While the continuing Trump sideshow distracts, the banks and credit card companies (including Wells Fargo and Equifax) are using their Republican pawns to screw us:
Senate Republicans struck down a rule that would have let Americans sue banks and credit card companies https://t.co/8b7qfnvDvA— The New York Times (@nytimes) October 25, 2017
Only a political party able to manipulate its supporters with bread & circuses could justify voting for this billhttps://t.co/60bSe9Xm8G— Michael Cohen (@speechboy71) October 25, 2017
And, tellingly,
Just In -- the Senate, including brave truth-tellers Corker, Sasse, and Flake just gave banks a free pass to screw people again.— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) October 25, 2017
John McCain, too.
Meanwhile,
BONUS: Charles Pierce on what the Republicans have done --
You know who’s going to get hosed now, Senator McCain? All those veterans and military families that you’re always so tender about. You know who’s going to take it in the ear, Senators Corker, Flake, and Sasse? All those middle-class people in all those little towns that you spend most of your time praising as the reservoir of Real American Values. None of those people mattered a damn to you Tuesday night, and it wasn’t the president* that forced you to make this vote. You did it with cold deliberation and calculated forethought.That fits Republicans' core belief : "Afflict the afflicted, and comfort the comfortable."
