Where Pot Entrepreneurs Go When the Banks Say No

Re:Where Pot Entrepreneurs Go When the Banks Say No by anigbrowl on Thursday January 04, 2018 @10:28PM (#16076252)

If the administration decided they really don't want it, they can go hard line on that, though there's political risk involved.

It's not like the administration has a whole lot of political capital to play with right now. Vetoing their own appropriations bill doesn't seem like a winning strategy, though obviously rational political calculus doesn't count for much in the White House these days.

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Re:Where Pot Entrepreneurs Go When the Banks Say No by dragonwriter on Friday January 05, 2018 @09:38AM (#16078791)

> It's not like the administration has a whole lot of political capital to play with right now.

Sure, and if this administration showed any sign not of conserving political capital based on consistent coherent priorities rather than burning it on a whim, that'd play a bigger role in my assessment of the risk of them deciding to stand and fight on this.

Then again, if they had been doing that, they'd also probably have a lot more political capital pright now.

> Vetoing their own appropriations bill doesn't seem like a winning strategy

OTOH, threatening to over Rohrabacher-Farr might be—at least in the immediate term; it's quite possible that Congress isn't willing to shutdown the government over it but would believe the President might be.

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