threat to individual liberty and privacy that is created by unchecked government search powers.
Hmmmm….
Paul
April 29th, 2010
5:11 pm
jewcowboy
[[So it basically means the an encounter with someone from a law enforcement agency.
B. FOR ANY LAWFUL CONTACT MADE BY A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL OR AGENCY]]
So, as long as the cop isn’t breaking and entering on his/her own time…..
jefferson
[[D”’s are bought by millionaires, “R”s by billionaires —]]
Can’t believe how much this has come up. Update: the guys running Wall Street are by and large Democrats contributing to Democrats. Big change over the recent past, but a change it is.
Or, as one commentator put it, we’ve gone from Country Club Conservatives to Limousine Liberals on Wall Street.
Paul
April 29th, 2010
5:12 pm
jefferson 5:06
Bingo!
That’s one thing that HASN”T changed.
ME, Me, me
April 29th, 2010
5:28 pm
@@
So what are your thoughts on the subject of this particular blog??
josef nix
April 29th, 2010
5:31 pm
Jefferson, Paul
That was the point I was trying to make and was accused of hyperventillating. I heard a Latino last night on the tee-vee saying that MOAD was “reasonable suspicion” in many a cop’s mind. Asked what MOAD was, he said, “Mexican out after dark.” Anybody who doubts this should only sit on my verandah and watch the periodic “traffic checks” thrown up at the intersection. Nazimobiles driven by high whites and high blacks are waved right on through, clunkers and even well-kept vehicles of the modest price range driven by the browns are pulled over and drivers and passangers sent through the wringer. And, yes, I have seen pedestrians from the service sector apartments down the way coming up to check out the goings-on stopped and asked for documents…and, know what? They’ll have a couple of latino cops right up in there “doing their job,” so how could it possibly be racial profiling, eh?
Scout
April 29th, 2010
5:36 pm
jewcowboy:
It’s defined in ever evolving case law ………….. hard for the individual police officer to keep up with but they try their best. Unfortunately, you have no concept or idea of what it takes to work the street and make split second decisions.
G Cancryn :
The husband came home from night school and took the children. If not, they would have went to the county agency that handles those things. Happens everyday.
G Cancryn
April 29th, 2010
5:45 pm
If I want to racial profile, it’s easy. I want Mexicans I know where to go to set up my road block. I want whites, I know where to set my road block. I want orientals, I know where to set up my road block. Then I can say well we didn’t profile, we checked everyone that came through. I can even post a couple of oriental cops at the road block, to make sure it looks good. It’s easy to profile, any idiot can do it. Maybe law enforcement should use intelligence and integrity, lord knows it hasn’t been tried yet.
Scout
April 29th, 2010
5:48 pm
G Cancryn:
You know, I really hate to tell you this ……… but in Arizona they are looking for illegal immigrants from Mexico ………. not Nigeria or Ireland.
Doesn’t bother me one bit.
Scout
April 29th, 2010
5:49 pm
G Cancryn:
P.S. Do you feel better about those kids now ?
Scout
April 29th, 2010
5:50 pm
jewcowboy:
The opposite of “unreasonable searches” is “reasonable searches”.
You armchair law enforcement officers amaze me.
G Cancryn
April 29th, 2010
5:55 pm
Scout really?
They would have went to the county agency that handles (those things) distraught children who had just been through an ordeal where they were lucky to escape with their lives?
Kinda callous huh? I mean, she’s been living there, two kids, a husband in night school, trying to make something of their lives, she’s attacked, her children in danger, lucky to escape unharmed, and she gets arrested and extradited on some old warrant for stealing baby formula from a WalMart 4 years ago.
I can see how tough it is to make split decisions on the mean streets of Dawsonville.
Disgusted
April 29th, 2010
5:58 pm
Update: the guys running Wall Street are by and large Democrats contributing to Democrats. Big change over the recent past, but a change it is.
Hint: Lehman Brothers was a known Democratic house, while others were not. Paulsen took care of his Republican buddies on Wall Street—all Republican houses. Guess what happened to Lehman Brothers?
Scout
April 29th, 2010
6:00 pm
G Cancryn:
Get in the real world. Happens everyday. Departments REQUIRE their officers to namecheck everyone and the officer has no discretion when a warrant shows up. You really don’t want officers picking and choosing in those situations. The law is the law.
Do you also fault the judge who gave her time to serve because that is what happened.
Scout
April 29th, 2010
6:02 pm
P.S.
States don’t pay the high cost of extradition for trivial matters.
G Cancryn
April 29th, 2010
6:03 pm
You know, I really hate to tell you this ……… but in Arizona they are looking for illegal immigrants from Mexico ………. not Nigeria or Ireland.
Doesn’t bother me one bit.
But when Arizona needed someone to do the jobs no one else wanted to do, well then it was OK to be illegal. Hell, they cut the grass, put up fences, cleaned houses, picked crops, built sidewalks, anything. Now the white people who had illegal mexicans working all around and inside the house, have lost their jobs. The white people have had their houses foreclosed on. The white people have no money. Now the white people are living in the same apartment complex as the mexicans who used to work for them, and the white people are embarrassed, and ashamed. That quickly turns to anger, and they want the Mexicans who are taking all the good jobs gone. White people must always have someone to point at. The Mexicans are a no brainer for the brainless.
G Cancryn
April 29th, 2010
6:11 pm
Scout
Let me tell you what happens. They had to suspend the death penalty in IL because they had incarcerated the wrong guys. Any other state worth it’s weight would do the same. Routinely, men mostly all non white are being released after serving time for something they had nothing to do with, but were railroaded by the cops, the judges etc. So you go on and put all your eggs in the baskets of these people, and think they’re right about what they do, just because you believe the odds are with you. I think people should look at the larger picture for true solutions.
Scout
April 29th, 2010
6:12 pm
G Cancryn:
Yawn
G Cancryn
April 29th, 2010
6:16 pm
And by the way they do extradite for small issues. If I had been at work 4 years ago, a swat team came to arrest me, guns drawn, at my offices because of an unpaid ticket in Nashville TN. Then came to my house that sunday looking for me. Called from outside the house @ 5 in the morning, told my wife “you’re gonna hear a knock at the door in 15 seconds, it’s us the police.” When my wife answered they asked if I was home, she told them that I went to Nashville to pay the ticket, which I had, and did.
Scout
April 29th, 2010
6:18 pm
Yawn again.
G Cancryn
April 29th, 2010
6:19 pm
Yawn
Good response. I would expect nothing more from you. You are told the truth, you are shown a side that you are unaware of, or unfamiliar with, a chance for you to learn, and you fall asleep. That’s the same reason why you didn’t get past Jr. High School.
Scout
April 29th, 2010
6:21 pm
UGA
Have a nice day.
G Cancryn
April 29th, 2010
6:24 pm
I’m a birther. Post it!!!!
G Cancryn
April 29th, 2010
6:25 pm
Where’s your papers Scout?