Whatta Crock, Corker

Today's Moral Hangover of the Day Award goes to Republican Sen. Bob Corker, the conservative lawmaker from Tennessee. Sen. Corker is the linchpin to coming up with a bipartisan agreement on new financial regulations. He's also the guy who fought to remove regulations aimed at predatory lenders, the so-called payday lenders, which make money by charging 400% interest on short-term, high interest loans aimed at low-income Americans and our military. The New York Times reports Corker, surprise, surprise, gets a lot of campaign dough from these neighborhood loan sharks, though he denies that influenced his decision to kill legislation that would regulate them.