It’s Like the Mafia, Except It’s Chris Dodd and Chuck Schumer, Who Are Wimps
Now here’s a heck of a question (via Instapundit):
For all the chest-pounding by Washington politicians, especially Democrats, about CEOs of failed banks and financial institutions receiving “golden parachutes,” why is it these guys all tend to be big bucks Democrat contributors?
Speaking of big bucks contributors, here’s David Hasanyi in today’s Denver Post:
Republicans are being blamed by the public 2-1, that’s a political fact that John McCain must deal with, but here are the politicians who’ve gotten eight-digit contributions from the financial sector.
Hillary Clinton (D-NY) $31,040,714
Barack Obama (D) $27,942,613
John McCain (R) $26,593,411
John Kerry (D-Mass) $19,094,828
Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn) $13,204,556
Charles E. Schumer (D-NY) $12,795,946
Well, wouldn’t you know it? There’s that Chris Dodd fellow again – the very same Chris Dodd that stood in front of any meaningful reform of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in 2005 and again in 2007. And he’s writing part of this bailout plan, too. Gee, I wonder if the part he’s writing is going to benefit us or him and his buddies?
And there’s Chuck Schumer, too, whose sneering mug I regularly see talking about how evil Republcians are. And he’s on the payroll, too? Quel suprise!
I’d say that the Democratic Congress is a lot like the Mafia, except that Chris Dodd, Barney Frank, and Chuck Schumer together couldn’t scare a shopkeeper into giving them an apple. They don’t have the stones nor the physiques to steal money the way most organized rackets do it, so they weasel their way into government and steal it by looking you right in the eyes and lying to you. Luckily for them, they’ve got a whole lot of help in the media to make those lies look really true.
In all the news reports you’ve heard this week about this problem, have you ever once heard just how on the take Democrats have been for the past 15 years, at least? Have you seen the wizened heads of the networks do one single hard-hitting report on Chris Dodd and his ties to Fannie Mae and its pet mortgage broker Countrywide? How about in the New York Times? The Washington Post?
Of course you haven’t. And you won’t, unless it’s Fox News doing the reporting.
Jeff Goldstein has been on a roll of late on the MSM and it’s not-so-secret propagandizing on the behalf of the Democratic Party, so I’ll let him finish this one up.
Where Republicans appear to be looking (again: see 2003 and 2005) for solutions, the Dems are looking to reposition themselves for graft.
And yet the media, as Harsanyi points out in the Post, has managed to convince Americans at a 2-1 rate that Republicans are responsible for this mess.
I said it before but it bears repeating: we no longer live in a free society when, as a democratic republic, we are not being given access to the raw material we need to make informed judgments. Instead, we are a society being run by a giant propaganda arm of the Democratic party and its progressive base, one that, though we distrust, nevertheless continues to spin us in ways it finds “correct”.
Other Posts of Interest:
- I Think Chris Dodd has Some ‘Splaining To Do
- Hey Dems! How About Some Congressional Hearings on this Financial Mess?
- The Media War is On and It Could Cost Us All Greatly
Category: Oh, THAT liberal media., Our New Democratic Overlords, The Economy and Your Money
Do you think McCain ever asks himself how a "true conservative's" name so regularly appears in the same lists as the most sleazy, liberal Democrats? (I know, I know…he thinks that somehow proves he's the center of the universe.)
Hopefully, for McCain's sake many Democrats (those who may not be so hopped up on hopechange) will recognize the McCain is their guy.
I've thought about that, Cheester. I attribute McCain's higher total (and, to some extent, Obama's as well, since he's been about as significant a presence in the Senate as the guy who runs the vacuum cleaner at night) to his Presidential campaign. The candidates always draw a huge amount of money and I don't see that total as hugely unusual for folks who have been running, basically, for at least two years.
Good point…McCain has been running for, what, 10 years? So that would make sense.
But still….
[...] to stay home. Of course there’s the Tweedle Dee/Tweedle Dum/Tweedle Dummer trio of Chris Dodd, Chuck Schumer, and Barney Frank about whom I’ve written already. This is not a group who takes being savaged on [...]