Wall Street Rejects Dem Fundraising ("Most Wall St. Guys Feel Like Going to Be Burned in Effigy")

[Hissyspit]

Source: UPI

Wall Street rejects Dem fundraising

Published: Oct. 18, 2011 at 4:07 PM

NEW YORK, Oct. 18 (UPI) -- Wall Street lobbyists are telling Democrats they can't have it both ways: They can't support Occupy Wall Street protests and then ask for Wall Street cash.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee sent a recent e-mail calling on supporters to sign a petition backing the protests. Then livid banking executives called DCCC officials demanding answers, financial services lobbyists told Politico.

"Most Wall Street guys, they feel like they're going to be burned in effigy," Anthony Scaramucci told the newspaper. Scaramucci is a managing partner of SkyBridge Capital who gave to the Obama campaign in 2008. Now he is fundraising for Mitt Romney, and told Politico other moderate donors "fled from Obama in his support of the Wall Street protests."

Obama narrowly raised more Wall Street campaign funding in 2008 than Republican nominee Sen. John McCain of Arizona. But now Democrats are facing a particularly hard sell, the newspaper said.

"You can't have it both ways," one unnamed in-house financial services lobbyist told Politico. "It just makes it harder for people who are Democrats in New York, Boston, Chicago to on the one hand be demogagued and then be asked 'Hey, you can get your picture with the president for $30,000.' It doesn't square."

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[Demeter]

1. Fine. Unleash The Attorney General and Elizabeth Warren

or make Elizabeth Warren the AG. That'll learn them which side of their bread is buttered, both the banksters AND Washington's elite.

[CrackersMcGee]

28. +1

[kestrel91316]

2. The time for buying elections is over, folks. You'll be lucky if we allow you to

vote or write checks for your groceries when we are through with you.

[teddy51]

5. Yeah, but unfortunately the Right still has a well orchestrated plan to steal

the next election. They not only have the Evoting machines, but are now trying to pass State legislation to disenfranchise many voters.

[certainot]

16. all the left has to do is stop ignoring RW radio, which is selling all their shit

it's the only thing keeping the GOP a 'legitimate' party

[SkyDaddy7]

24. That is just part of the GOP's advantage

CITIZENS UNITED!!!!

[brewens]

6. Take those bastards right down to their las shit stained pair of underwear!

Then burn them in effigy!

[CrackersMcGee]

29. ew.

[DBoon]

13. it will be a great world when votes count more than dollars

and being elected didn't involve sucking up the the least-bad of the filthy rich

[sueh]

17. DBoon, I wish I could K & R your post 1000 times over. I agree with you 100%.

[CrackersMcGee]

30. ....get a room, please.

[Hotler]

32. Welcome to DU. n/t

[No Elephants]

40. I wish I believed that.

[msongs]

3. good 4 them - they get to avoid prosecution/accountability AND they keep their money lol nt

[bluestateguy]

4. The Justice Department can get any grand jury to indict a ham sandwich

That is something they need to think about long and hard.

[cui bono]

10. But it won't. n/t

[dflprincess]

12. I'm sure Holder will get right on that

:sarcasm:

[SixthSense]

7. The job is done

statute of limitations already run on a lot of it... they got away with it

[BeyondGeography]

8. Wear it as a badge of honor, you namby-pamby D's

[izquierdista]

9. Who said anything about effigies?

[plumbob]

21. Yes, I think effigies are unauthentic to convey my feelings about

bankers.

We DO want authenticity, right?

[The Magistrate]

11. In The Effigies, Perhaps, Ma'am....

The old Celtic Wicker-Man....

[JDPriestly]

14. This makes their campaign contributions to the Republicans look like

old-fashioned bribery.

[think]

15. Wall Street has systematically destroyed the American dream

May they choke on their ill gotten gains...

