OK, let's review.
On Monday, Senate Republicans blocked debate on a bill that would reform Wall Street.
On Tuesday, they did it again.
On Wednesday, they did it once again.
Then, later Wednesday afternoon, they relented and stopped blocking the bill that would regulate financial institutions and, hopefully, prevent the kind of meltdown that nearly destroyed the world economy.
I guess they finally got around to looking at the polls that showed nearly three-quarters of the population supported reforming Wall Street and that it was a stupid idea to be standing up for the rich and powerful at the expense of the rest of us.
Of course, a lot of the Republicans, and Democrats, for that matter, get loads of campaign contributions from Wall Street. (And please, don't get into the debate who gets more. They both sleep on huge piles of Wall Street cash.)
It reminds me of one of my favorite political saying. Willie Brown, the former mayor of San Francisco, once championed an anti-smoking bill, while taking campaign contributions from tobacco companies. He explained, in so many words, that if you can't take their money and then turn around and screw them, you don't belong in this profession
Well, no, according to Keith Olbermann, they caved because it was getting late and they wanted to go home. It was getting close to their bedtime and they did not want to stay late at the Senate. I'm not sure he was serious, but with him you never can tell. He repeated it several times, and never offered any other reason, so...