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Tim Pawlenty To Head TBTF Lobby Group
GOP presidential candidate drop out Tim Pawlenty, who until recently was considered a top VP running mate candidate for Mitt Romney, has shown his true colors, and has become the head of the Financial Services Roundtable, a U.S. bank lobbying group that represents JP Morgan Chase & Co and Wells Fargo & Co , among other financial companies, the group said on Thursday. This is also known as the TBTF consortium. From Reuters: "Pawlenty, who dropped out of the White House race early and quickly backed Mitt Romney for the nomination, takes over as president and chief executive office of the industry group on Nov. 1, it said in a statement. As the industry's top lobbyist, he will play a major role in the industry's efforts to make new Dodd-Frank rules, which Congress passed in 2010 in response to the 2007-2009 financial crisis, more favorable for Wall Street as regulators implement the law. The measure - a response to the crisis fueled by risky financial swaps trading at some firms that required multibillion-dollar tax payer bailouts - has yet to be fully enacted. "Few industries have more impact on the entire economy - and on the lives of average Americans - than financial services. I realize there is still work to be done to continue to earn customers' confidence," Pawlenty said in the statement. "Our members will best accomplish that goal by responsibly investing every day in our communities and job creators," he added."
None of this hopefully comes as a surprise. After all Pawlenty's primary donor group was Wall Street:
However, when compared to Chuck Schumer, we doubt that had Tim Pawlenty told the Chairman to "get to work" he would have gotten quite the same spirited response.
Perhaps instead of engaging in meaningless "he said, she said" theater, the US political system can finally reply to one simple question: just whose interests does it represent?
It certainly is not "the people's"
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And is anyone here surprised?
Send Lawyers, guns, and money.
Hold the lobbyists.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPlMmwOq7U8
'"Our members will best accomplish that goal by responsibly investing every day in our communities and job creators," he added."'
whilst we tax the poor buggers to death...
'No one could have seen this coming...'
Hopefully he isn't any better at lobbying than he is at running for President.
... and Ron Paul heads the WTF group.
Put Romeny in there and see what happens.
Forget the 47% it's all about the .00001% - Jaime, Lloyd, Dick, Brian and Bob (say hello to your true masters)
Tyler, so what you're saying is, the insolvent Wall St. banks are buying off the politicians with taxpayer funds?
Sounds about right to me; Carry on.
Nah, couldn't be?
Romney
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres12/indus.php?cycle=2012&id=N00000286
And Jamie says - "that's how it's gonna be - so get over it" Now back to the mines!
I need a larger Gold Throne.
He sees the handwriting on the wall. Only 4% more and the 47% will rule the country. Regulation pedal to the floor!!
You don't appear to get it, the Redistributionist-in-Chief signed his name to Dodd-Frank. The 47% or 51% are SLAVES to their ideological masters. They will not benefit from the tipping of an artificial balance scale. ZIRP is required to maintain the ponzi for the masses, which creates inflation which sucks the wealth from those masses, meanwhile the FED hands out free $ to the TBTF bank license holders in exchange for their phantom assets to make up for inflation that that the FED is fucking everyone else with. More regulation won't fix this, and it won't be designed to. The holders of banking licenses rule the FED which controls the country and decides on the flow wealth.
Nice post. Regulation is a red herring. The "problem" can't be fixed. The system, as it was designed, can only survive until the cost to maintain debt overwhelms the real economy that exists inside the financial Ponzi scheme. If half the people believe that a lack of regulation has destroyed this "thing" and the other half believe that it is regulation that has destroyed it, then the real conversation that should be happening, "what is the very nature of our monetary system" doesn't have to happen and thus hides the true nature of the oligarchs...Blood sucking parasites.
"...can only survive until the cost to maintain debt overwhelms the real economy..."
"The illusion of freedom [in America ] will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater." ~Frank ZappaOl' Frankie was spot on with that observation. We're fast approaching the crossing of the Rubicon, and nobody seems to know or care.
This GOP is such a fucking bunch of hypocrites!!
A year and a half of ZH reading synopsized in 2 sentences. Well done!
my fave-"Pro-Israel"- kind of says it all. It pays well to be a congressional whore to AIPAC's pimp. I'm glad my kids are way too young to be drafted to fight the yids' wars.
This is not fair but a whole list of politicians and their largest contributors would be nice to pass out at the voting locations.
Kind of like a nutritional label, no? If you knew what your candidate was made of, you might make different choices. Of course in our single party system of r vs d, the choice is between a ding dong and a ho-ho. Same ingredients, different packaging.
Fair? Hell, it ain't even legal...
Have these guys got together yet to pick the next president yet? I would like to know the outcome of the election before Halloween if possible.
uhhh...gasp?
And Minnesota says PHUCK YOU TOO New York!
I thought for sure it would be Corzine.
