Financial market reform takes center stage

Given that the health care bill is about to be signed into law, the long hard slogging now all but done, attention turns to the financial reform legislation that, based on this exchange between Senators Bob Corker (R-TN) and Evan Bayh (D-IN), should be a whole lot friendlier.

Of course, the word "friendlier" in Washington is very much a relative term and the fact that, last week, Senator Chris Dodd (D-CN) broke off talks with the other side to submit his own bill and that his party no longer has a filibuster-proof majority creates a very different situation than what was seen over the weekend. Somehow, it seems that the two sides will find more than enough things to disagree on.