"Congress is fully owned and controlled by a tiny sliver of narrow, oligarchical, deeply corrupted interests." 4/29/09, Salon.com
5/3/2009, "Dick Durbin: Banks "Frankly Own The Place," Huffington Post, Ryan Grim
"Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) has been battling the banks the last few weeks in an effort to get 60 votes lined up for bankruptcy reform. He's losing.
On Monday night in an interview with a radio host back home, he came to a stark conclusion: the banks own the Senate.
"And the banks -- hard to believe in a time when we're facing a banking crisis that many of the banks created -- are still the most powerful lobby on Capitol Hill. And they frankly own the place," he said on WJJG 1530 AM's "Mornings with Ray Hanania." Progress Illinois picked up the quote."...
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4/30/2009, "Top Senate Democrat: bankers “own” the U.S. Congress," Glenn Greenwald, Salon.com
"That Congress is fully owned and controlled by a tiny sliver of narrow, oligarchical, deeply corrupted interests is simultaneously so obvious yet so demonized (only Unserious Shrill Fringe radicals, such as the IMF’s former chief economist, use that sort of language) that
- even Durbin’s explicit admission
- will be largely ignored.
Even that extreme of a confession (Durbin elaborated on it with Ed Schultz last night)
- hardly causes a ripple."...
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Blaming the banks is great because it keeps the focus off the real criminals, politicians who buy what the banks are selling. ed.
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