Thom Hartmann: The Most Disingenuous Attack Against Bernie sanders Yet
What Hillary conveniently left out is that her husband, President Bill Clinton, along with her current campaign’s chief financial officer, Gary Gensler, drafted and pushed to insert the Commodities Futures Modernization Act (CFMA) into an 11,000 page must-pass annual budget appropriation at the final hour. Then her husband enthusiastically signed it into law. Only the most naive or deceitful would suggest that voting for a huge spending bill to keep the government from shutting down means you are voting for every single thing in the legislation. After Bernie (and other Democrats) discovered the manipulation, he championed the fight against the CFMA, including later getting the “Enron Loophole” removed and trying (unsuccessfully) to block Goldman Sachs’ Gary Gensler from securing an Obama appointment to chair the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. What does Hillary do instead? She hires the $60-million Gary Gensler to advise her campaign and help her with debate prep. No doubt he and his ilk are on her short list for Treasury Secretary.
Posted Feb 21, 2016, 8:42 PM UTC