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Thu, 09/25/2008 - 11:17am — lambert

TalkLeft:

It is my hope and I exhort Senator Clinton and other Democrats to insist on a HOLC mechanism, even in principle in this bill, if without actually legislative authorization. This bill must recognize that a HOLC solution is part of this package.

I will gladly exchange HOLC for the bankruptcy change that has been proposed. Let's do this Democratic deal.

Bingo!

See HOLC here.

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BTD has been holding down the reality fort over at TL. Well done

By elixir on Thu, 09/25/2008 - 11:19am

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Barney Frank on that executive compensation thingy:

By elixir on Thu, 09/25/2008 - 11:21am

"On the executive compensation thing, it went to the core of their (the Bush administration's) being," said Frank. "It was like asking the chief rabbi of Jerusalem to eat bacon on Yom Kippur. It was the most unthinkable thing they could think of."

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/i...

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Faux populism

By lambert on Thu, 09/25/2008 - 12:01pm

Well done Barney, for kicking the Rs in what they consider their nads, but executive compensation is still a diversion.

[ ] Very tepidly voting for Obama [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win. -- Mahatma Gandhi

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Why can't we have both?

By gqmartinez on Thu, 09/25/2008 - 11:32am

People are furious about this thing and Dems, if they tried, could build a lot of public support for both.

Only tyrants rig elections.

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Lambert -

By danps on Thu, 09/25/2008 - 12:17pm

I was extremely skeptical last weekend that the HOLC language would make it off the HRC web site, but I'm glad to be proven wrong. Good on her for showing leadership with the WSJ piece today and for putting the idea front and center. On that point, mea culpa.

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Yeppers.

By lambert on Thu, 09/25/2008 - 12:26pm

Ran into the WSJ piece just now on memeorandum, and posted on it.

Of course, the Village's ability to betray is without limit (FISA reform, cough), so it's not a good bet that anything helpful, like HOLC, will be done -- but the odds are better than they were.

[ ] Very tepidly voting for Obama [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.

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