Reply #11: That assessment is mostly correct. But you're not acknowledging the power [View All]

[Toucano]

the executive branch has (had) to go after that corporate money. Instead:

• The architects of the Wall Street meltdown were put in charge
• Geitner made sure AIG paid 100% on the disastrous derivatives debacle
• Bush tax cuts got extended
• No prosecutions or investigations of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for violating RICO and election laws
• No prosecutions of Wall Street executives for fraud

It's like if Superman went around handing out kryptonite the way Obama has allowed the corporate money-noose to tighten.

Rove/Cheney put Martha Stewart in JAIL for the equivalent of jaywalking, but Obama can't seem to find any muscles to flex because he's focused on the "tone in Washington", reacting to the rabid ramblings of Beck, Hannity, et al and chasing the glorious, gooey "center".