How The Controversial Foreclosure Bill Made It Through Congress With No Public Debate

Why would you single Sanders out? Just as a gratuitous slam at socialism? Do you even know if Sanders was in the chamber for that vote?



I wouldn't defend Sanders (nor any other senator caucusing with Democrats) -- They've decided that the job of a US senator is to cut deals & do whatever compromising it takes to get bills passed into laws that can be later spun to voters as "accomplishments that've been achieved by us for you", regardless of all evidence to the contrary.



Their first priority is to keep their seats for their entire working lives or to parlay the seat into advancement for themselves by switchbacking back & forth between private & public sectors. The only way they can do that with the corrupted system we have is to work on behalf of corporations. They make laws (which they can later spin), far enough away from elections (hoping voters will have forgotten) that protect corporations' ability to gouge the People, in enough time before elections to tack back to populist rhetoric (when they need the People's votes to keep them in office).



Researching what happened in the senate that day, it's looking like the HarryReid designed a kind of 'perfect storm' to bring this bill in under the radar to get it passed, by sandwiching it between a whole lot of 'side work' (administrative housekeeping bills), late in the day, & having it introduced by one of the most boring senators (DLCer BobCasey) whose personality is
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Do you know what the DLC is and who is in it?



I'll have more to say when you answer that.
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I'm sorry but I'm not buying this "gee, who knew" BS at all. Most of these legislators are lawyers.

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Exactly, which is why this bill went through the Judiciary Committee, where everyone on it (except one, Al Franken) is a lawyer.
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I understand that.



The problem is that the state of the technology necessary for what this bill enables and the differing standards for notaries from state-to-state vary so greatly that this was a disaster in the making. The bill didn't improve anything, but was a license for abuse.



Before you would do a bill like this for any field or profession, you would have already had a uniform code adopted and in effect for all 50 states. That hasn't happened.
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This is the problem that I have with websites like this which use very young reporters who are wet behind the ears and don't really know investigative journalism.



When one House has passed hundreds of bills and the other is at a standstill and you're looking for ways to get your agenda through without raising red flags, you drop back, get creative and look for the most innocent looking Trojan Horses (or in this case, the most boring of front groups and events, Calvin Coolidge) to advance your cause.



Then you hand it to a Pat Leahy kind of rube at a 'liquid event' (Leahy does like his liquid lunches), and you're "in like Flint".



Just as important as 'what' is being done in Washington is 'how' it's being done. The American people need real journalism that exposes how business is done in Washington.
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"We're just innocently trying to advance the role of the notary public in interstate commerce."

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Why do notaries need their roles advanced?



Their roles are already assured in just about every legal documentation.



[Notaries administer oaths and affirmations, take affidavits and statutory declarations, witness and authenticate the execution of certain classes of documents, take acknowledgments of deeds and other conveyances, protest notes and bills of exchange, provide notice of foreign drafts, prepare marine protests in cases of damage, provide exemplifications and notarial copies, and perform certain other official acts.]
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Pat Leahy isn't a socialist; he's a rank-and-file pro-corporate Democrat.



You're probably confusing him with the other senator from Vermont, Bernie Sanders, who is an Independent and self-declared socialist.



This is how Americans get stup!d; by misinformation being spread over the internet. They read it here, their brains get seeded, they forget where they read it, but they remember reading it at some "reputable website", "so it must be true".



Be responsible and make sure that what you're posting is accurate.
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