Far-Left Dem Russ Feingold On Occupy Wall Street Protests: “This Is Like The Tea Party — Only It’s Real”…
Does this make the occupiers racist?
(WaPo) — “I’m really encouraged by what I’m seeing. People around the country are finally organizing to stand up to the huge influence of corporations on government and our lives. This kind of citizen reaction to corporate power and corporate greed is long overdue.”
That’s Russ Feingold, who spoke with me yesterday in order to voice his strong support for Occupy Wall Street, making him one of the most prominent liberal Democrats in the country to endorse the protests. Feingold’s strong backing will be seen as significant by the movment’s supporters, because thus far few elected Dems have publicly voiced support for it. . . .
Asked whether the Obama administration and the Democratic Party’s insufficiently confrontational approach towards Wall Street is partly to blame for all the frustration, Feingold noted that there are still signficant differences between the two parties. But he offered Obama some advice.
“The White House should realize that this would be beneficial to the president and his reelection chances if he recognizes how correct the protesters are to be upset,” Feingold said. “It would be a mistake to try to coopt this. I’m hoping a mass movement will encourage the White House to listen to and respond to these concerns. It would be politically smart and the right thing to do.”
“This is like the Tea Party — only it’s real,” Feingold said. “By the time this is over, it will make the Tea Party look like . . . a tea party.”
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This isn’t reality.
It’s a stage.
The left is in hyper-pathetic mode huh?
Did any of these fools get their $20 an hour demand met yet? Or their debt forgiveness? Or their free education?
Morons.
The occupiers must be racist, terrorist, hobbits carrying swastika signs while wearing Brooks Brothers clothing! Oh, and don’t forget the heavily armed Christian fundamentalist fanatics who spit on people!
It’s the real face of the Democrat Party, enjoy………………..
These hippie anachist protestors, and now union thugs are not real Patriotic Americans like the TEA party people. Feingold should shut his azzhole.
On behalf of Wisconsin I apologize for subjecting the country to this asshole.
Madison protests…
Russ Feingold…
Trust me, WI isn’t this bad…
We DO have Paul Ryan!!!!
These Libtards can say anything they want to, but when it comes down to the truth, they are in the MINORITY… a very small minority if you believe recent polling.
I guess Feingold didn’t get the message when he was voted out of office last election.
ExtrEEEEEmely useful idiots they are indeed. And oh-so-articulate on exactly what it is they want and why they’re there (as opposed to, say, spending their time at that oppressive, capitalistic thing called “work”).
Like a little 4-line Russian poem of many(!) decades ago that circulated in the USSR said (translated):
What is he doing?
I don’t know.
What are you doing?
I’m helping him!
@Chris in N.VA love that little poem, just spit up on my drink…….
McCain’s butt buddy.
Wait. Russ Feingold is Jewish. So… he’s ok with all this “Fuck the Jews!” rhetoric? So… he’d sell his own soul for the votes and the approval of people who hate him?
The world has gone mad…
Rus swinegold with his big fat head in the clouds and his brain still below sea level and dense as the bravilian rainforests but the forests has more intellgent lifeforms in it
Signs have improved. Alas the stench of the Protesters is the same. Holloweene has arrived early this year and the ghouls want there bags filled or else.
“I’m really encouraged by what I’m seeing. People around the country are finally organizing to stand up to the huge influence of corporations on government and our lives. This kind of citizen reaction to corporate power and corporate greed is long overdue.”
You may regret that, russboy, when it turns around eventually to someone saying: “I’m really encouraged by what I’m seeing. People around the country are finally organizing to stand up to the huge influence of progressives and communists on our lives. This kind of citizen reaction to the progressives’ power and progressives’ greed is long overdue.”
And russboy, I doubt it will be “like a tea party”.
What we need is a chemical that can be sprayed from the air that ignites on contact with hemp and patchouli.
I find it amazing that they still fail to grasp the context of “Tea Party”. Although 40 years of terrible government schools ignoring vital events of the American Revolution will do that to people.
