Wednesday, February 10, 2010 3:08:46 PM · by Syncro · 94 replies · 5,694+ views
AnnCoulter.Com ^ | Feb 10, 2010 | Ann Coulter
Posted on 02/10/2010 3:08:46 PM PST by Syncro
OBAMA'S OWNED -- YOU CAN BANK ON IT
February 10, 2010
The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal are bristling with the news that Republicans have decided now is the time to suck up to Wall Street. As the saying goes, there is no truer friend than a Wall Street arbitrageur -- they are the salt-of-the-earth, the most loyal men who ever drew a breath!
What are Republicans thinking? While not every money-manipulator on Wall Street deserves to be treated like a heroin dealer, lots do. Could the Republicans be a little more discriminating in picking up the Democrats' old friends?
The Democrats are acting as if they want to punish everyone in the financial services industry, including the innocent, while the Republicans seem to want to protect everyone on Wall Street, including the guilty.
How about just punishing the guilty? The Democrats can't do that because the list of Wall Street's biggest offenders may turn out to be eerily similar to the list of Obama's biggest campaign contributors.
Employees from Goldman Sachs gave more to the Obama campaign than any other organization except the University of California -- with Citigroup and JPMorgan Chase quickly following in sixth and seventh place.
Whatever Obama has in mind for punishing the financial industry, I promise you, he won't punish his friends. After JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon took a $17 million bonus this week, and Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein got a $9 million bonus, Obama said he didn't begrudge them their bonuses, saying, "I know both those guys."
Obama seems to be hoping that his vague bluster about "obscene profits" will lure Republicans into embracing Wall Street welfare recipients -- thereby losing Americans forever.
Never bet against Republicans being outwitted.
Risk-taking and speculation are good. But the Democrats' crony capitalism is the worst of both worlds: risk-taking without any real risk for the risk-takers. It's like gambling with your rich daddy's money, except we're the rich daddy.
Obama, like the rest of his party, is an ideologue who doesn't understand or particularly like the free market. He fundamentally believes in the efficacy of the welfare state, whether the beneficiary is a layabout single mother or a rich Wall Street banker.
As Peter Schweizer describes in his magnificent book "Architects of Ruin," the Democrats have been bailing out investment houses from their bad bets since the Clinton administration. The bankers got all the profits when their risky bonds were paying -- and then gave massive donations to their Democratic benefactors. But once the bets went bad, it was the taxpayers' problem.
Heavily leveraged securities packages put together by Goldman Sachs and others were the HIV virus that killed the American economy. And the reason investment firms piled leverage on leverage on leverage was that they knew the government would bail them out if their house of cards collapsed.
On one hand, Goldman put together toxic securities packages for their clients, but on the other hand, Goldman knew the mortgage securities being sold on the market were crap, so they also took out lots of insurance with AIG on crappy products being traded on the market.
It would be as if, anticipating a major earthquake, Goldman bought massive insurance policies on every house on the San Andreas fault line.
There's nothing wrong with taking risks and making bets, provided that if you bet wrong or if you bankrupt your betting partner with wild gambles: You lose.
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Now that is interesting:
I am not a Ron Paul fan, necessarily, but I find it very revealing to look at his biggest contributor list. Mostly military, defense industry,(despite? his stance on Iraq), and technology industry.
I think I might rather have someone at the helm whose strings are pulled (and not very hard, by the poor figures, though this is for a lesser period of time) by those guys than all the financial hagglers with no loyalty to any nation or person other than their own bottom line.
If you want that the “Republicans should ask how is this possible” that Goldman/Sachs leaders “escaped” the “near collapse” of our economy, here’s how it could happen.
If the Republicans win either the House or the Senate, they will then control the committees who can hold hearings, issues subpoenas, and publish documents and reports ad infinitum. THIS IS WHERE THE POWER TO DESTROY THE DEMOCRAT PARTY LIES.
Believe me, I’ve given enough congressional testimonies and helped create studies that had an impact on certain issues. Once you expose corruption and treason, you have undermined any legitimacy that the Demos had, and they will collapse like a house of rotten cards.
Hearings into the economic manipulation and payoffs would last for months, and those for the treasonous activities and affiliations of key Democrat leaders would fill books. You could take down Conyers, Frank, Waters, Schakowsky, Woolsey, Hinchey, McDermott, Kucinich, Lee, and many others, esp. those in the Progressive Caucus.
