Timothy P. Carney: Republicans pick Wall Street over free
markets  By |    Republicans favoring limited government over a
"pro-Wall Street" policy would have been out of character, to be
sure, but events were conspiring to make such a free-market
populist stance possible. For one thing, the bankers had already
abandoned the GOP.  Wall Street was even longer on the Democrats
in 2008 and 2009 than it had been on mortgage-backed securities
in 2005 and 2006. You wouldn't know this reading most
newspapers, but Obama raised more money from Wall Street than
any candidate in history, and more money from Goldman Sachs than
every Republican running for president, House, and Senate,
combined.  Wall Street gave 60 percent of its money in 2009 to
Democrats according to the Center for Responsive Politics -- the
most one-sided figure since the center began keeping records.
The bankers had climbed into bed with Obama, Dodd, and Charles
Schumer. Instead of showing some self-respect and walking out on
them, Republicans are beg