Discussion for article #234798
I say let them withhold it and when the Democrats win in 2016 they can then thumb their noses at the banks and start regulating them properly again.
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This is going make her look heroic, and gain her even more support.
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People mostly hate banks. So they will vote the opposite of what the banks want, if the banks decide to be so nakedly pro-Republican.
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Citigroup and JPMorgan should be taken apart and sold.
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The TBTF banks will be fine if Warren can get enough traction behind a move to once again separate commercial banking form investment banking.
Not only will that make them considerably smaller, it will make banking what it should be—dull, boring, and reliably profitable.
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I say, go ahead. Let them throw their lot in with the crazies. The GOP is getting more and more extreme with each election. They want to align themselves with Louie Gohmert, Steve King and Tom Tillis, who doesn’t believe that food service employees should have to wash their hands, let 'em.
There’s a good chance the Dems will retake the Senate in '16 and I personally am not worried about keeping the WH.
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terrific response by both warren and to everyone who’s donated since… this will only give her more influence and determination it’s been interesting to watch the developing attacks on her over the past few weeks – she’s too mean, she’s too liberal, too elitist… she needs to remain right where she is in the senate, because she’s clearly unnerving alot of people… oh… and fuck you, jamie dimon.
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ANYTHING that stops donations to the DSCC, I am 100% for. Giving to this group is like sending it to Blue Dogs. They are about as progressive as the Chamber of Commerce. Give directly to real progressive candidates. Sen. Warren and anyone who thinks like her is an excellent start.
We need a Congress of Warren Democrats!!!
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and their chief executives charged with orchestrating one of the most massive bank heists ever… and sentenced to life terms to be served at rikers.
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Thank you Senator Warren for fighting fire with fire.
Next up…the Doobie Brothers - “Takin’ it to the Streets”:
You don’t know me but I’m your brother
I was raised here in this living Hell
You don’t know my kind in your world
Fairly soon, the time will tell
You, telling me the things you’re gonna do for me
I ain’t blind and I don’t like what I think I see
Takin’ it to the streets
Takin’ it to the streets
Takin’ it to the streets
Take this message to my brother
You will find him everywhere
Wherever people live together
Tied in poverty’s despair
You, telling me the things you’re gonna do for me
I ain’t blind and I don’t like what I think I see
Takin’ it to the streets…
And fade…
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This article neglected to mention Goldman Sachs and Bank of America.
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Exactly. there was a story elsewhere about this threat from the banks, who accused the Democrats of not being “pro-business” enough.
Guess what, big banks? You got everything you asked for the past 30 years from the “pro-business” lawmakers, and what was the result? You took insane risks, crashed the economy, and had to be bailed out.
Your reckless policies cost millions of people their jobs, homes and businesses and almost sank the entire global economy…
Maybe in your greed for obscene short-term profits you are not a good judge of what is in your self-interest.
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“Trolls” seems like a rather harsh assessment of Warrens rejoinder given she was merely describing the behavior of the Royal Majesties…those that control the banks and use their influence to maintain their fiefdoms.
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Maybe I get too many of these solicitations in my inbox, but Warren, God love her, lost me at “and raise another $30,000.”
First we need to revoke Citizens United.
It doesn’t matter that people hate banks. It matters that too many of them voted in the very politicians (Republicans) who are in the payroll of the banks. With the Congress now controlled by the Republican puppetmasters, things will get worse, regardless of what the people like or want. This is WHY the banks are so pro Republican. Thanks to Republican de-regulations, the big banks got so much more profitable by bankrupting the people (other than the politicians they bought). If the citizens are going to continue to vote for corrupt politicians, and yet hate the banks, they could punish the banks by switching to credit unions.
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And the separation of commercial and investment banking is what allowed Canadian banks to survive and flourish during the recession. Dull and boring banks make me happy. You want excitement? Go to the theatre!
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Attention all Democrats: This is how it’s done.
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Yes, this is Senator Elizabeth “Pit Bull” Warren’s role. Now we need a Teddy (or Ted-ette) Roosevelt to apply the shackles.
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Won’t happen without another dem in the White House and more in Congress.
I wish those who are too lazy to vote in off-year elections would get a clue, as well as those “pure” dems that incessantly whine,
If they are, in fact, democrats at all.
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