Take a look at that dubious visage. He's Kansas Rep. Kevin Yoder. Kevin's
predominantly supported by the finance cabal. Kevin isn't good at words and original ideas and stuff, so he had
Citigroup write the provision that everybody hates (everybody except the politicians voting on it, sadly) in the "Omnibus spending bill."
In a sign of Wall Street’s resurgent influence in Washington, Citigroup’s recommendations were reflected in more than 70 lines of the House committee’s 85-line bill. Two crucial paragraphs, prepared by Citigroup in conjunction with other Wall Street banks, were copied nearly word for word. (Lawmakers changed two words to make them plural.)
They also redrafted it for him. Yoder, for his part, is being super quiet and
mysteriously uncommunicative about his recent actions.
Yoder has been mum about the spending package since it passed the House. His office hasn't responded to multiple requests for comment on why he slipped the Citigroup language into it. The press statements on his website say nothing about the provision or the spending bill. There are no posts about it on his Facebook page. He's said nothing in his Twitter feed.
Representative's work is done. The question now is will we see him with a huge war chest, running for Senate and then president in a couple of years, or just making a ton of money on some bullion-based finance company's "board"?