The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB,) the brainchild of Massachusetts far-left Senator Elizabeth Warren, has been known for some time to be an unaccountable, badly managed rogue agency. This agency is one of the best arguments for taking a meat-axe to the federal Colossus, and yet they are still out there stirring their finger in the pot of America’s financial system. But in a recent attack on an Ohio banking system, they seem to have taken a whole new slant on the “Protection” part of their name — as in “Protection Racket.”
Admitting to one’s past errors may be considered passé by Ohio Republicans these days (ahem, JD Vance). But here at Buckeye Briefing, we’re willing to admit when we got it wrong. We’re also willing to credit the mainstream media when they dig up really good dirt.
And it appears that the good folks at the Cincy Enquirer have done exactly that…