Goldman Sachs is “a financial snake pit rife with greed, conflicts of interest, and wrongdoing,” Levin told reporters today.
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Everybody listen! We have to put a barrier between us and the snakes!
Everybody listen! We have to put a barrier between us and the snakes!
A politician calling someone a liar? I’m reminded of a phrase involving a pot and a kettle.
A politician calling someone a liar? I’m reminded of a phrase involving a pot and a kettle.
I agree
I agree
I’m guessing his money was in a blind trust at Citi?
Is Carl the father of Bess?
That’s not a nice thing to say about God’s Investment Bank.
Sounds like a job for Amanda Drury…she’s not afraid of snakes!
Someone’s JEALOUS!
Maybe didn’t get the campaign contributions everyone else got.
Too bad Bronx Zoo cobra’s back in his cage, he’s make great comments about this.
Refer yourself to the tags.
He can’t comment from his cage?
Levin continued, “greed, conflicts of interest, and wrongdoing are clearly the purview of Congress and it concerns me, as well as my colleagues, when private enterprise tries to do the job citizens elect us to do. However, it is precisely this similarity of cultures which allows for such seamless transtions for government employees to Goldman Sachs and back again.”
Let’s dispense with the name calling and start handing out some indictments. That’s a better pit to watch the snakes writhe in.
Get these mother fuckin Bankers off this mother fuckin plane!
Torches alit, pitchforks rising…..
what did he just race card you or….
-someone who watches way too much archer FYI(S1E2)
We need to stop this tribe on tribe violence.
And they said you couldn’t work a “Home Alone” reference into a story about GS…
He sounded like a snake.
It’s pathetic that the most trustworthy voices in Congress seem to be Levin, Bernie Sanders and Kucinich. The commies are the last defends of free markets.
He’s her uncle, you fucking idiot.
http://dealbreaker.com/2010/04/live-blogging-the-goldman-flogging-there%E2%80%99s-gonna-be-a-showdown/
-LEH Quant
Hopefully the *next* congress will clean up DC, Wall Street, and restore civility to main street.
-Guy who believes better days are just an election away
Congress is “a financial snake pit rife with greed, conflicts of interest, and wrongdoing,” Blankfein told reporters today.
Look! Over there! It’s an American Idol dancing with a star!
I think this is another example of the socialist agenda permeating Congress. We need to stop destroying jobs by incriminating GS and other fine institutions without which small businesses could not obtain the much needed credit used in rebuilding our economy. Bankers are heroes, not villans, they are the well lubrified cogs in the vast machine called capitalism, contributing one financial innovation at a time to the greatness of this nation. History will judge us all. Thank you, good night and God Bless America.
The Kudlow-Army Faction
To refer to GS folk as snakes is just too goddamn much! The nerve of some people! I am embarrassed and ashamed that GS was compared to a snake by a US Senator. After all, snakes are valuable parts of the global eco-system in their role as varmint killers and perform their service to us perfectly! To defame them by comparison to an investment bank is almost criminal.
Thank God – Finally some peace and quiet around here!
CL: Mr. Blankfein, do you have a friend named Snakes?
LB: Snakes Dulaney?
CL: How many people named Snakes could you *possibly* associate with?
LB: …Just one.
“Tunt? C’mon…nothing?”
-Guy who has taken to wearing black turtlenecks
Aw, did someone eat your cheese pizza?
::vomit::
keep sukkin on the UAW tittie, bob! Other than unions bringing down the whole country, i have no concerns.
I hope someone asks him if’s he’s any relation to Bess.
it’s species-ism!
I see what you did there…
Of *course* it will!
-The Tooth Fairy
You, sir, are a poet.
Sheesh, people, don’t you get it? Carl’s practicing *honest* graft, unlike Goldman.
-George Washington Plunkett
When “Fabulous Fab” sat in front the panel (and LB for that matter) it remained me of the McCarthy era hearings, but in a good way. Is there hope for politicians yet?
Why would he be related to Bess?
-Uber Quant
I didn’t know Jake “The Snake” Roberts hit up GS after his time at the wwf. Yesterday it was MD turned trader now wrestler turned banker.
Snake People! I am a genius!
-History Channel producer
I hate snakes
-Indy, GS Treasure CLO Trader
When Fab sat in front of the panel, I was glued to the screen. I didn’t blink, and yet, some how I still missed the part where the little car drove in and dropped of the 12 clowns.
TKAF: Grow up and grow a brain. Your mind is lost in the 50′s, and furthermore your spelling is atrocious.
Lloyd”The Snake” Blankfein is going to DDT LVP about all of this bad press. These guys are all goners, matter of time. Cue the golden parachutes
Levin hates any place where people are making money
Dottie: Billy, we just got a call from someone up in Washington regarding some snakes. This could be a real big deal. Can you get up there this afternoon?
Billy: No problem Mom, I’ll grab Ricky.
Ya, Know Levin its very hard to God’s Work
LB
P.S. Go fuck yourself
Good… good… let the hate flow
-Emperor Levin
I love to furiously punch a clown, but only my own.
Politicians and diapers should be changed for similar reasons.
- Vikky P
Hmm…you’re right on the spelling. But here’s what I’m right on: you need to pick up a book (your 50s reference should be more like late 60s to early 80s). Additionaly you should stop being so constipated, professional help is advised.
The Kudlow Army Faction
Oh come on, 50+ responses and no Snake Plissken references?!!
Carl Levin is the Duke of New York, he’s A-#1
I was my 34th interview with Goldman Sachs. I was dropped into an actual snakepit located in the basement of 200 West. A voice boom over the intercom, “EVERY SNAKE IN THIS PIT IS A KING COBRA. WHAT DO YOU DO NOW?”
