Yes, heaven forfend that the head of a Consumer Finanical Protection Bureau be someone who is genuinely interested in protecting consumers.
This hasn't been a good week. Hill, White House, and especially USDA staffers need to dig their West Wing DVDs out of the storage closet.
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Of course, part of the problem is that later on in the series, Ron Silver (gains some weight) and sells out to run Hawkeye's republican campaign thereby putting this whole scene in a different light. Heh.
ReplyDeleteThat's true. But of course late '90s-mid00s John McCain ... er ... Arnie Vinick is cast as socially moderate. So a lot of his rant against right-wingers doesn't apply. Oh well.
ReplyDeleteWell, that's true. Owen Brewster is probably someone that Bruno Gianelli wouldn't sign onto work for.
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Perhaps more ironically, real life Ron Silver later went around doing exactly what Bruno Gianelli decried: calling liberals soft on terror, soft on defense, etc.
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