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What did I tell you about putting the Republicans in a tough spot?

If you say to them, hey listen, we're going to pass financial reform, we're going to get

tough on the banks, and what we're going to do is say to the Republicans, you're either

with us or you're with the bankers, okay?

Now it's not to get tough on them, just for the sake of getting tough, it's not to make

ourselves feel better, and it shouldn't be punitive, okay?

It's so that we can fix the system so that it doesn't blow up again, so they don't take

these wild risks.

And I say if you put them in that spot, they're going to make a mistake, either they're

going to buckle in vote with you, or they're going to make the mistake of being obviously

on the side of the bankers and protecting Wall Street.

And that's exactly the mistake Rush Limbaugh has made, and it's awesome.

Listen to him, suck up to the bankers, and try to protect them from Big Bad Obama, clip

number nine.

And now Obama is taking further aim at the economy, Mr. Depression.

That is what I am going to, he is now attacking the banks all over again, and he's doing it

because the polling data he has suggests that the public is still mad at Wall Street,

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