Knowing I had only seconds to complete the task before me (and perhaps live to tell the tale), I quickly rattled off a few commands in Parseltongue. Every snake quietly went quiet and laid down, waiting for their next intructions. A bright light shown down from the vaulted cieling, bathing me a warm light.
“When you’re walking in a snakepit,” I said, staring up into the light, “you come prepared.”
A hatch open up on my right, leading to a winding staircase upward.
“ARE YOU AVAILABLE NEXT TUESDAY?”
I shrugged my shoulders and wandered over towards the hatch, snakes fleeing before me.
passed out for a couple hours while writing this
Could Goldman bring a Libel suit against Levin,,Is he allowed to say whatever he wants just because he is a Senator?
The Tooth Fairy is a friend of mine.
Chaz G.
Who do you think you are, Levin?
That right there – that kind of rascism is why I can’t wait to see tiny little Chinese boots on your white-ass necks. Which may sound hypocritical, I know, but…
It says to wash on cold with like colors.
-BCS Retail Quant
I’m tired of these muthafuckin snakes in my muthafuckin investment bank!
Witnesses have seen Sen Levin wandering around Washington muttering
“shitty deals, shitty deals” for about 12 months now. Something had to give….
Wot? A libel is what you put on an invilope or on a manilar file. Unliss the lible injudd a puhson and caused them to dye, it’s not pissible to litigyte a libel suit. You might wont to chick with the stiff at Ivery Libel compinny for more informytion.
Not anymore. He’s been a bad, bad snake.
Levin has been borderline senile for five years. Here in Michigan, he gets every union and unemployed former union worker vote because he thinks it’s still 1964. If he’s right about GS, it’s by accident, just as it’s by accident if he can remember who it that he is talking to while his pocket get stuffed with an envelope of campaign cash.
Your odds are better at winning $300 million on both Powerball and Mega Millions on the same day… twice.
Thanks Samuel L.
Ah yes I’ll never forget the time this guy had all the Goldman execs balls on a table while he held a mallet and chose not to smash them. Once again proving the old adage – the fittest will survive.
You should have replied to them, “No problem.”
Did Levin also mention how much he pushed for sub-prime lending in Michigan? Did he mention his protection of Ginnie and Fannie through all their abuses? Did he forget to mention his support of using Community Reinvestment Act threats against banks that didn’t lend enough money to non-credit-worthy borrowers in Detroit? Levin calling GS snakes is like Lynn Tilton calling Lady Gaga a whore.
if you haven’t fucked yourself yet, now would be a good time
Please fall into a pit of snakes… that are on fire…. and the Vagina Monologues are playing on eternal repeat.
Hold on a second, should I fuck myself first and then fall into a pit of firey snakes with feminism dialogue or fall into the pit and then fuck myself? Also, should I kill myself while I’m down there?
-Guy who finds these things important.
That would require there to be reasonable proof that an actual crime– i.e. something contrary to Federal, State or Local law– had been committed. Too complicated for a politician.
… and UBS sucks.
Yes, yes, and yes.
Mr. Levin, who is your CEO?
you know who we should be investigating? Not the Godly ones at GS or any of the other banks who needed 25 trillion bucks in taxpayer bailouts. No effing way! They are the glue of our society and without them we will become vapid aimless losers with no capital to grow. The pieces of shit who we should be investigating, indicting and, hell, murdering, are the farmers who get government subsidies, the teachers who my tax dollars pay to teach my kids, who take UPWARDS of 55k per year from my hard-earned pay. And you know who I really fucking think should be paying for our debt problems? The faggety “special ed” teachers with their worthless contribution to society. Seriously, fuck them! What marginal rate of return does a teet-suckling special ed teacher deliver to our GDP? Nothing!
“So, Senator Levin, our thinktank has come up with a wonderful way for you to align yourself with the MoveOn / ACORN / Color of Change crowd. There are two magic words that do that: Goldman Sachs. Goldman is the antithesis of what every 420 addled, tree-hugging, childmolesting, convention bombing Democrat stands for, they are the evil of independence and personal responsibility incarnate, and if you want to impress your base with your hatred of all things capitalist, well Senator Levin, we suggest you start at the top.”
good work son
-Satan
vampire squid, snake pit…same diff
Thanks Captain Obvious. Where’s your sidekick Hindsight?
Thanks for that comment, Mr. McCrudden.
Kill yourself immediately, or at least punch yourself in the face for good measure
Pet names for the Senate anyone???
Everyone knows “a financial snake pit rife with greed, conflicts of interest, and wrongdoing,” refers to the legal profession Sir!!!
He only likes campaign contributions and lobbyists.
“Because I intend to squeeze you. I don’t like your kind of people. I don’t like to see you come out to this clean country in oily hair and dressed up in those silk suits, and try to pass yourselves off as decent Americans. I’ll do business with you but the fact is that I despise your masquerade, the dishonest way you pose yourself. Yourself and your whole f–king family.
Michael: Senator, we’re both part of the same hypocrisy. But never think it applies to my family. “
Does anybody else wish that Bawney Fwank had said this and we had audio?
winning
With those words I would not stop at any toll booths anytime soon.
Santino C
Yea, he’s conservative, Bess is reform.
Amen. All this huffing and puffing is just playing to the masses. If they ever manage to get some criminal indictments they would for consistencies sake have to go after half the firms in the financial world. Nonsense. And if anyone does manage to somehow get convicted, appeals would just reverse. Overzealous prosecutors always screw up the details.
Let’s remember though that a great many of the crap loans had nothing to do with CRA. Other than your well dressed straw man, I have no concerns.
“if’s”?
But the rubber stamp on stated income and NINJA loans had everything to do with it. Take it on back to huffington.