After all the poor bankers have been through, they can’t even go to Chicago for their annual conference and enjoy their Roaring 20s cocktail party without having to contend with a bunch of protestors.
What do these protestors want, for Pete’s sake?
It wasn’t like the bankers were partying and playing golf the whole time. A hundred of the more than 1,500 in attendance took time off to help fix up a house they had foreclosed on.
It would be hard to find two congressmen more politically opposite than Brad Sherman and Jeb Hensarling.
Sherman is solid Democrat from the San Fernando Valley in southern California. Hensarling is a red-meat Texas conservative protege of former senator Phil Gramm.
Sherman and Hensarling may not agree about anything else.
But the two men have been outspoken in one shared view: that the bailout known as the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP has lacked accountability or transparency from day one.
President Barack Obama won the election because he clearly articulated a more inclusive, smarter and more accountable vision of how government should function. People were tired of politicians who treated government as the enemy. They wanted somebody who could get it to work.