The real reason the GOP won’t confirm Richard Cordray?
Richard Cordray | Veronica V photography | Wikimedia Commons
The White House is pressing hard these day for Republicans on Capitol Hill to confirm the presidents nominee as chief of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
The bureau, a production of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, is a watchdog agency whose charge is to protect ordinary Americans from abuses by the finance industry. We’ve heard a lot about those recently.
Cordray is a former Ohio Attorney General with a strong record of consumer protect in the Buckeye state.
The Republicans say they won’t confirm Cordray until the law (which isn’t strong enough) is significantly weakened some more, so we can have another Wall Street crash or something.
But I think there may be another more subtle reason: The GOP dislikes Cordray intensely because as Ohio Attorney General he went after the con man Bobby Thompson and the fraudulent U.S. Navy Veterans Association Thompson created.
Flim-flam man and GOP contributor Bobby Thompson
Thompson, whose whereabouts are unknown, stole as much as $100 million via that scam outfit, and for years he was a reliable money machine for conservative candidates.
One of those was Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, to whom Thompson gave $55,500 after Cuccinelli personally pleaded for campaign cash. (Cuccinelli, who ended up giving that tainted money away, still hasn’t been able to find a crime to charge Thompson with).
Cordray remains the only only elected official in the land who had the cojones to indict Thompson and convict one of his cohorts.
For pictures of more of Thompson’s pals, click on the jump, and you’ll see what kind of weight he pulls in Washington.
Cordray’s the guy who went after their man.
'Bobby Thompson' with House Speaker John Boehner
'Bobby Thompson' and Sen. John McCain
'Bobby Thompson' and Rep. Adam Putnam, R-Fla.
'Bobby Thompson' and GOP strategist Karl Rove
'Bobby Thompson' and Rudy Guiliani
'Bobby Thompson' and former President George W. Bush
December 9, 2011 - 9:00 AM
One good scumbag usually knows another. The GOPers would jump up and down in orgiastic joy and approve Cordray, the payroll tax reduction, and unemployment benefits if the President would just take care of the pipeline project for their oil co. buddies, let them gut the consumer protection law, and sign off on killing the EPA. I hope he sticks to his guns and tells them to go to hell!
Nope. Dodd-Frank is a smokescreen to blame private banking for government malfeasance. The GOP rightly wants to undress this strawman.
One of the problem in government today is the refusal of Congress (and right not that means Rethugs) to confirm people for certain leadership positions. That means that said agency ends up completely rudderless, which in fact is even worse than having a leader you might disagree with philosophically or a leader whop isn’t that effective. But Repubs don’t care; they’re willing to destroy the country if that’s what it takes to get their way.
And still the middle class GOP continue to fall for the GOP’s talking points and vote against their own self interest.
“One good scumbag usually knows another.”
Yep.
Tony Rezko
Bill Ayers
Bernadine Dorhn
Rashid Khalidi
Frank Marshall Davis
Barack Hussein Obama Sr.
Heck, Imagine what you get when you are born of and RAISED by scumbags?
Lake, you forgot van jones the self proclaimed communist, real close friend of barry soetoro the self proclaimed marxist.
How much do the Democrats pay you to push their spin?
“The law firm that represented Ohio in the AIG case pumped $125,000 into Cordray’s campaigns.”
http://news.investors.com/Article/588704/201110191852/Cordray-Can-Wait.htm
Hmm. I guess Dan forgot the photo Thompson and Democrat Patsy Ticer. You remember Ticer. She’s the one who accepted Thompson’s contribution in exchange for a proposing a bill favorable to his organization doing business in Virginia.
I’m sure it was a honest omission.
Don’t have that photo, Suzie. Send it to me, and I’ll put it up.
Patsy Ticer (the contribution to her was $1,000, was (literally) a Patsy in this case. She was a little old lady who got duped.
I wonder who advised Thompson, or his lobbyist, Samuel Wright, to snooker Patsy into introducing this legislation.
Could it have been Cuccinelli, to whom Thompson paid $55,500, the most of any lawmaker in the whole country? Cuccinelli has acknowledged knowing Sam Wright.
I admit, it’s very curious.
Lake Claytor, this is for you and the source is just for kicks.
http://suzieqq.wordpress.com/2008/01/03/criminals-in-the-bush-administration/
You really are embarrassing yourself, but at least your fans are amused.
Oh, man.
Suzie has a blog!
#11 Good lord, and what a great list of Bush criminals! With Shrub at the head of the list!
Patsy Ticer (the contribution to her was $1,000, was (literally) a Patsy in this case. She was a little old lady who got duped.
I wonder who advised Thompson, or his lobbyist, Samuel Wright, to snooker Patsy into introducing this legislation.
Oh, I see; she was an unwitting victim. Just like Eric Holder. Shouldn’t we get rid of all these damn dumb gullible Democrats? Or better yet, give them the same voter tests we should give to the 0prah watchers who elect these dingdongs.
WOW Henry, thanks for that link! That is as close to an admission that Cordray is going to upset the GOP apple cart of influence and CYA as I have seen lately. You really should be more circumspect in what you link to, but thanks for the rare honesty!
It’s interesting how much it makes conservatives’ blood boil when you bring up this subject. Evidently it’s quite a sore spot with them.
You gotta wonder where the $100 million Thompson reported raising went. After his Natural Light and tequila tab, there must have been quite a bit left over.
Something tells me a lot more of it went into GOP campaigns than we know.
Dan
Maybe that’s why Bob McD and Kenny the Cooch are not in jail (yet).
Watch out Suz, your racism is showing.
Watch out Suz, your racism is showing.
Not me, mj. I supporedt Herman Cain. Did you?
So Suz…you just admitted to supporting Cain for
nothing other than race. Thats quite an interesting comment.
Quite interesting…you want to make another stab at it?
So Suz…you just admitted to supporting Cain for
nothing other than race. Thats quite an interesting comment.
Quite interesting…you want to make another stab at it?
Really? I said that?
Cain is about 100 times more accomplished than Head Injury Boy. He would have been a great president, but the racist MSM basically lynched him. Unfortunately this blog participated in that.
Glad to see they caught that scumbag.