Mouth of the Potomac
by The Washington Bureau
October 19, 2009 2:44 PM 1 Comment
Wall Streeters Expected At Obama NYC Fund-Raiser »
By Kenneth R. BazinetDemocratic sources confirm that Wall Street financiers will be among the paying guests at a $30,400 per couple party fundraiser tomorrow in Manhattan where President Obama is the headliner.“It’s true that we expect a few of them, but they know where we stand,” an insider today tells The Mouth. “It’s not like we’ve been pulling our punches lately.”
The source was referring to a renewed White House offensive aimed at an apparently unrepentant culture of greed on Wall Street. Top aides, including White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel and senior adviser David Axelrod, bashed Wall Street execs who are again handing out mega-bonuses after the government had to bail them out with taxpayer money.
Emanuel accused an ungrateful financial industry of “literally going and fighting the very type of regulations and reforms that are necessary to prevent, again, a crisis like this happening.”
“The American people have a right to be frustrated and angry,” Emanuel said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
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Ha Ha. Priceless. Well, not really - $15,200 a plate. Kind of cheap if you ask me for the trillions they got from this WH.
