[avacado]

It's possible the increased voter support for Democratic candidates this past week is linked with the Wall Street regulatory reform bill that passed in the U.S. Senate last Thursday, July 15. The financial reform bill is the second-biggest piece of legislation to get through Congress this year, after healthcare reform, and it enjoyed majority support. According to a USA Today/Gallup poll in June, 55% of Americans were in favor of legislation expanding government regulation of financial institutions -- including 72% of Democrats and 56% of independents. Only Republicans were generally opposed.

Every Republican should be tarred and feathered for not explaining to the American public that it was the Democrats' subprime loan scams via Fannie Mae which tanked the US economy. No amount of leveraging or derivatives would have gone bad had not all those securities been stuffed with subprime loan mortgages.

[SaraJohnson]

Republicans don’t talk. If they win anything it is purely by the accident of a Socialist/racist train wreck. Pitiful.

Also, the defending BP mess and blocking unemployment insurance extension, while passing the quota loan “financial regulation” has hurt Republicans. If they are going to deny unemployment extensions during this depression, they had best make loud and clear what they are doing and why. Never defend a corporate ass in the middle of a trainwreck they caused. Why aren’t Republicans on the coast with the people down there reassuring them they will get the help they need? And never let Twinkle Toes Lindsay, Scott Brown and the Biddies from Maine pass Obama’s extreme “change.” They need to block Kagan as unqualified and out of touch and get off their knees.