TYT: White House Wonder Twins Blocking Fed Audit

[The Northerner]

Run time: 05:34 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85uKx9Ao15I   Posted on YouTube: May 04, 2010 By YouTube Member: TheYoungTurks Views on YouTube: 5331   Posted on DU: May 04, 2010 By DU Member: The Northerner Views on DU: 2039

 

[BrklynLiberal]

1. How the hell can they justify opposing this???????????

[The Northerner]

3. I wonder about that as well.

Who, besides Fed officials & financial crooks, would NOT want the Fed audited?

[dotymed]

13. Even by opposing this audit

Obama is sending (through Rahm and Geithner) an unmistakable message to the American people. "Wall street comes first." If President Obama doesn't fire these thieves, he is proving that he is for the wealthy and actually opposed to main street. If he wants any "ordinary citizen" support, (the 80% that owns 3% of the wealth), he must fire these elitists and support the audit of the FED. It is our money. Transparency? Bullshit.:wtf:

[whereaminow]

22. "Wall street comes first."

What, you didn't already know that before the elections? I'm very surprised... It's been that way for over 30 years.. Nobody seems to care enough to vote the thieves out of office, except to put in their own thieves... Round 'n round it goes..

[whatchamacallit]

2. The gatekeeper administration (n/t)

[Crowman1979]

4. Why hasn't Obama fired those two assholes already?

Where did his balls go? Or did he have any to begin with?

[Kalun D]

17. Because

He's down with it.

These are his hand picked right hand men.

This is the Obama administration

Why do people think just because Obama was portrayed with a rosy progressive image on the corporate television that he's really not a neolib corporatist?

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[progressoid]

6. Those Fuckers need to go.

And Summers too.

[20score]

8. Yes they do!

[Capitalocracy]

7. Ron Paul is against the Federal Reserve

and he's a free market fundamentalist all the way. If the Fed is too much privatization even for a guy like him, then it's way out of line. Why in the world did we think it was a good idea to privatize the issuing of currency?

[ihavenobias]

10. K & R n/t

[slipslidingaway]

11. knr nt

[florida08]

12. and when democrats

or the whitehouse are seen as obstructionists..they'll go down in flames in November and Obama's presidency will become a lame duck

[ooglymoogly]

20. But that is what Emanuel is working toward

If he can't get pugs with a D after their name (the MA election), then fuck it, drop the pretense and just put pugs back in charge. Then O can look good again, fighting the good fight, against a backdrop of true lunacy and corporatocracy can continue to rule under the camouflage of kabuki theater and cover up its theft in secrecy and O can pretend he is against what he is not. He does not like it when the pivot is on him and he has to show his true colors. He is now also behind the move to smother freedom of the internet; Handing over control to ,once again, to corporate America.

[whereaminow]

24. And when they go down in flames

we can give everything back to the republicans, exactly the way it's supposed to work. Change one villain for the other.. So the 40 year career bureaucrats can keep their jobs.

[florida08]

25. oogly and minow

looks like some caving going on

Burr, McCaskill Flip-Flop for Wall Street on Audit the Fed
Richard Burr and Claire McCaskill are signaling that they will flip-flop on Audit the Fed in order to protect Wall Street’s secret bailouts from scrutiny.

Burr and McCaskill are among 67 Senators who either voted for or cosponsored Audit the Fed in the past year...

But now that Bernie Sanders has offered Audit the Fed an amendment in the Senate, Wall Street is very much engaged, and the Obama administration is actively whipping against it on their behalf. Burr and McCaskill are just two that they will need to flip in order to sink it, though — they’ll have to find 8 or 18 rotating villains depending on whether Reid forces a 50- or 60-vote hurdle...

Was McCaskill asleep when she cast her vote in favor of the Audit the Fed amendment in April of last year? And what about Burr — not only did he vote for the amendment, he’s also a cosponsor of S.604, which is the Senate version of H.R. 1207.

http://firedoglake.com/2010/05/05/burr-mccaskill-flip-flop-for-wall-street-on-audit-the-fed/

[florida08]

27. Bernie on Cspan 2

right now talking about the amendment

[change_notfinetuning]

14. Another betrayal of loyal Obama supporters in the works. Not change; not

even fine tuning. Just Washington Business as Usual.

Give me back my Obama. This one, you can have.

[tomp]

15. let's be clear: obama is to blame.

it was he who selected emmanuel and geitner. they are on the same team and on the same page and THEY are working for HIM.

[whereaminow]

23. And we are to blame for Obama...

Many of us knew full well what to expect... and we even made some noise about it... But it was we who selected him, and now we will pay the price

[tomp]

26. "we" did not control his selection.

he was "selected" by others. the american voting system is a sham.

[whereaminow]

29. Yes we did... with our approval of the selection

If the voting system is a sham, it's because we made it that way. The money issue is bullshit. All we have to do is turn our backs to the propaganda machine, and a gazillion dollars won't make a bit of difference. We are the ones that give campaign fundage its value. And we can take it away, IF we want to. Instead the average voter is saying, "Give me convenience, or give me death". - Where is ol' boy these days? I miss him...

[ooglymoogly]

30. The election was narrowed down for us

to two candidates by corporate media, both corporate insiders; Neither truly better than the other: Though I now think Clinton the smarter and the least likely to sell the country and the constitution, down the river, as O is doing over and over and over and over. Have there been a few good moments?....a few obvious crumbs?....Even a blind pig finds a truffle now and again. We were had from the get go. Hell we were had from the blatantly crooked 2000 election. Anyone with any real honesty and integrity was eliminated early in the races as far back as any of us care to remember. Think Dean and the manipulated sound, played in a loop 24/7 if you need just one good example.

[lib2DaBone]

16. I'm shocked! Bernake doesn't want to be investigated....

Al Capone didn't want to be invstigated either...

"Bernake refuses to disclose where Trillions of dollars went to Foreign Banks".....


only in America can the crooks get away with this...

[edwinmathews]

18. Why

is Barak blocking this ?

[radhika]

19. Bankster's Dream: No Audits, No Questions, No Indictments n/t

[ooglymoogly]

21. Looking forward doncha know....we now have a government

of unbridled criminals.

[WhoIsNumberNone]

28. Emmanuel is the new Rumsfeld

He sucks
He needs to go
Everybody knows it

He'll stick around until the Democrats lose big in the midterms.