Congressmen Got To Pick Sides-- For Bank Fraud Or Against It-- And 52 Voted In Favor Of Fraud

Mike Pence stands with the crooked banksters against his own constituents

Yesterday evening the House voted on Pat Leahy's amendments to a bill to "improve enforcement of mortgage fraud, securities and commodities fraud, financial institution fraud, and other frauds related to Federal assistance and relief programs, for the recovery of funds lost to these frauds." It was a real bipartisan slam dunk, passing 338-52, every single Democrat and most of the Republicans voting in favor and just 52 of the worst and most corrupt knee-jerk obstructionist and bankster shills voting in favor of fraud.

I suspect regular readers of DWT could name most of the 52 slimy obstructionists who the banksters have in their pockets. It's boring typing their names over and over but here's a sample of Republicans who count on their constituents being too stupid to know which way is up and which way is down: Todd Akin (R-MO), Michele Bachmann (R-MN), Joe Barton (R-TX), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), John Boehner (R-OH), Paul Broun (R-GA), Dan Burton (R-IN), Dave Camp (R-MI), Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), John Culberson (R-TX), Vernon Ehlers (R-MI), Virginia Foxx (R-NC), Scott Garrett (R-NJ), Jeb Hensarling (R-TX), Steve King (R-IA), John Kline (R-MN), Doug Lamborn (R-CO), Connie Mack (R-FL), Don Manzullo (R-IL), Patrick McHenry (R-NC), Randy Neugenbauer (R-TX), Ron Paul (R-TX), Mike Pence (R-IN), Tom Price (R-GA), Pete Sessions (R-TX), John Shadegg (R-AZ), Adrian Smith (R-NE), Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA)... what a pack of dogs!

The whole package had passed the Senate April 28 92-4, only the 4 worst obstructionist bankster slime in that body voting "no," Tom Coburn (R-OK), Jim Inhofe (R-OK), Jim DeMint (R-SC) and Jon Kyl (R-AZ). Coburn and DeMint are both up fopr re-election next year and both know all too well they can feed their constituents any line of crap they want and still get re-elected.

Freshman Democratic Congressman Eric Massa (D-NY) voted, wisely, against the original bailout for the banksters. But today he voted to add accountability to that bill. "When TARP first came up," he explained, "I argued to no avail that there was not enough transparency or accountability in the bill and we ended up arguing over AIG's outrageous bonuses. I would still vote against TARP, but I am happy to add more stringent requirements to the use of TARP and Recovery funds. This bill will create an oversight committee to make sure that Recovery funds are spent properly. The 111th Congress came into office with a pledge to clean up Washington and deliver the change that Americans demanded last November. Because of this public desire for accountability in their elected officials, we were able to gain overwhelming bipartisan support for this plan."

Every New York member of Congress, regardless of party, voted for the bill and all the Republicans left in the northeast except one crooked bribe taker, New Jersey bank shill, Scott Garrett, voted for it too. Garrett always votes as though he were representing a backward rural district of Texas or Georgia, always blithely unaware that his constituents distrust and hate banks, or, as new polling out this morning shows, "higher fees and a worsening image for U.S. banks have left customers of the nation's biggest lenders more dissatisfied with the service they receive." Let's hope that 2010 is the year these northern New Jersey suburbanites put two and two together and come up with who enables these banksters and start to wonder why all the other New Jersey Republican Congressmen-- Frelinghuysen, LoBiondo, Smith, and Lance-- each took the side of their constituents while Garrett took the side of the banksters.