If the Financial Reform debate were a script
It would go like this:
Harry Reid: This Bill eliminates Too Big to Fail and Taxpayer Bailouts.
Barack Obama: It sure does, and it’s just what we need, right, Mitch McConnell?
Mitch McConnell: This bill guarantees Taxpayer bailouts.
Harry Reid: Um, no it doesn’t.
Mitch McConnell: What we don’t need to do right now is to overburden the financial industry with regulations.
Harry Reid: But then we’d be open to this happening again. We’d have solved nothing.
Mitch McConnell: Neener Neener.
Harry Reid: Well, let’s just get it out of committee.
Mitch McConnell: That bill was made behind closed doors with no input from Republicans.
Harry Reid: Um, there’s Republicans on that panel, and we took out provisions they didn’t like.
Mitch McConnell:This bill is unpopular.
Harry Reid: The polls say 66% of Americans support tough reforms so that this doesn’t happen again.
Mitch McConnell:The Senate is designed by our forefathers to be a body of great debate.
Harry Reid: Fine, let’s vote on cloture and then debate it on the full floor.
Mitch McConnell: We’ll philibuster.
Harry Reid: We’ll show the public how obstructionist you are.
Mitch McConnell: Uh, Uh…..(runs out of excuses)
