Kudos to Delaware's newest senator, Ted Kaufman, for telling it like it is.
"I'm liberated from fundraising," Kaufman, a Democrat, said yesterday, explaining the fact that despite the financial industry's hefty investments in his home state, he would support a measure that allows bankruptcy judges to reduce mortgage payments for troubled homeowners
does not intend to run to retain the seat and does not even have a campaign committee on file
"I had hoped for a better vote," Durbin told the
Huffington Post. "If we fail on mortgage foreclosure and we fail on credit card reform, I hope that people in this country will stand up and say to Congress, 'You've got the wrong friends.'"
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