JP Morgan has finally, finally been brought up to account in the congressional hearings yesterday. Senators Levin and McCain could barely contain their disdain and outrage suffering the self-serving and evasive responses to their incisive and deeply prepared questioning.
Selecting Jamie Dimon would be a gift to the powerful investment bank constituency plying their trade already in the all too comfortable niche of 'too big to fail.'
If the Justice Department can catch a baseball player, why can't it catch the guy who forecloses on peoples' homes, and whose actions pressured the economy to his own benefit while millions were losing their jobs?
The transfer of billions upon billions of dollars from American and world consumers to oil interests both domestic and foreign continues on and will continue in spite of the programs enunciated by the president.
This is the moment for the President to end "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." If Obama fails to seize it, many young LGBT service members will surely be fired, careers ruined.
Obama is telling gay rights activists that he "will have to study the implications for national security and enlist more Congressional support" before trying to overturn "Don't Ask, Don't Tell."