Who’s in Bed with Goldman Sachs?
With all the hubbub about the too-big-to-fail Goldman Sachs and their evil ways, after all the late-night jokes about Sachs and Republicans (because of the Republican attempts to stop the poorly conceived Wall Street Take-Over Bill, aka. Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010), has anyone bothered to look at who Goldman Sachs is giving those evil Millions too?
The table below shows the Goldman Sachs political donations in 2008. Doesn’t look like a Republican/Sachs conspiracy does it?
Looks a little more like Sachs was in bed with a different political party, to me…..
(Dems are in BOLD)
Senate | Obama, Barack | $996,595 |
Senate | Clinton, Hillary | $411,150 |
Delegate | Romney, Mitt | $234,275 |
Senate | McCain, John | $230,095 |
House | Himes, Jim | $155,098 |
Senate | Dodd, Chris | $112,500 |
Delegate | Giuliani, Rudolph W | $111,750 |
Delegate | Edwards, John | $66,450 |
Senate | Specter, Arlen | $47,600 |
House | Emanuel, Rahm | $37,750 |
Senate | Sununu, John E | $31,400 |
Senate | Reed, Jack | $30,100 |
House | Skelly, Michael Peter | $26,171 |
Senate | Baucus, Max | $26,000 |
Senate | Harkin, Tom | $24,580 |
Senate | Lautenberg, Frank R | $24,100 |
Senate | Chambliss, Saxby | $22,400 |
Senate | Collins, Susan M | $21,900 |
Senate | Warner, Mark | $21,800 |
Senate | Landrieu, Mary L | $20,700 |
(note: Susan Collins should also be considered a Democrat, not the Republican she is, since she typically sides with the Democrats over the Republicans, and also, Arlen Specter was supposedly a Republican in 2008 but has since switched to the Dem Party and, much like Susan, was a pretty solid Dem voter)
If you think that it was only 2008 when Dems were reaping the benefits of shady deals with Goldman Sachs, think again.
Here’s the 20 year history of donations:
From 1990 to 2010, Goldman Sachs gave $20,304,872 to Democrats and $11,204,413 to Republicans.
That equates to 64% to Democrats and 35% to Republicans.
All donations can be found here:
http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D000000085
So just who is in Bed with Goldman Sachs? and why the big story over a series of transactions that the SEC can’t even say are illegal?
They SEC guys couldn’t even AGREE to START the investigation, which was highly unusual.
Could it be because a certain President, who got more campaign contributions from Goldman Sachs employees than any other candidate in history, wants the average Joe to quit worrying about those pesky Healthcare costs and increases (now that the Bill is passed) and to focus on those “EVIL WALL STREET” guys? (play Arch-Villian music here)
Those same guys who are in his pocket (literally)? Doesn’t that seem just a little coincidental?
Why stop with Government regulation of Healthcare, why not add some rock-solid control over the banks and investment firms?
The SEC announced they were suing Goldman Sachs on April 16th. How fortuitous that the Democrat written and sponsored Bill supposedly designed to protect us from them was introduced to Congress THE DAY BEFORE on April 15th.
Tax Day.
A day when Tea Parties would be meeting all over the country and the Tea Party members would be out there shouting about how Obama and the Dems are the big spenders.
What better way to get the camera’s off tea parties then to put them on EVIL BANKS!!!!! (play Arch-Villian music here).
Then, right after that, the Dems and their lapdog media made a concerted effort to tie the Republicans to Goldman Sachs by their refusal to pass the Bank Control Bill.
(which they KNEW would happen, since Republicans are, hopefully, against more government intrusion into the Private Sector)
Just one more short note: Chris Dodd was the guy who sponsored this Bill. Chris Dodd is the Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee. Chris Dodd is pretty high on that list of Goldman Sachs donations. Can you say: conflict of interest? The Dems apparently can’t.
BTW, this is the same Chris Dodd who was the #1 recipient of Fannie May/Freddie Mac donations before the Housing crash that led to the GREAT BAILOUT TRAIN OF 2008!!!
(just one more coincidence in a string of apparently unrelated events)
Doesn’t this scare anyone?!
Just my 2 cents.
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