and a permanent entry in the "don't" side of the future D candidates handbook. As in, how not to fatally undermine yourself when you have the high ground.

Sid

And, as there's no longer anyone in charge with any concern about ordinary people, it will not be addressed as vigorously as the Obama administration did.

Yesterday there was an interview with Larry Summers (yeah, I know) on NPR's "Here and Now", about what he calls the market's 'sugar high' following the election and the dangers he sees ahead of us. Repealing Dodd-Frank can only make things worse.
Link: [link:http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2017/02/02/larry-summers-trump-market-reactions|

during the campaighn, this is all about basically screwing everyone and turning this into an oligarch country.

Republicans are EVIL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Slimy Jamie Dimon can't get a loan.

EVIL fuckers !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

the finger. He is doing the exact opposite of anything on their bandwagon, which just shows the gullibility.

Anyone surprised, This cabinet is going to rape this country.

I wonder how the people who thought Trump was going to stick it to the wealthy establishment will receive this.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/02/trump-announces-plan-to-let-wall-street-scam-america-again.html

Cohn is planning to weaken the fiduciary rule, which he believes robs Americans of their freedom to hire financial advisers who might want to rip them off. “This is like putting only healthy food on the menu,” he tells the Journal, “because unhealthy food tastes good but you still shouldn’t eat it because you might die younger.”

Cohn’s metaphor is worth exploring. Healthy food, in Cohn’s example, is equivalent of investment advice that’s good for the client. Unhealthy food is like investment advice that’s bad for the client (but good for the adviser he has hired.) Why shouldn’t people choose how much healthy versus unhealthy financial advice to hire? Well, the reason financial advisers are required to follow their clients’ fiduciary interests, rather than assuming that the logic of the free market will naturally produce optimal scrupulousness, is that investing is extremely complex. There is a huge asymmetry of information between professionals who work at investment firms and their customers. A customer at a restaurant might be able to eyeball the menu and guess that the spinach salad is healthier than the pizza, but a customer shopping for financial advisers is not going to know which ones will give them the best financial advice versus the ones who might might be trying to enrich themselves at the customer’s expense.

Cohn promises his plans to gut the fiduciary rule are just the beginning of Trump’s offensive against Dodd-Frank. “This is a table setter for a bunch of stuff that is coming,” he promises the Journal. The items he’s setting out on that table will probably be healthier for Goldman Sachs than for the country.

might was well finish the job that was started in 2008...the uber-wealthy need to consolidate power and resources, to the detriment of...well...everybody else, and this is the way to do it.

Republicans are traitors to humanity, and will be held accountable when the dust settles in a couple centuries. And if I were still alive then, I wouldn't feel sorry for them.