Senators and Credit Cards
Updated, below
Oh look! A bunch of Senators are trying to get to the bottom of abusive credit card practices (the kind enabled by the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 2005, passed by a large majority, including many Democrats like Joe “What a Clean and Articulate Negro that Obam Boy Is” Biden).
Let’s take a peek!
Sen. Norm Coleman of Minnesota, the panel’s senior Republican, said high interest rates on credit cards, “hefty fees and crippling penalties impede more and more hard-working families from pursuing their American dream.”
The problem is worsened by the “impenetrable” language of credit card disclosures provided to consumers, he said.
Pretty strong words from Norm, eh? Kind of makes you wonder why he voted for the bill to begin with, doesn’t it. Why didn’t the reporter mention that?
Senators on both sides of the aisle condemned several different credit card practices. Senator Bennett and Senator Shelby both asked pointed and thoughtful questions.
I hope those pointed and thoughtful questions included “why did we vote for this bill in the first place?”, since that’s a matter of public record. Both Bennett and Sessions, who represent states with large populations of poor people, voted for this bill.
So today, I’ll be calling up all three of these filthy hypocrites, who like their colleague in cynicism Arlen “No Principles” Specter, are now running to the front of the parade, seeking credit for pretending to be against the very practices they voted to legalize.
UPDATED: I called Senators Coleman, Sessions, and Shelby (I didn’t bother with Arlen, since you’d have to believe in magic bullets to believe any of the diarrhea that comes out the asshole on his face (by which I mean his mouth), and asked “Why is the Senator complaining about these tactics, when he voted in 2005 to allow credit card companies to raise their interest rates and fees?” Not one single office would give me an answer, not one. But I can give you an answer: the reason for the hystrionics is two-fold.
Number one: They are trying to distract from the mess they made to begin with: if you’re one of the “leaders” trying to “fix Washington” it’s easier to bury your own misdeeds (watch the way the press plays ball with Senator Specter, who voted to repeal habeas corpus and is now portrayed as a moderate workign with Democrats to restore the Great Writ).
Number two: they never bothered to carefully read the bill to begin with. The Senate ordered the House to give the bill only a half-hour of debate.
And now Coleman, a man with a face like a mule and the brains of the same, is all of a sudden outraged, just outraged that ordinary people are getting screwed. And Shelby is up in arms over the sheer audacity of the bastards.
What a bunch of self-serving, cockamamie bullshit. I wish I could track down some images of the Family Circus gremlins, “Ida Know”, “Not Me”, and “Nobody”, because they would be perfect representations of the empty suits who decided to fuck with ordinary Americans’ finances. Thanks a lot, Tom Carper, Joe Biden, DICK Shelby, Joe Lieberman, Arlen Specter, Norm Coleman and the rest of you fucking douchebags who voted for this. Since you’re protected by universal health coverage in Congress (I guess some people ARE more equal than others after all), I’ll make this wish: I hope someone you know and love gets a horrible disease and is forced to try and get bankruptcy protection. I hope it drains your family dry.
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