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"Wall Street to Dems: you can't have it both ways"

Don’t be silly. Of course they can. It’s one of the benefits of having no principles and being willing to play every side of every issue if it means acquiring, maintaining, or solidifying power.

And when you have an orchestrated army of useful idiots willing to do your dirty work for you, not only can you have it both ways, but having it both ways is the point of the enterprise.

But whatever. Voice your li’l complaints, Wall Street:

After the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee sent a recent email urging supporters to sign a petition backing the wave of Occupy Wall Street protests, phones at the party committee started ringing.

Banking executives personally called the offices of DCCC Chairman Steve Israel (D-N.Y.) and DCCC Finance Chairman Joe Crowley (D-N.Y.) last week demanding answers, three financial services lobbyists told POLITICO.

“They were livid,” said one Democratic lobbyist with banking clients.

The execs asked the lawmakers: “What are you doing? Do you even understand some of the things that they’ve called for?” said another lobbyist with financial services clients who is a former Democratic Senate aide.

Democrats’ friends on Wall Street have a message for them: you can’t have it both ways.

President Barack Obama and other top Democrats are parroting the anti-corporate rhetoric running through the Occupy Wall Street protests, trying to tap into the movement’s energy but keep the protesters at arms’ length.

But many bankers aren’t buying the distinction. And some financial services lobbyists and industry insiders say the liberal line will make swing givers think twice before opening their checkbooks this year.

“Most Wall Street guys, they feel like they’re going to be burned in effigy,” said Anthony Scaramucci, managing partner of SkyBridge Capital […]

The Dems hear your complaints, fat cat banker Jews. And they feel your pain.

But a Marxist Administration has to do what a Marxist Administration has to do

8 Replies to “"Wall Street to Dems: you can't have it both ways"”

  1. Experience Required says:

    The Wall Street guys are too clever by half. They purchased an invitation to dinner, and they found out too late that it was they who were on the menu. Too funny.

  2. Obstreperous Infidel says:

    Something about laying down with a dog comes to mind in this particular instance.

  3. donald says:

    This is what you call your kabuki theatre

    Does anybody but me wonder why the leaders of egypt and Libya, countries that we had reciprocal relations with for security purposes, no matter how odious, had to be dispatched by the Obama administration?

    Why was Qaddafi not arrested

    I mean, you know.

  4. dicentra says:

    Be a good egg and let ’em break you. It’ll be the best omelette ever!

  5. sdferr says:

    Or better dicentra, over-easy and scrambled, both at the same time!

  6. Joe says:

    Unctuous!

    Unlike the Ace, Allah and Hewitt attacks, which are intended to try to damper support from Republicans, attacks like this are so over the top as to help Cain.

  7. mojo says:

    Now the twits are protesting art museums, seems they’re “too elitist” or something.

    Look, twit, the real elitist wouldn’t have that Greco or Modigliani in a museum – it’d be up on the wall at home.

  8. SDN says:

    The One forgot the first rule of Chicago politics: those who paid the “protection money” actually expect some, you know, protection.

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