Harry Reid(D) blocked the critical amend to strip Citigroup rider from Cromnibus
12/15/14
The amendment forces Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to choose between holding a vote to strip out controversial changes to Dodd-Frank in the House-passed omnibus, or anger the progressive wing of his caucus. Reid had already signed off on the funding bill in its current form, and the White House has also backed the measure and urged its passage.
..."Wall Street has been working behind the scenes to open another loophole so they could gamble with taxpayer money and get bailed out when their risky bets threaten to blow up our financial system," said Warren. "This giveaway that was drafted by Citigroup lobbyists has no place in a critical government funding bill."
"Before Congress starts handing out Christmas presents to the megabanks and Wall Street, we should vote on this bipartisan amendment," Vitter said. "We need to remove these risky derivatives that aren't even necessary for normal banking purposes and would only make future taxpayer funded bailouts more likely."
Reid is unlikely to allow a vote on the amendment during a crowded Senate schedule. The spending bill, including the Wall Street subsidy, is expected to pass by a wide margin.
UPDATE: 6:20 p.m. -- Reid filed cloture on the omnibus and "filled the tree," a procedural maneuver that bars everyone from offering amendments. In other words, Warren and Vitter's amendment has no chance of being added to the spending bill.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/12/elizabeth-warren-david-vitter-wall-street_n_6317098.html
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our party & our country is really frowned upon here.
Who would've thunk it? I'm truly surprised & gobsmacked.
Btw, I didn't alert on Sid's post. I didn't even know what it meant. But I always thought he was a troll. Ha! Go figure.
to have me kicked off of DU. I'm shocked.
But thanks very much to whoever did realize that & alerted. You tried.
See ya!
It's just what they do.
However, this isn't really mainly a battle between progressives and "centrists" for the soul of the Democratic party, although there is certainly an element of that, and it is certainly understandable for reporters to talk about it in those traditional political battle terms. But what this is more fundamentally about is a battle between the biggest special interest corporations in the world, who tend to have overwhelming sway over everything in Washington, and those of us who want to confront and rein in their power.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025928334
The swarm that immediately greeted your OP could not be more obvious in their intentions. It's almost like they expected it, and were waiting for it.
Your OP is factual, and counter to the Third Way agenda, so they attacked you personally. For the Third Way, facts and truth don't matter. All that matters to the Third Way is pushing the fascist corporate agenda by any means necessary.
^^^this^^^ is all I see from some here. Smacks troll to me!
Canada? Must be. 
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underwater mortgages and homeless families with starving children on the streets.
It MUST be their support of the banking industry! 
a few more years of harper and his Keystone pipeline, and Canada will be Northern Texas 
. Not like the left there can unite to vote him out, because le Bloc Quebecois would rather join the EU than Canada
Sid
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"....this poster should not even be allowed to interfere in American politics." 
Well that certainly narrows down the alerter pool, doesn't it? Good grief, people. 
Though you rock as well. 
I am always so mystified by those who pile onto Sid and always, ALWAYS bring up that he's from Canada. Some of the most unhinged anti Obama posters here have LOUDLY proclaimed that they live in other countries, and some of the loudest, dumbest members of that crew seem to forget that they are too are non-Americans or Americans living in other parts of the world. 
If their opinions are welcome here, why not Sid's or anyone else's?
So this whole "Sid's CANDADIAN!1!one" thing is not only incredibly stupid it's also dishonest and hypocritical too. That jury did the right thing. Serious props.
just like Glass-Steagall was....
We'll fix it later! LOL!
Oh, that one never gets old...
The cowardly capitulators in Congress? 
Man, you're on a roll!
Still waiting on Dems to fix the 2008 FISA Amendments (which would have sunset and returned to pre-Bush status, and all Harry Reid had to do was NOTHING, but no, he brought the bill up for a vote and here we are. Thanks, Harry!)
Because yeah, America LOVES a weak LOSER.
Who wants to vote for the milquetoast 98lb weakling...
who gets to keep his lunch money from the bully... for one day!
lol
Marta and I will think twice before donating to him again!
And the democrats wonder why they keep losing races, its right there in front of there noses, its called having a spine, principles, protect those that put you in office, that is your job.
Warren, Sanders, Brown and others know this, didn't the leadership get the memo, apparently not, or they just don't care, this is outrageous.
If the Warren-Vitter Amendment had been included AND if the spending bill had passed (the second one being a big "if" ... the bill would have gone back to the House for a vote. Do you really think the amended bill would have passed the House?
BTW, please address this:
Democrats take advantage of the swell of republican/conservative/teaparty opposition to the derivative push-out roll-back and write individual legislation re-establishing the rule (and removing all the other horrible stuff the spending bill contains; but could only pass as part of the must pass spending bill. All (most) Democrats (and a significant number of republicans) will support the individual legislation, as who, without the cover/lack of transparency of the spending bill, will come out against it?
I can only assume you have read; but, are choosing to ignore it. If so, do so directly.
Oh & here he is again . . . the one with the glasses.
- Right?
