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kpete

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Sun Dec 14, 2014, 12:17 PM Dec 2014

Robert Reich: "There are 2 Dem Parties: The Party of FDR & The Party Of The Corp-Financial Complex"


Robert Reich
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Senator Charles Shumer on CNN this morning said “the soul of the Democratic party is the economy, and the party is united on the economy.” He’s right about the first part, but there’s no unity. Elizabeth Warren and other progressive senators are fighting for average working people. They opposed the spending bill that passed the Senate yesterday, which allows big Wall Street banks to gamble once again with commercially-insured bank deposits, thereby inviting another bailout of the Street, and allows the fattest cats, many of them on the Street, to write checks for more than a million dollars in an election cycle. Other Democrats, including the President, capitulated. There’s no unity in the party. There are two Democratic parties: the party of FDR, LBJ, Ted Kennedy, and Paul Wellstone; and the party of the corporate-financial complex.



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Robert Reich: "There are 2 Dem Parties: The Party of FDR & The Party Of The Corp-Financial Complex" (Original Post) kpete Dec 2014 OP
How does the percentages of the Democrat show who is in charge? Thinkingabout Dec 2014 #1
It's nice when you can hear truth for a change on tv. L0oniX Dec 2014 #2
Schumer knows better. He's using the Big Lie tactic. Fuck him and his Wall Street owners. merrily Dec 2014 #3
Actually Old Codger Dec 2014 #4
Hope Reich runs for President. Octafish Dec 2014 #5
There was a rumor that he's thinking about it. polichick Dec 2014 #10
K&R woo me with science Dec 2014 #6
while the second is smaller, it's in charge, uses the first as cover to demand votes for itself, and MisterP Dec 2014 #7
As per usual, the good professor hifiguy Dec 2014 #8
K&R and shared to my Facebook page LongTomH Dec 2014 #9

MisterP

(23,730 posts)
7. while the second is smaller, it's in charge, uses the first as cover to demand votes for itself, and
Sun Dec 14, 2014, 04:43 PM
Dec 2014

is always the swing vote for GOP policies even when the Dems hold both houses (in fact they'd need 75% of both chambers to let the FDR Party pass what it wants)

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
8. As per usual, the good professor
Sun Dec 14, 2014, 04:46 PM
Dec 2014

cuts straight through the bullshit to the crux of the biscuit.

Kick

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