Beltway Dems, lavish with taxpayer money for banks, grudging for people who are going to lose their homes

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7772So-Where-s-My-Fucking-Pony-PostMore bandaids, bubblegum, and baling wire. Why don't the Beltway Dems figure out a way to slap Obama's name on HOLC -- which is proven to work, please read the detail -- and pass it?

Anyone would think they wanted to give the bankers trillions, with no accountability, and then keep the little people enslaved to debt for the rest of their lives. Because that's how things are working out right now, and at some point, people are going to figure out that what keeps happening isn't an accident.

Couldn't Obama make some phone call on this? Like He did to pass the Bush + Reid + Pelosi + Obama + Paulson trillion dollar bailout for the banks? I mean, does the Czar know?

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