Ben Smith -
The Republicans are only as strong as their weakest link. Now, here's an illustration, and herein lies the problem with Republican Party.
There's a story, MSNBC, Scott Brown, the Republican who won Ted Kennedy's seat, is going to vote "yes" on financial reform. There is no conservative anywhere who would vote "yes" on financial regulatory reform.
It is a fraud of a bill. It should not come close to even passing. But here we have a Republican voting for it, and if you read the story, he makes arguments that sound very much like liberal arguments, that it does all these wonderful things, that it's got a consumer bill of rights in it, it's gonna make sure that big, fat cats on Wall Street don't get to screw anybody anymore when in fact it does not do that, and it cannot do that, and it will not do that.
So this is going to be up to the Republicans, what they do with this victory in the House that even the White House now appears to be hoping for. Even Rahm Emmanuel has stated that Wall Street should be grateful for this watered own financial reform bill. It could have been a lot worse.
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There's a story, MSNBC, Scott Brown, the Republican who won Ted Kennedy's seat, is going to vote "yes" on financial reform. There is no conservative anywhere who would vote "yes" on financial regulatory reform.
It is a fraud of a bill. It should not come close to even passing. But here we have a Republican voting for it, and if you read the story, he makes arguments that sound very much like liberal arguments, that it does all these wonderful things, that it's got a consumer bill of rights in it, it's gonna make sure that big, fat cats on Wall Street don't get to screw anybody anymore when in fact it does not do that, and it cannot do that, and it will not do that.
So this is going to be up to the Republicans, what they do with this victory in the House that even the White House now appears to be hoping for. Even Rahm Emmanuel has stated that Wall Street should be grateful for this watered own financial reform bill. It could have been a lot worse.
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