[pmorlan1]

18. They Get a Better Deal Than I Do

I don't blame them. It's exactly how I feel when I'm asked to donate money to politicians who then turn around and pass laws that screw me over. At least the Wall Street lobbyists are still getting favorable legislative treatment even if the politicians are paying lip service to the protesters.

I'd like to see one man, one vote again and get rid of the more $ you donate the more clout you have.

[lonestarnot]

19. Tee hee.

Burn baby burn.

[99th_Monkey]

20. Poor poor babies

:nopity:

[caseymoz]

22. Wow. Wall Street's right about this one.

The Democratic Party has to make a decision here and stop playing up to both sides.

Why do I think they're going to decide against us? Once they do, we're then officially disenfranchised, the lines are drawn, and this become a fight against the establishment.

[AnneD]

44. The Dem party has already decided.....

as witnessed by their legislation for the last 2 years. They just want it official. No more promise rings, they want a wedding band.

[FreeBillClinton]

23. Wait, that's not the deal!

Democrats are supposed to be allowed to pretend to support their constituencies over corporate interests but then not really do anything about it.

[No Elephants]

42. You are so bad

when it comes to lying!

Sing it, Bill!

[sabrina 1]

25. Good, whoever thought this Movement would start working

this fast? Now, if Democrats USE this, in the current atmosphere where Wall Street is a dirty word to over 80% of the population, this could be the beginning of getting the money out of politics, which is the number one goal of the OWS Movement.

Dems by refusing to take their money, can then pound Republicans on every issue by accusing them, truthfully, of being against eg, Enviromental protection, because of their Corporate bosses.

If Dems are willing NOT to go begging for money from them, but instead make a public statement that they will not accept Corporate Funding they could win the next election. People are awake now, they know much more about Wall Street money in politics than they did just a few years ago, and the know, including Republicans, that it was that money that bought them the totally unpopular Bailouts, by a huge margin across Party lines.

And if the current crop of DLCers and others in the party who cannot live without Wall Street funding and once again, cave to their threats, then all of them should be primaried, and I bet they will be, this time with a lot more success since Wall St. will be a huge issue, and we should make sure it is, in the next election.

[formercia]

26. Good. Wall Street is scared.

Let's see who the real Dems are.

[hatrack]

27. Fine. They can go fuck themselves.

nt

[Douglas Carpenter]

31. this is good n/t

[guitar man]

33. To hell with the effigy

I want them to fear being burned at the stake. Goddamn them all to hell!! :grr:

[Aerows]

34. "You can't have it both ways"

You are quite right. You can't destroy the economy, lobby against any and all banking regulations, set things up so that everything is too big to fail and expect people who are barely making ends meet (or aren't) not to get angry.

No sir, you cannot have it both ways. You can't socialize losses and privatize profits and expect the people who are paying for your mistakes to sit quietly by forever and just take it.

[Amonester]

35. They should have learned that basics in their PhDs curriculums...

My guess is they just skipped the classes, and daddy paid for their paper$.

[Uncle Joe]

36. Democrats have a choice to make, they can have the money or they can have the people.

Thanks for the thread, Hissyspit.

[alfredo]

37. Wall st is pumping money into Romney's campaign. Obama

has not shown enough reverence for Wall st. He's done good things for them(like saving their asses), but that was not enough for those spoiled brats. He offered some mild criticism back in his first year, and they have never gotten over that.

[alfredo]

38. Being burned in effigy is the least of their worries. Keep fucking

with us, and we will look for other ways of sending a message. A general strike might be a good way to send a message.

[Downtown Hound]

39. Well, no more corporate money in the party?

Hooray! Now can we start throwing them in jail?

[Doctor_J]

41. So they think President Perry will protect them from the guillotine?

Wow, they really are clueless.

[No Elephants]

43. Not Perry, Romney, formerly of Bain Capital.

[Doctor_J]

45. I still say good luck with that

There will be blood, and none of the psychos running for the Repuke nomination will be able to stop it.