Cross-posted from Progressive Future
Can Chuck Norris convince his Tea Party fans, and their Republican Senators, to support cracking down on the big banks?
This has been showdown week in Washington, and the main event is Wall Street vs. Main Street.
Goldman Sachs was testifying, 1500 Wall Street lobbyists are lobbying, and Republicans were filibustering common sense reforms to reign in the biggest banks.
This is such a clear-cut, common-sense, powerful-special-interests vs. the-rest-of-us issue that we think even Tea Party activists should be on our side.
But their representatives—conservative Republican Senators—have dug in hard against reform. In the face of mounting public outrage, they ended their three-day effort to prevent an open debate on the President’s proposals to rein in the big banks. But now they’ll try to weaken or kill reform proposals on the Senate floor.
These conservative Senators need to see that standing up for the big banks won’t excite their base.
And, that’s where our "favorite" Texas Ranger comes in. Chuck Norris is a much-loved right-wing icon who’s spoken out on many issue—he even wrote the foreword to a recent book extolling the Tea Party.[1] But he’s been silent on Wall Street reform. So, we’re asking Chuck to stand up for the little guy and urge Congress to reign in the big banks.
Tea Party activists have said they don't want to become tools of the Republican Party. Now it's decision time - when Republicans put campaign fundraising and Wall Street special interests ahead of ordinary citizens, will prominent Tea Party supporters stand up to the GOP?
Click here to draft Chuck Norris into the fight to reform Wall Street.
Will this famous fighter answer the call? We’ll see in the coming days.