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The too-big-to-fail banks think theyre going to teach Professor Elizabeth Warren and the rest of her progressive rebel scum a lesson about saying mean things about them. As we just learned, the heads of the five families from Citigroup, JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, and Bank of America have been talking amongst themselves about how to get Warren to pipe down with all her talk about how corrupt they are and how they caused the financial crisis in 2008 that almost broke the country. Their bright ideas include withholding $15,000 per bank in campaign donations to Senate Democrats in symbolic protest, or possibly leaving a horses head in Sen. Warrens bed.
Like a typical liberal, Sen. Warren has responded with a blog post:
In 2008, the financial sector collapsed and nearly brought down our whole economy. What were the ingredients behind that crash? Recklessness on Wall Street and a willingness in Washington to play along with whatever the big banks wanted.
Years have passed since the crisis and the bailout, but the big banks still swagger around town. And when Citigroup and the others dont quite get their way or Washington doesnt feel quite cozy enough, they quickly move to loud, public threats. Their latest move is a stunner.
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