Obama to Use Pension Funds of Ordinary Americans to Pay for Bank Mortgage “Settlement”

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59. "the time to address the issue is while the 'sausage' is being made?"

Absolutely not - at least not the "lay pundits". One of the biggest reasons why single-payer, let alone a Public Option failed was because the media decided to describe, in detail, the entire sausage-making process as it happened.... I expect that many may think that this would be in the spirit of "transparency", but the reality is (for anyone who has done negotiations), all it does is harden the positions from either side and you fail to get an agreement. The assumption being that if you don't do such-and-such, then you "lose". And the public watching all this got disgusted and to this day, are disgusted with the result. With any "settlement" or piece of legislation, there is alot of legalese that must be factored in so that the result passes muster with the Constitution, existing laws/regulations, and precedents.

I think the administration has been wanting to announce the reform of MANY unifinished intitiatives - No Child Left Behind repeal, Immigration, etc., etc., but it seems that every year, some catastrophe takes precious months away from being able to focus on the agenda (e.g., catastrophic oil spills, earthquakes, tsunamis, global upheavals, an intransigent congress, etc), and some continue to crack the whip to do more regardless.

The previous administration left so many booby-traps and gutted the government so, that it's sad that when trying to even staff up departments like HUD or DOJ (AND get these folks trained) to handle all the criminality that needs to be investigated, the administration is still blamed for not doing more with nothing.

It's also sad that DU continues to leave Congress out of the equation. Seems the only names mentioned are Bernie Sanders or in this case, Sherrod Brown. Occassionally Barney Frank's name comes up from the House side... But where is mention of the head of said Banking, Housing, Urban Affairs Committee (a Democrat who is from a state where banks seek haven)?

Oh well.