Comments on: Fighting the Wrong Fight on Financial Reform

By: Fighting over financial reform | The blog of Nathan Hunstad

Fighting over financial reform | The blog of Nathan Hunstad — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 22:54:40 +0000

[...] FrumForum has been the only bastion of fairly reasonable conservative thought. Take, for example, this post in which Peruvian free-market thinker Hernando de Soto Polar lists what he thinks is necessary for [...]

By: Time To Hate On Derivatives? - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine

Time To Hate On Derivatives? - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:07:00 +0000

[...] Suderman | April 27, 2010 David Frum thinks there ought to be less opposition to derivatives regulation. The real problem with financial [...]

By: Go Dog Go!

Go Dog Go! — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:53:34 +0000

Balconesfault: Nope. That’s even more depressing. If the GOP want to sacrifice America’s very economic foundation for an ounce of political gain, then I want no more part of this party.

Moderate voices must rise up and yank the Republican Party back to sensibility. Until GOP leadership can go to the bargaining table to get actual work done, not just score petty political points against Obama, our country will continue to suffer.

By: sgath

sgath — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 08:05:21 +0000

On your recent conversion back to a thinking, ideas, Conservatism. It would have helped a lot during the Bush years.

“Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.”
—Charles Mackay, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, 1841

By: Senate Republicans Block Debate on Financial Reform Bill

Senate Republicans Block Debate on Financial Reform Bill — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 04:01:56 +0000

[...] David Frum (a conservative) to be “one of our greatest free-market thinkers,” outlines the ideal regulations for derivatives which happen to be included in the bill: – All documents and the assets and [...]

By: balconesfault

balconesfault — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 03:35:16 +0000

Go Dog Go: How on Earth could the GOP vote so loudly in favor of the same people who are bleeding our country dry?

If it makes you feel any better, I’m convinced that a lot of the Republican votes aren’t so much in favor of Wall Street, as they’re against any potentially popular legislation passing that Obama could take credit for.

By: Go Dog Go!

Go Dog Go! — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 01:33:44 +0000

I find myself increasingly disillusioned with this party and conservatism as it is today. Financial reform is not only necessary to our national security, it is a political imperative. How on Earth could the GOP vote so loudly in favor of the same people who are bleeding our country dry?

The outrage among moderate Republicans is getting louder. Will they listen? Ever? I’m beginning to doubt it.

By: ottovbvs

ottovbvs — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 23:30:55 +0000

chicago_guy // Apr 26, 2010 at 10:40 am

“What kind of PERSON thinks that it should be legal to bleed the poor and most vulnerable of their income via overly-attractive lending pitches?”

……A Republican kind of person…..is this a secret?…….the bottom 50% of the population, or maybe more, need to be protected from themselves…….Paternalism?……sure……but at bottom I’m right…..typical Republicans however see these people as sheep to be sheared…..rather as people like Palin, Murdoch, Beck, O’Reilly and all their small time imitators see the Republican faithful as sheep to be sheared……I’ve no particular interest in protecting tea partiers from the depredations of this flock of vultures but the American middle and working class deserve some protection because basically they don’t in the main have the cultural or intellectual resources to look out for themselves…..Sad but true.

By: rectonoverso

rectonoverso — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:43:21 +0000

Spare me!

I sure as hell want to have watchdogs who will impose understandable credit card and mortgage contracts. It has nothing to do with small businesses. You would know that if you had ever run one.

By: blowtorch_bob

blowtorch_bob — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:21:31 +0000

Quote of the day:

“The talking point of the Wall Street apologists is that we can’t touch Wall Street because they are after all the life blood of the economy. The only blood in these parasites is what they have sucked out of Americans.”