Education does not negate innate stupidity.
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Iâve got zero patience with Sanders, but Warren is entirely justified in criticizing the idiot Dems who have signed on to loosen regs on banks. One those idiot Dems is my own Senator Gary Peters, and Iâm completely disgusted with him over this move.
Not only is it completely unwarranted in terms of policy, itâs also idiotic in terms of politicsâthere is NO Democratic constituency clamoring for easing banking regulations. Itâs entirely and solely something that bankers want.
Senators like Tester and Heitkamp seem to be under the delusion that supporting this crap bill will give them cover in their re-election campaigns, as though it will convince Republicans and independents to vote for them.
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from wiki:
"In 1984, Kobach graduated from Washburn Rural High School in Topeka, Kansas, where he was co-valedictorian with Bill Allen, and class president. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Government from Harvard University, graduating summa cum laude and first in his department. It was there that he came under the influence of the director of the universityâs Center for International Affairs, Professor Samuel P. Huntington.
As Kobachâs mentor, he theorized that the United State suffered from a surfeit of democracy, and that diluting the power of the establishment would lead the country to ruin. In 1975 Huntington authored a pessimistic report entitled The Crisis of Democracy, about the challenge to the dominance of white Protestants by Hispanic immigrants. In his 1996 book, The Clash of Civilizations, he warned that âMexicans pose the problem for the United States,â simultaneously predicting and bemoaning the growing influence of Muslims in Western Europe.
From Harvard, Kobach went on to earn an M.A. and Ph.D. in Politics at the University of Oxford, attending having been granted a Marshall Scholarship. Returning to the U.S., he studied at Yale Law School, where he earned a law degree in 1995, and became an editor of the Yale Law Journal. During this time, he published two books: The Referendum: Direct Democracy in Switzerland (Dartmouth, 1994), and Political Capital: The Motives, Tactics, and Goals of Politicized Businesses in South Africa (University Press of America, 1990)."
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Iâd be ok if they moved the line up just a bit and called it a victory. But this is virtually eliminating it for almost all of them, and then you know the big guys would cry âunfair competitionâ and get what regulations are left rolled back.
Who is just under the line proposed with the bill? They decided where to draw it, and those are the ones Iâm most concerned about now.
even though his language and the ACLUâs was identical. He called the idea that he copied the ACLUâs language âinconceivable.â
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I would love to see him face perjury charges, but I know that bar is high.
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What price a degree?
No wonder Kobach seems so deflated. Courts across the country have shown themselves reluctant to facilitate his electoral Beer Hall Putsch.