"It's not every day that we find the leaders of both parties in the Senate staking out opposite stances on an issue yet both ending up largely incorrect. But that's the case with two items we checked concerning financial services regulation." - By Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson of Politifact

(http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2010/apr/21/fact-checkin...)

Funny, I was beginning to think that it was quite common to have both parties speaking, taking opposing sides, and neither being fully honest.

I appears the the GOP is not going to falter in its adherence to obstruction at all costs politics. I am not sure it will be any more successful than it was with the healthcare bill.

I am a bit surprised, however, that they (the GOP Senators) are not being more successfully identified as supporters of the same institutions that provided the current economic calamity we have today. How is it that individuals can express their outrage at the government and the wall street tycoons and not aim that same outrage at the government reps that are protecting these people? It doesn't compute with me.

That is not to say the outrage should be limited to the GOP Senators. There is plenty of blame to go around. The dems are certainly rolling around in the sheets with these same power brokers who seem comfortable using the US economy as their own private game of monopoly. But the dems ARE receiving the ire.

Strange times...