Sorry, Fruit Flies, for dragging you into this - you did nothing wrong! It's just out Main Stream Media is more and more like you, critters, thus the comparison...
It's about this CNN article (and there are any similar examples from NBC, AP, and others) that I want to talk about "Progressives gird for Capitol Hill battle" at http://www.cnn.com/...
The article starts with this:
"Washington is entering a new era of kamikaze governance, this time with Democrats at the helm."
It then goes on to talk about Elizabeth Warren's passionate rejection of "just this one clause" in the CRomnubus, and her effect on some House Democrats, who also rejected that same clause, and ended up voting "Nay".
Pause here. Here is why it's on the news to begin with:
1. this CR was expected to pass, b/c otherwise, we'd end up with a government shutdown and a possible sovereign default like in 2013, which was a courtesy of the RWNJ Ted Cruz. Thus, the expectation goes, only crazies like Ted Cruz would be "OK to be messing with it" this time around (because he'd done it before, so it's OK to do it again) - but not the Good Ol' Dems!
2. but, unexpectedly, the good Ol' DEMS decided to mess with it - this is so newsworthy! And, oh, the Drama!
Take a deep breath. And let's recall what happened about a year ago: the R's slipped a "poison pill" - which was to defund Obamacare, - and the D's did not bite . That led to the shutdown etc.
Fast forward to the present: the R's also slipped a poison pill (several, actually!), but the D's were somehow OK with all of them! (By the "D's" I mean the White House and Harry Reid - they were just fine with this "new poison pills". Like they did not even care anymore?!)
So, it came down to the lower-ranked Dems to bark at the poison pills - like Elizabeth Warren. Many Congressional Dems - with Mme Pelosi herself - joined her, but the Cromnibus passed anyway...
So, what about this new poison pill(s)? Oh, well, it's not like the "old one", which tried to defund "the signature Obama law", Obamacare, that everyone - even MSM! - knows about.
This new one "merely" meant to roll back a part of the Dodd-Frank bill, and relax the newly imposed regulations on derivatives. Who cares, right? WTF is this Dodd Frank derivative-shmerivative thing is all about anyway? It can't be as important as Obamacare, which gave health coverage to millions of Americans who otherwise could not have it. Derivatives? Is this like in calculus? Or something on Wall Street?
Yes, both. Same derivatives that caused the Great Recession of 2008. That forced foreclosures on millions of Americans. That wiped out 401K's of even more of millions of Americans, and sucked dry the treasuries of several sovereign nations who needed bailouts and austerity. Same derivatives that put billions of $$$ in the pockets (bank accounts) of a handful of CEOs and some traders, but took homes, jobs and food from the millions of others. Not only in the US, but around the World!
Yeah, those derivatives. Not as "tangible" and "localized" as Obamacare, for sure, but much more destructive, and much more pervasive.
This is what MSM forgot about... This is what Obama forgot too! I guess it's expected if you have a memory of a fruit fly, but... I so expect more of the President of the United States, and the Main Stream Media!!!
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Contrary to these "powers that be", Elizabeth Warren, a lonely, fragile lady, caught onto this Republican BS right away, and went after them like a hound dog, refusing to let them get away with it. And she would've prevailed - if Obama, Reid and MSM were not so eager to "get a job done", dammit.
So now Elizabeth is portrayed on MSM as a "counter to Ted Cruz". Un-f-ing-believable! A thoughtful, thinking, caring person like Elizabeth is equated to an opportunistic playboy, who cannot say a single word without lying, conniving, plotting, scheming, and making me want to puke!
If one cannot see a difference - any difference! - between these two, you must be totally blind . Or detached from the human race altogether.
If one cannot understand what Elizabeth tried to stand up for - you must be dumb, or at best, uninformed.
And if you don't remember what CDRs and CDOs brought us in 2008 (names for fancy derivatives) - than you truly have a memory of a fruit fly.
Congratulations, MSM, Obama and most Congressional Democrats! With this Cromnibus passing, we are back to pre-2008, right? So, CDRs and CDOs are kosher again?!
UGGHH!