Could you say this with a straight face? “just because they receive an invite it doesn’t mean they are being solicited.” POLITICO: Reid invites Wall St. contribution

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It’s going to be a circus today when charges fly about the level of pay some CEOs got during the subprime mortgage crisis. In a memo, that was perhaps preceded by a TPS report, committee Democrats blasted Countrywide Financial Corp., Merrill Lynch, and Citigroup for awarding their CEOs massive compensation …