Wow, the Wall Street banksters strike back

[whell]

Originally Posted by d-ray657

Are you suggesting that a Democratic president would be just as likely as a Republican president to appoint an economically conservative, laissez faire justice?

NO, but that's not the part of your quote that I was reacting to.

Originally Posted by d-ray657

I don't deny that Democrats are close to being as invested in the system that favors the financial elites as the Republicans are, but just not quite as much.

There it is again. The "Our guys suck, but your guys suck worse" defense. Of course Dems are thoroughly and completely "invested in the system." Top campaign contribution sources for our current Prez demonstrate that.

University of California $1,648,685
Goldman Sachs $1,013,091
Harvard University $878,164
Microsoft Corp $852,167
Google Inc $814,540
JPMorgan Chase & Co $808,799
Citigroup Inc $736,771
Time Warner $624,618
Sidley Austin LLP $600,298
Stanford University $595,716
National Amusements Inc $563,798
WilmerHale LLP $550,668
Columbia University $547,852
Skadden, Arps et al $543,539
UBS AG $532,674
IBM Corp $532,372
General Electric $529,855
Morgan Stanley $512,232
Latham & Watkins $503,295