FinReg: Snowe, Brown, Collins... all on board!

[DCBob]

GOP's Snowe, Brown back Wall Street overhaul bill
By JIM KUHNHENN (AP) – 17 minutes ago

WASHINGTON — Sens. Olympia Snowe and Scott Brown pushed sweeping financial legislation to the edge of final passage Monday, both announcing they intend to support the regulatory overhaul despite initial misgivings. Snowe of Maine and Brown of Massachusetts join Susan Collins of Maine as three crucial Republican votes for the legislation.

"While not perfect, the legislation takes necessary steps to implement meaningful regulatory reforms, create strong consumer protections and restore confidence in the American financial system," Snowe said in a statement Monday evening. In breaking with the rest of the Republican Party, the three lawmakers appeared to give Democratic leaders the 60 votes needed to overcome procedural hurdles facing the legislation.

more; http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g7ffRdswXTlfgaQS0FCOZmrvbwcAD9GTQNN80

Feingold can now filibuster with whoever he wants.. it wont matter.

[Patsy Stone]

1. That's nice

Thank you, Senators. A small, tentative :thumbsup: to you.

[DCBob]

5. Hold the champagne.. Ben "the un-Democrat Democrat" Nelson is balking..

We may need to wait for Byrd's replacement.

[Patsy Stone]

6. Damn, he's such a pain in the ass.

:mad:

[Arkana]

2. Goddamnit, Russ, trade places with Snotty Scotty

so I don't have to give him props for voting for this.

[Skink]

3. We need to lose about 3 Senate seats so we can forget aabout the Filibuster.

[jenmito]

4. Ben Nelson may join the filibuster and make it 59 again. n/t

[DCBob]

7. Yeah, I just saw that. Why is that guy even a Democrat?

Does he ever vote with us?

[jenmito]

10. I was looking for his voting history...

he votes once in a while with Dems. but not often at ALL. http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/n000180/votes/

[DCBob]

11. Wow, even worse than I thought.. almost lockstep with the GOP.. amazing this guy is a Democrat.

Thanks a bunch for looking that up!

[jenmito]

12. I know! I was just glad to see a few votes with the Dems...

but only a very smaLl percent of the time. I guess that's still marginally better than a Repub.

No problem!

[YvonneCa]

15. He's not...

...really. :)

[kennedyphan]

8. The banks will no longer screw consumers

This is huge news.

[Cant trust em]

9. The banks will have to find different ways to screw consumers.

They're quite creative.

[harun]

16. You forgot the sarcasm tag. It is sort of what banks do.

[TheKentuckian]

13. and the next meltdown will be worse than the last and in not too long

Our country and people will likely pay a heavy toll for not taking rational measures to drain the Wall Street swamp and at least restoring capital investment instead of allowing the casinos to roll on.

There is some nice new furniture, carpet, and maybe even some decent appliances but the house is still burning down.

Failure to go after this hammer and tongs in a similar way to a war effort is evidence of a suicidal tendency.

[DCBob]

14. How long? How much worse? Give us some details.

You seem to know it all.

[LatteLibertine]

17. I'm highly suspicious of

anything someone from the GoP would support. I wonder what's being surrendered for said support.

[AlinPA]

18. They will withdraw support at the last minute. Don't trust any of them.

[Jennicut]

19. This actually just makes Scott Brown more of the bane of the ultraconservatives.

Little Scotty Centerfold has to keep walking that fine line between trying to keep support in his own party and stay popular in Mass, not the most conservative state around.