Washington – House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi says she agrees with protesters from Wall Street to Washington who are saying most of the country isn’t getting a fair shake from the financial and political establishments.
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Republicans are criticizing the protesters’ message as divisive. Asked to respond, the California Democrat said on ABC’s “This Week” that the GOP didn’t object to the tea party’s in-your-face protests against members of Congress in last year’s elections.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor this week said he was concerned about the “growing mobs” and criticized those who support them. He said condoning the demonstrations amounted to supporting the “pitting of Americans against Americans.”
The loosely-affiliated movement amassed on Wall Street and in Washington in recent weeks is protesting the power of the financial and political sectors.
herman cain said it! wall street protesters are lazy people who don’t work and want your rightfully earned cadillac!
people this is the direct affect of a prez who for almost an entire term has deamonized the successful working class. pelosi obviously also wants redistribution of wealth of everybody but her wealth. why not? let’s start by her! let all dems lead by example! cain says, if you aren’t rich, blame yourself! what’s happening here is rich people are siding with gop, poor people with dems. very dangerous!
The best thing our Ms Pelosi can do is call Barney Frank for a botox injection in her caboose. It should help clear up all the cottage cheese she shows in her brain she calls her caboose. maybe then she’ll make some sense!
Have you seen the magnitude of anti-semetic things been spewed out by these protestors? Have you noticed that the liberal press doesn’t mention a word about this?
I know some of the people at the Wall Street protest. They’re hard working decent people who are outraged by the TARP bailouts of Bush and Obama and that there’s been no criminal prosecution of any of the Wall Street shysters. By the way, FedUp USA, one of the ORIGINAL Tea Parties has endorsed the Wall Street protests.
Cause the teaparty doesn’t want to overthrow capitalism!
Don’t live in denial! If u look back history ALL revolutions in the world was caused by the poor ppl being fed up of the rich back to the czar in russia, sou can’t just dismiss this with rhetoric……. Now let’s see, A. the financial crisis was exclusively caused by the big corporations, B. If the US shall default the most will it impact the big corporations etc etc so its just fair that corporate america and the rich ppl stand up to rescue the country that made them rich
Tea party rallies are very peaceful; no law-breaking ever took place at any of them. Moreover, at the conclusion of the typical tea party rally, the participants stay to clean, and the venue is left spotlessly clean.
Not so with these dirty, smelly, maggot infested, pot smoking degenerates. Indeed, it’s precisely the opposite. They routinely commit acts that are illegal and often violent, clash with the police and make their surroundings as dirty and foul-smelling as they are themselves. The cities that were invaded by these goons already incurred many millions of dollars in increased security and sanitation expenses.
Can’t Nancy Pelosi just go away already?
The Republicans first need to give their hashgocha who is a true Christian after they have resolved that argument they can continue a la Gromyko and vote nyet
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OF COURSE the banks were forced to make loans they didn’t want to write. Janet Reno made it very clear that if the banks didn’t write sub-prime loans they would be sanctioned severely, having their reserve rate raised so high they’d effectively be out of business.
TARP was forced on many banks as well, like Wells Fargo that didn’t need or want the money. In any case, all the TARP money was paid back by the banks with interest. Only Bush’s stimulus move actually worked.
The financial disaster we’re still struggling with is a direct result of the sub-prime meltdown that was foisted on us by the Democrats since Clinton was president. In 1998 an editorial in the NY Times warned what might happen if what was then a small pilot program to help the poor buy houses was turned into public policy. It was and now we have the results. In 2005 the Republicans in Congress tried to impose some limits but the Dems wouldn’t let them. The DEMS let the banks sell the bad loans – mostly to Freddie Mac – rather than admit they created a monster.There are no heroes but the major villians aren’t the banks.