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vi5

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1. So shocking!

Tue Nov 19, 2013, 01:07 PM

Nov 2013

Insert apologist excuses here:

"It was to know what the enemy was doing!!!"
"He needed insiders to be able to change things!!!!"
"These are the smartest people in their fields...he can't hold it against them who they workd for!!!!"

No wonder nothing has gotten done economically or in the financial sector.

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Obama’s Wall Street-Friendly Cabinet, "Gang of Five" Departs to Wall St. for the BIG BUCKS [View all] KoKo Nov 2013 OP

So shocking! vi5 Nov 2013 #1

Pick for the choices below: WowSeriously Nov 2013 #14

k&r for the truth, however depressing it may be. n/t Laelth Nov 2013 #2

But he gave a speech or two about the middle class! NuclearDem Nov 2013 #3

Don't think of it as good-bye. Wilms Nov 2013 #4

Yep - same ol' shit, over and over again. Hey Dem voters: WAKE UP! polichick Nov 2013 #5

Whoa! You either vote for them or Romney wins!!!! Demo_Chris Nov 2013 #8

That kind of fearmongering is how we got here. polichick Nov 2013 #11

Romney and the 1% never lost!! pocoloco Nov 2013 #23

Hillary's primary purpose is to elect President Christie, Egalitarian Thug Nov 2013 #6

I think you're onto the game. woo me with science Nov 2013 #19

They don't even have to bother to change it up, knowing that the suckers will Egalitarian Thug Nov 2013 #21

How do the men behind the curtain get exposed? woo me with science Nov 2013 #25

You're right of course, but a large part of the blame belongs right here with us. Egalitarian Thug Nov 2013 #36

The Powers To Be are laughing their heads off. What if Clinton and Christie both switch rhett o rick Nov 2013 #39

What indeed. That's the question we're still wrestling with right now. Egalitarian Thug Nov 2013 #46

I doubt it. I think you are going to, as Margret Cho put it, "stay and fight" nm rhett o rick Nov 2013 #47

You beat me to it. Presidents come and go, the Powers To Be are always with us. nm rhett o rick Nov 2013 #44

Good riddance indeed. progressoid Nov 2013 #7

No reason to think it will change. Another group will get their shot at the golden ring. nm rhett o rick Nov 2013 #40

The best "democracy" money can buy...for the 1%. Tierra_y_Libertad Nov 2013 #9

Wall Street can just buy most, if not all, of anyone of prominence in economics. geek tragedy Nov 2013 #10

Big bucks? Well, they sure earned it. Scuba Nov 2013 #12

K&R ReRe Nov 2013 #13

du rec. xchrom Nov 2013 #15

bastards. liberal_at_heart Nov 2013 #16

This is pretty surpring. Frankly, I'm disappointed. MannyGoldstein Nov 2013 #17

I am sure they left with us in good hands. The next group will come thru rhett o rick Nov 2013 #41

I think you left out a many pscot Nov 2013 #18

Take all and put in a dungeon. Sognefjord Nov 2013 #20

You'd just be chopping off some of the heads of Hydra. More will come to replace them. nm rhett o rick Nov 2013 #43

Wall Street owns the block. Rex Nov 2013 #22

Quelle surprise. cherokeeprogressive Nov 2013 #24

WTF... Nobody promised you "change" or anything! bvar22 Nov 2013 #26

Service rendered, time to cash in CanonRay Nov 2013 #27

Warburg Pincus isn't on Wall Street -- they're in Midtown at 450 Lexington. FarCenter Nov 2013 #28

Well Wall Street isn't on Wall Street anymore. zeemike Nov 2013 #29

Umm, yeah, and KKR used to be on 57th or so. amandabeech Nov 2013 #45

And more good news, unless there is a general uprising, truedelphi Nov 2013 #30

Written by a former WSJ reporter; current deputy editor of The Audit, CJR's business section Divernan Nov 2013 #31

Thanks, Divernan, for doing more Research on this that it's TRUTH and not Spin! KoKo Nov 2013 #33

The bot attacks in some threads (not this one so far) are beyond bizarre. Divernan Nov 2013 #38

+10000000000 woo me with science Nov 2013 #35

Do The Wall Street Shuffle Fumesucker Nov 2013 #32

why did a Maoist hire all those people? Enrique Nov 2013 #34

I don't know, myself... KoKo Nov 2013 #37

There is really only two ways to look at this. One, Pres Obama is in it up to his ears, or two, rhett o rick Nov 2013 #42