Pelosi, Reid, Durbin, Frank, Dodd (if the coward were still around) and others would fall on Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac, the TARP funds, the fraudulent stimulus funds, and their contacts with lobbyists. You might even find some new information on how Al Franken “won” his election.
The key to this is to investigate, hold hearings, publish the findings, talk to the media, and do it over and over again until the whole country knows about the moral, political and ideological corruption of the Democrats.
Take no prisoners. Impeach, convict, jail, or drive-out these destroyers of America. If you think that Obama’s bus has run over a lot of people, just wait till over the first week in November.
You’r gonna need a whole fleet of New Orleans buses to cover up the political bodies that will be strewn across the political landscape.
The White House also needs a good cleaning - by Roto-Rotor, with a very sharp drill-head.
Then we destroy Soros and his reds.
In a game of poker, I’ll hold with 4 Annes versus a full outhouse of Pelosi, Boxer, Waters, Clinton, and SL Jackson.
But anyone who took huge gambles, lost and got bailed out with taxpayer money should be tortured and then shot, miraculously brought back to life, tortured some more, then shot a few more times.
Let me know if you'd like to be added to the Ann Coulter ping list.
Thanks for that list.
I hope to watch that on DVD one day. It sounded like a lot of fun.
>Sarah for Prez and Annie for VP! I could go for that!!!<<
I’d rather have Ann Coulter on the Supreme Court OR as Secretary of State with orders to clean the place out.
The confirmation hearings would send sales of popcorn into the stratosphere.
“How about just punishing the guilty? The Democrats can’t do that because the list of Wall Street’s biggest offenders may turn out to be eerily similar to the list of Obama’s biggest campaign contributors. [Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, and JPMorgan Chase]
Flashback: Obama Says Bonuses Are Violation Of ‘Our Fundamental Values’...
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/02/10/flashback_obama_says_bonuses_are_violation_of_our_fundamental_values.html
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Other news:
Michelle Obama announces ‘obesity’ a threat to national security...
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/61157
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DROWNING POLAR BEARS?
Feel the warming
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2449012/posts
“If, like everyone else from New England to Virginia, you spent the last 24 hours watching the global warming fall from the sky ...”
Drudge Headline:
NYT THURSDAY: THE BLIZZARDS ARE FROM THE WARMING... DEVELOPING...
And yet — “Democrats Robert Byrd, Barbara Boxer, Amy Klobuchar, and Diane Feinstein in the past all [made] an argument for global warming by citing warmer winters and little snow as evidence.”
Is DC a Global Warming glacier now? [Several headlines of record snow / climategate in link blast response to this post.]
Also in link blast response to this post — Obama has a prison ‘census scheme’, First Wife goes off the deep end over obesity, NTY’s revenue problem, global bank tax near, Iran’s Feb 11 activities so far, weird news, Obama’s sicko ‘safe schools’ czar, more race baiting and Palin Bashing [Michael Savage alert], and more.
[When news is coming at a quick pace, my link blasts can help you catch a lot in a short time. Just one ping a day, or maybe two pings on a truly wild day.]
DC — The Great Global Warming Glacier:
Olbermann Mocks “Deniers” for Saying Snow Disproves Global Warming - Video
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2448851/posts
Record Snow [Drudge headlines]
MOST SNOW ON RECORD IN DC...
BLIZZARD NEW YORK CITY..
ALL WASHINGTON AIRPORTS CLOSED TOMORROW?
Mayor under fire...
Snowiest Winter in Philly’s History...
Snowstorm shatters local records in Chicago...
It’s official: Baltimore Snow Record!
Senate global warming hearing cancelled...
Legislation buried under record snowfall in capital...
Feds Warn: Snow Costs Taxpayers $100 Million A Day...
Washington Builds a Snow Mountain...
Dog Mugged, Doggie Coat Missing...
Left shivering in the buff...
The CO2 Lie (One more domino falls)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2449003/posts
Feb 10 Drowning Polar Bear Link Blast [Climategate]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2448851/posts?page=14#14
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GLOBAL BANK TAX NEAR...
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/23a35d16-1692-11df-aa09-00144feab49a.html
States get new leeway to tally prisoners in census
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2449029/posts
“ ... move that could reshape the political map, increasing urban population numbers ... “
NY TIMES ad outlook dim...
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN0910698720100210
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Iran’s FEB 11 Shocker — Are we there yet?
[So far, it’s mainly rioters against Iran.]
A Nuclear State [also big headline in Drudge]
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1250127/Iran-Revolution-day-protests-Islamic-Republic-nuclear-state.html
Iran to start national email service; Shut GOOGLE...
