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QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Feb 9, 2017 -> 07:16 AM) Gorsuch's PR/Comm guy confirmed it. http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/09/politics/don...rats/index.html As predictable as clockwork... Sen. Richard Blumenthal, who never fought in Vietnam when he said for years he had (major lie), now misrepresents what Judge Gorsuch told him?" Trump tweeted Thursday morning. Pretty bold to also contradict Sasse and Ayotte.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/08/politics/chr...rnor/index.html Chris Kennedy, son of RFK, to run for governor. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-chri...0208-story.html

http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/08/politics/joh...emen/index.html Well, we're now to the point where Spicer believes he can demand apologies from any senator from his own party who dares to question the "success" of US military operations. "It's absolutely a success, and I think anyone who would suggest it's not a success does disservice to the life of Chief Ryan Owens," said Spicer, citing intelligence obtained in the operation. Spicer's comments are a shift in his analysis of last month's operation. Last week, he hesitated to call the raid "a success 100% when someone is hurt or killed, and that was the case here." Before Spicer's briefing, McCain criticized the raid, citing the loss of life. "While many of the objectives of the recent raid in Yemen were met, I would not describe any operation that results in the loss of American life as a success," he said in a statement. Asked about McCain's comments at the briefing, Spicer said he had a "message" for anybody who said the mission was not a success, though he did not mention McCain by name. "I think anybody who undermines the success of that raid owes an apology ... to the life of Chief Owens," Spicer said. https://www.yahoo.com/news/misreading-the-t...-100036877.html Misreading the Trump Mandate I’ve been in this town for 26 years. I have never seen anything like this,” said Eliot Cohen, a senior State Department official under President George W. Bush and a member of his National Security Council. “I genuinely do not think this is a mentally healthy president.” There is the matter of Trump’s briefing materials, for example. The commander in chief doesn’t like to read long memos, a White House aide who asked to remain unnamed told The Huffington Post. So preferably they must be no more than a single page. They must have bullet points but not more than nine per page. Small things can provide him great joy or generate intense irritation. Trump told The New York Times that he’s fascinated with the phone system inside the White House. At the same time, he’s registered a complaint about the hand towels aboard Air Force One, the White House aide said, because they are not soft enough. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-...4b04061313a1fbb

If Manchin hadn't crossed lines, it would have been 51-48. At least Sessions was spared the embarrassment of having to vote for himself or have Pence bail him out. Longest continuous Senate session now since 1960 and counting with Price and Mnuchin through Saturday. Pudzer is really going to get hammered. The whole thing with Warren and McConnell over the King letter has really breathed life back into the resistance. http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/1864822...-trump-comments We're now to the point every CEO has to choose sides. The Stephen Curry/Under Armour "misunderstanding" surely won't be the last. Now Trump can go after an MVP for calling him an "ass" instead of an asset. Then the Warriors can refuse to go to the White House, etc.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Feb 8, 2017 -> 05:07 PM) Three times this week Sean Spicer has referenced a terrorist attack in Atlanta by a foreigner. The last terrorist attack in Atlanta was the Olympic bombing, done by a radicalized right wing white man from Florida. What. The. f***. http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/08/politics/spi...trnd/index.html Maybe going back to 1933-1937 isn't such a stretch after all. After Bowling Green, now this? Spicer has to be on his final legs. How could they turn around and commit the same mistake days later...particularly when Atlanta turned out to homegrown terrorism (also blamed foreigners in the beginning)?

http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/08/politics/don...elay/index.html Now Trump is giving excuse he argued for one month delay on immigration ban but was overruled (haha) by his own government http://money.cnn.com/2017/02/08/news/compa...anka/index.html Here we go...using official POTUS account to go after Nordstrom about selling Ivanka's fashion/jewelry line.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/08/politics/gor...eets/index.html Gorsuch says Trump judicial tweets are "demoralizing and disheartening"...hope there's audio/video proof here, or Blumenthal and CNN are going to be blasted.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 8, 2017 -> 11:17 AM) You do know that the Federal Reserve bank doesn't regulate MBS's right? That falls to the SEC. The only responsibility the Fed would have is as it relates to how an MBS would affect the balance sheet of a member bank, and not for the regulatory worries of the MBS's themselves. Then you have the pseudo-governmental agencies who were buying the damned things without knowing what they were or understanding them in Fannie and Freddie, giving them governmental legitimacy and thus a false price discovery to hold the whole system up for an artificially long time. And without knowing it, you are hitting on my exact point of one agency not knowing or understanding what another agency is doing, even though all of these things are eventually tied together and interwoven throughout our financial system. EDIT, and the answer is very clear, the Fed Bank has zero ability to do anything about anti-trust issues from a legal standpoint. http://www.oecd.org/finance/financial-markets/44260382.pdf How are you going to prevent the insurance industry from being involved as well (creating more "too big to fail" scenarios), like AIG? Anyone who watches movies or t.v. shows can understand the conflicts between CIA, FBI, DEA, ATF, NSA, Homeland Security, local law enforcement...there's usually less communication and sharing due to everyone protecting their own turf/budgets. So if there's a completely non-partisan way to regulate the financial/monetary system which can be completely depoliticized. I would love to see it. Just not sure it's possible in the current environment. Someone jokingly said that Twitter should have a panel of one Democrat, one Republican and one true independent to vote on whether Trump's tweets should be released in order to prevent a possible nuclear war...but how can that supposed independent not lean one way or the other?

