Banking Reform Legislation Background

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So now that we're done (for the moment) with the HCR, it is on to Banking Reform. This work has been ongoing in the House (who passed a bill already) and Chris Dodd's Banking Committee. The Congress is in recess now, but it is worth taking some time to get up to speed on the coming issues and the bill itself.

Sunday Afternoon Reading

The Party of Cruelty was written by James Howard Kunstler last week after the HCR was almost a week ago, but I just saw it yesterday. It is a long read, but a truly excellent retort to the apocalyptic fear and loathing ramped up by repubs -- not just during the process, but also afterwards. Fear and loathing that is now being expressed in physical threats and in property destruction aimed against lawmakers who voted for this. Make sure you go over there to read the entire thing:

Bring It, Spence.

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Terry Spence, the disgraced and defeated former GOP Speaker, berates Gibson (unknowingly to her face) about her column exposing the GOP misappropriation of funds during their control of the GA. Like a criminal who is angry at the Police for getting caught. And he thinks he can run for the House again. That would make our day.

Markell Is Now Giving Weekly Addresses.

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What, does he think he is, the President of something? All kidding aside, I do think this is a good idea, because it is always a good thing for our government to be informing us of what they are doing in our name. And if we don't like it, we vote them out, and if we do like it, we keep them. That is how America works, unless of course you are a violent Republican teabagger terrorist, but I digress. Click through for the first address.