Wall Street to Dems: You Can’t Have It Both Ways
19th October 2011
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.
Here’s a teachable moment for you.
The people with money learn a valuable lesson that the people with power will turn on them at the faintest scent of blood.
And the people with power learn a valuable lesson that there is a limit to how stupid the people with money will be over time.