On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 12:16:29 -0700 (PDT), John H
wrote:

On Apr 25, 10:56*am, bpuharic wrote:
On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 10:24:19 -0400, John H
wrote:



they used to. not anymore. the NY times reported yesterday that, since
the begiining of the year, 2/3 of all bribes from the financial sector
now go to the GOP. and last week, the chamber of commerce engineered a
fund raiser/closed door meeting between 25 hedge fund managers and 2
GOP senators.

'Used to' my ass. This year Goldman Sachs has given two times as much
to bribe Democrats as Republicans. Learn to read. Maybe that's why you
lost all your money

really? is that what rush is telling you to say? i realize that, as a
conservative, you never think for yourself, because you're not too
bright, but i guess he hasn't forced you to read this:

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_1...83-503544.html

Sixty-two percent of the money from that industry has gone to
Democrats, and 37 percent to Republicans. (That has changed somewhat
recently, the Journal notes: In the first two months of the year,
Citigroup, Goldman , J.P. Morgan and Morgan Stanley gave twice as much
to Republicans than Democrats.)


and this this:

http://wallstreetpit.com/23015-repub...al-reform-bill

where 25 top wall street execs met with the GOP to bribe them behind
closed doors

and then there's:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB2000...216461790.html

Republicans are stepping up their campaign to win donations from Wall
Street, trying to capitalize on an increasing sense of regret among
executives at big financial institutions for backing Democrats in
2008.

In discussions with Wall Street executives, Republicans are striving
to make the case that they are banks' best hope of preventing
President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats from cracking down
on Wall Street.

A complete picture of Wall Street's 2009 campaign donations won't be
available for a few weeks. Through the third quarter, campaign-finance
reports show that some major Wall Street players began sending an
increasing share of their donations to Republicans. Many of those
donations came toward the end of this period, because many banks had
essentially shut down their political giving at the height of the
financial crisis.

Through the first nine months of 2009, about 54% of donations from
Bank of America Corp.'s political action committee and employees went
to Republicans, according to campaign-finance data compiled by the
nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics. That was a switch from the
2008 campaign, when 56% of the company's donations went to Democrats.
Shirley Norton, a BofA spokeswoman, said it doesn't base PAC donations
on party affiliation