While a rosy optimism has fuelled the party in Wall Street (at least until this week), William McChesney Martin would have bolted for the door long ago, punchbowl firmly tucked under his arm.
But the biggest difference between the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street is that the Tea Party is bound by a common set of values based on freedom, responsibility and property rights.
As outside-the-establishment movements like the tea party, Occupy Wall Street and Ron Paul followers are showing, the two-party system isn't big enough to absorb the concerns and passions of hundreds of thousands of grass-roots activists.
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The Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street have both tapped into that - but so far no politician has harnessed its power.
Hence the Tea Party, Occupy Wall Street, and so on.
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Politically inclined grass-roots activism on both the right and left is alive and well on Meetup in the thriving number of tea party and Occupy Wall Street groups using the site.
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The popular opinion is that the Republican party is more friendly to Wall Street and business than the Democratic Party.
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Aetna (NYSE:AET) and UnitedHealth Group (NYSE:UNH), for instance, joined the Wall Street party on Election Day.
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There's more common ground between the Tea Party and the Occupy Wall Street movements than you might think - a kind of populist revulsion at what seems to be the irresponsible excesses of the American financial sector and at the unwillingness or inability of the lawmakers in Washington to do enough about it.
Maybe now Barack Obama, who hopefully will also push out Summers's protege, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, will begin to provide an authentic populist alternative to those Tea Party Republicans who totally absolve Wall Street of responsibility for the economic collapse.
Some observers saw, at least initially, "an irresistible symmetry" between Occupy Wall Street and the tea party, despite some clear differences.
On Election Day, Wall Street was in a party mode.
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Ideally, you'd want the most stringent wall between the third-party owner with an interest in the player and the agent who represents that player and influences his decisions.
John McCain struggled in his campaign, not just because of the weaknesses of his campaign, but because his party seemed to lack any answers as Wall Street and Main Street spun out of control.
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This week, the LDP leader, Sadakazu Tanigaki, told the Wall Street Journal that the party may not continue to co-operate with Mr Noda over the consumption tax (the bill has yet to clear the upper house).
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Tonight, in an effort to distract from this reality, the Leader of the Republican party took to the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal to engage in an amazing act of revisionist history.
And despite the record of intransigence that you cited, the fact is there have been occasions even with this Congress where, with their backs against the wall, leaders in the Republican Party in Congress have come together and worked with the President on important economic issues.
With their backs to the wall, the seriously fractured Democratic Party (PD), and Silvio Berlusconi's People of Freedom Party (PDL) decided to bury their ideological differences and will now try to co-operate in a last-ditch attempt to remedy a social and economic crisis that threatened to get out of hand after an indecisive February election.
Iain Martin, of the Wall Street Journal, criticised the party's manifesto, which had the words 'an invitation to join the government of Great Britain' embossed on its cover, saying it "must have sounded like a great idea when Oliver Letwin and Steve Hilton came up with it but I can not imagine it flying in marginal Conservative seats".
It may be that Wall Street prefers the Republicans because the party favours the better-off.
Pull up to any blank wall and presto, instant cinematic tailgate party.
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In doing so, Warren made plenty of adversaries particularly among the Republican party where the CFPB is viewed as a burdensome Wall Street regulator.
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Separately, A. Raja, party member and former telecom minister, told The Wall Street Journal that DMK ministers in the government will resign from their posts later this evening or Wednesday morning.
This includes factors of 73% to 13% among Democrats, 49% to 35% of Republicans, 62% to 24% among independents, 46% to 45% among Tea Party Supporters and 84% to 13% of Occupy Wall Street supporters.
Nonetheless, financial regulatory reform has one thing going for it: Neither party wants to appear to be doing little to rein in Wall Street excess, particularly as election season approaches.
The next day the very accusations that had elicited roars of approval from Lindbergh's Iowa audience were vigorously denounced by liberal journalists, by Roosevelt's press secretary, by Jewish agencies and organizations, even from within the Republican Party by New York's District Attorney Dewey and the Wall Street utilities lawyer Wendell Willkie, both potential presidential nominees.
Occupy Wall Street leaders are not in support of any political party.
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Most people view the Occupy Wall Street movement as the ideological opposite of the Tea Party, yet they share a remarkably similar motivating principle: a concern that our economic system has become fundamentally unfair.
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