Posted on 01/17/2010 5:42:58 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
If you held a contest to pick the worst thing a politician could be called at this moment, my nominee would be “Wall Street liberal.”
That label has everything. I personally despise the way the noble liberal idea has been devalued, but face it: Conservatives have had great success in discrediting liberalism, to the point that most liberals dare not call themselves by their own name.
And what institutions are held in lower esteem right now than those represented by the words “Wall Street”?
The left has always disliked Wall Street. Populists of all stripes have gone after financiers since the days of Andrew Jackson. And the right can cast Wall Streeters as the recipients of Washington’s largesse. Oh, yes, and they were the high-fliers who tanked the American economy.
Put “Wall Street” together with “liberal” and: bang! About the only more unpopular combination I can think of is high-cholesterol broccoli.
If you want to understand why President Barack Obama’s standing in the polls is not where it used to be — and also why the populist-sounding Tea Party movement has gained so much traction — consider that some significant part of the American voting population has come to see the administration as both too liberal and too tied to Wall Street.
Never mind that Obama is not really all that liberal (read any of the liberal bloggers if you doubt this), and never mind that Wall Street is fighting Obama on financial reform, particularly on his excellent proposal to create a financial consumer protection agency. The fact is that the Wall Street tag is sticking, and Obama was always going to battle the L-word.(continued)
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Such an idiot.
No tax means just that. I don’t recall the movement stipulating certain individuals and institutions should be acceptably taxed.
Same goes for small government. The movement is shouting for them to just leave us all alone. D.J. thinks this means leave the “little people” alone but go after everyone else? They go after “everyone else” and we pay for it when they pass the costs down.
Yet in D.J’s mind we’ve been cutting taxes and practicing small government and this is responsible for the current mess. I’d love to know when that period of time happened since I must have been in a coma. Last I knew government was intervening by taking over private institutions, dictating chairmanships, looking for new ways to spend and tax us to death and oh...bailing out those institutions with our money.
Go ahead D.J. Try to sell the idea of a tax on banks being wonderful as opposed to it being an indirect tax on the consumer. All the people are going to hear is that word “tex” and throw the bums out who use it.
Last part should be tax.
To add to my point, D.J., liberal blogs are not the cornerstone for proving or disproving someone’s liberalism. They have gone well beyond the mark of liberalism. Go a few hundred miles further Left of liberalism and you’ll find where your buddies reside.
and Lame Stream Media..
You are wrong. That’s Dominick Dunne.
Now it only known as Classical liberalism But EJ knew that /sarc What a "useful idiot"Before the word "liberal" was purloined by the Progressives
and Communists it meant "limited government and laissez-faire.
I believe you are confusing this man with author Dominick Dunne.
His daughter Dominique played the older sister in “Poltergeist” and she was strangled by her boyfriend.
Dominick Dunne died last August at age 83.
Oh, we conservatives don't need to take the credit for that. Half a century of failed policies is discrediting enough, E.J. (Does E.J. stand for Elitist Jerk?)
carbon big foot liberals.
You are next, Dionne....LOL!
“Never mind that Obama is not really all that liberal (read any of the liberal bloggers if you doubt this)”
Of all the Obama talking points out there, this one annoys me most - i.e. “Obama is actually a moderate”.
Obama is a moderate only in the sense that it’s impractical for him to embrace some of the far left’s agenda. As such, he’s arguably taking a “middle” path between the center-left and the far-left of his own constituents. He’s still well to the left of most of the country, and to the governance model he claimed to believe in during the 2008 Presidential campaign (though not at all at odds with the lefty stances he took during the Democratic primaries).
It was the screen that got small.... E J remains BIG
Actually, E.J, I believe the Libs have done a pretty good job all on their own.
No, Obama is not liberal. He’s a genuine socialist. Neo-Marxist.
I personally despise the way the noble liberal idea has been devalued
E.J. You made my day. Didn’t realize the progress that had been made.
No, I won’t read the kos, d.u. or any o the rest. Thanks just the same, But taking out the zer0 (in a political way) is a cause. Thanks for a progress report
Obama too liberal? Clinton is a liberal, as is Jimmie Carter. America survived their presidencies, but I wouldn’t call Obama a liberal...he’s a fascist.
vaudine
E.J....... a brown win might very save your sorry ass.
If the revolution comes, you are outa here
Rudy Giuliani is seen as too liberal in Mayberry, and a right wing radical in NYC.
This isn't the sort of diversity the liberals strive for and they don't seem to recognize it.
Well, according to ABC Radio news this am, Obama is the new Ronald Reagan, because both presidents had dismal approval ratings at the end of their first years; both "inherited" a recession.
Yes, that's what they said. I almost imploded with flabbergast.
[The Democrats don’t know dangerous the label is to them. ]
Wall Street Liberal isn’t an anti-capitalist epithet, it applies to all the bank con artists sucking at the TARP tit and cozy at Goldman Sachs.
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