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704140104575057621649270154.html?mod=WSJ-hpp-MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsSecond
‘We Can Enrich Uranium To 80 Percent But We Choose Not To’ [Ahmadinejad]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2449009/posts
[I hope this is all the Feb 11 Shocker is. Maybe some leftists are surprised?]
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Sicko ‘Safe Schools’ Czar
Obama czar’s ‘homo-genda’ proposed for U.S. schools
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2449021/posts
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=124704
“A homosexual congressman from Colorado has proposed a law critics say would give controversial federal school safety czar Kevin Jennings – a longtime homosexual-rights advocate – almost unlimited authority to mandate indoctrination in public schools at taxpayer expense.”
[Another good article by Worldnetdaily — spelled ‘net’.]
OBAMA APPOINTEE KEVIN JENNINGS: FISTING AND “[F–k] ‘em” to the ...
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/06/obama-appointee-kevin-jennings-fisting-and-fk-em-to-the-religious-right.html
Huffington Post is really thrilled to vindicate Kevin Jennings:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/06/fox-news-correction-false_n_311734.html
“The specific claim involved an accusation that Jennings had covered up “statutory rape,” based on an incident when Jennings was a teacher, when a “teenager confided in him about having sex with a stranger and Jennings didn’t report it to authorities.” Media Matters ended up proving there was no basis to the claim. Via The Plum Line: On Friday Media Matters produced what it said was the kid’s drivers license, showing that the kid was 16, legal age of consent in Massachuttes, and also produced a Facebook exchange that seemed to show that a Fox News reporter had been informed directly by the kid himself that they’d misrepresented his age.”
[So the kid was sixteen years old, and a teacher was sodomizing him? Oh, that should make us feel better. I would be confused too as a reporter.]
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Race Baiting and Palin Bashing:
George Lopez Mocks Sarah Palin, Says She is ‘Special Needs’ (Video)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2448988/posts
[What an F-ing r-worded thing to say.]
Chris Matthews Compares Debra Medina to Southern Racists
http://www.infowars.com/chris-matthews-compares-debra-medina-to-southern-racists
Savage: Palin the “Dolly Parton” of the Republican Tea Party
http://www.infowars.com/savage-palin-the-dolly-parton-of-the-republican-tea-party
[God bless Mark Levin.]
Talk to the hand [NY Post]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2449010/posts
White House reporters stop laughing at Gibbs’ jokes...
http://www.politico.com/click/stories/1002/press_room_laughter_dies_down.html
NY governor says he’ll step aside only ‘in a box’...
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/80523-paterson-says-criticism-is-racially-motivated
Says criticism is racially motivated...
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MISC
New 911 photos released...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1249885/New-World-Trade-Center-9-11-aerial-images-ABC-News.html
Cleared: Father who chopped off intruder’s ear with samurai sword ...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2449025/posts
Malaysia says first submarine unable to dive
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2449002/posts
China discloses buying spree in US firms
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2448995/posts
EXITS AND STRATEGIES ... Mark Steyn on John Murtha
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2448994/posts
Arab conned into marrying bearded lady
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2448993/posts
Republican Iraq War Hero & Double Amputee Runs For Congress in Minnesota
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2448992/posts
Sgt. John Kriesel [A different America than during Vietnam — thank God!]
One More Mystery..(certifigate)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2448987/posts
De Facto Military Occupation of Pennsylvania
http://www.infowars.com/de-facto-military-occupation-of-pennsylvania
It’s ba-ack! Health-care plan redoubles ‘marriage penalty’
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=124658
Congressional proposals could penalize couples $10,000 for saying ‘I do’
[I’d rather read Worldnetdaily than those who have trouble spelling ‘net’.]
The Great Chinese Arms Race
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2449015/posts
Ann as lead singer on "the Supremes" is a good idea..
After all she is a Constitutional Lawyer.. with credentials..
Political pundits posting on relevant topics?
Since about 1997-98
LOL!
Catching up...
And she's pulling it off pretty good, don'tcha think?
heh
That's no prob
It's the messin’ with Ann that got you scorched
Ann Coulter: OBAMA'S OWNED -- YOU CAN BANK ON IT (Bought and Paid for)
Now 5,700.
Bump you post 89.
So what? Obama's grandmother and preacher haven't done anything like the crooks at GS and JPM. Why "analzye" cranks? If you don't like coulter, why not just come out and say it? Sheesh.
The rich make the best socialists.
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