After Day of Feuding, Jeff Flake and Bob Corker Join Trump to Upend a Major Consumer Protection

[HipChick]

With national attention focused Tuesday morning on a mushrooming feud between President Trump and Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., followed by a feud in the afternoon between Trump and Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., the Senate gift-wrapped the biggest present Congress has so far bestowed upon Wall Street in the Trump era.

With a razor-thin margin, the Senate passed a resolution to nullify a signature regulation from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which banned forced arbitration provisions. Such clauses, tucked into the fine print of contracts that nobody reads, deny consumers the ability to contest claims through a class-action lawsuit, and can allow banks and other financial institutions to rip off their customers with virtual impunity.

https://theintercept.com/2017/10/24/after-day-of-feuding-jeff-flake-and-bob-corker-join-trump-to-upend-a-major-consumer-protection/

[onecaliberal]

1. They both vote with his whims 95%+ of the time.

[Angry Dragon]

2. Cooker and Flake show how much they care about the people

I do not want to see another post how these two really go after Trump.......asholes

[hatrack]

3. But Corker and Flake - Such Mavericks! They're Really Standing Up For Americans Now!

They can both go and fuck themselves backwards.

No more words. ACTIONS. Actions, votes, deeds.

Stop fucking telling us how "concerned" and "troubled" you are. Start acting as though that were actually the case.

These clowns have apparently discovered the whereabouts of the sky, and we're supposed to be all impressed.

[volstork]

9. THIS.

Exactly this.

[Stuart G]

4. So, the so called "rebels" joined their "leader" in screwing consumers. Outsanding Post!!!

..this is very important what happened. Those forced arbitration provisions screw the hell out of us average consumers. Not such anti-republican as people think.. That is what the republicans do to consumers.

Thanks for posting and letting us know about the so called "rebels" who really don't give a sh*t about American consumers...

[FreepFryer]

5. Wow. BAM! They're still robbing the bank on behalf of their own while yelling "Help! Robbery!" (n/t)

[Wounded Bear]

6. ACA vote aside, McCain has been doing similar for years...

No surprises hear. Lot of empty rhetoric, but when it comes time to vote, they are still Repubs. Flake made a great speech, but he never really attacked Trump's policies, just his assholiness. Dems hate him for both.

[marybourg]

7. Let's not confuse their animosity towards tRump

with actual abandonment of their extreme right wing ideals. To an extent, they hate him because he's not a RW purist. On one issue we may be able to make common cause with them, but they're not our friends. Don't expect them to be.

[dlk]

8. It's All a Part of the GOP Scam - Distracting the Masses with Infotainment

Rachel Maddow nailed it when she said she was not going to pay attention to what Trump said, only what he did. The same should hold true for all Republicans in Congress. They are all in on the long con.

[Lifelong Protester]

10. Only paying attention to what Flake and Corker DO not SAY.

[HipChick]

11. No Twitler posting about Flake...

Everything seems too well co-ordinated...

[bagelsforbreakfast]

12. +1 They are "fellow travelers" n/m

[czarjak]

13. Be sure and explain it to the grandchildren, Jeff.

[dalton99a]

14. They are Republicans. Words are cheap. Always watch what they do.

[lastlib]

15. These GOP-fuckers don't care about anything except their billionaire buddies and corporations.

Their whole schtick is to fuck over the lesser classes.

[Midnight Writer]

16. The wealthy have determined they no longer need the US prosperous to make money

We were a "production economy". But cheaper workers outside country killed that.

We were a "consumer economy". We supplied the shoppers who bought the goods. But rising prosperity globally means billions of more customers around the world. Plenty of other shoppers.

We were a "global economy" We were providing capital to the rest of the world, while profiting from returns. But only the very top took direct income from it.

Now we are the "service economy".

Step after step after step downward. If you are a working stiff.

Our wealthiest are not driven by patriotism when a profit is to be made.

[shanny]

18. This.

[bdtrppr6]

17. i'm getting tired of typing

"fucking assholes".

"our new heroes". yeah right.

[Vinca]

19. I had forgotten Jeff Flake was one of the original Tea Party devotees.

We shouldn't expect him to suddenly act like a normal person. He's quitting because he's losing to a bigger nut in Arizona.