{"id":3873,"date":"2010-04-25T20:19:26","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T01:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=3873"},"modified":"2010-04-25T20:19:26","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T01:19:26","slug":"frank-rich-nyt-says-fight-on-goldman-sachs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/04\/25\/frank-rich-nyt-says-fight-on-goldman-sachs\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Rich (NYT) says, &#8220;Fight On, Goldman Sachs!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the 25 April 2010 issue of the New York Times, Frank Rich says, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/25\/opinion\/25rich.html\" target=\"_blank&quot;\">Fight On, Goldman Sachs!<\/a>. Rich argues that GS&#8217;s alleged past misdeeds in the synthetic CDO market, the SEC fraud suit against GS, GS&#8217;s protestations to the contrary,\u00a0 the suspicion that other financial organizations have committed fraud, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell&#8217;s obviously flawed assertion that the Senate reform bill somehow guaranteed bank bailouts, and that a Pew Poll finding that even in a divided America 61 percent favor financial regulatory  reform, is causing the 41 Republican Senatorial coalition against financial regulation reform to show signs of crumbling around the edges.<\/p>\n<p>In Rich&#8217;s words, &#8220;The [Republican Senators&#8217;] unity pledge in McConnell\u2019s pocket was now worth as much as a  mortgage-backed security.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Check out the links in Rich&#8217;s article.<\/p>\n<p>-RichardH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 25 April 2010 issue of the New York Times, Frank Rich says, Fight On, Goldman Sachs!. Rich argues that GS&#8217;s alleged past misdeeds in the synthetic CDO market, the SEC fraud suit against GS, GS&#8217;s protestations to the contrary,\u00a0 the suspicion that other financial organizations have committed fraud, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[167],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3873","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-richardhsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3874,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3873\/revisions\/3874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}