The Health care bill and its deficit spending are now law. It took a lot of campaigning, with the president canvasing key cities around the nation and staging weekly press conferences with doctors standing behind him(Lab coats courtesy of the white house). It took weaseling through every loophole available in the congressional voting rules and bypassing the Senate debate on the final bill all together, but he got it done. People are understandably angry at their elected leaders who passed the largest entitlement in half a century against the will of the people, without solving any of the many very real problems with health care in this country. Now the president has moved on to the financial reform which is so badly needed after the recent near collapse of the American economy. I think most people want to feel good about financial reform, but after the president's recent actions on health care left most of our assholes torn and bleeding, it is hard to be optimistic we are going to like what he comes up with. When one looks at the press and political pundits talking about Financial Reform and why the tea party people should be behind this, its obvious that this is Washington's attempt to take the focus off of the Health Care debacle and make Wall Street the bad guy in an election year. Then, with freakish coincidental timing, the SEC files a civil action against Goldman Sachs, in perfect harmony with the Federal governments new desired talking points. But it gets better. Sachs, in an effort to "defend" itself, contracts one of Obama's top financial attorneys, who was working for the Obama administration in the Federal government a little over 90 days ago. The fact the SEC charges came without ANY indictments was unusual, but the hiring of this attorney caused more than a few heads to turn, even at the left leaning New York times. It turns out that Sachs was one of Obamas top contributors, putting almost a million dollars into his election. Furthermore, the Obama admin is rife with appointees from the Sachs organization. When one considers his recess appointment of a Union Attorney to the NRLB, one wonders if there are any seats in the Obama admin that are NOT filled by special interests. What really pegged the cynicism meter is when it came out that Goldman Sachs would actually benefit from Obama's proposed "regulation". Its all very irritating, but I have to say, the most irritating thing of all is the way the president sells it to us. One has only to Google the words "Goldman Sachs SEC" ti realize the President is paying for those keywords (with our tax dollars?) to help sell his financial "reform", as his site is the first and only PPC link at the top of the page. His PPC campaign was in place literally the morning of the SEC announcement, yet Gibbs claims there was no communication or collusion. This guy has campaigned more in one year than the previous three presidents did in 20 to sell us crap that we dont need or want, and that is actually bad for the nation as a whole. If the guy really feels the need to piss on the American people, fine, at least have the decency not to try and tell us it is rain.