The Presidential Reunion To Urge For Consumer Protection Regulations
By Nicole Belle Thursday Mar 04, 2010 3:00pmFrom Funny or Die.com, Ron Howard directs some SNL favorites (and Jim Carrey) in a presidential reunion to urge Barack Obama to enact a consumer protection regulations. From MainStreetBrigade.org:
The greedy and reckless behavior of big banks on Wall Street, credit card companies, mortgage lenders and irresponsible consumers just caused a financial crisis that cost Americans millions of lost jobs, and billions in tax-payer funded bailouts and lost retirement savings.
Today, after raking in our tax dollars in bailout money, the big banks are back to business as usual, spending hundreds of millions to pay lobbyists and advertising agencies to fight against reforms that would protect us from their abuses in the future.
You can make your voice heard. Call your representatives, send them an email, or sign this petition to let them know that they need to protect us, not the financial industry.
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Holy shit Dana Carvey! Coooool!
was the best line in the bit.
I saw this for the first time early this morning and parts of it made me laugh out loud. Not much can make me laugh that early in the day.
I liked the idea that Carter was the only one still doing things and actually working.
Too bad my love, Phil Hartman, is no longer around to play St. Ronnie. I think Phil Hartman was one of the most talented guys of his time. I'll never forgive the bitch who shot him.
What a bunch of talent all in one place. Someone said this morning that they shot the whole thing in less than 15 hours.
I liked the way Clinton kept looking at Michelle while he was talking. Pretty funny.
Jim carrey didn't have a patch on Hartman's Reagan. his 'secretly smart' Reagan was one of the best SNL sketches of all time. It was quite annoying when NBC only showed an excerpt of it on the Phil Hartman SNL collection. But I've gotten used to NBC throwing out the wheat with the chaff.
I would pay for and sit still for a video of all the complete skits that Phil Hartman was ever in on SNL.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8993...
That was brilliant!
Too bad.
It was hilarious !!
:)
I'm glad Sat Night Live didn't get to release it, too.
Kristen Wiig and Will Forte weren't in it.
Hell. Yes.
there is a lady named brooksley born who headed the cftc, who warned about derivatives back when slick willie was president, she was steamrolled by greenspan, rubin, and sommers.
of course the aforementioned 42nd president also signed off on the repeal of glass-steagall, championed by phil gramm from texas, and passed overwhelmingly by both houses of congress.
now corporations have constitutional rights, just like real people, and we may as well be called the corporate states of america.
until the people of this country discover some kind of common narrative to address the problems our country faces, we will continue to go down the proverbial drain.
oh yeah, did i mention that little timmy geithner, the exalted ones treasury secretary was pretty much up to his neck in this scam himself?
and that sommers is the o's trusted adviser?
you know, the usual suspects.
no wonder the teabaggers are bent out of shape, who was it that coined the term "bully pulpit"? that mean old progressive rough rider?
obama has the chance to be one of our greatest presidents, on a par with those on that place that is in north by northwest, but he is completely blowing it because he either doesn't see the truth, or will not speak it.
although i am not religious, a passage from the ot comes to mind "my people perish for lack of vision"
of course we all know what happens to people that have a dream, especially when their skin is the wrong color, not that it matters much.
has anybody seen my old friend john?
can you tell me where he's gone?
Well said.
"obama has the chance to be one of our greatest presidents, on a par with those on that place that is in north by northwest, but he is completely blowing it because he either doesn't see the truth, or will not speak it."
I have said this over and over. He could be the greatest leader of the 21st century.
I think the President made the mistake of thinking when he became President he would be working with intelligent individuals whom he would be able to reason with and as a result he could truly get things accomplished. Instead he walked up to a brick wall with the word, "NO" printed on it with indelible ink.
Then unfortunately, he hasn't been paying attention to what the republicans were doing when the Democrats gained the majority in 2006. They set a record for filibusters then. They topped that filibuster record now in this Congress. I should hope he knows by now not to expect much cooperation with people who want to break him and want him to suffer a Waterloo type defeat.
Your assumption that Obama means well, but has to deal with idiots and so on, is belied by the facts in the GP's post - if Obama means so well, why is his economic team composed of the same assholes who caused all our problems in the first place? Why have they been advocating the same policies that screwed us?
Jim Carrey and Dana Carvey were the best ones in my opinion :-)
Now let's see if the real Barack can do something about this mess.
... can't hold a candle to the late, great Phil Hartman's.
Man, is he missed.
BID
It's a great fantasy but will life imitate art?
"Call your representatives, send them an email, or sign this petition...."
I just visited the link. They are not collecting signatures for this petition anymore. So save yourselves some time.
Loved this video. Hope our Prez watched it.
What's error 2048? Can't see the video.
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