yep, fresh off the rape of the middle class, the GOP is soliciting
bribes from wall street to help defeat reform:

http://www.foxbusiness.com/story/mar...ancial-reform/

As a financial reform bill starts to take shape in Washington, two key
lawmakers came to New York City last week to explain what it means for
Wall Street, and how financial executives might help prevent some of
its least market-friendly aspects from becoming law by electing more
Republicans, FOX Business Network has learned.

About 25 Wall Street executives, many of them hedge fund managers, sat
down for a private meeting Thursday afternoon with two of the most
powerful Republican lawmakers in Congress: Senate minority leader
Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, and John Cornyn, the senior senator from
Texas who runs the National Republican Senatorial Committee, one of
the primary fundraising arms of the Republican Party.

The stated topic of the meeting: The Financial reform bill being
sponsored by Senator Chris Dodd, the Democrat and chairman of the
senate banking committee. Both McConnell and Cornyn listened to
numerous complaints the executives have with the bill. These included
complaints about provisions that allow the government to continue to
prop up financial institutions that are “too big to fail.”

The undercurrent of the gathering, however, was undeniably political.
It came on the heels of President Obama and Democrats in Congress
passing health-care reform by a narrow margin, and who are now turning
their attention to passing financial services reform a little more
than a year after the Wall Street meltdown.