Obama refuses to occupy William Black (or Why I hate Democrats).

(2 pm. – promoted by ek hornbeck)

William Black already has a teaching job, but what he really needs is an occupation at Justice where he can kick some fraudulent ass.  Here’s vid from Democracy Now with Amy Goodman that I doubt gets front-paged at any high-traffic liberal blogs:

Among the highlights:

Kill too big to fail banks (systemically dangerous institutions) now!

Recruit FBI agents, make referrals.  (Black had more than 500 X the manpower per $fraud than FBI has now).

Prosecute fraud.  Prosecute the big boyz, CEOs, COOs, etc.

Fire Geithner, Holder, & Bernanke.

Re-regulate.

On Obama upholding law and preventing further losses?  He’s done absolutely nothing.

…we’ve been living for some years in the time of President Obama, and he has done absolutely nothing to reestablish the criminal referral process. And as a result, there are virtually no prosecutions of any elites.

Good luck finding this interview front-paged at GOS (kind of like FP posts on Libya).  That’s the cost of being excessively partisan: the corporations are going to kick your partisan ass.  As Black says, “This is not Red State / Blue State Issue.”  So, please for the love of gawd, Blue State, this is way bigger than “more, better Democrats.”

Citizens United:

…now [the Supreme Court have] gone whole hog in Citizens United and produced an atrocity. Right? In a country that was already overwhelmed with corporate influence, they said all the restraints, essentially, are off, and [corporations] have almost complete constitutional protection to do anything. And so, the domination by corporations, and in particular by finance, which is now the biggest funder of both parties, is going to grow very substantially, unless we fight back.

On Bank of America yesterday dumping $billions or $trillions of its shittiest derivatives onto the taxpayer:

…it just broke yesterday that affiliates of Bank of America-this is Merrill Lynch-with really bad derivatives, has been allowed by the Federal Reserve to transfer perhaps many billions, or perhaps even trillions-we don’t know-of these derivatives to Bank of America, which is where we come in as a federal guarantee, and it puts us on the hook as the government. This is obscene public policy, the kind that would have never been permitted in our era. And now, under a Democratic president that rails about excess influence and not putting the taxpayers at risk, that’s exactly what they’re doing.

It’s more important to many IOKIYAD liberals to protect the President than to speak frankly about reality, even when it involves trillions of dollars, many, many trillions of dollars in losses.  Where have I seen that before?  Oh, right, when Bush was in office being defended by so-called Rethuglicans.

Maybe that’s why Occupy Wall Streeters massively identify as politically independent:

Among other striking findings, Codero-Guzmán discovered that 70 percent of the survey’s 1,619 respondents identified as politically independent, far-and-away the vast majority, compared to 27.3% Democrats and 2.4% self-identified Republicans.

“That finding surprised me based on what I had heard in previous conversations about the movement” said Codero-Guzmán in a telephone interview with TPM on Wednesday. “I wasn’t expecting many Republicans, but I was expecting more self-identified Democrats. In recent years, there’s been an increased interest in who political independents are and what political views are and what are their levels of interest in particular issues, which will only continue as the election cycle progresses.”

After watching so much partisan hackery recently, I’m not surprised in the least that the people who matter, who are “kicking so much ass lately,” don’t really give a hoot about parties and formal electoral politics.  Heckuva job, Democrats.  

And get out of the way!