Wall Street to Hillary: Go On Take The Money And Run

[Guest post by hit and run*]

 

Glenn Reynolds has an article up in USA Today, encouraging the GOP to take on Big Business.

 

The Republicans have a real opportunity to connect with voters and win big in 2016. But to do so, they'll have to get over their traditional love for Big Business. Will they be smart enough to do that? The prospects don't look especially bright.

 

But the fact is that many big businesses are unpopular with the public, aligned with the Democrats, and wide open for attack. And after eight years of the Obama administration's naked cronyism and support of Wall Street even as the middle class has suffered, the opportunities are there.

 

Reynolds goes on to explain why Hollywood and Silicon Valley are both ripe targets for GOP efforts.  But I want to focus on what might be the most throw-away line in his piece:

 

But I'm not too optimistic. That's because the GOP seems unwilling to criticize Big Business, even those parts of Big Business that hate the GOP and want to destroy it.

 

The link in Big Business goes to a Politico piece from last November, called "Why Wall Street Loves Hillary".

  

Oh, you don't say?

 

Any regular reader of Instapundit is familiar with the tag he has placed on Obama now for several years: President Goldman Sachs.  I happen to be the blogger who came up with the Obama/Goldman Sachs logo that Professor Reynolds often uses when using that phrase (I've gotten 31 Instalanches to the original post, but who's counting?).

 

Anyway, now that I have my opening, I'm going to run through it like running back DeMarco... Well, Tom Maguire is more a New York Football Giants guy, and DeMarco Murray just left my Cowboys for our shared enemy the Eagles, and "Running Back by Committee" doesn't carry the same punch, so let's just say I'm going to run with it.

 

From the Politico article:

While the finance industry does genuinely hate [Elizabeth] Warren, the big bankers love Clinton, and by and large they badly want her to be president. Many of the rich and powerful in the financial industry—among them, Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein, Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman, Tom Nides, a powerful vice chairman at Morgan Stanley, and the heads of JPMorganChase and Bank of America—consider Clinton a pragmatic problem-solver not prone to populist rhetoric. To them, she’s someone who gets the idea that we all benefit if Wall Street and American business thrive. What about her forays into fiery rhetoric? They dismiss it quickly as political maneuvers. None of them think she really means her populism.[...]

 

In June, the biggest donors to the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation met with the Clintons at Goldman Sachs’ headquarters in lower Manhattan for a day-long discussion about the foundation’s goals. Goldman has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Clintons’ foundation, and in October 2013, Hillary Clinton gave two speeches at Goldman. Her usual speaking fee is $200,000, and Goldman is known to be a full payer on the speaking circuit. [...]

 

...as the former U.S. senator from New York, [Hillary Clinton] is well known to many of Goldman’s leaders. They have seen her at numerous Goldman events over the years or at fundraisers in the Hamptons. Blankfein ran into the Clintons in August at a party in the Hamptons at Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein’s house, and there are the many pictures of Blankfein smiling broadly at her side during September’s Clinton Global Initiative in New York. A few weeks later, they spent time together at a dinner celebrating the Goldman Sachs “10,000 Women Initiative,” a Goldman-funded training and education program for female entrepreneurs.

 

Many Goldman employees, especially women, are also excited about the historic potential of the 2016 presidential election since Clinton could become the first female president. “They’re not going to reflexively support any woman, but she’s a woman that seems more or less in sync with the way they think about the world,” says another former Clinton administration official who now works on Wall Street. “And she’s successful, and they just like her.”

Well, I can't quote the whole piece, but let's just say that the author is just getting warmed up.

Which leaves us where?  Oh, yes: Goldman Sachs Loves Hillary Clinton.  And Hillary Loves them right back.  

 

 

 

STRAY THOUGHT: Maybe I need to find a way to tie this back to Hillary's email server, since that's where all the hot action is with Hillary these days.  Stories of Hillary's deep ties to Wall Street are old and tired.  Kind of like Hillary.

 

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Comments

[Jane]

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[Miss Marple]

Jack,

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Germany has such a good record on air safety that it does make one pause.

[Miss Marple]

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[NKvirusedandback]

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[Janet]

TRUST GUS

[JIB]

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[Porchlight]

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[NKvirusedandback]

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[clarice]

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[Extraneus]

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[NKvirusedandback]

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[Appalled]

Thing about Ted Cruz --

He may be really, really bright, but I have never seen one of his legislative strategies actually work. Even when he is positively for obstructing something, that obstruction ultimately fails.

Brilliance and genius are not qualities that transfer to everything a person does. It may be that Cruz's obvious smarts do not transfer to the interpersonal skills that one needs to succeed as President.

[Threadkiller]

Ted Cruz on work visas:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3WCOCcCW2c

[Jeff Dobbs]

New thread

[AliceH]

Appalled - now pretend you're referring to Senator Obama and you'll see it's really a long term strategy with multiple angles to be applied iteratively, each foray bringing closer to success. That 6-dimensional chess thing.

[Janet]

I have never seen one of his legislative strategies actually work. Even when he is positively for obstructing something, that obstruction ultimately fails.

Well...Ted Cruz at least stood up & told the truth.
Nothing will ever change until we have some leaders willing to stand up, take the arrows & tell the truth.

I am starved for some truth.

[Jane]

Me too Janet

[BeenThereDoneThat]

Ditto on hearing truth. Millions of us are famished for the lack of it, and millions more are miserable because they DON'T REALIZE they're not hearing it.

[AliceH]

Agree wholeheartedly, Janet Jane Kim.