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[commonsenseonaroll]

'Yeah, but we make more money than you' has been Wall Street's official answer to everything for nearly five years now, and one has to admit, they're getting a hell of a lot of mileage out of it. If you don't listen to anyone who doesn't make as much money as you, but you pretty much have to be a giant douche to make that much money, it's kind of a foolproof system.

Matt Taibbi

Guy's on a roll in this piece.

[nc4l]

What the banking system really needs is a guy who will step in and force bankers to go back to being boring, risk-averse drips who lend businesses money to buy new equipment or fleets of trucks or whatever. What we have instead are coked-up wannabe big shots straight out of Boiler Room who are washing Mexican drug money and laundering Middle Eastern cash and playing around with wild price-fixing schemes – pretty much everything you can think of that isn't quietly counting beans and helping grow the economy.

Matt Taibbi

[nc4l]

[ibmtgv]

“Standing next to the bloodless corporate cipher Mitt Romney and the pompous, bloviating egomaniac Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum – creepy religious lunatic Rick Santorum! – came off like Clarence Darrow breaking up a Klan rally.”

This line not withstanding, Rick Santorum is consistently the worst debater in the GOP primary now that Rick Perry is no longer in the race.  Even with Rick Perry's gaff riddled performances, his public speaking prowess seemed superior to Santorum's affect of belabored self-righteousness.  Santorum seems in constant disbelieve that the entire world is not in accord with his thoughts.  It's very hard to watch.