[2ndDivisionVet]

Comments?

[abb]

Didn’t E. J. Dionne used to be somebody on the Big Screen?

[hinckley buzzard]

hey EJ you ignorant slime ball--we aren't bluffing. You criminal f*ers are in our sights.

[cripplecreek]

I usually just call him a fascist or marxist.

[goldstategop]

Its is descriptive as "limousine liberal." Wall Street liberal connotes an elitist associated with fat cats remote from the concerns of working class Americans. The Democrats don't know dangerous the label is to them.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus

[Humble Servant]

” And what institutions are held in lower esteem right now than those represented by the words “Wall Street”? “

Congress.

[freespirited]

Conservatives have had great success in discrediting liberalism

Wrong. Liberalism is self-discrediting.

[LostInBayport]

Never mind that Obama is not really all that liberal (read any of the liberal bloggers if you doubt this), and never mind that Wall Street is fighting Obama on financial reform, particularly on his excellent proposal to create a financial consumer protection agency.

Someone should point out to Dionne that if national healthcare comes to be, he may lose coverage for whatever psychotropic drugs he takes to come up with such lurid fiction.

[InterceptPoint]

If you want to understand why President Barack Obama’s standing in the polls is not where it used to be — and also why the populist-sounding Tea Party movement has gained so much traction — consider that some significant part of the American voting population has come to see the administration as both too liberal and too tied to Wall Street.

Well this is just an example but ... COULD HE HAVE GOT IT MORE WRONG?.

The Tea Party movement may be upset with Obama's relationship with Wall Street but the facts are that it isn't any different then any other President. What has the American public upset is the Socialism/Communism/Fascism, the incredible spending, the attempted government takeover of health care, the support for the junk science called Climate Change to justify huge tax increases and .... well I could go on but you get the idea.

[NeoCaveman]

Obama is more on the fascist scale than on the liberal scale but either way it is tyranny and we disapprove as we are for liberty.

[y6162]

Dionne is incoherent as usual. The financial sector was the victim of failed government mortgage programs. Barney Frank wanted banks to take greater risks so they did.

The Kenyan’s anti Wall Street rhetoric is standard class warfare. The Kenyan is a communist, not a liberal.

One thing Dione has right. The left is spooked by the Tea Party movement. Good.

[NeoCaveman]

If you held a contest to pick the worst thing a politician could be called at this moment, my nominee would be “Wall Street liberal.”

Fits Obama and Chris Dodd.

[saganite]

“Conservatives have had great success in discrediting liberalism, to the point that most liberals dare not call themselves by their own name.”

EJ is wrong. Liberals have been their own worst enemy and Conservatives have been adept at pointing out their mistakes. Like Health Care. And Cap and Trade.

Second: If EJ thinks someone who hung out with Marxists in University and supports a radical agenda to reshape America isn’t liberal I can only assume he’s (EJ) somewhere to the immediate left or right of Lenin.

[GeronL]

Not really all that liberal??

What planet is he on??

Wall Street Liberal= Facist.

[Soul Seeker]

Such an idiot.

No tax means just that. I don’t recall the movement stipulating certain individuals and institutions should be acceptably taxed.

Same goes for small government. The movement is shouting for them to just leave us all alone. D.J. thinks this means leave the “little people” alone but go after everyone else? They go after “everyone else” and we pay for it when they pass the costs down.

Yet in D.J’s mind we’ve been cutting taxes and practicing small government and this is responsible for the current mess. I’d love to know when that period of time happened since I must have been in a coma. Last I knew government was intervening by taking over private institutions, dictating chairmanships, looking for new ways to spend and tax us to death and oh...bailing out those institutions with our money.

Go ahead D.J. Try to sell the idea of a tax on banks being wonderful as opposed to it being an indirect tax on the consumer. All the people are going to hear is that word “tex” and throw the bums out who use it.

[Uri’el-2012]

I personally despise the way the noble liberal idea has been devalued,

Before the word "liberal" was purloined by the Progressives
and Communists it meant "limited government and laissez-faire.

Now it only known as Classical liberalism

But EJ knew that /sarc

What a "useful idiot"

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Conservatives have had great success in discrediting liberalism

Oh, we conservatives don't need to take the credit for that. Half a century of failed policies is discrediting enough, E.J. (Does E.J. stand for Elitist Jerk?)

[ODDITHER]

carbon big foot liberals.

[stephenjohnbanker]

You are next, Dionne....LOL!

[DemforBush]

“Never mind that Obama is not really all that liberal (read any of the liberal bloggers if you doubt this)”

Of all the Obama talking points out there, this one annoys me most - i.e. “Obama is actually a moderate”.

Obama is a moderate only in the sense that it’s impractical for him to embrace some of the far left’s agenda. As such, he’s arguably taking a “middle” path between the center-left and the far-left of his own constituents. He’s still well to the left of most of the country, and to the governance model he claimed to believe in during the 2008 Presidential campaign (though not at all at odds with the lefty stances he took during the Democratic primaries).

[LibFreeUSA]

"Conservatives have had great success in discrediting liberalism..."

Actually, E.J, I believe the Libs have done a pretty good job all on their own.