Hensarling

click on the image to understand who really wants to protect us from Wall StreetYesterday, one of the Trump campaign murky higher-ups, Paul Manafort, claimed that the Republican platform will advocate bringing back Glass-Steagall, which will, he said, "create barriers between what the big banks can do and try and avoid some of the crisis that led to 2008." Although corrupt corporate Democrats-- primarily Bill Clinton and

This week, the Wall Street banksters' very own House Financial Services Committee chairman, Jeb Hensarling-- after his meeting with Trump Tuesday morning at Trump Towers-- renewed his push to gut Dodd-Frank consumer protections, some

Jeb Hensarling (R-TX), crooked chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, is one of the GOP's bagmen for Wall Street banks. He collects the dough from the toxic banksters he's supposed to be overseeing and distributes it inside the Republican caucus to build his own power base among the rank and file. He wrote a personal check to the NRCC this cycle for $2,130,739.

This week, Paul Ryan has been pushing a new GOP talking point about how Dodd Frank is to the banking system what Obamacare is for the healthcare system. In other words, he's way on board with Wall Street whore and House Financial Services Committee chair Jeb Hensarling in wanting to repeal or dismantle the consumer (and societal) protections, as weak as they were, in Dodd Frank.

The other JebJeb Hensarling-- who has no Democratic opponent in his R+17 suburban Dallas district-- is the chairman of the Financial Services Committee and has accepted $1,121,622 in legalistic bribes (i.e., "campaign contributions") from the financial sector so far this cycle, the 4th most of any Member of Congress.

The House passed Dodd-Frank on Decenmber 11, 2009 without a single Republican vote. As always, the Republicans were for the crooked banksters-- but so were 26 Democrats. Most of those Democrats have since been fired by the voters-- or forced to resign-- and only 6 remain in Congress today:

I'm up to the part in Elizabeth Warren's new book, A Fighting Chance, when she's the chairman of the congressional oversight panel (COP) for TARP.

It isn't easy getting credible and dependable Republican staffers on Capitol Hill to speak with me, even off the record. They're almost as bad as Blue Dogs and New Dems. I lucked out the other day-- with a slightly drunk-- and very horny-- one, who took a shine to my companion and was eager to show how well-connected he is. He seemed a lot more certain than anyone else I've spoken to that Boehner won't be running for Speaker again.