Reclaiming the Culturally Given - who really helped the bailout?

From this Washington Post article, pointed out by mijopo:

To African American and liberal lawmakers, Obama's message was reassuring: All the measures that Democrats were not getting now, such as infrastructure spending and bankruptcy rule changes that would allow judges to adjust mortgage repayments, would happen in an Obama administration.

In a conference call Thursday that Rep. Betty Sutton (D-Ohio) organized, half a dozen or so freshman Democrats received Obama's assurance that his Treasury secretary would do everything possible to recoup the money now going to buy troubled assets from ailing banks.

Let's see if he will be able to keep his word.

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