Comings . . . and Comings

With the Republicans transforming the United States into a present-day apartheid-era South Africa through voter suppression tactics and "stand your ground" laws, it's good to find a little bit of good news in the events of these times.

The Senate finally cut a deal on presidential appointments, allowing up-or-down votes on administration appointments as opposed to judicial ones so that President Obama "gets the team he wants."  In short order, the Senate finally confirmed Richard Cordray as the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, putting him and the White House on a course to vigorously pursue financial rules that benefit consumers and the banking customers.  And , as all this was going on, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) introduced a bill to restore the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 separating commercial banks from investment banks.  Her chief co-sponsor is that well-known wild liberal from Arizona, John McCain. :-D 

Meanwhile, Mrs. Warren was joined in the Senate by Massachusetts' newest member of that body, Edward Markey, who won the June 25 special election to complete John Kerry's unexpired Senate term.  He beat his Republican opponent - whose name was not Scott Brown - handily.  So, if there ever was a plot to get Scott Brown back in the Senate or to get any other Republican in Kerry's Senate seat by making President Obama appoint Kerry as Secretary of State as a result of discrediting Susan Rice for that same post  . . . well, it didn't work. :-p