I'm sorry, but if there's a Dem bloodbath come Nov, & if Obama ends up being only a one-term pres come 2012, it will not be the Repubs' fault, but that of the Dems. They are their own worst enemies. In the beginning, if Obama did not support the TARP bill as it was written without any conditions, restrictions, rules, or any enforceable oversight, & if he did not pressure his fellow Dems into voting for the abortion, the TARP Bill would not have passed as is, & the Dems would have been heroes to the American people. If the TARP Bill money went to the troubled home owners instead of bailing out the banksters, the Dems would have been heroes. If, in the very beginning, when Obama & the Dems had the greatest political capital, they immediately passed a healthcare Bill with a strong & robust public option without any BS by the Repubs, & if Obama & the Dems would have repealed the Patriot Act & the Military Commissions Act & the FISA Bill, they would now be heroes.

With Chris Dodd sheparding this bill why would anyone expect it to be a strong bill. Dodd received more money from the banking industry than almost any other politician over the years.

I think most Americans would like the idea of the CFPA and think that Elizabeth Warren would be an excellent choice for chief administrator. Unfortunately, President Obama has done so many things which suggest that he is little more than a sophisticated shill for the banksters and the military-industrial behemoths, that he is likely to be recognized as such by most of those who voted for him. That will likely be reflected in the elections of 2010. One can only wonder how he selected R Emanuel as CoS; why he selected L Summers as chief economist, T Geithner as Secty of Treasury and why he would appear to be unable to respond to external helpful criticism; it would appear that he knows something the public does not about his own motives.

There is little likelihood of a strong CFPA emerging from whatever Dodd proposes on Monday. There are simply too many senators of both parties who are too beholden to the criminal, er, I mean, corporate gangsters who run this country for there to be any real regulatory limits on corporate American's systematic plundering of us all. The nattering about government interfering with "free enterprise" has been designed by our corporate masters to make them appear to be the victims of the government they own outright. Thus, Boobus Americanus is totally in the dark about how the big buck boys are ripping us off. For those who feel these comments are, ah, intemperate, I suggest viewing Maxed Out, a documentary available from Netflix.

The Dems will need to be very forceful about defining the narrative, which the Repubs have always been successful at doing. You know they will define the CFPA as just another example of "government control over people's lives." Can you say "socialism"?