Charles P Pierce- The Warren Effect: Here Is A Bluff That Needs To Be Called

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Let us be quite definite about this. Any Democratic politician who thinks this is a bad situation -- or, worse, will not stand by a Democratic colleague in this situation -- is not worth the hankie to blow Joe Lieberman's nose.

Representatives from Citigroup, JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs and Bank of America, have met to discuss ways to urge Democrats, including Warren and Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown, to soften their party's tone toward Wall Street, sources familiar with the discussions said this week. Bank officials said the idea of withholding donations was not discussed at a meeting of the four banks in Washington but it has been raised in one-on-one conversations between representatives of some of them. However, there was no agreement on coordinating any action, and each bank is making its own decision, they said.

My god, what a prodigious bluff. Also, my god, what towering arrogance? These guys own half the world and have enough money to buy the other half, and they're threatening the party still most likely to control the White House because they don't like the Senator Professor's tone? Her tone? Sherrod Brown's tone? These are guys who should be worried about the tone of the guard who's calling them down to breakfast at Danbury and they're concerned about the tenderness of their Savile Row'd fee-fees? Honkies, please.

The tensions are a sign that the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis - the bank bailouts and the fights over financial reforms to rein in Wall Street - are still a factor in the 2016 elections. Citigroup has decided to withhold donations for now to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee over concerns that Senate Democrats could give Warren and lawmakers who share her views more power, sources inside the bank told Reuters.

Tensions? These are the guys who should have spent the last six years going door to door apologizing to every American for blowing up the world economy and then buying up the splinters. That is, they should have been going door-to-door to apologize to all those Americans who still have doors they can call their own.

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[L0oniX]

1. Let em flood the repukes with campaign money and get some public exposure for it.

I'd gladly and proudly stand and vote for and with those who refuse their fucking "blood diamond" (figurative) money.

[djean111]

2. Well, here is where they are coming from - Liz is supposed to STFU -

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/12/why-liberal-democrats-are-skeptical-of-hillary-clinton-in-one-paragraph/282304/

But Clinton offered a message that the collected plutocrats found reassuring, according to accounts offered by several attendees, declaring that the banker-bashing so popular within both political parties was unproductive and indeed foolish. Striking a soothing note on the global financial crisis, she told the audience, in effect: We all got into this mess together, and we’re all going to have to work together to get out of it. What the bankers heard her to say was just what they would hope for from a prospective presidential candidate: Beating up the finance industry isn’t going to improve the economy—it needs to stop. And indeed Goldman’s Jim O’Neill, the laconic Brit who heads the bank’s asset management division, introduced Clinton by saying how courageous she was for speaking at the bank. (Brave, perhaps, but also well-compensated: Clinton’s minimum fee for paid remarks is $200,000).

Maybe Hillary is supposed to have all the Democrats in the bankers' bag by now. So I can see where they would think Warren should have gotten the message and is being willful and disobedient, and so the banks must resort to sterner measures.

[DonCoquixote]

7. Hillary we did not get into this together

namely because the people who you spoke to are the ones who HAD THEIR HANDS ON THE WHEEL

[Left coast liberal]

3. No doubt about it! Towering arrogance, indeed!

[Demeter]

4. Sure, don't fund the people who will end up winning

and lose any pull you ever had in the system....orange is the new black...hope you look good in stripes.

[LuvNewcastle]

5. That's because the greedy pigs know

that they're going to have to be bailed out again, probably in the not too distant future. It could happen anytime, and they know that a movement will build behind the Progressives when it does. They can't afford that, so they're trying to get everyone on the payroll before it happens. I'm proud of Warren and Brown. I think they are the future of the party.

[Augiedog]

6. Maybe ....

As justifiable punishment for their excremental actions against the American and world economy we could make them ( the banksters) all live in Indiana and be required to wear rainbow wing tip shoes.
If America gets any meaner and stupider we are going to have to change our name to something like the United states of mindless lemming assholes and just put Pat Robertson and Glenn Beck in charge, turn out the lights and say good night Gracie. Sooner or later the rest of the world is going to get sick of us and just wipe us out while we are busy chasing figments of our indignant phobias.

[Scuba]

9. "The United States of Mindless Lemming Assholes" does have some truth to it.

[Enthusiast]

8. K&R! This post deserves hundreds of recommendations!

Deserves.

[mother earth]

10. K & R, there is no rule of law in our country until campaign finance reform & banksters, among

others, are facing real jail time for their crimes, and are all dealt with.

[eridani]

11. Continuing on--

Call this. Do it now. Tell them their money is no good here any more. Give these brigands the 86 the way any respectable saloonkeeper gives the heave to a chronic deadbeat who's run up an unpayable tab. Show the country in simple (and not necessarily civil) words what these people really are. Demonstrate, speech by speech, that they have no loyalty to the political entity that is the United States of America, that they are stateless gombeen bastards who would sell this country's democracy off like a subprime mortgage to put another ten bucks into their pockets. They are threatening the people whom they still should be thanking for saving them from themselves. And Senator Professor Warren is only their most conspicuous target. Don't kid yourselves, this is a message they're sending to every politician, up and down the line, national and local. Don't cross us. We own you. There is only one response for a democratic people to make to this ongoing gross obscenity.

Bring it, motherfkers. Bring your lunch. And your lawyers.

This is a fight the Democratic party must have, if it's going to be worth a damn as a political entity. If some Democratic politicians line up on the wrong side, and they go down, so be it. The rest of the country has sacrificed enough for the plague-ridden benefits of its investor class.

[KoKo]

12. +1,0000.