“meant that one of Wall Street’s most reliable allies within the GOP was gone.”
Can we say Crony Capitalism or sucking on the government teat.
This Cantor was for Amnesty for illegals. The defeat of this moron Cantor stopped amnesty for now. that Amnesty would have allowed all 40 million illegals to become citizens and to bring in 100 million more of their family members from the 3rd world, from Mexico and other countries into the USA
The “Rockefellers” are upset the pillaging of the middle-class may not continue unabated.
How much power does a freshman congressman have...?
I very much doubt Wall Street is terrified...
They are dozens of other congress critters more than willing to sell their souls to Wall Street...
The Banking Crisis was not the sole creation of “Bankers”. Congress critters are as much if not more guilty.
Dave Brat is not replacing Eric Cantors position
of power. Only his district position.
What a bunch of BS. Government and mainly Congress are the cause of all our problems. Corrupt incompetent, selfish and greedy politicians determine the how the game is to be played and then the rest of the nation tries to figure out how to protect itself. Where does that lead us, to be just a corrupt and greedy and selfish as the politicians. And the nation goes deeper and deeper into an evil cesspool.
Hey Dave, I hear ya. Pissed me off too. And still does. Fancy bankers and other corporate elites that break the law should go to jail. Just that simple. Jail give people pause whereas fines are just a joke.
The Wall Street and Main Street factions of the Republican Party have been at war since the days when Robert A. Taft and Wendell Willkie were squaring off. Looks like the Main Street faction finally scored a big win.
Dave Brat the “Elizabeth Warren of the right”?????
Sorry, Brat has an actual brain. As abysmal as the establishment GOP has become, there couldn’t possibly be an Elizabeth Warren of the right.
No Bankers were charged because Eric Holder made the statement that the bankers broke no laws,that’s why there were not charged.
That makes sense because they did exactly what the government told them to do,give mortgages to people who could not afford them,the banks knew they were crap loans and so they insured themselves against losses on the crap loans and insurance companies,insuring the crap loans knew they were crap,so they insured themselves against the losses to come,then they bundled these crap loans into bonds rated triple A sold them all over the world.
So you had trillions tied up in crap,Gas went to 4.00 a gallon,adjustable rate mortgage rates went up,people holding these crap mortgages who could not afford them in the first place,now could not pay them at all,the whole ball of crap collapsed,now the banks get bailed out by responsible people paying off the banks with no interest on anything while the banks get loans at 0 interest and the insurance companies get bailed out by the tax payers.
And Bratt is concerned about no one in the banks being charged,he better get better educated on this one or he will just be another hack,he has now just joined the criminal enterprise that caused the freaking mess
Wall Street created its own demise when it decided to set up our economy as Wall Street vs. The People. They sold out to the FedGov and are actively promoting Fascism which is total cooperation between industry and government with the people used as pawns. The trading of securities in the modern era is just a fraudulent way of fleecing the people through government theft of the people’s money and laundering through a trading floor.
Eric Cantor had a friendly (corrupt) relationship with Wall Street. Eric Cantor helped get laws passed that were favorable to Wall Street, and Wall Street contributed millions of dollars to Eric Cantor’s reelection campaigns.
Unfortunately, this beautiful friendship had to end when Eric Cantor mistakenly calculated that he would need only $5 million dollars to defeat his relatively unknown primary opponent who had almost no campaign money.
If the City of Detroit wasn’t too big to fail, then neither was Goldman Sachs. If General Motors was able to go bankrupt and restructure itself, then Citigroup could have done the same.
Instead, the Wall Street banks were bailed out with billions of taxpayer dollars, because Congressman Eric Cantor and many of his colleagues wanted to be Congressman-for-life, and they needed millions of campaign dollars from Wall Street to do so.
There is now an opening for a new House Majority Leader and another for a new Congressman in Virginia’s District 7. If those positions are filled by honorable men or women instead of by Eric Cantor clones willing to take kickbacks from Wall Street in exchange for bankrupting America’s taxpayers by sending multi-billion-dollar bailouts to Wall Street year after year, it will be a rare triumph for America.
Biggest problem on Wall Street is that we still have the “Too Big to Fail” (TBtF) problem WITH Wall Street. Big Government Lovers want TBtF Money Center ‘Banks’, they are easy to tax, fine, have lunch with and get a job with later. In spite of $Billions in fines, they still pay their management $Billions in salary and bonuses, each being taxed by local, state and Federal Governments. Senator Chuck Schumer and his echo Sen. Kristen Gillibrand are ultra liberal and for the poor UNTIL you threaten Wall Street, then you better watch out!
Breakup TBtF, make them able to fail without another 2008-9 DISASTER! Not going to happen with this bunch and unlikely with any future unless we have blood in the streets. Sigh!
“the Elizabeth Warren of the right.”
He faked a racial heritage to take advantage of minority set-asides???
Geee, I didn’t think the banksters should have gone to jail, I thought they should have been hanging on lamp posts all the way up and down Wall Street along with their political enablers.
On the trail, Bratt lamented the fact that no Wall Street bankers went to jail for the crisis of 2008.
I’m liking him more everyday, now if he’d include some
democrats...I’d like him even more.