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riqster

(13,986 posts)
Wed Jul 31, 2013, 09:03 AM Jul 2013

An Independent, Two Democrats and a Republican Walk into a Bar…

http://bluntandcranky.wordpress.com/2013/07/31/an-independent-two-democrats-and-a-republican-walk-into-a-bar/

Snip:
"OK, they actually walked into the Senate. And no, it’s not a joke. Senator Angus King (an Independent from Maine) and three others have introduced a bill that just might save our economic a**es when the next crisis rolls around. It’s a re-invention of the Glass-Steagall Act, which was stupidly repealed in the 90′s: said idiotic repeal being one of the causes of the Bush Economic Collapse."


More at the link. We may be seeing "Tripartisanship" being created here.
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