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Eliot Spitzer (4.00 / 1)

should be on that commission.

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by: joanneleon @ Wed Jul 01, 2009 at 20:17:01 PM CDT

Yes (4.00 / 1)

Great idea. Let's stick someone best known for being a hypocritical idiot on a important commission like that. Great idea.  

John McCain: Beacuse lobbyists should have more power

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by: Populista @ Wed Jul 01, 2009 at 20:22:28 PM CDT

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There aren't many politicians that aren't ... (4.00 / 2)

hypocritical idiots ... it's not like you can appoint Bernie Sanders to every commission

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by: Calvin Jones and the 13th Apostle @ Wed Jul 01, 2009 at 21:38:21 PM CDT

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Spitzer (4.00 / 5)

Went after Wall Street successfully and paid dearly.  Those crppks spent $2.1 million of their own money to hire privaste detectives to get Spitzer.

Spitzer is cleaner than Vitter who is still in the Senate.  Wall Street had no revenge motive against Vitter.

Btw, Wall Street is made up of rich, well connected fools.  The fewer inside deals and the more open Wall Street is the more Main Street will be willing to invest rather than in real estate, businesses, etc.  They are not dumb but ...

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by: David Kowalski @ Wed Jul 01, 2009 at 22:29:20 PM CDT

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