Pro tip: The Tea Party has nothing to do with sitting around sipping tea.
Right,,, RussBoy,
We Are Down!! with this!
Round Up the Joos!! Behead them!!!! YAYYYY!!!
those BILLLIONAIRES!!! look it up man,
doesn’t the kid with the 99% bandana look Eerily like Charles Manson?
Same Thousand Yard Stare Man, Just saying
But, but, but…..Russ….it’s Da Jews! Hadn’t you heard yet? What say you, Russ Feingold?
Oh, I get it….. there’re Jews, and then there’re JEWS. And then there are the ever-popular JOOOOOS. Maybe they should have signs so we can tell them apart, it’s all so confusing.
What was I thinking? Hypocrisy abounds with these crybabies and their MSM support system.
VOTE – 2012
JUST LIKE OBAMA, ITS EVERYBODY’S FAULT BUT THEIRS…
This from the man who used AFLCIO employees posing as his everyman supporters in his re-election commercial. Yeah, he knows real when he sees it.
So these folks are grassroots but the Tea Party is astroturf. Give me a break.
“I’m hoping a mass movement will encourage the White House to listen to and respond to these concerns.”
Just like the prez did with the Tea Party, only more likely.
Thom NJ has a point – when this dog the Left have unleashed turns and bites them, it isn’t going to be pretty.
The tea parties have all been orderly and peaceful unlike whats happening on wall street those bunches of radicals and extremists and their so uncivilized they would make a caveman look for tecnetcly advanced
Let get real here. This has nothing to do with the poor useful idiots. With folks like Congressional Democrats calling for an “American Autumn,” then Van Jones and the unions coming on board, these folks don’t really care about “Sticking It To The Man,” when they are “The Man” ? Hell no.
Dozens of Obama 2008 Wall Street donors now support Romney
Cold $houlder for O, Snubbed by biz titans on Apple fund-raising visit
This is all about simple extortion. Now they can’t have these Democrats (or Republicans) on Wall Street going of the reservation.
“Nice Wall Street you have here. It would be a shame if something were to happen to it.”
Peanut head in that pic with the 99% headband really oughta go back and look up who the 1%’s are! I’m among them…Fibbies did a study back in the 70′s in regards to what they called “outlaw motorcycle clubs” and thus the term 1%…1 percent of us simply dont give a fuck about you whining ass fags and have no isue with smashing your heads when you jump this shit off in earnest. hear?
Ive grown up some and have afmily now, but do not think for a second I’m going to sit idly by while you assholes take what Ive wroked hard for…not going to happen!
Good luck with all that future bridge work, hear?
Sounds eerily similar to crystalnacht of the 1936 rize of the nazi’s, doesnt it? Shit…Im not jewish, but someone please tell me where I can get a yellow Star of David w/ Juden, for my leathers!!! Thats a flag I’ll proudly fly…
From terrorists to hobbits to racists to…a figment of everyone’s imagination?
Quite the career arc, there.
As Breitbart says ‘We have the guns’ so lets mow down the scum.
Redistribution of wealth…I’ll tell you where this will lead…pretty soon, these faschist idiots will say, “look around at all the single retiree’s living by themselves in nice homes and appartments, with 2 or three empty bedrooms”! “Why these selfish people could easily house two or three homeless citizens”! And, they will survey houses occupied, by one or two persons, and then march, and protest, and harrass the resident, in an attempt to get the resident to take them in! That is when their heads will roll…that is when gunsmoke will fill the air in the neighborhoods…mark my words!
If it was something the TEA Party wanted to show up for, we would have been in the hundred’s of thousands of people and still wouldn’t have thrown our trash down around us.
You idiots call to clean up America, how about starting with you, stop littering every where you go, if you don’t throw it down, no one has to pick it up for you.
So when you can show up and not trash the place, I’ll start listening to you say how you want to clean the Earth.