President Barack Obama today celebrated his win over the GOP in a two-year struggle to expand his power over the financial sector, saying the sector now has “certainty” about the government’s regulatory authority.

The new powers were activated with the Senate’s agreement — over GOP opposition — to confirm Richard Cordray as the first director of the Consumer FInancial Protection Board.

“Without a director in place, the Consumer Financial Protection Board would have been severely hampered… [and] didn’t have all the tools it needed,” Obama told a roomful of clapping government officials at the White House.

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Quote: Cedric wrote in post #2

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Nice try, Barack, but everyone with a brain knows you got punked.

You lose, GOP wins!

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Obama is weary of the fight.

He capitulated.

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How can you tell? The man is either on vacation or on the golf course. The nation is on Saul Alinski auto-pilot.

Here are the Rs that voted to confirm Cordray:

YEAs (the rat bastids)

Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Collins (R-ME)
Corker (R-TN)
Flake (R-AZ)
Graham (R-SC)
Hatch (R-UT)
Isakson (R-GA)
McCain (R-AZ)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Portman (R-OH)
Wicker (R-MS)

And here are the Rs that should be commended for this vote:

NAYs

Alexander (R-TN)
Ayotte (R-NH)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Blunt (R-MO)
Boozman (R-AR)
Burr (R-NC)
Chiesa (R-NJ)
Coats (R-IN)
Cochran (R-MS)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Crapo (R-ID)
Cruz (R-TX)
Enzi (R-WY)
Fischer (R-NE)
Grassley (R-IA)
Heller (R-NV)
Hoeven (R-ND)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Johanns (R-NE)
Johnson (R-WI)
Kirk (R-IL)
Lee (R-UT)
McConnell (R-KY)
Moran (R-KS)
Paul (R-KY)
Risch (R-ID)
Roberts (R-KS)
Rubio (R-FL)
Scott (R-SC)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Thune (R-SD)
Toomey (R-PA)
Vitter (R-LA)