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Is it not amusing to see liberals who have no problem with Obama blaming Bush for all of his own failures so eagerly criticizing me for not wanting to give him credit that he does not deserve for the passage of this bill? nicker:

When Rick Perry wrote an editorial urging Congress to pass a bill to ban insider trading by members of Congress, where were liberals with their accolades? Nowhere to be found as I recall when I created a thread on this subject three months ago.

Congress decided to take action to avoid embarrassment on the campaign trail.

[INDENT]Stop Insider Trading Dead In Its Tracks

Making Congressional insider trading a keystone issue can be a winning strategy for some conservative candidate. It may be too late for the issue to save Rick Perry's campaign but other conservatives need to jump on this issue before Obama does. Obama intends to run against Congress this year, and this issue has legs.

(This is a Rick Perry editorial but he is stirring up a hornet's nest for both parties' members of Congress. Only a handful of people in Congress favor making trading on insider information illegal for members of Congress and this should be an extremely embarrassing issue for the leadership of both parties in both the House and Senate. If Republicans don't jump on the issue, then Obama might beat them to the punch.)...

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