Wall Street lobbyists rage at Dems for supporting Occupy Wall Street

[phantom power]

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 and DCCC Finance Chairman Joe Crowley last week demanding answers, three financial services lobbyists told POLITICO.

“They were livid,” said one Democratic lobbyist with banking clients.

The execs asked the lawmakers: “What are you doing? Do you even understand some of the things that they’ve called for?” said another lobbyist with financial services clients who is a former Democratic Senate aide.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/wall-street-lobbyists-rage-at-dems-for-supporting-occupy-wall-street/2011/10/18/gIQAtYRouL_blog.html

[Hell Hath No Fury]

1. Tough. Shit.

:shrug:

[coalition_unwilling]

2. Bwa-ha-ha. God, what I would have given to have been a bug

on the wall. I guess the Wall Street lobbyists didn't get the memo that the Dems were only trying to co-opt OWS.

[phantom power]

4. you can see why they'd be so outraged -- they paid good money for those politicians

what's the world coming to?

:rofl:

[coalition_unwilling]

9. I grew up on a farm, so am personally familiar with the

squeals of a stuck pig :) (No offense to actual swine who are fairly decent creatures and vastly surpass their Wall Street and NYPD namesakes in the decency department.)

[tk2kewl]

12. what's the world coming to when the bribe is accepted ...

but the quid pro quo is nixed. :evilfrown:

[Ikonoklast]

15. Jesse "Big Daddy" Unruh got it exactly correct.

"If you can’t take their money, drink their liquor, fuck their women, and then come in here the next day and vote against them, you don’t belong here.”

[tk2kewl]

17. Now that's what I call integrity!

:rofl:

[elleng]

3. 'Livid' sounds good to me!!!

[Proud Liberal Dem]

5. If Wall Street is mad

then something good must be happening. :thumbsup:

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

6. Biting the hand that feeds them is not looked at kindly by the feeders.

[phantom power]

7. was thinking, it would be amusing to money-bomb these dems

[Ruby the Liberal]

8. Mel Brooks couldn't have written this script

But love his heart, he certainly predicted it.

Lobbyist Translation, courtesy of Blazing Saddles (21 seconds): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTmfwklFM-M

[Scuba]

10. After careful consideration...

[coalition_unwilling]

11. Hah! Awesome! n/t

[hifiguy]

13. Bwahahahah!

:nopity:

Burn in hell, banksters.

[Cali_Democrat]

14. Good!

If the banksters are angry, the Dems are on the right path.

[gratuitous]

16. Who called? What were the names, and what lobby do they represent?

You can see the faces and ask the names of the Occupy Wall Street people. You can find them in public squares all over the country. Who are these nameless, faceless executives calling the DCCC and complaining about things? What financial services do the lobbyists work for who called in? How much do each of them make in a year, counting salary, bonuses, stock options, expense accounts and other perks?

As soon as we get answers to those questions, let's have a little conversation, okay boys?

[workinclasszero]

18. Wall Street: Oh OWS you little brats! Look at what you've done! I'm melting!

Melting! What a world, what a world!! Who would have thought good american folks like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness??:rofl:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaQFWnHhMFk&feature=related

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

19. We tolerate these parasitic infestations and yet they rage?

We don't march them directly to the guillotine where they belong and yet they have angry demands?