If you want any more evidence to understand the depth of the greed of Wall Street, you can get a tiny insight into this little fact: Wall Street wants so badly to vacuum up every dollar and rip the people off that it is casting its lot with Mitt Romney, kicking Barack Obama to the curb--even though the president has done very little to hurt their business and, in fact, has been surrounded from Day One by a whole coterie of Wall Street barons (just to mention two, Robert Rubin and Jamie Dimon).
The evidence is here:
It is no secret that the relationship between President Obama and Wall Street has chilled. One striking measure of that is the latest campaign finance reports.
Mitt Romney has raised far more money than Mr. Obama this year from major Wall Street firms that have been among the financial industry’s top sources of donations for the two candidates.
That gap underscores the growing alienation from Mr. Obama among many rank-and-file financial professionals and Mr. Romney’s aggressive and successful efforts to woo them.
The imbalance exists at large investment banks and hedge funds, private equity firms and commercial banks, according to a New York Times analysis of firms that accounted for the most campaign contributions from the industry to Mr. Romney and Mr. Obama in 2008, based on data from the Federal Election Commission and the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics.
This is not new. Last month, I pointed out that Wall Street was turning on the president. And when he dined with bankers, I suggested he bring handcuffs.
Look, My. President, sucking up to these guys gets you nothing--and is not the path to re-election. They are going to spend tens of millions of dollars to defeat you. Get it.