Headline in news today befitting a typical progressive leftist in the Democratic Party:
Dodd to Unveil Plan That Expands Fed Powers
AP
His proposal would restrict the size of large financial institutions once deemed “too big to fail,” tame previously unregulated shadow markets with new restrictions and create a consumer protection entity.
Hey here’s some completely novel ideas for progressives like Dodd: For once, how about proposing to “restrict the size of large”…. GOVERNMENT?
And “tame previously out-of-control”… RAMPANT GOVERNMENT GROWTH; and what is now proven to be the total GOVERNMENT FAILURES; and the CORRUPTION NOW RUNNING RAMPANT in its own far, far more “shadowy” Congressional corridors paced for 
decades by the likes of Chris Dodd, and man who, by the way, has received the most “campaign cash” from the now infamous government-controlled and funded Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s Political Action Committees and employees ($133,900 since 1989, with a guy named Barack Obama being the third largest recipient, and Barney Frank at number sixteen), and maybe try enacting “new restrictions”, like, say, those which were “new” 223 years ago — in the U.S. Constitution — which manifestly restricts the size and scope of government (in contradistinction to Dodd’s and all progressives’ efforts to grow the government’s size and scope and its control over citizens, thereby circumventing one of the manifest purposes of the Constitution)?
And how about allowing capitalism, the free market, with its inherent freedoms and reliance on personal responsibility, to actually work as it would, what with its own built-in “consumer protection entity” concept so old and tried and true, it comes from ancient Latin: “caveat emptor”, or what we call “buyer beware”; and also these proven concepts: “personal responsibility”, and “free markets”, and “consumer choice”, and “competition”, and “failure” — thus saving the likes of progressives like the arguably corrupted and bought-off control freaks like the progressive Chris Dodd from having to grow the government and spend more taxpayer cash to “create” what already exists and repeat the same mistakes over and over, except on a bigger and bigger scale each time?
Nah. Too radical in that pre-progressive, freedom-loving, conservative, Constitution-y kind of way.
ADDENDUM:
Sure, I’m a smart aleck. I’m saying “caveat suffragator” means voter beware. I made it up. Here’s another one: “caveat progressive” or “caveo progressives”. That means beware of progressives, in theory.
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