Consumer Watchdog – Keeping Politicians Honest - Dirty Money Watch

More ways for Wall Street to twist arms in Congress

January 21, 2010 | Posted by Carmen Balber

The Supreme Court just gave Wall Street (and the rest of the corporate world) the go ahead to spend unlimited money running ads for and against political candidates. According to the Court's logic, it shouldn't make a difference for voters, or politicians calculating election strategies.

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Neutralizing Lieberman and his ilk

December 16, 2009 | Posted by Judy Dugan

This sizzling editorial (two words you can't often use together) in the New York Times lays out the damage Sen. Joe Lieberman has singlehandedly done to health reform. It's the best argument you could find for following the call of my colleague, Jamie Court, to dump the Senate's 60-vote "filibuster rule" that lets industry mouthpieces like Lieberman play a suicide bomber role against reforms.

 

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Joe Lieberman and the corporate capture of health reform

December 14, 2009 | Posted by Judy Dugan

When Sen. Joe Lieberman said last week that he might favor a health reform bill that traded away a "public option" for letting people over 55 buy into Medicare, he must not have checked with his bosses first. Now that the...

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DC Dispatch: How the House deals with financial reform

December 10, 2009 | Posted by Carmen Balber

I'm having a hard time understanding how an industry that stole Americans’ money, gambled with it and pocketed billions, then came begging to taxpayers for a bailout when their bets went sour, has managed to keep the brakes on financial reform for this long...

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The "New Democrats" are really "The Banking Democrats"

December 10, 2009 | Posted by Jamie Court

If money is the mother milk of politics, then big bucks from the banks and financial industry are souring financial reform legislation being debated in the House of Representatives this week. A new analysis by Consumer Watchdog shows just how rotten the Capitol Hill dairy is.

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