The Republicans in the Senate are playing their procedural games and not even letting financial reform be debated on the Senate floor.
They did not vote against the current bill, they voted against even allowing it to be discussed, debated, and amended. So the bill sits in legislative limbo for now.
This is while so many regular Americans are suffering so badly in the current economic crisis as a result of the Wall Street's reckless behavior.
Rather than doing something to hold Wall Street accountable and taking measures to prevent this sort of crisis from happening again, the Republicans, by stalling, are protecting those who caused the problem.
But maybe that's because they know where the campaign cash is coming from.
Now that corporations -- including the big Wall Street firms (who exist today because of taxpayer bailouts) -- are free to spend unlimited cash on political campaigns, could it be that the Republicans no longer feel they even need to appear to care about Main Street?
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