Tying the GOP to Wall Street

[ProSense]

Tying the GOP to Wall Street

By Steve Benen

It’s a well-kept secret in some corners, but Wall Street isn’t exactly popular with the American mainstream. It’s not just the Occupy Wall Street protests — after financial industry corruption and mismanagement nearly destroyed the global economy, there’s ample evidence much of the public hasn’t exactly gotten over it.

What’s striking, then, is to see leading Republicans, including all of the top GOP presidential candidates, go out of their way to side with Wall Street over American consumers. It’s counter-intuitive — do Mitt Romney and his congressional allies really think voters are clamoring for an agenda that goes easy on those who crashed our economy? — but it’s apparently a vote-getter in Republican primaries.

Democrats apparently intend to make this clear to the rest of the country. Politico reports this morning that Dems, at multiple levels, “plan to dramatically step up criticisms of Republican presidential candidates for their vows to repeal Wall Street reform and on Senate Republicans who are blocking the president’s choice to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.”

As part of the effort, the Democratic National Committee unveiled this video this morning, called, “Republicans: On the Side of Wall Street, Not Consumers.”

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[valerief]

1. They'll buy every poll worker in the next election. They have enough money to do it.

Election fraud free-for-all!

[CanonRay]

2. The Democrats themselves muddied those waters

To a generation of Democrats and other citizens from 1930 to 1980 the Republican party WAS Wall Street. But since then, the "modern" Democrats have been sucking up to Wall Street nearly as much as their counterparts. That has got to stop before the public will buy it.

[ProSense]

3. Now

"The Democrats themselves muddied those waters"

...there's irony: Dems call out the GOP, and the response is to "muddied those waters," and with what, a historical point.

"To a generation of Democrats and other citizens from 1930 to 1980 the Republican party WAS Wall Street. But since then, the "modern" Democrats have been sucking up to Wall Street nearly as much as their counterparts. That has got to stop before the public will buy it."

On edit: The public is buying it so why insist that it's not?

[liberal N proud]

4. The republican congress people demonstrate with every vote

how they are ties to Wall Street.

[Tarheel_Dem]

5. And it's high time. Thanks Steve.

:dem:

[Sheepshank]

6. Meanwhile Gingrich is trying hard to tie Wall Street and it's business practices to Dems.

Not sure anyone is buying that. What an idiot!.