Thank You Blue Dogs

Well, it looks like everyone's corporate whores, Melissa Bean and Walt Minnick getting deals that are likely to scuttle any and all state consumer protection of financial companies and the Consumer Financial Protection Agency, respectively.

What makes it worse is that Bean's primary challenger has been bounced from the ballot, so the choice of the voters in IL-8 is the Bean, the Green, or the Crazy Mean.^* (Republican)

^*No, I'm not saying how long it took me to make up that bit of doggerel.