Nah, Corzine is too busy vaporizing his new hedge fund.
Traitor to the Republic.
I don't think there is a solution to the banks anymore. If you Nationalize them then we the people are on the hook for all their fucking around.
Perhaps we just let them fail. Pick up the peices and start over. National bank that takes over the Fed as well. Contstitutional money creation under control of Congress like the Founders wanted.
Fubar
Greenbacker huh? What makes you think CONgress issue more stable money than the FED?
Or don't issue a monopoly on the creation of money... To anyone or any entity. It's a peculiar thing how we easily recognize the abusive nature of unearned monopolistic power, yet so freely assume it to be the natural state of "money".
Tim Pawlenty is a wimpy talent, a limp twenty if you will.
Like Alanis Morrisette would say, his (hand)shake is like a fish.
And the wheels on the bus go 'round and 'round...
MN will take it in the ass like every other state. This will allow the banks to enable the FARMERS to keep taxpayer money rolling in with record crop prices.
Tom Daschle of ethenol fame is still one of the biggest scum in America.
recently I learned chemical plants can covert natrual gas to ethenol for about $1.50 a gallon or better. However, it is ILLEGAL to sell this ethenol in the US and therefore they export all of it.
Drip gas can be taken right from the well and put in your gas tank. There are drip gas bandits that roam wells for this.
What area?
I'm thinking of relocating.
I will look into this. My dream is to install an old school diesel into my truck. Burn drain oil, vegi oil, diesel, and now drip gas. woot!
Don't forget old GAS BAG (R) Grassley - never saw a socialist farm subsidy he didn't like.
And Romney says that 47% of people are dependent on government handouts, TBTF corporations are the largest of all welfare recipients.
Congress is the biggest of all Corporate 'Welfare' recipients...
Plus 100 if I could to you, Krisp, they are indeed welfare queens, every single one of them.
Big mistake. Need someone with some more back bone than minnesota nice. Although, just about anyone could walk into a meeting, plop down a "I represent JPM" and immediatly be the strongest guy in the room.
I have first hand experience about this, and you may be informed that in that when is comes to politics and the corpratist oligarchy, Minnesota Nice is merely an euphamism for Minnesota Stupid. Pawlenderswhore is not stupid, he's evil. What's stupid is who put him there.
What a man whore
This stuff gives meaning to Nietzsche's phrase, "God is dead."
NJ Governor, MN Governor....SSDD.
I hope he has an office in Benghazi.
He won't last. I know this sounds hard to believe but he is actually too honest for this bunch of fuckfaces.
He will, however, last long enough to pay his debts off before moving on to think tanks, universities etc.
2 years absolute tops. And that will be a struggle.
Hmm..
Is that like "She's a good girl and she's only hooking and doing porn long enough to pay off the student loans."?
He can take all the experience screwing over MN that he did to propel him to the national stage and now work on screwing over the country. Mr accounting shift/ raising fees not taxes is more dangerous than most, because he is in a cute little aw shucks package.
Puh-lease! He is NOT CUTE. He looks like he swallowed his own chin.
He knows their is not going to be a job for him in the Romney Administration.................... cause he knows there ain't gonna be a Romney Administration. Just another guy covering his ass(ets).
Proof positive that the Minnesota electorate is degenerated to retarded mush.
Paul Wellstone died. The liberals were left with nothing but Al Franken and Amy Klobuchar. Then... Michelle Bachman and Tim Pawlenty rose from the 10,000 Lakes to represent confused conservatives. Seems like a nightmare.
Then there was Jesse.
Paul Wellstone didn't die, He got "Wellstoned"
Google it, it's part of the lexicon now.
Urban Dictionary: wellstonedTo die in a plane crash after being a strong vocal critic of an unpopular political position.
The rot had already set in in 1988, when the state party refused to let n-time presidential candidate Harold Stassen have a seat in the national convention delegation...because he was pro-choice.
Oh, and here's a nice little essay on the 'paradox' in MN politics featuring Reps Ellison and Bachmann, who represent neighboring districts.
http://religionandpolitics.org/2012/07/23/minnesota-a-professor-tells-a-...
Of course you can rely on me, for keeping the wolves in check, in a fair, ethical and democratic manner.
- Sheep
would the better headline be to "TBTF Bribe Group?"
i hope the TBTF produce a film denigrating Muhammad
We have 'Pawlenty' of taxpayer monies to bail out these failures in business
My vote for the LOL De Jour award!
how fitting on a trading site. A commercial about a product to wipe my ass..
In a way, it's reassuring that the Inner Party doesn't actually *believe* the prolefeed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52ZyYbYpN9Q
But, you know, couldn't he have waited 6 weeks?
GOP = Bankster Whores (except Ron Paul - not his suckup son)
Ahh yes, the Financial Services Roundtable, serving the public since 1993: Fried, boiled, and baked.