Call me a cynic but I don’t buy the crap being sold. I think Obama made a deal on the CFPA and/or the Volcker Rule and is just pretending that they will end up in any regulation – as he did on with the Public Option, even after he made a deal with the private hospitals to remove it from the final bill.

Ever notice how the House always takes him literally at his word and pass exactly the bill he publicly calls for but the Senate always comes back with the Half-loaf and he is always happy with that half-loaf?

That is Obama’s strategy, he first gets liberals excited with talk of serious reform, then uses this as a means to threaten those for whom reform would be punitive and then broker a handshake deal that stops the opponents from opposing reform too much as well as contribute to the Democrats coffers. In turn he agrees to jettison the most stringent portions of that bill letting the Senate do his dirty work (we need 60 votes as cover).

It’s a new shakedown scheme which is triangulation on steroids.

He then sells out his base becuase they won’t go anywhere (he can take them for granted becuase a little change is better than nothing, right). If someone gets it in their head to oppose on principle, then he cries about damaging the Presidency if liberals sink the bill, loyalty and all that, you know.

Why would anyone care about your presidency if you continue to put a gun to your own head by jettisoning the most defensible portions of your bill so that you can get a "win" and corporate donations for the Party? Well the liberals in Congress are a practical bunch who want their piece of that shakedown money.

No wonder liberals are becoming cynical, we are lead by cynics in Washington.