Dec 20, 2021

see https://www.npr.org/2021/12/13/1063767973/saule-omarova-gets-candid-banks-sank-her-nomination-to-head-occ

Sheila Bair was forced to resign as head of the FDIC. Very few people remember that Obama made her resign. That means she was fired. She objected to the “save the banks” strategy started by the Bush administration in 2008 and continued by the Obama, Trump and Biden Administrations.

All of them are captive audiences who are hearing only one story — that any relief given to homeowners will trash the financial and social system in this country. It is a threat of Armageddon. And it is a fake threat just like the fabricated, false, fraudulent, forged documents that have been used since the late 1990s.

So along comes someone who is thinking outside the tiny box that Wall Street money has trapped the minds of most politicians, and what happens? Wall Street panics and accuses her of being anti-everything and then because of their own accusations creating the false narrative that her nomination is “too controversial.” Wall Street wins again.

Spoiler Alert: Controversial does not mean unqualified. We lost someone who could have been an important contributor to the good of the country.