Reply #6: I don't think Eric Holder doesn't know what he's doing

[szatmar666]

I don't buy into your argument that this Birkenfeld case is just moving in the wrong direction because of the bureaucratic dead weight of government. Bradley Birkenfeld is the first whistleblower from a major swiss bank in HISTORY and if the administration was really serious about ending the shadow banking system which makes it possible to offshore jobs and profits they wouldn't send this chilling message to future would be whistlebloewrs.

I'm sorry but I am not looking for fast results, only for a move in the right direction and I am not seeing it. that's why my other argument was the Bush tax cuts because repealing that should have been his #1 priority in April 2009. When he conceded fiscal policy to Bush and the republicans for HIS ENTIRE TERM I knew something was not right about this president. Sorry, but that's just a fact. He is giving republicans cover with this continuing fiscal mess in order to cut social programs. Now we both know that the mess was created by republicans the last 30 years, but Clinton had a way to fix it. Why not go back to Clinton's fiscal and monetary policies right away?! He didn't need 61 senators to do that! Unless Barack Obama believes that cutting social programs is acceptable. In fact his budget proposal is 2/3 cuts and 1/3 tax increase!