Elected Legislators on Capitol Hill, Imitating Claude Rains in Casablanca, Are Shocked
The politically connected crooks on Wall Street did their dirty deeds expecting that they would be protected by the recipients of their contributions on Capitol Hill.
Elected hypocrites in Congress in both chambers pretend that they are shocked by the corruption on Wall Street, but lying to the American people is their specialty.
They put great actors like Claude Rains as Captain Renault in the movie classic, "Casablanca" to shame.
Rick: How can you close me up? On what grounds?
Captain Renault: I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!
[a croupier hands Renault a pile of money]
Croupier: Your winnings, sir.
Captain Renault: [sotto voce] Oh, thank you very much.
[aloud]
Captain Renault: Everybody out at once!
DownWithTyranny has more information about these elected federal legislators who are some of the recipients of finance, insurance and real estate corporations' largesse.
"America's business and political elite have led the country back into a boom-bust 1920s environment which features an unconscionably large discrepancy of what the top 2% of wealthy families have and what the rest of us have. After the 1920's FDR set about rebuilding and then strengthening the middle class. His reforms, which were viciously obstructed by the Republican minority, were the main targets of the Bush Regime and the Republican ideologues of Greed and Selfishness have left us on the doorstep of another Depression. I know the number is staggering and hard to believe, but the Finance/Insurance/Real Estate industries, which are at the root of our current economic meltdown, have spent$2,210,699,682 on legalized bribes to federal elected officials since 1990, much of it to persuade our political class to wreck society's regulatory system against the interests of their own constituents.
"The biggest recipients of that $2.2 billion include influential lawmakers sitting in Congress today-- on both sides of the aisle: John McCain (R-AZ- $32,212,409), Chris Dodd (D-CT- $13,158,156), Chuck Schumer (D-NY- $12,817,946), Joe Lieberman (I-CT- $9,978,024), Arlen Specter (R- PA- $5,694,160), Mitch McConnell (R-KY- $5,001,478), Lamar Alexander (R-TN- $4,847,475), Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX- $4,682,238), Max Baucus (D-MT- $4,630,243), and Richard Shelby (R-AL- $4,383,492) and Charlie Rangel (D-NY- $4,275,926), Spencer Bachus (R-AL- $3,789,474), Paul Kanjorski (D-PA- $3,176,964), Eric Cantor (R-VA- $3,119,188), and John Boehner (R-OH- $3,048,809) in the House. For those following Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan's dubious ethics, the ranking Republican on the House Budget Committee, scooped up $1,554,571 from this sector which he's supposed to be overseeing on behalf of the American people."
Elected hypocrites in Congress in both chambers pretend that they are shocked by the corruption on Wall Street, but lying to the American people is their specialty.
They put great actors like Claude Rains as Captain Renault in the movie classic, "Casablanca" to shame.
Rick: How can you close me up? On what grounds?
Captain Renault: I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!
[a croupier hands Renault a pile of money]
Croupier: Your winnings, sir.
Captain Renault: [sotto voce] Oh, thank you very much.
[aloud]
Captain Renault: Everybody out at once!
DownWithTyranny has more information about these elected federal legislators who are some of the recipients of finance, insurance and real estate corporations' largesse.
"America's business and political elite have led the country back into a boom-bust 1920s environment which features an unconscionably large discrepancy of what the top 2% of wealthy families have and what the rest of us have. After the 1920's FDR set about rebuilding and then strengthening the middle class. His reforms, which were viciously obstructed by the Republican minority, were the main targets of the Bush Regime and the Republican ideologues of Greed and Selfishness have left us on the doorstep of another Depression. I know the number is staggering and hard to believe, but the Finance/Insurance/Real Estate industries, which are at the root of our current economic meltdown, have spent$2,210,699,682 on legalized bribes to federal elected officials since 1990, much of it to persuade our political class to wreck society's regulatory system against the interests of their own constituents.
"The biggest recipients of that $2.2 billion include influential lawmakers sitting in Congress today-- on both sides of the aisle: John McCain (R-AZ- $32,212,409), Chris Dodd (D-CT- $13,158,156), Chuck Schumer (D-NY- $12,817,946), Joe Lieberman (I-CT- $9,978,024), Arlen Specter (R- PA- $5,694,160), Mitch McConnell (R-KY- $5,001,478), Lamar Alexander (R-TN- $4,847,475), Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX- $4,682,238), Max Baucus (D-MT- $4,630,243), and Richard Shelby (R-AL- $4,383,492) and Charlie Rangel (D-NY- $4,275,926), Spencer Bachus (R-AL- $3,789,474), Paul Kanjorski (D-PA- $3,176,964), Eric Cantor (R-VA- $3,119,188), and John Boehner (R-OH- $3,048,809) in the House. For those following Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan's dubious ethics, the ranking Republican on the House Budget Committee, scooped up $1,554,571 from this sector which he's supposed to be overseeing on behalf of the American people."
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