Comments on: Cornyn Forced By Teabagger Base To Keep NRSC Out Of Senate Primaries

By: hawkseye36

hawkseye36 — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:44:32 +0000

Oh well, Cornyn can always go back to impersonating Dudley Do-Right.

By: mesamick

mesamick — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:39:48 +0000

If the teabaggers can gin up hate and fear among the evangelical unibrows around the country, why can’t we progressives get a “grass roots” in-your-face organization going as well?
I’ll be there manning the front row on the picket lines when we get one.
Just like that cow-plop Texan Cronyn shows, put a little pressure on the GOP’ers and they fold up like cheap lawn chairs.
Anybody out there know where I can sign up and “take it to the streets” – Like a gentleman of course. I’ll check back to see if there are any replies to this inquiry…

By: Spiffarino

Spiffarino — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:45:01 +0000

Yeah, sure Johnny.

No way the NRSC and RNC will stay out of Senate primaries. It would be electoral suicide not to vet candidates for national office. You can bet the NRSC will pull every string possible to get their “Smilin’ Bobs” on ballots in the wake of the NY-23 debacle. The only question will be how invisible they can make themselves to the Teabaggers.

By: RevBev

RevBev — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:27:08 +0000

You betcha’….Good Morning.

By: selise

selise — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:43:21 +0000

egregious is right, it was bipartisan. here is my old diary on the legislative history of glass-steagall repeal — and for good measure a couple more on the cmfa 2000 (which among other things is where the enron loop hole was put)

http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/3828
http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/2141
http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/4597

By: readerOfTeaLeaves

readerOfTeaLeaves — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:34:11 +0000

Correct. But Phil Gramm, R-Tx, was pushing it in the Senate, along with this GOP Senate colleagues.

Summers and Rubin gave Clinton terrible advice, but recall that by 1998 when Glass-Steagall was discussed (and the Enron loophole would soon slip into the legislation), the GOP – particularly in the Senate – was the one making the rules. By that time, Clinton was mostly playing defense.

By: PPDCUS

PPDCUS — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:55:27 +0000

James Fallows was right in 2005. Countdown to a Meltdown

By: Gasman

Gasman — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:44:18 +0000

The teabaggers now have Cornyn as their latest bitch. The NRSC and the RNC are about as useful as teats on a boar. Why does any member of the GOP even bother getting out of bed?

By: PPDCUS

PPDCUS — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:29:50 +0000

evening all

By: Kelly Canfield

Kelly Canfield — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:18:33 +0000

And btw, let me just say this;

Once you remember that Freedumbworks = Teabaggers = Koch & Company, then you see that it’s Streetocrats in action. They play in the opposition to the Streetocrats who are actually in the chairs of power.

Streetocrats don’t mind screwing each other over, either. Paulson screwed Lehman because he could. He helped AIG and Goldman Sachs because he could. Geithner will help/is helping Goldman Sachs because he can.

Rahm is just trying to make sure he navigates to his best interest, so adios Sarbanes-Oxley! Streetocrats 4 EVAH!