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American oligarchy

The Weekly Standard
by Christopher Caldwell

[E]very time the president accuses Republicans of trying to ‘block progress’ or of defying ‘common sense,’ as he did that night, he is executing a dangerous tightrope walk. His party’s electoral fortunes depend on his making forceful calls for reform of our banking laws. His party’s fundraising fortunes depend on his ensuring that no serious reform — of the kind that endangers the big banks’ size and power — ever happens. That may be why the Democrats’ strategy of painting the Republicans as obstructionists on finance reform has gained little traction. By the same token, if Republicans ever did get serious about reforming the banks — and even about breaking up an industry that has turned into a Democratic war chest — they would put Democrats in mortal peril. There seems no chance of this. Obama’s taunts show a confidence, verging on certitude, that Republicans’ hypocrisy is as deep as his own... (for publication 05/10/10)

http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/american-oligarchy


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