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Feb 8, 2017 -> 08:53 AM) By the way, if there is any sort of precedent for this, any sort of "rule," it's that Presidents appointing someone to the Supreme Court during an election year is fine. One-third of all U.S. presidents appointed a Supreme Court justice in an election year How many of those were in year 8? Or happened for example in 1968 after LBJ announced he wasn't running again?

https://www.blazingcatfur.ca/2016/08/26/are...ed-killer-flip/ Looking pretty doubtful the Trump admin even vetted that list of 78 "terrorist" incidents.

The argument was giving a warning would allow a bunch of bad hombres in... Yet they had 7+ days and Miller had already finished the order. Why knowingly endanger the US since they claim there was actionable (yet secret, of course) intelligence? "Take my word on it."

Contending that a US president has wide powers to control who comes into the United States, Trump read from US law and declared that even a "bad high school student" would rule in his favor. "This isn't just me. This is for Obama, for Ronald Reagan, for the President. This was done, very importantly, for security," Trump said. "It was done for the security of our nation, for the security of our citizens, so people don't come in who are going to do us harm. That is why is was done. It couldn't have been written more precisely." http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/08/politics/don...x.html?adkey=bn Parent of backpacker on list of 78 terror attacks strikes back at Trump admin...argues daughter's murderer wasn't Islamic militant http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/08/europe/trump...debar_expansion

QUOTE (brett05 @ Feb 8, 2017 -> 07:50 AM) That's be the democratic party. Exhibit A, Chicago. Exhibit B, Cook. What has the GOP done for poor whites and blacks in the Deep South since the 1970's?

Trump really must want to lose the immigration ban appeal... "I will be speaking at 9:00 A.M. today to Police Chiefs and Sheriffs and will be discussing the horrible, dangerous and wrong decision.... If the U.S. does not win this case as it so obviously should, we can never have the security and safety to which we are entitled. Politics!"

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Feb 7, 2017 -> 08:05 PM) Nah, just growing tired of the minute by minute overreaction circle jerk on this board. Get used to it. There are a lot of liberals/Democrats that are paying attention to ALL (real and fake) news now. Before the election, roughly 85% favored Trump or was anti-Clinton (17 of top 20 stories the last months of the election). That might be down to 60-65% Trump-favoring and the rest from the left. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/arch...content/515532/ http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/08/politics/eli...trnd/index.html On the other hand, it remains to be seem whether making Liz Warren even more of a hero to the left will backfire.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 7, 2017 -> 08:14 PM) I am curious which part of the Federal Reserve bank charter deals with Anti-Trust issues? I'm assuming the FTC or SEC. The horror story could have easily been prevented had there been intelligent life at the Federal Reserve Board in the years when the housing bubble was growing to ever more dangerous proportions (2002-2006). But the Fed did nothing to curb the bubble. Arguably, it even acted to foster its growth with Greenspan cheering the development of exotic mortgages and completely ignoring its regulatory responsibilities. Most people who had this incredible infamy attached to their name would have the decency to find a large rock to hide behind; but not Alan Greenspan. He apparently believes that he has not punished us enough. Greenspan has a new book which he is now hawking on radio and television shows everywhere. The book, which I have not read, is ostensibly Greenspan's wisdom about the economy and economics. But he also tells us that his problem as Fed chair was that he just didn't know about the flood of junk mortgages that was fueling the unprecedented rise in house prices during the bubble years. He has used this ignorance to explain his lack of action – or even concern – about the risks posed by the bubble. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2...g-market-crisis Once again, how is someone so cozy with the financial press (such as his wife Andrea Mitchell and Maria Bartiromo) and the investment banks expected to objectively or fairly regulate them?

