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Goldman Sachs is Democrats' new target (Updated)
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| Updated: 4/19/10 11:15 AM EDT
| By MIKE ALLEN
Posted on 04/19/2010 7:43:42 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
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Despite the denials of Robert Gibbs the DNC would have had to know about the SEC's Goldman Sachs suit weeks ago in order to construct its fundraising and political ads around the controversy.
To: Brad from Tennessee
Despite the $1 million donation?
Muslim president goes after Goldman Sachs. A pattern is developing...
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posted on
04/19/2010 7:46:04 PM PDT
by
TigerBait
To: Brad from Tennessee
Goldman Sachs execs gave, roughly $6million in political contributions, in the 2008 election cycle.
75% of that money went to: DEMOCRATS!
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posted on
04/19/2010 7:48:38 PM PDT
by
Kansas58
To: Brad from Tennessee
There is so much going on behind the scenes I don’t have a clue. I really don’t know how to score this one.
To: TigerBait
All theater. Likely, when the sound and fury fades, they’ll still have profited handsomely from that investment.
To: Brad from Tennessee
Barack Obama to Goldman Sachs’ employees who donated almost $1 Million to his campaign... “You would think they would be saying “thank you”!”
;)
To: Brad from Tennessee
Amazing that the libs are quick to forget about the CRA. Dang....The CRA was the start of all this crap. Jimmy Carter forced this. Oh, how soon foks forget.
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posted on
04/19/2010 7:59:00 PM PDT
by
redshawk
To: Brad from Tennessee
“Despite the denials of Robert Gibbs the DNC would have had to know about the SEC’s Goldman Sachs suit weeks ago in order to construct its fundraising and political ads around the controversy. “
No doubt in my mind this is planned.
I read some of the Wall Street Journal articles today; and I am still trying figure what they did wrong.
They bundled mortgages (that had already been made) that were already identified as having a high risk for failure; to sell to sophisticated investors.
And someone also took hedge positions that the same mortgages would go bad.
With the government's headlines; the uninformed public will somehow believe that Goldman somehow pushed individual homeowners into default.
Completely wrong.
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posted on
04/19/2010 7:59:46 PM PDT
by
HereInTheHeartland
(Chairman Mao was a community organizer)
To: rightwingcrazy
Obama and administration have been publicly linked to Goldman since last year. The White House had to do something to make it appear Goldman didn't have a pass. It's not inconceivable that this whole political theater was worked out in advance by lawyers from the SEC, Goldman and the White House.
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posted on
04/19/2010 8:00:50 PM PDT
by
Brad from Tennessee
(A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
To: TigerBait
Despite the $1 million donation?Play with a serpent, you're bound to get bit. Goldman Sachs has learned that the hard way.
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posted on
04/19/2010 8:01:57 PM PDT
by
eclecticEel
(Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: 7/4/1776 - 3/21/1980)
To: Brad from Tennessee
When you type Goldman Sachs SEC into Google, the results include an ad for Wall Street reform, paid for by the Democratic National Committee. . . Be sure to do the search and click on the link. Those ads aren't free and every click takes a little bit of cash from the DNC.
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posted on
04/19/2010 8:03:00 PM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Obamacare: The 2010 version of the Intolerable Acts.)
To: Brad from Tennessee
"You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before."
-Rahm Emanuel
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posted on
04/19/2010 8:06:08 PM PDT
by
tacticalogic
("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
To: Parley Baer
There is so much going on behind the scenes I dont have a clue. I really dont know how to score this one. Shouldn't there some type of criminal charges?
To: Brad from Tennessee
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posted on
04/19/2010 8:08:41 PM PDT
by
freekitty
(Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
To: Brad from Tennessee
![TheLeader](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3057/3065358123_df8fc6c2d1_o.jpg)
Sachs is merely a scape goat. That want the financial bill which lets them arbitrarily seize companies. Sachs is merely the excuse the regime media is using for this poisonous bill. They want to scare companies into silence and/or contributions least they be nationalized. Pure evil.
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posted on
04/19/2010 8:12:05 PM PDT
by
Nateman
(If liberals aren't screaming you're doing it wrong.)
To: Brad from Tennessee
They're throwing B'rer Rabbit into the brier patch.
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posted on
04/19/2010 8:12:06 PM PDT
by
Carry_Okie
(The RINOcrat Party is still in charge. There has never been a conservative American government.)
To: Kansas58
hmmmmmm...anyone else get the feeling that there is more to this story? GS was Obama’s largest campaign contributor...then a few weeks before the election, we have a well orchestrated ‘meltdown’ that serves to secure Obama’s victory. This is nothing but a smoke screen to place some distance between GS and Obama. They are as tight as thieves. This has more to do with potential investigations when the republicans take back congress in November than it does with Obama’s new financial regulations push imho.
The truth always rises to the surface and it is rising right now.
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posted on
04/19/2010 8:13:04 PM PDT
by
penelopesire
("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
To: Brad from Tennessee
Night of the Long Knives.
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posted on
04/19/2010 8:13:49 PM PDT
by
Tzimisce
(No thanks. We have enough government already. - The Tick)
To: HereInTheHeartland
As long as GS didn't manipulate the ratings agencies to classify the bonds as AAA I have trouble seeing what they did wrong as well.
If someone did something illegal fine...go get them. But to use this as an excuse to interpose Gov't oversight forever because of a lousy law that the Gov't passed in the first place (CRA) which got this whole ball rolling while Dodd and Frank get off scot-free...well, that blatantly sucks.
To: Brad from Tennessee
The SEC thing will be settled with some fine that sounds like a lot of money to you and me but is chickensh!!! to Goldman.
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posted on
04/19/2010 8:19:01 PM PDT
by
freespirited
(I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise. --Robert Frost)
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