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Ann Coulter: GORDON GEKKO IS A DEMOCRAT (Obama's "Inheritance" Tax)
AnnCoulter.Com ^ | March 25, 2009 | Ann Coulter

Posted on 03/25/2009 2:37:47 PM PDT by Syncro

GORDON GEKKO IS A DEMOCRAT
March 25, 2009

How did Republicans get saddled with Wall Street? Obama just got the biggest campaign haul from Wall Street in world history, and Republicans still can't shake the public perception that they are tied at the hip to Wall Street bankers who hate them.

It's as if National Rifle Association members conspired with Republicans to bankrupt the country and everyone blamed the Democrats for being shills of the NRA.

Maybe if the financial capital of the nation were located in Salt Lake City, rather than Manhattan, the financial community would support Republicans. But Wall Street is a street located in New York City.

No one in the top echelons of the financial industry who has a weekend place in the Hamptons is a Republican.

No, there is one. Teddy Forstmann. He has to throw his own parties and fly guests in. Otherwise, if they want to go to any half-decent parties, bankers must be Democrats. At their income bracket, multimillionaires will trade a little extra tax money for good cocktail parties.

Even the "Republicans" on Wall Street don't care about national defense or social issues. They just want to trade with China and hire illegal aliens.

Last September, The New York Times reported that individuals associated with the securities and investment industry had given $9.9 million to the Obama campaign, $7.4 million to the Hillary Clinton campaign and only $6.9 million to the McCain campaign. Either they're all Democrats or some commodity named "hope" was going through the roof last year.

Employees of Lehman Bros. alone gave Obama $370,000, compared to about $117,000 to McCain. (No wonder Bush let them go under.)

According to an analysis of Federal Election Commission records by the Center for Responsive Politics, the top three corporate employers of donors to Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Rahm Emanuel were Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and JPMorgan. Six other financial giants were in the top 30 donors to the White House Dream Team: UBS AG, Lehman Bros., Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Merrill Lynch and Credit Suisse Group.

Since 1998, the financial sector has given a total of $37.6 million to Obama, compared to $32.1 million to McCain. But Obama ran for his first national office only in 2004. So McCain got less from the financial industry in a decade that included two runs for president than Obama did in four years.

As we've seen in recent weeks, Wall Street gets what it pays for. Democratic Sen. Chris Dodd included language in the stimulus bill allowing executives of the bailed-out banks to collect million-dollar bonuses.

And yet the Democrats' endless favors for their Wall Street friends never sticks to them because everyone treats Democrats' shilling for their own contributors as if it's a Nixon-goes-to-China moment.

On the March 23 edition of MSNBC's "Hardball," The Nation's David Corn said: "Remember -- What was it? A year or two back when there was talk about taxing hedge fund managers at the rate that the rest of us pay? Who intervened in that? Chuck Schumer."

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According to an analysis of Federal Election Commission records by the Center for Responsive Politics, the top three corporate employers of donors to Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Rahm Emanuel were Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and JPMorgan. Six other financial giants were in the top 30 donors to the White House Dream Team: UBS AG, Lehman Bros., Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Merrill Lynch and Credit Suisse Group.
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1 posted on 03/25/2009 2:37:49 PM PDT by Syncro
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To: Syncro
I always wondered what his first name was.


2 posted on 03/25/2009 2:40:23 PM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: Syncro

ping


3 posted on 03/25/2009 2:40:24 PM PDT by mickidawn1969
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To: Syncro

bump.

stereotypes are stupid


4 posted on 03/25/2009 2:42:08 PM PDT by GeronL (http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
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To: Syncro

Oh now this is going to leave a mark. If it has some legs..... and I do think it does! Ann is RIGHT ON THE MONEY on this. Great work Ann!!!!


5 posted on 03/25/2009 2:43:41 PM PDT by Danae (Amerikan Unity My Ass)
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To: Syncro

RULES!


6 posted on 03/25/2009 2:44:09 PM PDT by xcamel (The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
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To: Syncro

Oh and .... RULES!!!!!!!


7 posted on 03/25/2009 2:44:13 PM PDT by Danae (Amerikan Unity My Ass)
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To: xcamel

LOL you JUST beat me with that LMAO.


8 posted on 03/25/2009 2:44:37 PM PDT by Danae (Amerikan Unity My Ass)
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To: Danae

— 4 seconds —
great minds think alike.


9 posted on 03/25/2009 2:45:49 PM PDT by xcamel (The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
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To: RonDog; knews_hound; jellybean
The man behind the curtain:
After honing his financial skills as the bagman for Bill Clinton's White House, Rahm Emanuel was hired by the investment bank Wasserstein Perella, where he worked for 2 1/2 years.

For that, Emanuel was paid more than $18 million.
(Maybe Rahm Emanuel was the Democrat livid at Schumer for preserving a sweet tax deal for hedge fund managers!)
I've never seen anyone that could type so fast from a blackberry to a blackberry. I mean to a plasma TV.
10 posted on 03/25/2009 2:47:16 PM PDT by Syncro (Qui non intelligit, aut taceat, aut discat)
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To: Syncro

ANN NAILS IT AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!

MARRY ME ANN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


11 posted on 03/25/2009 2:48:07 PM PDT by Mr. K (physically unable to proofreed (<---oops))
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To: Syncro

You MUST know the rules???


12 posted on 03/25/2009 2:48:17 PM PDT by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D.: "What Would Jack Bauer Do?")
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To: Syncro
So that is why my banker friend in New York is so enthusiastic about the Arab kid, Obama. He even tried to put bad things in about Joe the Plumber in Wikipedia.

I did try to defend Joe the plumber over the phone to him, however.

13 posted on 03/25/2009 2:49:06 PM PDT by Stepan12 (Palin & Bolton in 2012)
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To: Syncro

How” Because the GOP is run by idiots who don’t understand how to use a PR campaign, and constantly get outflanked and out-talked by their Dem counterparts.


14 posted on 03/25/2009 2:49:16 PM PDT by mikeus_maximus
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To: Redbob


15 posted on 03/25/2009 2:49:53 PM PDT by Stepan12 (Palin & Bolton in 2012)
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To: xcamel
ok


16 posted on 03/25/2009 2:50:21 PM PDT by Mr. K (physically unable to proofreed (<---oops))
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To: xcamel; Danae
There are male posters here that can't find a picture of Ann Coulter to post on this thread?

Oh my...

Of course it's a lot quicker to JUST post "rules"

: > )

Coulter RULZ!

Congratulations to both of you and thanks for the bumps!

17 posted on 03/25/2009 2:50:32 PM PDT by Syncro (Qui non intelligit, aut taceat, aut discat)
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To: Syncro

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The ObamaNation.


18 posted on 03/25/2009 2:50:56 PM PDT by Danae (Amerikan Unity My Ass)
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To: Stepan12
I'll see yer picture of Ann, and raise you one!


19 posted on 03/25/2009 2:51:27 PM PDT by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D.: "What Would Jack Bauer Do?")
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To: Redbob
It's the responsibility of poster #12 to post a picture of Ann Coulter on her Wednesday column thread.

Rule #34C, section 34.22.35

20 posted on 03/25/2009 2:52:43 PM PDT by Syncro (Qui non intelligit, aut taceat, aut discat)
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