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Someone up the ladder has a "public voice".

It is hard for me to believe that if Eric Holder and/or Barack Obama were loudly saying "Wall Street is getting away because you aren't giving us funding", things would not change.

... I think the "suits some people very well" part is most to the point. It is hard not to imagine that this group includes those at the highest ranks of government.




Oh come on. Every time Obama says the word 'regulate' someone in the Republican party says it's a 'jobs killer.' [EDIT: 8 out of 10 #is wrong; ooops] 6 out of 8 of the GOP presidential candidates claim they'd slash funding for the courts, with Newt Gingrich saying he'd just ignore Supreme Court rulings completely if he disagreed with them. Sure, that's just big talk designed to get cheap news coverage, but surely you've noticed there's a bit of a political stalemate in DC right now.

Edit to add reference: http://www.justiceatstake.org/newsroom/press_releases.cfm/ca...

No, I don't make this stuff up.




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