Dear Wall Street,
I held up my end of the bargain. The statutes of limitation are expired for most things and the settlement will be signed today.
Send those checks to my Super PAC and your identity will remain confidential.
Priorities USA Action
1101 15th Street, NW 2nd Floor
Washington, DC 20005
We understand that you'll continue to complain about how I occasionally and publicly call you "fat cats" in my temporarily populist campaign speeches. As we told Canada about that NAFTA talk, just ignore all of that for now until roughly November 6th and it will be all cleared up after that.
Your Savvy President,
Barack Obama
P.S. No worries about Oklahoma. Their Attorney General didn't sign because he doesn't believe the banks should be sanctioned at all.
P.P.S. No worries about New York. We've got him fenced in.
P.P.P.S. Took care of that bothersome suit in Nevada.
Update: bobswern has published a good diary on this issue right here:
Yves Smith: "The Top Twelve Reasons Why You Should Hate the Mortgage Settlement"