It turns out that Chris Dodd isn’t really in favor of the Volcker Rule, prohibiting commercial bank from proprietary trading–that is, making casino bets on the market. This aligns with what was reported two days ago, but disputed by Dodd’s staff yesterday. I’m confused.
Despite Scott Brown’s victory, there’s still a lot of debate over the fate of health care reform around Washington and in living rooms across America. (There’s even some debate here at Swampland.) Every day we try to read the signs and report back how things are looking. Should supporters feel hopeful? Are Democrats just plotting [...]
Yikes. Stephen Colbert is getting credit for shredding Harold Ford on his show last night–and he was skillful at trying to pin down the would-be New York Senate candidate. But most of Ford’s wounds were self-inflicted. (Video after the jump.) Among those Ford managed to insult in under six minutes:
From a letter, acquired by ABC News, from John Brennan, White House Homeland Security adviser, to Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House: We believe that significant improvements to the detainee review process have contributed to significant improvements in the results. According to the most recent report to Congress pursuant to section 319 of the Supplemental [...]
“No matter how I look at the issue, I cannot escape being troubled by the fact that we have in place a policy which forces young men and women to lie about who they are in order to defend their fellow citizens….Allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly would be the right thing to do.” [...]
I was on Bill O’Reilly’s program last night, which was sort of hilarious. The most insufferable part of it was the Fox conceit–really insufferable, after the recent poll that scored Fox as the most trusted news source–that their viewers represent “the folks.” Yes, they undoubtedly represent some of the (Republican) folks. And Daily Kos–via Ben [...]
It looks like dealReporter, the publication Michael Scherer and I cited yesterday on financial regulatory reform, got quite a bit wrong. Scherer reports below that Republican Senator Richard Shelby says he’s undecided on the so-called Volcker Rule to limit casino-gambling by banks. And Senator Chris Dodd was entirely misrepresented by dealReporter, Scherer and me: He [...]
