2005 M. Taibbi Got Exclusive Access To See How Sanders Got Things Done, Until Corruption Trashed It

[kpete]

2005, the year before Sanders became a Senator, Matt Taibbi followed him around as he pushed through 4 massive amendments that actually passed in the House, then thanks to The HORROR SHOW THAT IS CONGRESS all got neutered. Perhaps if Sanders is in the Oval Office, that will change.


Inside the Horror Show That Is Congress

Warning: Should not be viewed by small children or anyone with a shred of idealism

By Matt Taibbi August 25, 2005


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[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. "Those that respect the law and love sausage should watch neither being made."

-Mark Twain

[think]

2. Good read. TY /nt

[Skwmom]

3. No wonder they don't want the people invovled. The EX-IM Loan stuff is priceless.

In the ongoing orgy of greed that is the U.S. Congress, the Financial Services Committee is the hottest spot. Joel Barkin, a former press aide to Sanders, calls Financial Services the "job committee," because staffers who work for members on that committee move into high-paying jobs on Wall Street or in the credit-card industry with ridiculous ease.

"It seems like once a week, I'd get an e-mail from some staffer involved with that committee," he says, shaking his head. "They'd be announcing their new jobs with MBNA or MasterCard or whatever. I mean, to send that over an e-mail all over Congress – at least try to hide it, you know?"

The Ex-Im loan was a policy so dumb and violently opposed to American interests that lawmakers who voted for it had serious trouble coming up with a plausible excuse for approving it. In essence, the U.S. was giving $5 billion to a state-subsidized British utility (West-inghouse is a subsidiary of British Nuclear Fuels) to build up the infrastructure of our biggest trade competitor, along the way sharing advanced nuclear technology with Chinese conglomerate that had, in the past, shared nuclear know-how with Iran and Pakistan.

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