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Lobbyists, Bankers, Accountability, and Change We Believe In?

By Markus - Feb 17th, 2009 at 1:38 am EST

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The recent appointment of Mark Patterson, a recent Goldman Sachs lobbyist, as Mr. Geithner's Chief of Staff is leaving me scratching my head about whether Mr. Obama's White House thinks we're all chumps, incredibly trusting, willing to suspend our disbelief, or just don't care. And that on the heels of appointing Mr. Geithner, who is himself a former Bank Executive, as Treasury Secretary. I was under the impression that Obama had promised us to close the revolving door -- am I mistaken? It might be one thing to stomach this incongruence (not to say hypocrisy) under normal circumstances, but at a time when the banking industry has essentially played a central role in dragging us into the quicksand, this is too much. We have to break the banking industry's iron grip on our government, but this sure doesn't seem like the way to go about it. Barack, what gives?

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