Wall Street to Dems: you can't have it both ways

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[Sub-Driver]

Wall Street to Dems: you can't have it both ways

By: Robin Bravender and Anna Palmer October 18, 2011 01:09 PM EDT

After the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee sent a recent email urging supporters to sign a petition backing the wave of Occupy Wall Street protests, phones at the party committee started ringing.

Banking executives personally called the offices of DCCC Chairman Steve Israel (D-N.Y.) and DCCC Finance Chairman Joe Crowley (D-N.Y.) last week demanding answers, three financial services lobbyists told POLITICO.

“They were livid,” said one Democratic lobbyist with banking clients.

The execs asked the lawmakers: “What are you doing? Do you even understand some of the things that they’ve called for?” said another lobbyist with financial services clients who is a former Democratic Senate aide.

Democrats’ friends on Wall Street have a message for them: you can’t have it both ways.

President Barack Obama and other top Democrats are parroting the anti-corporate rhetoric running through the Occupy Wall Street protests, trying to tap into the movement’s energy but keep the protesters at arms’ length.

But many bankers aren’t buying the distinction. And some financial services lobbyists and industry insiders say the liberal line will make swing givers think twice before opening their checkbooks this year.

“Most Wall Street guys, they feel like they’re going to be burned in effigy,” said Anthony Scaramucci, managing partner of SkyBridge Capital, who gave to Obama in 2008 but is now fundraising for Mitt Romney. Some moderate donors, who have given to both parties, “fled from Obama in his support of the Wall Street protests,” he said.

[Sub-Driver]

Go figure.......

[himno hero]

The parents need to tell the children its time to go home and take their meds...

[SMARTY]

“...top Democrats are parroting the anti-corporate rhetoric running through the Occupy Wall Street protests, trying to tap into the movement’s energy but keep the protesters at arms’ length.”

Wag the dog

[listenhillary]

“SkyBridge Capital, who gave to Obama in 2008 but is now fundraising for Mitt Romney.”

Good grief! I hope my fund managers avoid this stupid stupid person like the plague.

[isthisnickcool]

It is getting violent:

http://www.livestream.com/occupynyc

[Leep]

Anthony Scaramucci, managing partner of SkyBridge Capital, who gave to Obama in 2008 but is now fundraising for MITT ROMNEY.

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That says it all right there. Birds of a feather.

[pasr]

This is a fight to change this nation. We do not need a Hugo
Chavez type country no matter what Sean Says.

[Tulane]

Why did they give to Obama in 2008? What, in his past, made them think,

“Yes he said he wants to take a sledge hammer to nafta, attended a socialist-anti-capitalist church for 20 years, was a community organizer against business, and voted as the most liberal, anti-business Senator in 06 and 07, but hey, I think this guy will be good for us.”

How could they be that stupid?

[G Larry]

At some point the anti-American, Communist agenda has a price that can’t be ignored.

[MrB]

And yet they continue to contribute to their re-election campaigns.

[SoldierDad]

Stupid is as stupid does. Liberals are out in full force cutting off their noses to spite their faces. Keep a fresh supply of popcorn ready.

[Tenacious 1]

The Wallstreet liberals remind me of Charlie Brown trying to kick a football. Democrats = Lucy.

[gimme1ibertee]

ENOUGH pepper srpay and tear gas...time to break out the rubber bullets!

[colorado tanker]

Wall Street funded Obummer. They have no one to blame but themselves.

[listenhillary]

And disgusting- Jump in Obama - You will feel right at home!

Man accused of exposing self to children arrested
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/132064518.html

Officers had been given a composite sketch of the suspect and detectives learned he had been at Westlake Park taking part in the Occupy Seattle protests.

[gimme1ibertee]

srpay=spray

[SueRae]

I think this helps Cain. So, the former 0bama supporters are throwing money at Romney...and yet, looks who’s leading. Those angry at WS and the political establishment may/are taking another look.

As Sarah Palin said, “We don’t want to be writing trillion dollar thank-you notes after the election”. Cain’s campaign of course needs money...but I believe that he, like Sarah, cannot be bought.

[blackdog]

Having it both ways means you are flat out lying to one of the parties involved. Thus the mindset of the professional democrat politician in this age.

[Upstate NY Guy]

Uh ohh... Obummer didn't think of that now did he?

Personally I am loving OWS and I hope it continues. This will hurt the NY State Dems in all kinds of ways. The voters in NY are sick of these stupid occupy brats. I am so glad the Democrat party has decided to embrace these losers.

[Recovering_Democrat]

Hey WALL STREET: Hussein and his party ARE NOT YOUR FRIENDS!

I've got a story for ya, you genius bankers:

One day, a scorpion looked around at the mountain where he lived and decided that he wanted a change. So he set out on a journey through the forests and hills. He climbed over rocks and under vines and kept going until he reached a river.

The river was wide and swift, and the scorpion stopped to reconsider the situation. He couldn't see any way across. So he ran upriver and then checked downriver, all the while thinking that he might have to turn back.

Suddenly, he saw a frog sitting in the rushes by the bank of the stream on the other side of the river. He decided to ask the frog for help getting across the stream.

"Hellooo Mr. Frog!" called the scorpion across the water, "Would you be so kind as to give me a ride on your back across the river?"

"Well now, Mr. Scorpion! How do I know that if I try to help you, you wont try to kill me?" asked the frog hesitantly.

"Because," the scorpion replied, "If I try to kill you, then I would die too, for you see I cannot swim!"

Now this seemed to make sense to the frog. But he asked. "What about when I get close to the bank? You could still try to kill me and get back to the shore!"

"This is true," agreed the scorpion, "But then I wouldn't be able to get to the other side of the river!"

"Alright then...how do I know you wont just wait till we get to the other side and THEN kill me?" said the frog.

"Ahh...," crooned the scorpion, "Because you see, once you've taken me to the other side of this river, I will be so grateful for your help, that it would hardly be fair to reward you with death, now would it?!"

So the frog agreed to take the scorpion across the river. He swam over to the bank and settled himself near the mud to pick up his passenger. The scorpion crawled onto the frog's back, his sharp claws prickling into the frog's soft hide, and the frog slid into the river. The muddy water swirled around them, but the frog stayed near the surface so the scorpion would not drown. He kicked strongly through the first half of the stream, his flippers paddling wildly against the current.

Halfway across the river, the frog suddenly felt a sharp sting in his back and, out of the corner of his eye, saw the scorpion remove his stinger from the frog's back. A deadening numbness began to creep into his limbs.

"You fool!" croaked the frog, "Now we shall both die! Why on earth did you do that?"

The scorpion shrugged, and did a little jig on the drownings frog's back.

"I could not help myself. It is my nature."

Then they both sank into the muddy waters of the swiftly flowing river.

Let me be more clear: you guys are frogs. Hussein and his party are scorpions.