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On behalf of a plane-stuck Karen Tumulty
A few hours in Paris, all spent on tarmacs and filing rooms. We are now stuck in the plane and one of the network guys is trying to make us feel better by playing Edith Piaf on the loudspeaker of his iPod. I’m living the dream.
Meanwhile, Sarkozy all but endorsed Obama. I wouldn’t be surprised if he ends up the Democratic convention keynote speaker. Bruce Crumley will post a story shortly.
Candidates often say things when polling in the single digits that come back to haunt them when they start leading the polls. Last October, Rick Santorum gave an interview with an Evangelical blog called Caffeinated Thoughts, in which he said contraception is “not okay,” and that this would be a public policy issue he would tackle as President. In particular, he said he would “get rid of any idea that you have to have abortion coverage or contraceptive coverage” as a government policy. Start watching the following video at 17:55.
There’s nothing “wrong” with protests built around placard-hoisting and park-squatting, but Occupy the SEC is definitely doing something right with its radically different tack. The OWS-offshoot has submitted a 325-page letter to federal financial regulatory agencies on the Volcker Rule, a controversial measure designed to prohibit banks from proprietary trading, or making investments with their own dollars rather than their customers’, that was passed as part of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law.
