I know I’m supposed to love Eric Schneiderman, the pugilistic attorney general of New York who has spent much of the past two months beating up on the banks. Everyone from the president (who chose a JPMorgan Chase executive to serve as his chief of staff, for heaven’s sake) on down has seemed willing to give them a pass. But there’s Schneiderman, demanding that the banks pay several pounds of flesh for the pain they’ve caused. Over the past few weeks, he’s been the subject of sweet-smelling profiles in The New York Times and Politico (“America’s Most Powerful Liberal?"
; Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi and Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel are among the high-profile lefties blogging about his heroic powers.
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“He’s probably right that his approach would get more money, but that’s not the most important thing for people like me,” says Rheingold, who has been battling predatory subprime lenders dating back to his days as a Legal Aid attorney in the 1980s. “It’s fixing the damn system. It’s making sure people who can save their homes have the right to save their homes.” Then, with the sigh of someone who's been engaged in the same fight for a very long time, he adds, “I think sometimes we lose sight of what’s possible to achieve.”
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/10/05/is-eric-schneiderman-s-ego-sabotaging-bank-reform.html
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