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Originally Posted by jhempel24
Its not going to happen. There is congressional meetings that need to happen and I cant see them approving it.
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If you are banking on congress to prevent it, you might as well think that Libya is going to conquer the world in 24 hours. AT&T will whip out its corporate checkbook and every Republican will be foaming at the mouth in an attempt to sit and beg. As soon as the Republicans are done collecting their graft, the Democrats will line up for the scraps.
The Republicans don't want Elizabeth Warren to succeed, don't want climate warming regulation, in fact, don't want anything that might look like it fits in the 19th century, let alone the 21st century, so why would they do anything to block a merger that would reduce competition? The last antitrust enforcer of any note who was Republican was Theodore Roosevelt. Today's Republicans believe in large at any cost, unfettered at any price -- as long as the entity seeking it has Corp. or Inc. in its name.
The Democrats who might be opposed won't oppose it because they haven't any spine. They will complain but then conveniently be absent when any vote is taken.