{"id":189263,"date":"2010-04-27T14:41:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T19:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/04\/27\/failing-by-design\/"},"modified":"2010-04-27T14:41:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T19:41:00","slug":"failing-by-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/04\/27\/failing-by-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Failing by Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, after releasing an ambitious plan to reign in the exotic insurance-like financial instruments known as swaps, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601110&amp;sid=aYwNA9lS4cpE\">Blanche Lincoln is saying that she thinks that the proposal will not survive the Senate<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Senator Blanche Lincoln  said she isn\u2019t sure her plan to make banks wall off their swaps-trading desks has enough support to become part of financial-regulatory overhaul, while calling the provision effective change.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know if I have the votes\u201d for the provision, Lincoln said today. When the measure comes to the floor for debate, senators could vote to remove her plan, Lincoln said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Let&#8217;s be clear, Senators don&#8217;t say things like this about proposals of theirs that they want to pass, they say it about proposals of theirs that they want someone else to kill.<\/p>\n<p>Lincoln is trying to <a href=\"http:\/\/bluearkansasblog.com\/?p=2197\">present herself as the liberals&#8217; great white hope in the primary<\/a>, but it&#8217;s just a pose, which is why the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/politics\/war_room\/2010\/04\/27\/chamber_of_commerce_tv_ad_supports_blanche_lincoln\/index.html\">US Chamber of Commerce is doing a TV ad blitz for her<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Do not be deceived:  She is owned by Walmart, the big banks, the health insurers, and the rest of those pig felching rat bastards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, after releasing an ambitious plan to reign in the exotic insurance-like financial instruments known as swaps, Blanche Lincoln is saying that she thinks that the proposal will not survive the Senate: Senator Blanche Lincoln said she isn\u2019t sure her plan to make banks wall off their swaps-trading desks has enough support to become part &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1000,1004,1051,1020,978,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-elections","category-finance","category-hypocrisy","category-legislation","category-politics","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189263"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}