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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRobert 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. Hes right about the first part, but theres 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. Theres 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
Schumer knows better. He's using the Big Lie tactic. Fuck him and his Wall Street owners.
merrily
Dec 2014
#3
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)1. How does the percentages of the Democrat show who is in charge?
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)2. It's nice when you can hear truth for a change on tv.
merrily
(45,251 posts)3. Schumer knows better. He's using the Big Lie tactic. Fuck him and his Wall Street owners.
Old Codger
(4,205 posts)4. Actually
They are the Democrats and the DINOS
Octafish
(55,745 posts)5. Hope Reich runs for President.
Kick for Truth.
polichick
(37,152 posts)10. There was a rumor that he's thinking about it.
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)6. K&R
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
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
cuts straight through the bullshit to the crux of the biscuit.
Kick
LongTomH
(8,636 posts)9. K&R and shared to my Facebook page