Posted on 07/05/2016 7:25:54 AM PDT by RightGeek
Especially influential are the revolving-door multimillionaires, especially from big banks and Wall Street — the Tim Geithners, Jack Lews, Hank Paulsons, and Robert Rubins, but also the lesser flunkies of the Freddie/Fannie Clintonite crowd, a Franklin Raines (raking in $90 million) or a Jamie Gorelick ($26 million), all of whom came into the White House and its bureaucracies to get rich, but who always seem shocked when the public does not like their incestuous trails of bailouts, relief plans, favorable regulations, etc.
Creepy too are the satellite grifters like “investment banker” Rahm Emanuel — who somehow, between the White House and the House of Representatives, made off with $16 million for his financial “expertise” — or Chelsea Clinton, who made her fortune ($15 million?) largely by being a “consultant” for a Wall Street investment group (her fluff job at NBC News was small potatoes in comparison). The locus classicus, of course, is the Clinton power marriage itself, which invested nearly 40 years of public service in what proved to be a gargantuan pay-for-play payoff, when they parlayed Hillary’s political trajectories into a personal fortune of well over $100 million. Give them credit: From the early days, when they would write off as IRS deductions gifts of their used underwear, they ended up 30 years later getting paid $10,000 to $60,000 a minute for their Wall Street riffs.
The nexus between Big Government, Big Money, Big Influence, and Big Media is sometimes empowered by familial journalistic continuity (e.g., John Dickerson, son of Nancy Dickerson) or a second generation of fashion/glitz and media (Gloria Vanderbilt and Anderson Cooper), but again is increasingly expressed in the corridor “power couple,” the sorts who receive sycophantic adulation in New York and Washington monthly magazines.
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Add the GD Bushes in this too.
Forgot about her. She's the one that blocked the CIA/FBI from investigating WJClinton's China bribes.
Clintons far exceed the Kennedys in misdeeds, IMO. But then I am not a historian on the Kennedys so I may be completely wrong.
I feel like I live in a corrupt Banana Republic. As I saw on another site, the Bourbons and the Tsars had more respect for peasants than the government/media class has for Americans today.
Reminds me of the chart today Tyler Durden posted about the middle class dropping and the poor and rich going up.
VDH follows up distancing from Trump by galloping completely off the plantation. Adios.
Agree completely.
Ever notice that the Bush wives are all pro-abortion, and that the Bush men never utter a syllable about abortion once out of office?
Washington is now the enemy.
Treat the vermin within accordingly.
Why are they not afraid when they leave the Bastille?
Presott Bush
Prescott Bush was politically active on social issues. He was involved with the American Birth Control League as early as 1942, and served as the treasurer of the first national capital campaign of Planned Parenthood in 1947.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescott_Bush
VDH bump for later...
In matters of deception, ostentatious vulgarity never proves as injurious as the hubris of the mannered establishment. So what I resent most about the Washington hollow men is not the sources and methods through which they parlay wealth, power, and influence, or the values they embrace to exercise and perpetuate their privilege and sense of exalted self, but the feigned outrage that they express when anyone dares suggest, by word or vote, that they are mediocrities and ethical adolescents ...
You're right - it's banana republica stuff... nice clothes, airs of importance and self indulgent 'ethical adolescents'...
Just one tiny example is the **very** expensive outfits worn by Michele and the girls on their trip to dirt poor countries to promote Educating Girls.
And ran a Nazi-owned bank, shut down in 1942 by the FBI.
We have had an UNBROKEN series of traitors in the WH since January 20, 1989.
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