MICHAEL HUDSON: You know, that’s true. He is not against it,
and it was, after all, a Democratic president, Clinton, who repealed
Glass-Steagall. And it was a Democratic Treasury secretary, Robert
Rubin, who supported all of this. So they’re the—
AMY GOODMAN: Top adviser to Obama.
There’s no venality here. Cheney was not trying to aggrandize himself, to steer money to friends, or to set himself up for higher office. He simply believed that the stakes were high and he was more capable than others.
