Tom Carper on the Wrong Side of Yet Another Senate Fight
On one side we have consumers and mostly the middle to lower-middle class bank customers that get whacked by usurious bank transaction fees. On the other side you have biggest banks on Wall Street, the same banks who’s losses were papered over by your tax dollars, the same banks run by the same people who’s stratosphereic salaries that are protected by the Treasure Department as though their personal success was some how linked to our success as a country.
Who do you think Carper is lining up to fight for? Who do you think Carper has chosen to represent?
A fight raging in the Senate over credit card swipe fees could come to a head this week, pitting two Democratic camps against each other: populists vs. Wall Street supporters.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0611/56380.html#ixzz1OaVANtKAThe Senate could vote as early as Wednesday on a bill that would delay new rules passed last year that cap swipe fees banks can charge merchants.
What’s even more shitty, Carper is standing in Jon Tester’s shadow on this. And for good reason. Tester is getting killed by the press and public in Montana.
To understand how Tester’s efforts are playing back home, just look at the headlines in local newspapers. “Tester Sticks With Banks on Debit Card Swipe-Fee Issue,” read one that appeared in both the Billings Gazette and the Helena Independent Record last month.
“U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., self-proclaimed defender of the little guy and rural America, has sided with the banking industry on the issue of debit-card ‘swipe fees,’” the story began, “and the owners of convenience stores and other retailers aren’t happy with him.
It makes you wonder what NJ headlines would look like if the News Journal was an actual newspaper.
Amen on that one. Carperbagger is just patronizing the money that patronized him in his various election campaigns. The personal check will soon be history, or so expensive that it will be forced into scarcity. These swipe fees just get tacked onto the price of goods. A merchant can only eat so much loss. Ultimately the consumer pays for it.
I think I might side with the free market conservatives on this one. The best way to kill the swipe fees is with a merchant revolt.
Or a consumer revolt – pay cash just like our parents did. It won’t save you money at first but it will starve the banks.
But I reserve the right to disagree with myself in the future.
Anyone know if he is going to run for re-election? He has been in Washington DC for FAR too long. He is not representing Delawareans. He is part of the Elite.
I believe the entire Delaware delegation is siding with the banks on this one.
I believe the entire Delaware delegation is siding with the banks on this one.
We vote with the banks, Patriot Act, and tax cuts for the rich.
I just keep telling myself over and over “The Republicans are worse… the Republicans are worse…”
I heard Tom Carper may be primaried in the 2012 Race for Senate.
Really? Spill.
“I heard Tom Carper may be primaried in the 2012 Race for Senate.”
I heard you can get unicorn rides at the first stop beyond the rainbow bridge.
I heard… (Nope. Can’t top Geezer’s reaction. Mustn’t try.)
Tom Carper will face a primary – wait and see.
I will be calling Sen. Carper’s office in wilm. and washington tell him he is always on the wrong side. Maybe he needs a little competition for that senate seat. We should have been on this long ago. He was against the public option as well.
He was against the public option as well.
I wrote Carper about a public option a while back and Carper had the nerve to respond that he did vote for a public option, on the basis of having cast a failed committee vote for some garbled and doomed version of a public option.