”Plaintiff had the unique, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, as an extremely famous and well-known person…to launch a broad-based commercial brand in multiple product categories, each of which could have garnered multi-million dollar business relationships for a multi-year term during which plaintiff is one of the most photographed women in the world,” the Manhattan suit says. “These product categories would have included, among other things, apparel, accessories, shoes, jewelry, cosmetics, hair care, skin care and fragrance,” according to the $150 million filing. Poor Melania! http://nypost.com/2017/02/06/melania-trump...-was-an-escort/ http://finance.yahoo.com/news/democrats-lo...-152441708.html Dems better rethink how to sell immigration plans in future

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 7, 2017 -> 05:36 PM) I don't think you understand the role of the fed at all. They are the banking system's regulatory body. The federal reserve bank isn't a PR firm. They are responsible for the safety and stability of the entire banking system. The fact that all of these financial products have relationships to the overall system alone is reason enough for them all to be done under one roof. While there has been a role of a cheerleader at times of trouble, that isn't the systems primary role at all. Not even close. The fun part is bolded is exactly the rule that Congress enacted for grading of securities. They were pissed off at the ratings agencies, so they rewrote the rules to remove all mentions of the ratings and that system. Guess who is deciding credit worthiness of bonds now? There's theory and then there's reality (like running low inflation for a decade with interest rates at zero.) Greenspan stopped regulating when things were going great and then it was too late to put the genie back in the bottle. Unless you call his "irrational exuberance" comments a brake on the gas pedal. Other than the KC Reserve Bank, what governors were even skeptical a decade ago? There's been more consolidation and too big to fail is just as true today as a decade ago. Probably moreso.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 7, 2017 -> 05:02 PM) That is the exact opposite of what I just posted. The rest of it is just partisan posing. You still haven't explained how you change that position from cheerleader/soothsayer for the economy to regulator. Seems to be a conflict. Like essentially allowing investment banks to grade their own securities since ratings agencies can no longer be trusted to be independent.

The "passing" reading proficiency scores for white students in Detroit after her nearly thirty years of fighting for reforms in the public schools...13%

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 7, 2017 -> 03:32 PM) Financial regulation in this country is a flat out disaster. You have dozens of different agencies, each with a piece of responsibilities of the overall pie. None of these organizations work together to share relevant information. Many of these rules have overlapping regulatory bodies, of which often don't disagree on the actual interpretation of the rules, and each tells the same firm to do something different with the same item. Each of these agencies got their start out of a different federal agency, most of which don't even fall under the scope of the financial sector anyway (as in neither the SEC or the Federal Reserve bank as their heads) This is just another step down that road of discombobulated financial regulations in a attempt to do some good, but without a true understanding of what actually would do some good here. Do you really want to fix regulatory issues? Burn it all to the ground and start over again. Place all financial regulatory authority into the Federal Reserve bank. Give them the authority to investigate and connect all financial products, and not just the banking system. You could even do this with the SEC at the lead, but to me it doesn't sense to do it without the institution responsible for monetary policy being the head of it. Then you have one agency with the ability to oversee all financial products, instead of just one thing at a time. You shouldn't have one body for stocks, one body for options, one body for bonds, one body for mortgage securities, one body for options, etc. Get it all under the same roof. Then you can start to fix what is systemic with the overall system, instead of just trying to stab at individual problems. How well would that have worked under Greenspan...there would have been zero oversight and regulation of the mortgage industry. You'd have the opposite problem, too much power concentrated in the hands of a few in Washington. Don't Republicans want to break up that power and let it devolve to the states? How would you keep it apolitical...since Reserve Board commissioners are appointed by Dems and Republicans alike? When was the last "bipartisan committee" to actually get something constructive done in Washington? Simpson/Bowles on budgeting?

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Feb 7, 2017 -> 02:16 PM) I'm still confused why it's okay and good to deny a President the powers of their office for at least 25% of their elected term regardless of what Joe Biden thought about it in 1992. Because of that other Kentucky case, the Brett Precedent. It has been on the alt-right/anti-government forums as long as the conspiracy theory mockumentary "Collapse."

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Feb 7, 2017 -> 04:18 PM) Again, i'm not arguing she was a stellar choice. I just don't see the doomsday scenario. I'll ask Al Franken's question. Other than shooting someone (white AND top 1%) on 5th Avenue in broad daylight, what would she have to do in order NOT to pass through to the Cabinet? It used to be having undocumented domestic workers or unpaid back taxes, undeclared money hidden (Mnunchin) would automatically kill your nomination. Nothing does anymore. The only way is the heat gets too much and those candidates quit on their own before the confirmation process.

DeVos gets in, might as well cancel the rest of the hearings as they're pointless. Next Sessions will get in, so the only one able to stop Trump will be the courts. But probably still get 30 hours for him, Price and Mnuchin. Trump promising to fight refugee ban to Supreme Court. Sigh.

Shouldn't they be arresting him? Is there a black market for that type of item...where the buyer never can even publicly acknowledge or display it? Goodell, lol?